DHS has been silent about its need for numerous orders of bullets in the multiple millions. Indeed, Examiner writer Ryan Keller points out Janet Napolitano’s agency illegally redacted information from some ammunition solicitation forms following media inquiries.
According to one estimate, just since last spring DHS has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. That’s sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times. Including illegal immigrants.
To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, DHS is armed now for a 24-year Iraq war.
*You* shouldn’t have guns and ammo. The *government* should have them. Via Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo? by Andrew Malcolm – Investors.com.
UPDATE: See here for why the count is way off.
Maybe to make ammo harder to get than it already is? Maybe because they know executive orders that are in the works will make ammunition manufacturing prohibitively expensive and so they are stocking up now before the supply situation gets worse? I could do this all day . . .
Everything I’ve read on this shows this is alex jones level conspiracy theory FUD. The numbers quoted are the max per year in the contract, not actual amounts purchased. The DHS orders the ammo for Border Patrol, Secret Service, Coast Guard, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center(major ammo user), and more.
I’d be cautious about getting too wound up on this and spreading FUD. It just feeds the “wackjob paranoid gun owners” stereotype the media is already fueling.
@pmjones Wow! It has reached the stage where I don’t care about the ammo as much as the cost
Jefferson McCree Jones: That sounds reasonable. Links to that reporting?
The source for this latest buy is here (linked from infowars site) https://marketplace.fedbid.com/fbweb/fbobuyDetails.do?token===wBKxmaVGYR9Kcq5Ajq%2BRH6QAAAAAHeAAgAgTFCGg/FzzqQbJAAyVXBA0Or . They actually purchased 240,000 rounds, not 21.6 million. At least as best as I can read the actual pdf RFQ. Infowars somehow decided to take the total listed in the description and multiply it by the quantity column. (Desc: 100,000 rounds, Qty: 100, Unit: MX) Thus turning 100k rds into 10m rounds.
For the larger contract that was spread last year, or part of it, see https://www.fbo.gov/index?tab=documents&tabmode=form&subtab=core&tabid=651d82263050f621cee349a5594e43e3 . It plainly states “The minimum order per item is 1,000 rounds”. So the max order may be a lot, but they may not use even half of that.
Sadly, all of this information is buried in a lot of different individual contracts, and with the “mistakes” made by infowars and the like of thinking 240,000 rds is 21,600,000 rounds, the entire “1.5 billion rounds” cannot be trusted.