[Strategerist]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Must be quite a gaggle of shadies these granny pensionmeisters expect to encounter.

[vette6387]

So if you are correct, why are these purchSes being “exposed” now?

[Jacquerie]

Just because various federal agencies have taken decades to employ armed officers to enforce what passes for law does not mean they do not represent a serious threat to liberty.

In a republic the government need not fear the governed.

As government gradually determines it must defend itself from the people, it means the people are increasingly ruled rather than governed and are showing signs of resistance.

It means the drift to despotism that our Framers feared is here.

[Smokin' Joe]

Okay, I get there are swarms of Federal officers out there, authorized to use lethal force.

I get that you train for best results with the ammo you are going to be using in a crunch.

So, just how many people are we talking about here, anyway?

You can't put the numbers into any perspective without that variable.

[IMR 4350]

I can write off one idiot in one agency buying premium grade ammo for practice, but not multiple agencies all at the same time.

You also have a problem in their contradicting themselves.

They claim they are buying ammo in bulk to save money, which is well and good, but then they turn around and buy premium grade ammo allegedly for practice.

Their story doesn't hold up.

They would all have to turn into idiots at the same time for the story to be true.

[CPT Clay]

Looks like the answer that I’ll get from my congress critter.
Thanks

[spodefly]

Thank you for something sane on this thread.