Why Is Homeland Security Stockpiling Guns And Ammunition?

Kremlin, Moscow Russia Today / Albany Tribune ^ | March 24, 2014 | Russia Today

[Ghost of Jesus Gil]

The Department of Homeland Security has plans to buy enough ammunition to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War – on US territory – and even US congressmen don’t understand why.

Smack in the middle of the smoking gun-control debate, and despite deep spending cuts across the American heartland, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next five years.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds like “BIG Sis” might have BIG plans for the American people. Especially those who still believe that the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are valid documents. We’re freaks now because we believe in America.

[fabian]

wow..powerful statement. We had also better be prepared...

[RC one]

so they can put down the inevitable uprising once they really start raising taxes.

[fabian]

and the number one preparation along with firearms..is found at fhu.com

[Ajnin]

Not this sh*t again. Geeze

[yldstrk]

It’s not sh*t, what is your explanation genius

[The_Media_never_lie]

Amazing statement from a courageous man.

[Ajnin]

Do hollow points explode on impact?

[Ajnin]

This article is written with abject ignorance.

[spokeshave]

they expand ...so producing a massive entry wound....banned under the Geneva War Convention.

[Ajnin]

Yeah I know they expand. However the author of this article does not know that along many other things.

[Segovia]

no, they expand on impact; thus producing a greater exit wound along with more internal devastation en-route. The main reason the military doesn’t use them is because every jacketed bullet that finds a target take three soldiers off the field, the wounded one and two more to carry him. Hollow points generally just make dead meat.

[tumblindice]

Also less chance of passing through the target and striking a bystander.
But who can afford to target-shoot with hollow-points, as the Marine points out in the article. Not me. Winchester white box. But Uncle Sam apparently can now, if that’s the purported purpose of the purchases. Walmart’s shelves were still bare yesterday.
Anyone who lived through the `60s and `70s remembers Watts, Detroit, M-60 gunners on the steps of the Capitol building, and firemen getting shot by snipers. Nappy `girding her loins’ might not just be for us cantankerous old guys and gals. What happens when those EBT cards stop working?
Big trouble in River Cities’ Aldis all over this country, that’s what.
The government just doesn’t want to admit: “We’re buying all this stuff so we can shoot Americans from the safety of (what are basically) APCs. I’ll bet we haven’t even seen the body armor they must be buying ... at about $500 @ vest.

[Ajnin]

Hollow points are not banned under the Geneva Conventions. They are regulated under the Hague Convention of 1899.

[Ajnin]

Hollow points have always been used by DHS for practice. Hollow points were used for practice before DHS was created.

[jobim]

What a great quote! I taught high school 20 years, and at the
end of the World History class in May, the last thing I would do
is read from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag, including your quote. I would
read to them for a whole hour on the Soviet method of arrests.
I would also read for an hour from Armanda Valladares' Against
All Hope. How crucial for us to pay heed to these recent
chronicles of tyranny.

[Ajnin]

Great quotes indeed. Unfortunately,nobody really understands those quotes or the current situation.

[MasterGunner01]

Let's do the math. There are roughly 165,000 armed FedGov agents from all departments and agencies under the Executive Branch (this does not include the U.S. Armed Forces). About 65,000 are members of DHS. If the 1.6 billion rounds are divided among all armed government agencies, it comes out to 9,696 rounds per agent. If it's for DHS only, it comes to 24,615 rounds per agent. Nice war you're planning Secretary Napolitano!