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Posted on 04/02/2013 4:03:00 PM PDT by plain talk
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded to a letter dated November 13, 2012 from Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) regarding the agency's ammunition purchases. Sen. Coburn published the response on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs website yesterday, April 1, 2013.
The response, dated February 4, 2013, says that DHS buys ammunition in bulk to "significantly lower costs."
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Champagne tastes, beer pocketbook. right I believe they wanted to buy high volume to get a cheaper price. buy up all the ammunition so civilians cannot purchase it is the next excuse.
Benjamin Franklin - He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
I’m sure if you investigated closely enough, you’d find some Obama-contributing middleman skimming off a significant slice of the $$$.
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I can believe that.
There are billions of people in the Third World who would go to war against the US, if they were promised a share of the mythical wealth that the rest of the world believes the US has.
Yea!significantly lower cost right.I’m sure the DHS is preparing to defend the United States from an invasion of the Chinese army.But then again they probably couldn’t defend this country from the invasion of the 11 million illegal alians that are ripping us off blind.
That ammo is to be used on us.
Meanwhile Police can’t find enough bullets to practice with.
that is not a satisfactory answer. why can’t they get a good deal with far less? ridiculous.
No govt entity has ever bought anything in bulk for the purpose of lowering cost.
that is part of it. they are also creating the shortage to increase the cost of whatever people can find.
nope many will. have no faith they won’t.
I guess we need to see if water jugs and watermelons were procured in sufficient quantity, hollow points blow them up pretty good. In other words, I’m not buying ANYTHING they are selling.
I don’t think, currently, that the bulk of the US military will fire upon its own citizenry. Although, I cannot say that 15 years from now.
ok then lets see their cost/benefit analysis then
What was their projected cost, how much do they expect to save by buying in bulk...
You did PLAN and calculate in order to know it was a cost reduction, right?
“Then it shouldn’t concern you as to why the DHS is buying enough bullets to shoot each man, woman, and child, 7 times over...”
Americans have bought enough ammo to shoot every DHS employee 45,836 times.
Yeah. And the drones, and the MRAPs, and Obama’s speech about having a standing domestic army as big and well-funded as the military are all a cost-saving measure as well- at a time when the government doesn’t seem at all interested in the cost of well...anything that it wants?
Yeah, I’ll believe that.
“Aren’t they buying massive quantities of guns and ammo to create a shortage for citizen gun owners?”
That’s really not how economics works. Guns and ammo are relatively simple products to manufacture, since they don’t require any exotic materials. So, if they tell ammunition manufacturers that they want to buy 1.6 billion rounds over an extended period of years, then the manufacturers are just going to scale up production to meet the new demand.
If there’s an ammunition shortage, it’s because of increased panic buying on the part of the public, which is an unexpected drain on the supply that manufacturers couldn’t account for ahead of time.
you know the federal gubbamint is ALL about saving money.
Good luck to you, as an individual, trying to take on an instiutional military.
Well, at least someone else around here still uses their brain instead of flying into a panic at every hyped up alarmist story. Kudos to you, sir.
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