That is what I thought until I did the math. DHS has had two procurements this year, one for 450 million and another for 750 million rounds. That is a total of 1.2 billion rounds. At the height of the Iraq war our military was averaging 5.5 million rounds per month (.50 cal and smaller). That was not sustained for years, just at the peak of the war. If the DHS were to sustain that rate of fire it would take 218 months do deplete their supplies. (or a little over 18 years). It makes me think that at a minimum the government is going to create a shortage of ammo and in the process increase the cost of ammo. It is also a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. The worse case scenario for this is much worse ... Obama is building an army.
maybe when the cash benefits run out, the moochers will just be given ammo to procure goodies on their own.
It’s an IDIQ solicitation.
If you don’t already know what IDIQ means, then you (and anyone else) has no business even commenting on the DHS solicitation. The problem is this whole non-story is based on people like Alex Jones who don’t know what an IDIQ is reading something they are not qualified to understand.
Anyway, it’s not an actual order for 1.2 billion rounds of ammo. The actual contracts awarded are likely to be be for much smaller quantities.
They just put in really enormous possible maximum numbers for each type of ammunition so there’s absolutely NO chance that the number needed for each type is exceeded. They asked each agency for their own absolute-maximum need and then ADDED all of those up (and if you work for a particular LE agency under DHS, the last thing you do is give them a number that you have ANY chance of exceeding, because then you are screwed, and there are no negative consequences for giving a high number.)
So that’s how you get 1.2 billion. It’s not a “real” number and nothing remotely close to that number of rounds will actually be purchased.
Hmmmm...guess I wasn’t so crazy after all.