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The NOAA Is Shopping For 46,000 Rounds Of Ammunition
Business Insider ^ | 08/13/2012 | Robert Johnson

Posted on 08/13/2012 7:59:55 PM PDT by autumnraine

Following a request for 450 million rounds of ammunition for DHS and ICE earlier this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking for 46,000 rounds of ammunition for the National Weather Service.

The National Weather Service stations in Ellsworth, Maine, and New Bedford, Mass., are slated to receive 16,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point (JHP) bullets.

Jacketed hollow points usually have a layer of copper around the lead to provide strength and prevent the barrel of the gun getting fouled up with soft lead.

Hollow point bullets are designed to expand when they enter the body, causing as much damage as possible to internal organs and tissue. They've been illegal in international warfare since 1899.

6,000 rounds of S&W JHP will be sent to Wall, New Jersey and another 24,000 rounds of the same bullets will be handed over to the station in St. Petersburg, Florida.

St. Pete. is the only city that's not receiving 100 or more paper targets to assist with training of agency issued sidearms.

Two hundred targets are going to Maine and Massachusetts, but only 100 to New Jersey. So, 46,000 rounds and 500 targets.

One commenter pointed out that the NOAA overseas the National Marine Fisheries Service that's responsible for all U.S. marine resources. The aquisition mentions this agency, NMFS and the OLE — Office of law Enforcement.

Again, this recent batch of ammunition is in addition to the 450 million rounds requested by DHS and ICE in March.

And that, BI Military & Defense commenter tc84 points out, is before Friday's updated request by DHS, putting the ammunition requested by that group at 750,000 rounds.

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What?
1 posted on 08/13/2012 7:59:59 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: null and void

Ping


2 posted on 08/13/2012 8:00:32 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: autumnraine

I guess they must be worried that if they blow the forecast, someone is going to come and kill them.

If that’s true, I expect the first guy would show up in less than a day in most places.


3 posted on 08/13/2012 8:02:56 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: autumnraine

Or maybe they are going to shoot at the clouds to make it rain.


4 posted on 08/13/2012 8:04:13 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: autumnraine
Is NOAA going hurricane hunting, or do they just want to shoot a tornado? I hate to tell NOAA anything but the 40 caliber is not big enough to take down a hurricane or a tornado.
5 posted on 08/13/2012 8:05:33 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: autumnraine

Is one round one bullet?


6 posted on 08/13/2012 8:06:48 PM PDT by funfan
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To: autumnraine

Earlier today, there was a thread about Homeland Security buying a whole big bunch of ammo—something like several million rounds......


7 posted on 08/13/2012 8:07:07 PM PDT by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: Travis McGee
WTH ping...
8 posted on 08/13/2012 8:07:07 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: autumnraine
IF MY TAX DOLLARS BUY IT... I WANT TO SHOOT SOME OF IT MYSELF! We need MAT cards “More Ammo Tonight”! They need to “redistribute” some of that ammo to FReepers... it is the only “fair and equitable" thing to do.

LLS

9 posted on 08/13/2012 8:07:15 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for the Monkees)
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To: autumnraine

I’m going to second your “what”. I hate to think that the insiders know something is about to break and want all government offices/officials fully protected - but there it is, screaming at me.


10 posted on 08/13/2012 8:08:35 PM PDT by TheZMan (Obama is without a doubt the worst President ever elected to these United States)
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To: autumnraine
The National Weather Service stations in Ellsworth, Maine, and New Bedford, Mass

False; there are no NWS stations in these locations; as the solicitation points out, these are for the National Marine Fisheries Service stations.

Within a large agency you will sometimes have a procurement office for one agency handling the procurement for another part of the agency (happens in DoD all the time.) Sometimes you'll have odd combinations. The NWS isn't arming itself.

Not that any of the above is going to prevent a bunch of panicky morons who just discovered that federal procurement solicitations are online (they have been for years) from wetting their pants every time a law enforcement agency buys some ammo.

11 posted on 08/13/2012 8:08:46 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: no-to-illegals

someone maybe needs to tell them that tornado-hunting is just a figure of speech...


12 posted on 08/13/2012 8:10:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Strategerist

When it rains, I tend to get wet in that area. Does that count?


13 posted on 08/13/2012 8:11:23 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: autumnraine
Next question is, how many federal employees are not armed to kill us.
I am really starting to be afraid of my (no it's not ours anymore)the Federal Government.

Folks, I am gonna keep on loading because it's coming and sooner than expected.

14 posted on 08/13/2012 8:13:56 PM PDT by Tupelo (Sara Palin.............my write in vote for 2012)
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To: bigbob

It’s gonna take a bigger gun bigbob, if we be going tornado hunting. Heck, I don’t think even a shoulder pack will do this tornado in.


15 posted on 08/13/2012 8:14:05 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Strategerist

This link shows one in Ellsworth Maine.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/stations.php?State=ME


16 posted on 08/13/2012 8:15:43 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Right Wing Assault
I guess they must be worried that if they blow the forecast, someone is going to come and kill them.

There's only a slight chance of that tomorrow. Mid-week is really looking better, with a 30 to 40% chance. So don't forget to put a vest in your car with the 9mm...

17 posted on 08/13/2012 8:17:19 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: autumnraine

That’s a NOAA Weather Radio transmitter location, not a NWS office.


18 posted on 08/13/2012 8:19:27 PM PDT by LRM
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To: autumnraine; marktwain; cripplecreek; Whenifhow; Nachum; MestaMachine; amom; DLfromthedesert

Ping

Appears that all the buracracies are being militarized, no matter how innocuous they may seem.


19 posted on 08/13/2012 8:19:27 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. EdmondBurke)
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To: autumnraine

LOL, who isn’t?


20 posted on 08/13/2012 8:20:37 PM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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