Posted on 04/29/2013 10:03:38 AM PDT by swampthang77
USBC News Wire. Washington D.C.- Questioning in a recent House committee hearing revealed controversial measures by the Department of Homeland Security to allots DHS officers nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more than used on average by even Army officers.
Republicans Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK-3) have introduced the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) Act of 2013 to curb this stockpiling by the agency by requiring the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to produce reports covering ammunition purchases by federal agencies.
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“This baloney of giving them first rights to all production”
What makes you think the government has first rights to all production?
Obambi's handlers are not going to let this ammo and the weapons stockpile to go to waste.
Don't forget that they have refused to promote generals who will not fire on and kill American citizens on our own soil. We're in for some dark days.
Same topic but different story. There should not just be lots of stories about this government overeach but we should be raising cain directly with our congresscritters!
Don;t worry the Dims will just attach a Ryder making the restrictions only apply to citizen slaves...
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The DHS’ fast & furiously purchasing ammo to reduce public access has ‘Eric Holder’ written all over it.
Haha. Well at least someone in the media loves freepers! Maybe they’ll fix it, but I’d rather have people loving and mispelling than hating on FR!
As I’ve ranted elsewhere, Congress needs to cut of all funding to DHS. The DHS can fund itself by selling its ammo.
The procurement contract places the government in line ahead of other parties. As long as they keep asking for more than the factory can produce, the parties behind them get nothing.
Well, the companies can choose to sign that kind of contract or not, that’s up to them. It’s not as if the government is using the force of law to compel them to sell them ammunition before anyone else.
What makes you say “keep asking for more than the factory can produce”? Everything I’ve read from the manufacturers says that they can’t keep up with public demand, not the government contract.
The priority one designation derives from the following comments
As part of their contract, it stipulates in there that when the government calls and says, “give us another quantity,” everything they make has to go to the government, priority one, before any of it goes to the commercial market. So when…they get nervous, all they have to do is use that contract that they have in place for 1.6 billion rounds and they say, “give us some more, give us some more.”
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A writer at Breitbart compiled a view of facts and myths at link
Additional discussion of the nature of IDIQ contract practices at link
As you can see, it was just an off the cuff comment. Nobody else had similar concerns.
I’ll point up the fact that no Federal agency can spend a single nickel that wasn’t first authorized by Congress. Maybe our esteemed Congresscritters should start reading some of those budget bills they pass.
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