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What to do with 58,000 rounds of ammo? Pewaukee must decide (Wisconsin)
Milwaukee J-S ^ | 17 mar 10 | Mike Johnson

Posted on 03/17/2010 5:09:25 AM PDT by rellimpank

City of Pewaukee - In the wake of the breakup of the Police Department, city officials are trying to resolve a couple of nagging questions: What are they going to do with the 58,000 rounds of ammunition that are left over and why did the department stockpile so much?

The 58,000 rounds of handgun, rifle and shotgun ammunition are about five times more than a department the size of the city force would require in a year for duty and training purposes, some city officials said.

"It seems like it is way in excess of what you would need," Mayor Scott Klein said. "It begs the question of why it got up to so much and why would you continue to purchase it."

A Waukesha County sheriff's lieutenant told city officials that a department the size of the former city department - about 25 officers - would need slightly fewer than 11,000 rounds of ammunition a year.

The city disbanded its police department at the end of 2009 and began contracting with the Sheriff's Department for police to save an estimated $800,000 this year.

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To: ctdonath2

1k per person, per firearm would be considered my bare minimum.


41 posted on 03/17/2010 6:17:00 AM PDT by smithandwesson76subgun (full auto fun)
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To: csmusaret

Neah.

They need to “train like they fight.” They need “shooting houses” where they go from room to room clearing them as they go. Mockups of schools and “big box” stores would be good, too.

A good training program would burn up that ammo in no time at all!


42 posted on 03/17/2010 6:22:42 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: rellimpank

a highly connected Wisconsin Democrat must have a brother-in-law who’s in the ammo business


43 posted on 03/17/2010 6:24:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red Badger

Stored right, you will be dead and gone long before your ammo goes bad.


44 posted on 03/17/2010 6:24:55 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: BlueLancer

NO....

the powers that be can come and try to take em....

MOLON LABE

Lock and Load.....


45 posted on 03/17/2010 6:25:29 AM PDT by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: rellimpank

They are worried about 58,000 rounds? Unless we are talking about Mayberry RFD... that doesn’t sound like an excessive ammount for a police department. They should put what they are not going to use in a couple years in sealed containers packed with silca gell and keep them in a cool dry location.


46 posted on 03/17/2010 6:30:11 AM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15

I didn’t read the article thoroughly... It sounds like the sheriffs department is trying to get out of paying for the excess ammo.


47 posted on 03/17/2010 6:32:21 AM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: rellimpank
“why would you continue to purchase it.”

Its in the budget. If you don't spend the money, it goes away in next year's budget. The author does not know how any branch of tax payer supported government works.

48 posted on 03/17/2010 6:38:07 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: IMR 4350

It seems so. The WWII bombs are still dangerous.....................


49 posted on 03/17/2010 6:43:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: driftdiver

I have only slightly less 30-06 ammunition than did the 1st Infantry Division in June 0f 1944. It shoots just fine.


50 posted on 03/17/2010 6:46:25 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: IMR 4350

Proper storage, Clean, dry and cool?


51 posted on 03/17/2010 6:50:26 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rellimpank

Probably some stupid liberal accountant is afraid the ammunition will shoot him while he is sleeping.

Everybody should hope to have this much already stockpiled.


52 posted on 03/17/2010 6:53:53 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: Red Badger

Serveral years ago a guy blew himself up by putting a civil war cannon ball too close to the fireplace.


53 posted on 03/17/2010 6:53:54 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Little Ray
A good training program would burn up that ammo in no time at all!

I did some training at BlackWater a few years ago, we went through 500-1000 rounds a day.

54 posted on 03/17/2010 7:32:44 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Scotsman will be Free
"but usually degenerates into very little LE, and what they get are frequently the dregs of the Sheriff’s office."

Maybe. But at times, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department has taken over the small towns of Parlier, Huron, and Mendota. Huron and Parlier couldn't reinstate their Departments fast enough! And it was because people who broke the law got arrested! Drunks, drug dealers, wife beaters, drunk drivers, etc. And people driving without licenses and expired registrations got their cars towed. The Sheriff's Department didn't send the dregs, they sent officers who would not show favoritism.

55 posted on 03/17/2010 7:48:53 AM PDT by Enterprise (Dan Rather said Obama is so incompetent he couldn't sell watermelons.)
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To: driftdiver

Yea, just basic common sense. You also don’t want to store it on anything that is vibrating or where the ammo is loose and rolling around alot. The powder has a tendincy to grind against itself which changes the burning rate. It will turn into an explosive instead of a propelent.


56 posted on 03/17/2010 7:50:13 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: rellimpank

I’ll take it off their hands for the small fee of $1 per round, plus shipping. (This is a gubmint transaction, right?)


57 posted on 03/17/2010 7:55:29 AM PDT by bonnieblue4me (You can put lipstick on a donkey (or a dimrat), but it is still an ass!)
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To: IMR 4350

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09246/995476-100.stm


58 posted on 03/17/2010 8:15:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: ctdonath2
seriously though, why is the taxpayer buyin the tools required for the job ???

ive got $$$ wrapped upin Mac & Snap on that were purchased solely to help me 'do my job'...

59 posted on 03/17/2010 8:33:17 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: rellimpank

58,000? Seriously not bragging but I keep 25,000 on hand as I shoot that much or more every year. 58,000 is only 58 cases. If cops were to actually be proficient they need to shoot not less than 1,000 rounds every year and it would be much better to get in at least 5,000 rounds. That’s only about 10 cops worth of ammo for a year.


60 posted on 03/17/2010 9:02:31 AM PDT by CodeToad
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