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DHS Solicits For More Various Caliber Ammunition
freedomoutpost.com ^ | 29 Mar 2013 | Tim Brown

Posted on 04/02/2013 5:22:14 PM PDT by PilotDave

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I've been thinking, under my tinfoil cap, are they creating the ammo shortage by just buying it ALL up with the play money?
1 posted on 04/02/2013 5:22:14 PM PDT by PilotDave
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They said they were buying in bulk to save on costs. Now they realize that their firearms don’t all take the same bullets???


2 posted on 04/02/2013 5:25:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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A valid assumption. However, how many ammo manufacturers would be willing to refuse a contract from DHS double, triple or quadruple the price on the open market?

It wouldn’t surprise me if they offered a dollar a bullet.


3 posted on 04/02/2013 5:25:34 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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"...and 7.69x39mm."

Might be a little difficult to find that caliber. ;-)


4 posted on 04/02/2013 5:25:48 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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This makes it obvious that DHS is purchasing for the purpose of distorting the market.

They have no use for .45 Colt ammo and very little for .22 or .410.

I am not being critical of either, but pointing out the fact that it has probably been 100 years since any military or LEO organization has used ..45 Colt ammo.

Well, maybe 75 years.


5 posted on 04/02/2013 5:27:25 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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45 long colt? 7.62x39?


6 posted on 04/02/2013 5:28:19 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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By the calibers mentioned, it appears that DHS folks intend to become cowboys/cowgirls. ;-) Or that they intend to choke supplies of even those calibers, until gun control bills are passed.


7 posted on 04/02/2013 5:29:27 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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And 30-30. Last I heard of LE using that was when the executed Gary Gilmore by firing squad in Utah.


8 posted on 04/02/2013 5:29:47 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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I've been thinking, under my tinfoil cap, are they creating the ammo shortage by just buying it ALL up with the play money?

With this spread, there can't be any other reason.

9 posted on 04/02/2013 5:30:00 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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Are any ammo mfgrs publicly traded?

If so I’d guess the regime and its affiliates have invested heavily there prior to the buying program.

I’m certain they’ve gone heavy into firearms mfg investments.


10 posted on 04/02/2013 5:30:25 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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> I’ve been thinking, under my tinfoil cap, are they creating
> the ammo shortage by just buying it ALL up with the play
> money?

That, yes, and they’re giving it to the bloody, genocidal Moslem savages in Egypt, “Palestine”, Syria, Jordan, and Libya.

Meanwhile, we have a sequester, doncha know.
We don’t have enough money for “essential services”, doncha know.

But we have plenty of money to dry up the ammo supply and give billions of dollars worth of weapons and ammo to the Mahometan savages.


11 posted on 04/02/2013 5:31:38 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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WTF? .30-30???


12 posted on 04/02/2013 5:32:08 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: familyop

or pass an ammo tax


13 posted on 04/02/2013 5:32:18 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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I think they're trying to suck up the market to make bullets hard to buy AND I think Obambi's handlers are up to something very serious to our lives in America . . . something on an immense scale . . . large military machinery and millions of rounds of ammo . . . and countless assault rifles, to me, means only one thing.

We will be attacked. Just the fact that Obambi's handlers refuse to promote any generals who will not kill American non-combatant citizens right here in America tells me that something very tragic and horrible is being planned by Obozo's handlers.

It's his handlers I worry a lot about . . . not the stupid ass in our White House . . . he's out trying to shoot baskets and play golf. It's his handlers we should fear.

Just what is planned? I'd hate to find out.

14 posted on 04/02/2013 5:34:36 PM PDT by laweeks
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Exactly what I was wondering.....they couldn’t be that sinister could they?........./sarc


15 posted on 04/02/2013 5:35:30 PM PDT by wesagain (The God #Elohim# of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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.45 long Colts, .45 ACP, .22LR, 30-30, 12 gauge shotgun shells, 410 gauge shotgun shells, .357, and 7.69x39mm.

Hmm - .45 Long Colt, .30-30, .410 and 7.62x39?

Sounds like a bunch of DHS agents put in a requisition for ammo that fits their own personal firearms. The people in procurement either don't know enough to question the purchase or they're in on it.

16 posted on 04/02/2013 5:35:48 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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This is either BS or very very disturbing. I find it difficult to believe they have need of a 7.62 x 39 rifle. Or 22 L.R.


17 posted on 04/02/2013 5:36:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
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To: old curmudgeon

I have - er had, before my tragic boating accident, a Rossi Circuit Judge that shot both .45 Colt Long cartridge AND 410 shotgun shells

It was a rifle built like a 5-shot revolver


18 posted on 04/02/2013 5:38:01 PM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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I’m also wondering of the ammo shortages are worldwide?


19 posted on 04/02/2013 5:38:42 PM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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WTF. I didn’t know DHS used 22LR or 30-30...


20 posted on 04/02/2013 5:38:53 PM PDT by dinodino
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