Posted on 08/20/2012 12:14:50 PM PDT by IbJensen
Those Americans who count and pay the bulk of the income taxes and believe in God are the enemy of the central socialist obama government and of his millions of sycophants both in and out of Washington! We are the reason they're arming themselves to the teeth!
Hate? Yes. I hate the existing socialist government of Barack Barry Soetoro Obama: liar, cheat, empty suit, phony president!
That’s a lot of ammo to protect Barry Soretoro’s SS records.
Despite the ominous sound of what they’re ordering so much hollow point ammo and obviously for possible use against at least some citizens (unruly or otherwise), what’s wrong with target range semi wadcutters if most of this is for ‘practice’ anyway? Much cheaper in bulk.
Some gun expert here is gonna now tell us why they have to use hollowpoints on a shooting range.....you know, temperature, wind, barometric pressure, all that stuff....well, then they might as well be hanging sides up beef up in the range so they can train with a lifelike target.
Methinks that all these government agencies buying up ammo is a stopgap measure to make ammo more expensive and harder to get until they can get laws passed to limit ammo purchases by citizens.
Memo to self ...
Learn to reload.
Did you really think they would sit around and watch Americans start to arm themselves ...often to the teeth these past 3 years?
We’ve got a Presidential campaign going that is as dirty and as rotten as they come. They are throwing everything that they can at Romney/Ryan and it ain’t sticking...
America for several centuries now has been admired around the world for our peaceful transitions of power...I sincerely pray it stays that way.
What a bunch of hysterical panty wetting over nothing. It comes to about 600 rds per agent. They have mandatory training twice a year where they shoot 150 rds. Plus I’m sure they practice in between.
I suspect there are FReepers with more than 174,000 rds of ammo.
I think this is a government waste problem more than anything nefarious.
First, my understanding is that hollowpoint ammunition is only prohibited in warfare by a treaty that the U.S. never signed. It is completely legal for civilian and law enforcement uses, and, though it isn’t standard issue for military, I think Tier 1 and Spec Ops forces use hollow points. They’re bullets ... they kill people. Hardly a war crime.
Second, the SSA does have armed agents for enforcement and protection — for fraud investigations, etc.. Those agents need bullets for practice and enforcement. Not everybody is happy to see the government when they come knocking. The IRS has similar protection ... because unarmed collections agents occasionally get shot at, and they need armed escorts to shoot back.
Third, my understanding is that government budgets are a “use it or lose it” system ... meaning if they don’t burn every allocated dollar, they’ll get less money next time. I’ve heard from military guys of time spent burning through thousands-upon-thousands of rounds of ammo on base at the end of a budget-cycle so they could justify their training ammo budget. This could be a similar situation.
SnakeDoc
I know of one who claims to be half-way to his goal of a million rounds.
Hey! they're cutting back. Originally they wanted cartridges with solid silver bullets.
Hi ho and awayyyy! (with your tax dollars)
I heard about this recently, and thought it was just training ammo for new policy, but that would have been ball ammo. Why hollow points for untrained units?
All the better to kill us with!
I checked before posting and this article wasn’t revealed to me.
I’d like to look a little past the ammo purchases, and ask
“Why does the Social Security Administration have armed agents”.
Same with NOAA. The DOL. The VA!?!?
Really, why?
I have a feeling that the growing federal monster prefers to have its own agencies armed...to carry out the non-judicial business of enforcing never voted on ‘regulations’.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the Dept of Agriculture didn’t have its own shock troops...and they had to rely on local law enforcement to confiscate raw milk, etc.
Here is a list of some of the armed federal agencies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/602307/posts
Some favorites from the list - IRS?, HUD!?!, GSA...huh?, HHS - really?.
I don’t care how many rounds an agent might send through a weapon (although I am a bit baffled by the use of hollow points during training....in the Army, we always used ‘ball’ ammunition during training for cost reasons, for example). But, my panties are tightly wound in a knot over the use of federal ‘agents’ with guns.
‘they need bullets for practice ad enforcement’.
If they are allowed to use guns to enforce their rules,then the question becomes, they can make up any regulations they please, no matter how oppressive and abusive, then they have the power to go out and enforce anything they make up.
None of their regulations have been approved by the people, they just invent them.
If they need to enforce these arbitrary rules, they should go to local law enforcement for an eascort.
They should NEVER have the power of arrest -— to arrest people for breaking some rules some bureaucrats sat around on Monday morning and made up, and passed, without approval of elected representatives.
And so qwhy does The Department of Education have a SWAT team?
Are these lead bullets? ‘Cause I thought the EPA said lead bullets were bad.
Talk to any lefty, and they’ll tell you:
There’s a lot of things that are OK for the gov’t or the [leftist] “elite” to do that you cannot be allowed to do.
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