Joe Biden says I don't need a repeating weapon to hunt with. He's right!
Posted on 03/05/2013 4:29:55 PM PST by raptor22
Security: In addition to stockpiling over a billion bullets and thousands of semiautomatic weapons the feds would deny U.S. citizens, the vehicle of choice for fighting the counterinsurgency war in Iraq is appearing on U.S. streets.
The sequestration question du jour is why the Department of Homeland Security, busy releasing hundreds, if not thousands, of deportable and detained illegal aliens due to budget constraints, is buying several thousand Mine Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles?
And just who are they intended to be used against?
This acquisition comes on top of the recent news of the stockpiling by DHS of more than 1.6 billion (with a 'b') bullets of various calibers, enough by one calculation to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War, and the ordering of some 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO "personal defense weapons" (PDW) — also known as "assault weapons" when owned by civilians.
Additionally, DHS is asking for 30 round magazines that "have a capacity to hold thirty (30) 5.56x45mm NATO rounds."
The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these MRAP vehicles for service on the streets of the U.S. They were formerly used for counterinsurgency in Iraq.
These vehicles are specifically designed to resist mines and ambush attacks. They use bulletproof windows and are designed to withstand small-arms fire, including smaller-caliber rifles such as a .223 Remington. Does DHS expect a counterinsurgency here?
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“No way to stop this communists empire that I know of except civil war, which will be damn hard and costly.”
The first one cost 600,000 lives out of a population of 30,000,000 one in fifty of all men women and children. It won’t be pretty
I’m sure that was horrific.
The LAV was never designed to withstand that.
The MRAPs that we’re talking about here don’t have a turret and are designed to withstand RPG hits.
Know it firsthand, shtf once Iran strikebegins.Watch the nk dmz. Lots of aunreported activity on the sk side. Movies about to start and Obama’s the dictator so what’s that make us? The bad guys.
Your mom was a wonderful operator.....:)
Let’s not forget the 15,000 or so civilian contractors presently in Iraq and how many in Afcrapistan, possibly some of whom would be willing to do obozo’s bidding for a paycheck.
Just saw a nice tactic on Doomsday Preppers....mason jar of gasoline and a marine flare gun....nice fire.
“Just saw a nice tactic on Doomsday Preppers....mason jar of gasoline and a marine flare gun....nice fire.”
Molotov coctails can be very effective...
Impeachment File for Benghazi-Coward B. Hussein Obama.
The government no longer works for American citizens, they work against us! The politicians are drunk on their power and wealth, they no longer fear God nor their constituents! They all need to be fired!
and Congress is doing what about this. Not a frigging word of “what the hell is going on”...
These idiots have never met the U.S.A. WOLVERINES! Waiting for him to take a leak takes too long. I have a much faster way, using sticky bombs, gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, methanol, turpentine and E85. Nitroglycerin, TNT, RDX, HMX, Torpex, Semtex, PBX, and PETN, could also be used. Don’t you love it when they all have rubber tires.
“Not to defend government actions, most police departments practice with the ammo they will be using on the job.”
It’s what they are perceiving their job to be that makes me nervous....
I know a couple of those contractors and they love this country more than they do a paycheck.
simplest answer is the best.
why did dhs buy those puffer machines that NEVER worked? = insider pork.
why did dhs buy those xray radiation machines that NEVER could do the job? = insider pork
why did dhs spend $1k per uniform? insider pork
thse vehicles are just an insider payoff ala solyndra.
Imagine what it does to the streets in residential areas which are not suitable for such heavy vehicles.
the pork must flow.
If 100 mraps were slated to be bough by the military and now only 25, then those other 75 have to be sold to another government department.
This is about pork and keeping the pork flowing.
who makes MRaps? who is the senator? who is the congressman? who is the donor?
This is solyndra.
Joe Biden says I don't need a repeating weapon to hunt with. He's right!
Pithy truth.
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