Posted on 05/04/2013 11:34:54 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
10. Does your company currently produce and/or sell any of the training calibers listed above? If yes, provide a list of your Government customers to include agency name and a point of contact with phone number or email address. 11. Describe your production facilities and capabilities. 12. Describe your quality assurance program. 13. What is your experience in working with your customers to identify and correct potential quality issues? 14. Are you capable of producing any of the training calibers listed above to meet the stated performance requirements? 15. Are you capable of producing large quantity orders of any training caliber specified with a short turnaround time of 30-60 days? 16. What would your lead time be for an order of 2 million rounds of a single type listed above? 17. If you were awarded a contract for some of the calibers listed above, submitted a production lot of one million rounds and that lot or portion of the lot was not accepted, would you be able to replace that order with an additional one million rounds within 60 days? 18. Do you have the resources and mechanisms required to endure the recalling or rejection of production lots of ammunition: What is your plan for mitigating this risk? 19. Provide information to include material safety data sheets and retail price lists for all caliber types and components of training ammunition. 20. Where would production take place?
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Your posts have no validity or value because of the erroneous information presented. The Geneva Conventions deal with the treatment of war prisoners and do not address the subject at hand. It is The Hague Conventions that address acceptable methods and bullet types used when conducting civilized warfare between nations. Those conventions only apply to uniformed enemy soldiers, not against terrorists or during civil wars. In addition, the U.S. did not sign the Hague Conventions, although we generally conform to the Standards.
" US ammo makers have chosen their side."
Which side of what? The U.S. commercial ammunition manufacturers are running at maximum capacity and have never produced more ammunition than recently. The U.S. government buys only a tiny fraction of that production. The majority is being purchased and hoarded by civilian conspiracy freaks who believe the nonsense published on various Internet forums by genuine, low information, kooks.
Please gets your 'facts' straight before posting additional misinformation.
Such ammunition is not available at Wal-Mart or most retail outlets.
That is total B.S. Who makes up such nonsense?
Here’s a correct link that shows the types and amounts of ammo being purchased:
That document also describes what “reduced hazard ammunition” is. It’s something that is not environmentally objectionable, as defined by DHS, and, with most ammo types, is frangible.
“Hollow point ammunition is not banned by the Geneva Convention. This is often incorrectly believed. The Hague Convention of 1899, Declaration III, prohibits the use in international warfare of bullets which easily expand or flatten in the body. The crucial point is “warfare”. They are legal for hunting and in some situations (inside an aircraft as an example, self defence and law enforcement) where it is preferential to contain the round.”
Some hollow point ammo that the Military uses is not designed for expansion but for stability of flight in long range use.
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That’s what the article said; I didn’t write it. DHS (ATF etc) has got their tentacles into so much these days, it wouldn’t surprise me.
However it and identical LE ammunition can be and is used by local, state, federal law enforcement. If a citizen or alien is fired upon by LE within US borders, the ammunition is always or nearly always Jacketed hollow points.
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