Online rumors about a big government munitions purchase are true, sort of.
The Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or five years. It says it needs them — roughly the equivalent of five bullets for every person in the United States — for law enforcement agents in training and on duty.
Published federal notices about the ammo buy have agitated conspiracy theorists since the fall. That’s when conservative radio host Alex Jones spoke of an “arms race against the American people” and said the government was “gearing up for total collapse, they’re gearing up for huge wars.”
The government’s explanation is much less sinister.
Federal solicitations to buy the bullets are known as “strategic sourcing contracts,” which help the government get a low price for a big purchase, says Peggy Dixon, spokeswoman for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga . The training center and others like it run by the Homeland Security Department use as many as 15 million rounds every year, mostly on shooting ranges and in training exercises.
Why is the Department of Homeland Security buying so many bullets? | Fox News
God forbid the journalist should actually put any thought into the article. It would take more than 100 years to go through that many bullets at 15 million rounds per year. The shelf life of ammo isn’t anywhere near that long.
They would save money by making a reasonably sized purchase. The DHS explanation is complete bullshit, but the MSM is perfectly happy to give them a free pass. The only reason for DHS to have that much ammunition – is because they plan to use it.
The Obama plan is to disarm Americans, and heavily arm his cabinet level para-military. What could possibly go wrong with that?
” … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.“
– George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
“[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
–James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46
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