DHS Purchases 21.6 Million More Rounds of Ammunition
The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase a further 21.6 million rounds of ammunition to add to the 1.6 billion bullets it has already obtained over the course of the last 10 months alone, figures which have stoked concerns that the federal agency is preparing for civil unrest.
I am a little less worried about civil unrest than just the Feds spending way too much money. Spend it before they lose it. And ammunition is scarce enough as it is right now, I think we need to start a ammunition redistribution program to bring prices back to reasonable levels.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
When President Obama was elected, I despaired. I cheered myself with the thought that such a liberal man would roll back the oppressive steps taken after 911 out of an excess of fear. The Patriot act, the TSA, Homeland security. All these filled me with fear as they seemed directed more against US citizens than against foreign foes. Instead, the current administration has doubled down on these oppressions. We move ever closer to a police state, and neither party is against this.
It's called bulk buying to save taxpayer money. The contracts extend over the next five years.
Federal solicitations to buy the bullets are known as "strategic sourcing contracts," which help the government get a low price for a big purchase, says Peggy Dixon, spokeswoman for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga . The training center and others like it run by the Homeland Security Department use as many as 15 million rounds every year, mostly on shooting ranges and in training exercises.
Dixon said one of the contracts would allow Homeland Security to buy up to 750 million rounds of ammunition over the next five years for its training facilities. The rounds are used for basic and advanced law enforcement training for federal law enforcement agencies under the department's umbrella. The facilities also offer firearms training to tens of thousands of federal law enforcement officers. More than 90 federal agencies and 70,000 agents and officers used the department's training center last year.
The rest of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition would be purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government's second largest criminal investigative agency.
Something the Dog Said wrote: It's called bulk buying to save taxpayer money. The contracts extend over the next five years.
Federal solicitations to buy the bullets are known as "strategic sourcing contracts," which help the government get a low price for a big purchase, says Peggy Dixon, spokeswoman for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga . The training center and others like it run by the Homeland Security Department use as many as 15 million rounds every year, mostly on shooting ranges and in training exercises.
Dixon said one of the contracts would allow Homeland Security to buy up to 750 million rounds of ammunition over the next five years for its training facilities. The rounds are used for basic and advanced law enforcement training for federal law enforcement agencies under the department's umbrella. The facilities also offer firearms training to tens of thousands of federal law enforcement officers. More than 90 federal agencies and 70,000 agents and officers used the department's training center last year.
The rest of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition would be purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government's second largest criminal investigative agency.
frogger wrote: DHS Purchases 21.6 Million More Rounds of Ammunition
The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase a further 21.6 million rounds of ammunition to add to the 1.6 billion bullets it has already obtained over the course of the last 10 months alone, figures which have stoked concerns that the federal agency is preparing for civil unrest.
