Well, we have a big Social Security office right down the road from me, and I've had to go there several times. Here's my observation:
Their entry is always by permission of armed security officers, and -- no arms allowed for the clients. Another officer in the waiting room also admits each person, one at a time, whose number has come up, into the inner interview windows.
For whatever reason they are there, a often few of the interviewees are in appearance, language, and attitude of the dregs of society. I suppose the security officers are there to protect the clerks and interviewers, and me -- an older client, from the dregs -- especially from budging the line.
The impassionate clerks and interviewers, and the government's nonsensical policies they must follow, can raise one's ire to the boiling point. Get the point?
My conclusion:
174,000 rounds is not much to give the officers across the nation needed practice for their occupation. Shucks, I could go through a thousand rounds in a couple of months if I was bent on having fun, and not having to pay for the ammo -- certainly in a year. Talking with our state pistol champion a couple of years ago, it's nothing to go through 50K rounds preparing for competition.
But I suppose the Hydra-Shok rounds are to keep the carry guns refreshed, using the older ones shot both to practice and to make sure those carried have not deteriorated through sweat, dings, age, etc. Seems OK for SS officers -- oops! I meant SSA guards. That's not a lot to be concerned about, even for a medium-sized city police department.
But a hundred million for HHS??!! Come ON!
I meant DHS, not HHS — sorry!