National Weather service buying ammo?

[Rooskibar03]

Saw on Drudge a clarification was sent to the Washington Post by NOAA, claiming a "clerical error" and the order was for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement.

Site was linked from Drudge and now I go back and see they have issued am update to the story.

Still keeping my Tin Foil hat nearby, just in case.

[Great-Kazoo]

Very interesting ammo purchases by various government agencies it makes you pause and think a little....

The .gov agencies are bulk buying because of price. The orders are not for 100K at one time, but spread out over the time of the contract. The feds do it every few years, you know bulk buying in order to secure a better price.

They also like, school districts and city transportation dept.s bulk bid on fuel to lock in a price that guarantees X price spread out over 1 year. No one complains or gets a case of the noids when denver buys 1 million gallons of fuel.

[J]

The validity remains in question, but it did claim that DHS has, across two orders, purchased 1.2Billion rounds.

That's a lot of ammo.

[claimbuster]

Need to fight off those "killer storms"

[centrarchidae]

Why DHS? DHS runs most of Uncle Sugar's LE training programs, including both FLETC campuses. Two police academies of that size will use a LOT of pistol ammo.

(Why they need enough cops to use that much training ammo is a different question and I don't see the answer as being too terribly convincing.)

Why NOAA fisheries LE office? 46K isn't that much. I'd be willing to bet that any six people on this site could use that up in a month.

FWIW, the NOAA campus in Boulder has a small police contingent of its own. I think there's something like 10-20 people there.

(Assuming that infowars isn't FoS, as usual.)

[cstone]

In this particular case, I am all for government excess. Years ago people stood in line for the free government cheese handouts. Well, I will be standing in line waiting for my share of 1.2 Billion rounds of .40 S&W

[Sharpienads]

They are probably just gonna shoot the breeze...

[bogie]

The Dept of Commerce (NOAA's momma) has its own police force, as does just about every federal agency, and NOAA has several uniformed services including their own fleet of ships and aircraft. Relax guys, worry about DHS' 1.2M rounds and leave the 46K to NOAA alone

[J]

The Dept of Commerce (NOAA's momma) has its own police force, as does just about every federal agency, and NOAA has several uniformed services including their own fleet of ships and aircraft. Relax guys, worry about DHS' 1.2M rounds and leave the 46K to NOAA alone

1.2B, not M.

The comment about buying in bulk, receive over time makes a lot of sense.

Still, 1.2B can't all be for duty carry/use. Why are we paying for that many carry loads for targe practice (if true)

[BPTactical]

They are probably just gonna shoot the breeze...

Well played