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Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 3, 2013 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/04/2013 12:59:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

This is getting a little creepy.

According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm.

DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP).

Modern Survival Blog reported:

The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.

The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization...

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: banglist; bigsis; cw2; dhs; fascism; guncontrol; mrapvehicle; obama; secondamendment
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems extravagant during the Sequester.


41 posted on 03/04/2013 4:04:56 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
creeping along a little faster each day towards 1984 .....
42 posted on 03/04/2013 4:05:22 AM PST by Ron H. (Hussein Obama, the 21st century American Balkanizer - 'Yes I Can')
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To: Tzimisce
Are we headed for a violent takeover?

Or a violent extension of El Presidente 0bumble's regime in 2016.

43 posted on 03/04/2013 4:07:24 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: 21twelve
Mine “resistant”

How do they do with Molotov cocktails?

44 posted on 03/04/2013 4:13:48 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Makana

Those wheels on MRAPs are split rims with run-flat inserts like the original HUMMV. They’re difficult to change out even in a well equipped maintenance shop. The extra four tires indicate that size isn’t in the supply system or the vehicle will be operating well outside the maintenance support network. Come to think of it, Homeland Security will have to rely on Army Reserve or National Guard maintenance sites if MRAPs are to be used for domestic civil suppresion & control.

Here in the continental U.S. the MRAP would operate as an armored personnel carrier. The simple fact that it is not a tracked vehicle limits its off-road capability, so its owners are counting on its menacing appearance to cow the populace. However, a military eye will sense its weaknesses rather than its strengths, and there are plenty of us veterans who as yet possess that tactical instinct.

If I were to see Homeland Security armored vehicles in my town, I would take it as a sign of worry, not arrogance, on the part of government authorities. As a former tanker, I learned long ago to evaluate any military vehicle for its target potential.


45 posted on 03/04/2013 4:16:51 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
LAPD's police chief Daryl Gates bought some for his department back in the 1970s.


46 posted on 03/04/2013 4:17:56 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

and now they've ordered up 2700+ light armored tanks??

wtf!

you should be on the horn to your congress-critter immediately (what little good it'll do... but for now, it's the only recourse we have)

47 posted on 03/04/2013 4:23:41 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those thing are not going over seas Jack.
They aren’t going to be used on Illegal immigrants.
They are expensive when times are hard.

There are two thing that might happen here. They will sit around and rust or thay will be used against citizens of these United States.


48 posted on 03/04/2013 4:32:48 AM PST by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump for reference. Almost all of the signs are here.


49 posted on 03/04/2013 4:39:56 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

National guard is run by the states. This is the militarization of jackbooted thugs.


50 posted on 03/04/2013 4:47:23 AM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What I don’t get is that the DHS does not have a branch called “Homeland Security”. They have the TSA, US Secret Service, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Coast Guard, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and US Customs and Border Patrol. Who do the characters driving these things actually work for? Looks like barry’s private army is getting equipped to seal the takeover.


51 posted on 03/04/2013 4:50:16 AM PST by zagger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile

Yes, and all of this equipment will be managed by people with all of the deftness and brilliance of a Ray Nagin.

52 posted on 03/04/2013 4:50:45 AM PST by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: Tzimisce

“I don’t like where this is going.

Are we headed for a violent takeover?”

We are already “taken over”, these actions are to maintain control. When will people understand what has happened? This is not America, they killed it. Those in power understand that sooner or later people will wake up and some may take action.

Consider the training exercises being conducted in our own cities utilizing attack helicopters actually shooting machine guns (blanks) without warning citizens! Consider, the purging of our top military professionals...consider the indoctrination in our schools for so long. The attacks on our Christian churches, the attacks on our most productive. What more do people need to see we have been conquered? We simply have not been vanquished...


53 posted on 03/04/2013 4:51:19 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The National Guard, I suspect.

How often do you see NG vehicles with "Homeland Security" logos? The NG uses US Army equipment.

54 posted on 03/04/2013 4:56:46 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Nachum; 444Flyer

Ping


55 posted on 03/04/2013 4:57:17 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh, and thanks, Obama voters, for four more years of this scary crap.

Also, everybody who decided that 4 more years of Obama would be preferable to Romney, and stayed home, please take a bow.

56 posted on 03/04/2013 4:58:45 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Kozak

That is exactly what I thought when I saw this thing.


57 posted on 03/04/2013 4:59:58 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lets see. 2,717 vehicles / 50 states = 54.34 Light Armored Tanks per state. Your state may differ.


58 posted on 03/04/2013 5:01:03 AM PST by McGruff (You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

“Jackbooted thugs”. = Donut Eaters


59 posted on 03/04/2013 5:04:04 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time to review your thermite recipes, people.


60 posted on 03/04/2013 5:05:27 AM PST by Noumenon (One individual with courage, determination and a rifle can change the course of history.)
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