DHS Ammo Purchases: Gun Control by Another Name?
According to reports, the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled over 1.6 billion rounds of ammo for its various agencies, and one of the worst side effects of this appears to be a shortage of ammo for private gun owners.
The question is–what if the shortage is intentional?
Bear with me here. I am not a “conspiracy theorist” nor do I believe that DHS is stockpiling bullets in order to wage war on Americans, as some commentators have suggested.
However, I do believe they know these massive ammo purchases are driving supply down and prices up, and that’s generally a good thing for an administration that doesn’t think people ought to be able to own guns to begin with.
Think about it this way–although reports indicate DHS had 1.6 billion rounds stockpiled as of spring 2012, they recently ordered over 20 million more.
Many of these rounds are in .40 cal and 9mm–two very popular rounds for civilians–and will be manufactured by ATK, which owns Federal. Federal, as you know, produces a lot of the ammunition that civilians used to purchase at Wal-Mart and other stores, when Wal-Mart and other stores could find ammo to put on their shelves.
The bottom line–gun owners are facing a perfect storm. Civilians are buying up every box of ammo they can find in anticipation of a federal gun grab and less ammo is making it to the shelves to replace what is being purchased, largely because so many rounds of ammo are being sent to fill government orders.
Sounds like gun control by another name.
Harold
So, since they used our money, are we entitled to any ammo that is not specifically assigned to a DHS division? Seems to me we should be. Who authorized the purchases? Who signed the POs?
Ask yourself how long it will be before the people capture their ammo and use it to defend their famalies and protect our founding documents? Here is the joke I have seen cops shoot and they are a joke their targets look like they used a shotgun on their target while mine was a nice tight big hole right in the X ring with no fliers. I was trained to hitwhat I aimed at every time. The cops use their guns to strike fear in the citizens. instead of fear they just show how poorly trained they are. Do they understand they will be facing 25 million plus veterans who can and will fight to protect their homes and loved ones. When they start this the will find they are going up against well trained people who are much better trained than these jerks were ever on their best days. Anyone trying to attack our loved ones is going to face some very determined and well trained people who will be hunting these jeks once they start these attacks and we will not be very nice to any one who harms or threatens our loved ones. They had better learn the meaning of Feud and Vendeta. Are they stupid enough to think we will be going after them and hunting them down no matter how long it takes?