National Weather service buying ammo?

[jreifsch80]

i'm too lazy to read the entire thread but there have been guys that have built 9mm and 7.62x25 gas operated ak's as well, im sure a .40 wouldn't be too hard also 40's rim is not too much smaller than 7.62x39 if someone has a .40sw reamer i'd be intereated in making a .40sw ak using a green mountain blank for fun, im sure grease gun mags with tweaked feed lips would work or maybe i would just make a magwell that takes glock mags

[bryjcom]

You got 3 extra zeros in your number of rounds there. Still, if you take out about 3 zeros from that figure 6,000 rounds per DHS employee is a lot.

Oh crap!! I think I added a couple more zeros in the calculator.

If you look at my math on the post you'll see I took 1.2 trillion instead of billion.

Now the question is how many desk jockeys are in the DHS that don't have guns???? Figure that into the equation and that will increase that 6000 per employee.

[cstone]

Alright, here's the skinny: (I think)

This was really bothering me, so I started looking for some justification here. I spent about an hour searching the net until I found this. The link says that the SSA has an IG office with about 460 criminal investigators and auditors. IF these guys carry guns, the 174k rounds would afford them approximately 375 rounds per agent. No confirmation on whether or not they are armed, but if they are this sounds like a fairly routine and legitimate purchase.

This is the correct answer for SSA OIG. The SSA OIG office was first established by a retired US Secret Service agent. When he selected his staff, many of them were also retired USSS. They chose their handgun and ammunition based off of what they were using while working for the USSS. SIG P229, shooting either Federal or Speer .357 SIG JHP.

None of these contract numbers surprise me. As was stated in an earlier post, buy in bulk for cost savings. Spread the contract over multiple years and allow for extensions to lock in costs before the prices go up. Keeping that in mind, don't you want the government to try to use your tax dollars in a good way? The vast majority of this ammunition will be used up in monthly, quarterly, and annual requals. Contract over runs in any caliber I shoot makes me happy.

Besides, is anyone really worried about a group of armed Department of Education OIG agents storming the local Piggly Wiggly

Be safe.

[james_bond_007]

Boulder Colorado isn't remote. I can't answer as to the other locations listed on the document.

16,000 to Boulder
8000 to Ellsworth, ME
8000 to New Bedford, MA
24000 to St Petersberg, FL
6000 to Wall, NJ

Geographically, Boulder, itself, may not be remote; but you got to admit....some of the residents are really "WAAAAYYYY out there..."

[bryjcom]

http://www.infowars.com/dhs-classifi...g-controversy/

The Department of Homeland Security has redacted information relating to the quantity of bullets it is buying following a controversy concerning the agency’s purchase of over a billion rounds of ammo, which many fear is a sign the federal government is preparing for civil unrest in the United States.

Despite the fact that documents are only supposed to be redacted if authorized by Congress or for national security reasons, a solicitation posted on the FedBizOpps website yesterday concerning ammunition purchases made by the DHS on behalf of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) contains numerous blacked out sections.

[JM Ver. 2.0]

They are probably just gonna shoot the breeze...

I see what you did there...

[Hoser]

infowars.? Thats like the National Enquirer with tin foil...

[BushMasterBoy]

Here is what happens when the economy tanks and the government can't really protect you:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-19269891

[10mm-man]

Here is what happens when the economy tanks and the government can't really protect you:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-19269891

Are you crazy? Like the Gov will never be there to protect us.....

[bogie]

Now the social security administration just requested 174k rounds.

http://drudgegae.iavian.net/r?hop=ht...-point-bullets