Posted on 03/05/2013 4:31:55 PM PST by neverdem
Well, just because I’m paranoid, doesn’t mean that they really aren’t out to get me.
As a Bircher, I got ridiculed for years. (Still do) “Oh, go put your tin foil hat on and sit in the corner! Stupid Bircher!”
Now, when all we predicted has come to pass, and we sit in the crumbling ruins of our once great nation, those same damn CONSERVATIVE fools who laughed at and impugned us, now sit and bleat “But Who Kneeww? Oh, Just who Kneww??”
Glenn Beck anyone? Rush Lintball? etc.
Senator McCarthy was lambasted for YEARS. He is still maligned today by our so-called CONSERVATIVE clowns who are so much smarter.
Hey, I remember when the Soviet Union finally collapsed and we got access to their classified records, we found that ALGER HISS REALLY WAS A FRIGGIN SPY AND MCCARTHY STRUCK TERROR INTO THE HEART OF THE KGB!
Don’t read about THAT conspiracy born out to be true, now do we.
The FACT is that the fedgov is on a massive buying spree for ammo, the local shelves are bare in my neck of the woods. And that damnable supply and demand thingee that pushes prices through the roof has kicked in. Box of .40 jacketed are in the ionosphere. That’s NOT a damn “tin foil hat conspiracy!” That’s FACT. Prove it to yourself, go down and see what’s left on the shelf!
I shouldn’t get so worked up. After all, I’ve been called “the tin foil hat crowd” by CONSERVATIVES for about 40 plus years.
The only thing that keeps my head up, is that I’ve EARNED the name “ENEMY” from the statists, collectivists, progressives and other SATANISTS.
And I’m proud of that achievement.
That works out to hundreds of millions of extra dollars of expense.
Man, I wish I had their ammo budget.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG, that was too funny. The only people in the Federal Service that are capable of doing that aren't going to be participating in any gun confiscation or indiscriminate killing of civilians.
I wash my hands of the whole thing.....it is now entirely invenereal to me !!!!! and I’m happy everything’s hunky do-re-me!
Semper Semper!
*****
Oh good. Nevermind then. All is well.
While DHS does have some armored vehicles, they aren’t getting 2,700 more of them - the purchase of 2,712 vehicles is by the Department of the Navy for the USMC.
If people would actually read the articles, DHS hasn’t already bought billions of rounds.
It’s an option to buy that many over a 5 year period, and it’s almost certain the full purchases will not actually occur.
The problem with debunking all this nonsense, despite the obssesive desire of the kooksters to believe this, is that debunking it relies on deep understanding of tedious, boring, and insanely complex government procurement techniques.
If people would actually read the articles, DHS hasn’t already bought billions of rounds.
It’s an option to buy that many over a 5 year period, and it’s almost certain the full purchases will not actually occur.
The problem with debunking all this nonsense, despite the obssesive desire of the kooksters to believe this, is that debunking it relies on deep understanding of tedious, boring, and insanely complex government procurement techniques.
Seriously? Not even to mention it is the most common type of ammunition for handguns, it is most effective in both defensive situations as well as a safety issue as it helps reduce over-penetration (going through the target and hitting other targets, etc). There is nothing unusual at all about hollow points.
Because they NEED that many hollowpoint bullets for target practice. Or to ship to Mexico’s narcoterrorists.
Exactly. Also, the numbers are in the same amount pattern as purchases as under Bush. The only difference is they are putting in 5 year orders instead of year over year orders. This has been creating bottle necks in the system (and thus the shortages you are seeing).
Just like a conservative economist once mentioned on a blog I read: by the time you compile the numbers to comprehensively refute whatever BS was posted, the idiot’s gone and posted it in twenty more places.
The arguments are specious. The author implies that the total square miles of US national forest should be proportional to the number of bullets needed. A billion rounds of ammo and 2700 armored vehicles is something you invade Poland with.
Actually, no, not really. Train as you have to fight, and you will fight as you have trained.
Or some such wisdom. Too old to remember where I learned that.
There IS a difference in outcome between practice rounds and jacketed hollow point rounds. Practice with it, (hollow point) you will know it intimately when the SHTF.
If you can AFFORD to use the real deal in practice, why wouldn't you?
Fedgov isn't stupid, they are just outrageously arrogant in that they spend taxpayer money with laughter and frivolity. Just like the King's men.
Time to grab the scruff of their necks and force the bureaKaRATZ to heel.
Don't let Alex Jones know.
They probably do. In order to take advantage of step ladder pricing and to simplify the contract process, they probably only ordered one type of any given caliber of ammunition.
It also helps with storage since there is standardization in the ammuntion type.
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