Why Did The DHS Just Order 450 Million Rounds Of .40 Caliber Ammunition?

word press ^ | 3/18/12 | The Centrist Point

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

bfl.

[ebshumidors]

I was going to 9mm but it seems .40 is the better bet

[little jeremiah]

I will send to bunches of people tomorrow.

Thank you.

[eloy]

Ping me!

[Secret Agent Man]

.40 is still too much for some females.

But the standardization argument is valid. I saw it happen regularly in my dad’s police department. Over 20 years they went from .38 revolvers to ruger 9mm, to s&w 10mm, to glock .40s. They basically were following the lead of the state police and the fbi. Really hated giving up the 10mm.

[MtBaldy]

Not a problem. There’s a Glock G23 on my hip as I write this. Also a G22 in the safe.

[VeniVidiVici]

[ Why Did The DHS Just Order 450 Million Rounds Of .40 Caliber Ammunition? ]

Coupon?

You ever seen the majority of these people shoot? Most couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. And if they did hit the broadside of a barn they'd squeal like little girls and throw their gun up in the air.

I was once at an indoor range and had a group of staties in the lane next to me. Three yards, THREE FREAKING YARDS, and they were barely on the target. I moved my target to three yards just so they could see how bad they really were.

[meadsjn]

Don't have a link, but I remember seeing the numbers discussed in articles during the Spring of 2009, when the monthly sales of small arms was around 1.2 Million per month. A few months ago, I had a spreadsheet of the NCIS checks for the past twelve years, and the low months were more than 850,000 when GWB was still in office. They've been consistently over one million per month since August 2008 for some reason.

I just can't imagine anyone picking up a new rifle without at least one box of 20; or a new pistol without at least one box of 50.

The discusion has come up on The High Road a few times over the years. Here's one link from there for 1997 data.

http://www.census.gov/prod/ec97/97m3329f.pdf . Table 6a on page 15 has the data for 1997

[Still Thinking]

450M rounds of pistol ammo is just stupid. Which is normal for our feral gooberment.

They use it in their sub-guns too (which I realize is only slightly better than what you said).

[Still Thinking]

That works out to 45,000 rounds for each one, and that is probably a low guess.

So...applying normal LEO shooting percentages, they should each expect at least 10 hits!

[Still Thinking]

What law enforcement agencies are under the aegis of the Dept. of Homeland Security? How many of those employees are armed?

Hell, these days the milk inspector carries and has full tac gear in the trunk. Them Swede dairy farmers can get fractious, dontcha know!

[MachIV]

No worries. The American public purchased over 9 billion rounds shortly before and including up to slightly over a year after Obama’s election. It was quite a story at the time but you don’t hear much about it now. Google it and I think you will find archived stories.

[Joe Boucher]

If it looks like obammy and the socialists are going to lose come November then look for this martial law grab. Along with military units searching to confiscate our guns.
Good luck with that.

[Joe Boucher]

I’m hoping against hope that our military will not follow illegal orders by this marxist Kenyan poser.

[wolfcreek]

The police dept. here in Austin, TX. recently required all officers to carry .40 S&W.

I thught it was sort of strange at the time.

[KC Burke]

I D I Q contracts stand for “indefinite” not infinite.

[Tainan]

Did they run out of 10mm?


rhetorical question...of course.

[Caipirabob]

Perhaps there’s only so many obama bucks left in the stash. Next comes obama rounds...

[poobear]

An army armed with pistol ammunition? Do they get out much?

[Chode]

it's coming...