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GAO to Investigate Ammunition Stockpiling By Federal Agencies

AmmoThe Government accountability office (GAO) has begun looking into why the Obama administration is arming agencies with enough ammo to sustain the average war for 27 years?  Good question.  We’ve been wondering that ourselves.  Why would a guy who claimed that the country needed a civilian national security force be arming the department of education, and…as you’ll hear in the video on the jump, fisheries agents who apparently need 46,000 rounds of hollow points to…do some redneck fishin’ ?

Hollow points?

More ammunition than the military needs for almost three decades of heavy fighting in Iraq?  Hmmm.  Federal agencies need 80 years worth of “practice” ammo?  If it were a Republican president creating a civilian national security force would Democrats be dirtying their Maggie Hassan supplied adult diapers so quickly that they couldn’t change them fast enough?  You bet.  But this is Obama.  Any suggestion that he might actually be arming a civilian security force–see also: a personal army–well that would be crazy talk.

But the GAO wants to know.  And we can’t wait for the leaks to begin about how the Obama Admin is trying to pressure them to back off.

Great video on the jump–from of all places, USNews online.

 

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Obama’s Army….Only Following Executive Orders

Is Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force” being staged and supplied under our very noses? “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” – BHO, Colorado, … Read more

From The Edge of Sequestration – About Those Job Cuts…

We’ve been warned of tainted food as the FDA furloughs workers, thinning ranks as border agents get let go, and fewer Federal prosecutors, and don’t forget about those FAA employees that have to be let go. So why, in the age of sequesteria, has the Federal Government posted job opening to fill 2,596 positions in just the past ten days? … Read more

From The Edge Of Sequestration…Another Update

The Edge Of Sequestration.  Sounds like a Soap Opera, but then it is.  Take the TSA for example.  Janet Napolitano promised we would suffer if Sequestration were allowed to take effect as workers were furloughed. Wait-times at airports would skyrocket because of these budget cuts.

While you’re waiting in those longer lines that may or may not exist, you’ll have extra time to admire the new uniforms TSA bought just before the sequester hit.  DHS signed a $50 million deal to buy uniforms just before the sequester hit, some of which will be made in Mexico.

At least the TSA is giving jobs to Mexicans that Americans wont do…in Mexico.  And back in the US, no one is reporting an increase in delays.

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A domestic, internal army for America? Who would be the target?

Illegal aliens? Invading Canadians? Rampaging Boy Scouts or Tea Partiers? It’s anyone’s guess, but it has been widely reported that the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stockpiled 1.6 billion rounds of .40 caliber and 9mm ammunition over the past year. Now the news comes out that the DHS has purchased 2,700 military-style MRAP … Read more

Smartest President Ever…[updated]

Haven’t even cut a fraction of his massive 3.8 trillion dollar budget (cuts he passed into law)…only place to cut at DHS requires Barack Obama to let hundreds of criminals out of prison. What? Is this what DHS needed billions of rounds of ammunition for? [update] White House denies knowledge.  Theories that the release may … Read more

DHS Tries to Explain Why It Needs 1.6 Billion More Rounds of Ammo

The speculation about why the US Department of Homeland Security would want to buy another 1.6 billion (with a b) rounds of ammunition over the next few years as been ‘enthusiastic’-if not just creepy at times, but worry not, they have put the issue to rest.

The Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or five years. It says it needs them — roughly the equivalent of five bullets for every person in the United States — for law enforcement agents in training and on duty.

The article goes on to tell us that they spend  about 15 million rounds annually on training.  Just for perspective during the Iraq war the US military used about 70 million if the rumors are true.   It looks like the pre-Obama military (in response to the needs of the global war on terror) were placing its orders in the 100 million rounds a year range, though I suspect that figure is a bit soft.   And if you want more perspective, even if DHS and its associated agencies used up 20 million rounds a year on practice fun and friends  it would take them 80 years to use up the 1.6 billion rounds they’ve requested.

Democrats can’t even write a budget for the next 12 months, why is Obama’s DHS contracting ammo purchases to cover the rest of the century?

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Now I’m Not Alone…In Wondering About DHS Stockpiling Ammo.

empty or near empty ammo shelvesBack on Februry 7th I speculated…

If you are the government, and you want to hamstring gun owners whom you object to, why not buy massive quantities of ammunition to both drive up the price and corner the supply?  If no one else can get it or afford it, you–by default–not only have more of it, but command a level of policy control without the need for the public pursuit of actual policy.

And with that in mind, is that why the Department of Homeland Security just ordered another 21.6 million rounds of ammunition?

Three days later, on Breitbart, AWR Hawkins is wondering something very similar…

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Driving Out The Competition

AmmoI have posited elsewhere in these pages that the government (when run by this particular crowd of liberal Democrats at least) very likely engages in tax policy designed to eliminate political competition.

If, for example, you drive off all the wealthy people or confiscate so much of their wealth that they cling (bitterly) to whatever remains, the only people left willing and able to contribute to increasingly expensive political campaigns will be rich crony friends of the government, people who got waivers, or those that benefited from corporate socialism and are wealthy as a result and also dependent on that relationship.

If you own all the rich people you and your aristocracy can expect to control the power indefinitely.

I happen to think it’s a solid theory so here is another one.

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What’s Good for the Goose…

AR-15 Personal Defense Weapon

 

More proof that our Federal Government is out of control, and should be feared, comes from this Blaze article.

The Department of Homeland Security issued this RFP back in June, 2012 for 7000 AR-15 “select fire” rifles (fully-automatic) “Personal Defense Weapons“.

In conjunction, DHS has also recently made large (millions) purchases of rounds of ammunition that is compatible with these rifles.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of DHS is the purchaser of these weapons and ammunition.

I have a few theories as to why DHS is doing this.  Any combination of these theories, as a package, is possible:

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