What the heck? What is up with all of these gov’t agencies buying ammo?
Does not give one a very warm and fuzzy feeling.
It's the "Attention Effect"
There are a lot of government agencies with armed agents. Some are a bit odd (Social Security OIG OI) or small (NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement) but they're not new, orginated by Obama, etc.
These agencies have been buying ammo for years.
basically what happened is someone not particularly bright happened to notice government solicitations are on-line at FedBizOpps (where they have been for years) and saw the large umbrella DHS purchase and then frantically started cranking out scare articles.
So now legions of people are searching Fed Biz Opps for every ammo purchase, and then posting them all over the internet.
How hard is it to understand that just because you see a lot of similar news items over a short period on an event, it doesn't mean that that event just STARTED happening or is happening in unusual numbers at the moment?