[JerseyanExile]

The Forest Service has armed rangers and police, and has for decades. There are around 800 of them in fact. That works out to less then 350 rounds of ammunition each. I'm beginning to suspect that since that first SS purchase popped up, people have begun to see connections everywhere, even when there isn't one. We saw this with the whole "Freeway Cannibal" incident - all of sudden, stories of local barbarism that, while abnormal, were hardly unheard of, went national as people began seeing things moving every corner and began stringing together unrelated dots. In order to show that there is indeed something going on, it would be necessary to not just take a case of current ammunition purchases, but rather demonstrate that such orders are abnormal. That means checking on ammo orders in prior years, and see whether, relative to the number of armed personnel, annual purchases have shown a dramatic increase.

[grobdriver]

This does not, however, seem to have anything to do with the Forrestry Service.
If you go to the link you find the purpose for this purchase is:

This acquisition is being advertised as a set-aside for; Self-Certified Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, Veteran Owned Business.

As a Veteran I need to come up with a business where the government will buy my ammo!

But I bet DEBORAH DEVAULL will know. From the PDF - ddevaull@fs.fed.us

How soon after emailing her asking that question will I have black helicopters hovering over my house, do ya think?

[autumnraine]

This is for California ONLY.

[OldPossum]

Yout post 28 is the rational approach to these developments.