Posted on 04/28/2013 8:36:43 PM PDT by tobyhill
Even realizing that he was going to immediately be labeled as a Right wing conspiracy theorist by the Left, Congressman Jason Chaffetz posed a rather pesky question to the Department of Homeland Security this week which is sure to get a lot of tongues wagging. Why do they need to purchase huge stockpiles of ammunition? Far more, in fact, than the Army buys on a per capita basis.
Homeland Security’s procurement officer is grilled in Congress on why federal agents who rarely fire weapons need several times more bullets annually than an Army officer. Who or what are they shooting at?
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Thursday asked Nick Nayak, DHS’ chief procurement officer, a question we and others have been asking: Why has the Department of Homeland Security been buying so much ammunition?
Dismissed as a concern only of right-wing conspiracy theorists, the reported amounts as high as 2 billion rounds have varied and been explained not as a one-time purchase but a bulk buy over five years to reduce costs. It’s one of the rare instances, apparently, a government agency has actually cared about such a thing.
Chaffetz notes that DHS is currently sitting on more than 260 million rounds of ammunition. Their current claimed rate of expending bullets works out to between 1,300 and 1,600 rounds per officer each year, while the Army averages 350 per officer.
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Of one caliber or all calibers? What do they then need with .17HMR and .22 or 30-30? And those in between.
The real question is what is the amount of ammo sold to private citizens per year and how does that quantity compare with what the government is buying? Some are saying that the problem is panic buying by citizens and not the government purchases that is making ammo scarce. If it turns out that the government really IS TRYING to corner the market, the Congress needs to act, but first we need the unvarnished truth.
If you can’t take away their guns take away their bullets. New ammo manufacturing opportunities are ripe for the taking but they will probably have to be underground operations as I’d guess the 0 administration will try to regulate them right out if business.
Reason #15,302,243 that the DHS should never have been created in the first place.
They don’t need Hollow Points for target practice.
It’s both because people are aware of what the Government is doing.
Why are US Ammo makers choosing the DHS over us ?
How many bullets did they buy? God knows. I read 2 billions, I read 0, I read everthing in between.
“Why are US Ammo makers choosing the DHS over us ?”
Good question.
I did read at least one story about a manufacturer that is not selling to the govt.. Wish I could remember the name.
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True that. Designed to soothe a frightened populace after 9/11, it's now a living, breathing institution. It will never die.
I know the pricier HP ammo is easier to buy than FMJ target rounds so I'm not sure exactly how that fits the theory. .22 LR is just about unobtainable and I have no idea what Homeland Security would want with that.
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“..but first we need the unvarnished truth.”
But how do we get the whole truth?
$$$$$$ The Government will pay $3 a round where the ordinary person can’t match it. A lot of times, the manufacturers, like Remington, are locked into Government Contracts that force the first sale go to the Government. Those contracts were written when they could trust the Government.
Why is DHS stockpiling so much ammo?
“Their current claimed rate of expending bullets works out to between 1,300 and 1,600 rounds per officer each year, while the Army averages 350 per officer.”
I’d say it’s because they are either lousy shots and need the practice, or they just get excited by shooting guns.
Why is DHS stockpiling so much ammo?
So we can find it and steal it? ;)
But that’s what they’re buying. That’s what a lot of the controversy is over. Why do they need hollow points for target practice. Napolitinano’s answer.
DHS was a mistake.
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