Yes, I was going to say something similar. If DHS were to have all gun wielding employees start shooting today (safely at a range), the ammunition they have now would go bad before they used it all. It would take an army 20 years of war to go through 1.6 Billion rounds. I'm not sure there were $1.6 Billion rounds fired in WWII total (all forces, airplanes and ships included).
People don't understand how much a billion actually is. If a person started shooting one round/second, non stop (no food, water, sleep, etc.), it would take 50 years to fire almost 1.6 billion rounds.
THAT IS ONE ROUND PER SECOND OR 60 ROUNDS PER MINUTE.
Uh it’s estimated we fire 250000 rounds for each insurgent killed in Afghanistan. Estimates for WWII were 15000 and Vietnam 50000 rounds per enemy KIA.....
Just sayin...
You make a good point about the insane consumption rate needed to consume this much ammo, even in a war. The last two Fridays I’ve spent an hour in line at my local Gander Mountain trying to score some .22 LR. If DHS is buying up this much ammo, IMHO, it’s not doing it even for possible, illegal, domestic combat operations; rather, it’s buying this much ammo to create a massive shortage of the basic components essential to make all calibers of civilian ammo. After all, what good is a car without gas to run it?
The problem with the BILLIONS of rounds the Feds are buying is that they can not be used on the battle field! Most of it is jacketed hollow points, which are not used for training.
Yeah, but if he used a scary assault weapon, it would only take him a couple of hours to go through 1.6 billion rounds.