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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and my take, very dangerous to be in on this game. It should be clear to all that government has found an end run around the people, and it is going to take clear advantage for as long as the people are going to allow it. I don’t see much leadership, from the industry. That would be from shooters manufacturers, proponents like NRA or ammo folks. Some say, and that would be from a local ammo manufacturer that the reason for shortages now, are that a major portion of the public has become a buyer now instead of just previous gun owners. Don’t know how true but price and availability or lack of, is sure an issue.
She obviously wants to save her horde of good stuff for action.
No one in their right mind trusts Big Sis.
Interestingly, that “good stuff” as you put it cannot be used in a military conflict covered by the Geneva Convention, being that it is *all* hollow point.
US ammo makers have chosen their side.
Always remember.
Yes, they have.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that their licenses depended on compliance.
Let's hope one of them has the fortitude to clear the air if that's necessary
“...their licenses depended on compliance.”
BINGO!
More likely it’s what’s called a Request For Information (RFI). They always specify that the request is not an RFQ nor any obligations by the government to issue an order are given.
This is typically supposed to be a one-shot deal to help the government develop their requirements (realistically) in HONEST intention of procuring what they basically want.
However, I’ve dealt with unethical government organizations that think they can jerk vendors around like puppets, often issuing 3,4,5 of these things as they finally get their act together. You can usually spot it when the person or persons don’t know what they are doing by the types of information they want and the level of detail they are looking for.
On this one? It seems that they are asking a lot about the ability to produce, recover, etc.- questions you’d be asking when your requirement is urgent from an operational perspective, e.g., battlefield supply, etc. This seems a wee bit nosy for “training” needs if you ask me.
The government OWNs about 14 Ammunition Plants that are contractor operated. One wonders if the DHS even knows about this or has coordinated with the Army (that runs the contracts operating them). Left hand, meet right hand. They are looking outside that supply line and asking a whole lot of questions with no promises after answering.
You might even think they are trying to monopolize supply.
They might not be trying to sweep it up, but put a dent in it.
To completely monopolize, they’d have to ban importation of Mexican, Russian, and all the other countries that sellers import here.
Using Big Sis for target practice would eliminate the biggest hazard.
The calibers not considered primary self defense rounds are all swept up too. It looks like every old Winchester lever gun is reporting for duty.
The Government owns one small arms ammunition plant. Lake CIty Army Ammunition Plan in Missouri. Not 14.
Why do we even have the DHS?
As late as 2000+ the Army had been looking at small arms ammunition procurement and had an investigation/study done. In that investigation there were a total of 14 still-active plants. True some, maybe a lot of them were deactivated, but there is not JUST ONE plant. Take a look at McAlester Ammunition Plant, for example. I’m not going to search back through the rest of the list to make a point. McAlester was enough for me.
Yea...I find it hard to believe DHS or ATF or any of them for that matter need a 45 LONG COLT, but they had it on their list (one of them, anyway).
My only guess is that some of them Rambos have personal Taurus Judges or S&W Governors they want to steal ammo for.
Probably testing body armor and ballistics.
Anyone selling to the DHS is selling to the enemy. After the number of rounds ordered/ purchased is known, Congress needs to force the SA, err, the DHS to sell it back to the American public.
Big Sis is Ernst Rohm transgendered.
The link’s not working correctly. It does not connect to the quote. Instead it conects to a general form. Please correct the link so we can see what ammo they’re looking for.
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