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Posted on 08/18/2012 8:48:02 PM PDT by null and void
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) confirms that it is purchasing 174 thousand rounds of hollow point bullets to be delivered to 41 locations in major cities across the U.S. No one has yet said what the purpose of these purchases is, though we are led to believe that they will be used only in an emergency to counteract and control civil unrest. Those against whom the hollow point bullets are to be used — those causing the civil unrest — must be American citizens; since the SSA has never been used overseas to help foreign countries maintain control of their citizens.
What would be the target of these 174, 000 rounds of hollow point bullets? It can’t simply be to control demonstrators or rioters. Hollow point bullets are so lethal that the Geneva Convention does not allow their use on the battle field in time of war. Hollow point bullets don’t just stop or hurt people, they penetrate the body, spread out, fragment and cause maximum damage to the body’s organs. Death often follows.
Potentially each hollow nose bullet represents a dead American. If so, why would the U.S. government want the SSA to kill 174,000 of our citizens, even during a time of civil unrest? Or is the purpose to kill 174,000 of the nation’s military and replace them with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) special security forces, forces loyal to the Administration, not to the Constitution?
All my life I’ve handled firearms. When a young boy growing up on my father’s farm in Pennsylvania Dad’s first rule of firearms training was, “Never point a gun at someone, in fun or otherwise, unless you intend to shoot them. If you shoot someone, shoot to kill.” I’ve never forgotten his admonition. It stayed with me through my Boy Scout training, when I enlisted in the army as a Private to fight in the Korea War, during my days as a Ranger and Paratrooper and throughout my thirty-four year military career.
If this were only a one time order of ammunition, it could easily be dismissed. But there is a pattern here. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has ordered 46,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition. Notice that all of these purchases are for the lethal hollow nose bullets. These bullets are not being purchased and stored for squirrel or coyote hunting. This is serious ammunition manufactured to be used for serious purposes.
In the war in Iraq, our military forces expended approximately 70 million rounds per year. In March DHS ordered 750 million rounds of hollow point ammunition. It then turned around and ordered an additional 750 million rounds of miscellaneous bullets including some that are capable of penetrating walls. This is enough ammunition to empty five rounds into the body of every living American citizen. Is this something we and the Congress should be concerned about? What’s the plan that requires so many dead Americans, even during times of civil unrest? Has Congress and the Administration vetted the plan in public.
I fear that Congress won’t take these ammunition purchases seriously until they are all led from Capitol Hill in handcuffs. Why buy all this ammunition unless you plan to use it. Unknown to Congress, Does DHS plan to declare war on some country? Shouldn’t Congress hold hearings on why the Administration is stockpiling this ammunition all across the nation? How will it be used; what are the Administration’s plans?
Obama is a deadly serious, persistent man. Once he focuses on an object, he pursues it to the end. What is his focus here? All of these rounds of ammunition can only be used to kill American citizens, though there is enough ammunition being ordered to kill, in addition to every American citizen, also every Iranian, Syrian or Mexican. There is simply too much of it. And this much ammunition can’t be just for training, there aren’t that many weapons and “shooters” in the U.S. to fire it. Perhaps it is to be used to arm illegal immigrants?
We have enough military forces to maintain law and order in the U.S. even during times of civil unrest.
We have local police, backed up by each state’s National Guard, backed up by the Department of Defense. So in addition to all these forces why does DHS need its own private army? Why do the SSA, NOAA and other government agencies need to create their own civilian security forces armed with hollow nose bullets?
Were I the JCS, and if I wasn’t already fully briefed on this matter, I’d stop the purchase of hollow point bullets, ask the secretary of Defense why all this ammunition is being purchased and spread around the country? If I got answers like the ones Congress got during the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious – I’d start tracking all ammunition deliveries nationwide to find out what organizations and units are using them, for what purpose and, if it is not constitutional, prepare to counteract whatever it is that they are doing.
This is a deadly serious business. I hope I’m wrong, but something smells rotten. And If the Congress isn’t going to do its duty and investigate this matter fully, the military will have to protect the Constitution, the nation, and our citizens.
Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran, Army Aviator, Paratrooper, and Ranger, who for nearly forty years has served his country both in the military and as a Presidential political appointee.
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A desperate tyrant’s cynical answer to the 2nd amendment?
Is it perhaps time that hillbillies and rednecks get their own wicked ammo?
Is someone planning “Seven Days in May” for real???
I question the need for any government bureaucracy that is not the NSA, FBI, or CIA needing guns to do their job. This is not an anti-gun comment, but there should be minimal separation between the government and people.
If a bureaucrat thinks he’s in a danger that is more than he can handle, he should be working with the sheriff’s department.
We have watched them attack and kill the ‘who’ since the late 1980s, the people in flyover country.
Maybe the administration really does fear a popular armed uprising upon its rotten pot of alphabet soup. Why else a stash of that size? Social Security for heavens sake. Arm Grannies!
