[Atlas Sneezed]

I can't tell whether this is gun-shop hearsay chat, or for real I'm kind of sorry the reporter didn't contact the buyer, the wife, or the DHS agent who dropped in.

[headstamp 2]

In the scheme of things, 1000 rounds is nothing. I could see them getting interested for say 10’s of thousands. 223’s are relatively small in size as rifle calibers go. It’s like they came in on a pallet to the guy.

Sounds like hearsay.

[GL of Sector 2814]

I can't tell whether this is gun-shop hearsay chat, or for real I'm kind of sorry the reporter didn't contact the buyer, the wife, or the DHS agent who dropped in.

I'm skeptical. There are a lot of people who buy a lot more than that. If the DHS was making routine "checkups" on such purchases, there would be more chatter about it.

[PubliusMM]

Chilling, if true. Who is reporting ammunition sales to Homeland Security?

It’s time to take back the country.

[mylife]

A case is a large purchase?

DHS must be very busy if they are investigating every Jasper who buys 1000 rds.

Especially via the mail. Heck whats the point in buying 20 rds for 17 bucks if the shipping is 8 bucks?

[SteamShovel]

The customer bought 1,000 rounds a few months ago through a mail order company.

How is 1000 rounds something unusual?

You could go through that easily, just for target practice.

[Not A Snowbird]

I don’t buy it. ATF would be more believable than DHS.

[Red in Blue PA]

1000 rounds provokes a visit?????

That is only 32 shots fired each day for one month!

[DTogo]

Doesn't DHS have better things to do, like secure our borders and enforce immigration laws??

Nah, let's investigate "typical white people" bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.

Proper response to DHS/ATF: "Got a warrant? No? Goodbye."

Buying ammo? PAY CASH!

[ChildOfThe60s]

As to the accuracy of this story, who knows.

But I don’t find it difficult to believe that the feds will (if they aren’t now) be making some sort of effort to track online ammo purchases.

[raisetheroof]

I went to a gun show in Denver yesterday to pick up some .357 magnum ammunition.

It used to be you could just walk right in. This time, the line was all the way down the side of the block and half way around the other. Inside, the place was so packed it was hard to walk around.

Anyway, there was no .357 mag ammo to be had. It was all sold out in the first hour and a half of the show's opening.

[SkyDancer]

When I go shopping at Wal Mart I always find several boxes of 30 carbine I pick up for my dad ... other times it’s either 30-30 or 22-250 ... no 30-06 though ... haven’t seen a box of them at Wally’s in a long time ...

[School of Rational Thought]

Are online sales of ammunition reported to the Feds?

[VeniVidiVici]

Considering they sell in lots of 400,880,500 or 1000 I call BS on the DHS angle of the story.

They’d have to bring in the IRS agents to cover all the people that have purchased 1,000 round or more at a crack.

[mountainbunny]

I reserve the right to call shenanigans on this story.

Without names, there is no way of knowing if this is true, and I have heard so much propaganda lately that I’m suspicious.

I was in the sporting goods store buying targets a few weeks ago for the range, and the store had a pallet of cases, each had 1000 rounds. People bought them or they didn’t. No big deal.

[weef]

I’m a newbie gun owner (Ruger P95) and haven’t been able to find 9mm here north of Houston for a couple of weeks now. If anyone has the website “number” of a good ammo website to buy from please let me know.

[SuperLuminal]

Bull! I don't believe it. I've bought several cases of .223 & 7.62 since last Oct and there has been no DHS response.

IAC, I only bought them because my small step ladder broke and I need something to stand on to reach the top shelves in the garage.

[Kickass Conservative]

The last Gun Show I went to had hand carts full of ammo being bought up.

When I asked for 200 rounds of 9MM and .223, the guy said to me, Is That It? I felt like a slacker.

Didn't have the extra bucks or any more room in my gun cabinet at the time.

[El Gato]

West said a customer of his recently stocked up on .223-caliber rounds, a caliber often used in assault-style weapons. The customer bought 1,000 rounds a few months ago through a mail order company. Shortly after the purchase, he received a visit from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whose interest was apparently piqued by a large-scale purchase of that caliber.

1000 rounds is a "large-scale purchase" of .223? I would have bought 1000 rounds, if I'd known how fast stuff was going to "Out of Stock". I bought 500 rounds, but almost called them up and changed it to 1000.

Even 1,000 rounds fits in two of these boxes.

For reference each of those loaded rounds is about 2.26 inches long. 1,000 rounds, loose packed, will fit in a single back seat foot well of a compact car.

[El Gato]

The customer bought 1,000 rounds a few months ago through a mail order company.

I wonder if the reporter didn't mis-hear this, and it was 10,000 rounds, or even 100,000.