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.
I have ever right and business to comment on the DHS solicitation. So take your attitude and shove it.
I'm qualified to know that even if what you posted is 100% correct, it's still a sh*tload of things that go bang for people who really don't need a lot of things that go bang. Do we really need a federal flotilla of armed Social Security cops? Are you sh*tting me? The Social Security Administration couldn't farm out to the FBI the one case out of the 10,000 they handle that requires an armed presence?
This reads like the Seinfeld episode with the overzealous library cop, only now we got guys like him carrying around roscoes. You really want to shake the pom-poms for this on a conservative forum?