From a friend of mine who is retired federal Law Enforcement:
The Honorable (Insert Senator’s/Congressperson’s name here)
I am writing to ask that your office officially look into the massive quantity of small arms ammunition various agencies in the federal government are buying with a 60 day delivery date. These agencies range from Department of Homeland Security to National Weather Service to Social Security Administration. (Why would the Social Security Administration require ANY ammunition, especially 174,000 .357 SIG and 174,000 .40 cal S&W)? .357 SIG is not a standard round for any agency. It is a bottle-necked cartridge (.40 cal casing necked down to a .357 bullet—capable of penetrating most body armor). Add to this “very interesting” order the various agencies NOW buying the below:
• Over one million rounds of hollow-point .223 rifle ammo
• Over half a million rounds of non-hollow-point .223 rifle ammo
• 220,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun #7 ammo (target ammo)
• Over 200,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun #00 buckshot ammo (tactical anti-personnel ammo)
• 66,000 rounds of 12 gauge shotgun slugs (tactical anti-personnel, anti-vehicle rounds)
• Over two million rounds of hollow-point .357 Sig JPH (hollow-point) pistol ammo (anti-personnel)
• Over four million rounds of .40 S&W JPH (hollow-point) pistol ammo (anti-personnel)
• Over 60,000 rounds of .308 match grade anti-personnel sniper rounds (BTHP)
• Plus, hundreds of thousands of additional rounds of .38 special, .45 auto, 9mm, 7.62x39 (AK rifle) ammo, and others.
This is on top of the massive 450 million .40 S&W hollow point rounds the DHS has already requisitioned. (All above can be verifed on government websites regarding contract solicitations).
We need answers to what this is all about, and why now?
What do they know or expect, and when did they decide to act?
Who exactly requires this amount of ammo for civilian agencies (and don’t let them tell you it’s for training...not hollow points).
Keep in mind that the above stockage would provide every single member of the US armed forces with over 400 rounds per person.
Who is REALLY going to use all this? And against who?
Please keep me advised. I am sending a copy of this to selected individuals in other states so that they can make similar inquiries with their respective senators and representatives.
Time is of the essence. I fear this has something to do with anticipated election results or some other event we have not been made aware of.
Sincerely,
(Insert your name and address)
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
I doubt “they” lack the guns for this, and common sense has to tell you these are not just useless bare bullets with no cartridge.
This looks like a preparation for a siege by zombies!
I think folks are getting a little carried away with this. (not that I trust our government!) Every government organization also has an OIG (office of investigations thing) even NOAA and NASA. The people who work in these divisions are law enforcement people and they investigate crimes such as fraud and corruption. They are also armed, and they have frequent training with their firearms. It’s just one more example of how every government program increases the need for yet another government program. If we didn’t have HHS, HUD, etc. we wouldn’t need people to police them.
Why train with this particular sort of ammo however. To prove they can gut a whole target with one shot?
What’s in that pipe you’re smoking?
“Maybe the administration really does fear a popular armed uprising upon its rotten pot of alphabet soup.”
It does. The example of the Warsaw Pact’s serial collapse in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s has to scare the hell out of every centralized, topheavy, welfare state government. And those people were NOT armed. Yes, they have cause to fear. It is not just this administration either, but the whole Washington system.
Yes, I’m sure “they” are just lying in wait! (Snort) Oh, btw, the zombie siege is more likely than marching an army of SSA employees on the populace. This is as valid as the Elenin garbage.
It’s pretty embarrassing for a retired General to be this astoundingly ignorant.
I don’t even have time to deal with ALL the stupidities in these articles over and over again, but some highlights:
1) Hollow point ammo is routinely used by law enforcement in the US, because it’s less likely to pass through a target, or richochet. Why are so-called conservatives falling all over themselves to be as willfully ignorant about aspects of guns as the Left is?
In these stories the magical evil of “HOLLOW POINT BULLETS!!!” matches the “ASSAULT RIFLE!!!” nonsense from blithering left-wing idiots.
2) The ammo is going to the SSA Office of Inspector General. They have a small force of armed agents that investigate social security fraud. In many cases this involves going into pretty sketchy neighborhoods and dealing with fairly dangerous people.
3) Like most LE agencies their ammo purchases aren’t based on a calculation of how many people they are going to shoot. It’s ammo to be carried, and also for target practice. Apparently it would be cheaper to not use the hollow point for practice, and local LE agencies often do that, so there might be some small-scale government waste going on here.
4) The NOAA purchase is going to National Marine Fisheries Agents, who have been armed for many years.
How many rounds does an average person shoot off on a gun range, practicing?
Im not sure if the amount of ammo is overwrought, when you consider how many people will be using it.
Must be quite a gaggle of shadies these granny pensionmeisters expect to encounter.
Apparently, nothing NEARLY as good as the stuff you conspiracy theory tinfoil hatters like to toke. Pass that stuff around, I want to believe that I’m important enough for the government to be out to get, too.
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