As if buying 2 billion rounds of ammo wasn’t enough, DHS posted a solicitation on FBO.gov for 25 million shotgun rounds this year.
DHS is armed to the teeth now, enough for several Iraq wars. The purchases are obviously in preparation for upcoming civil unrest.
They want to be well-armed and they want to dry up ammo supplies for the rest of us.
Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security announced that it is seeking an ammunition dealer who can provide 25 million shotgun rounds to the agency over a five year period.
The solicitation posted on FBO.gov states that U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a department under DHS, is seeking “shotgun ammunition for use by all applicable agencies in the Department of Homeland Security,” more specifically three million rounds of shotgun slugs per year and two million rounds of buckshot per year for five years.
“The ammunition will be used as appropriate at all Department of Homeland Security (DHS or department) component locations nationwide and outside the CONUS [continental United States,]” the notice reads.
This is an excessive amount that not only reveals the vast scope of the emerging police state but also fuels fears that DHS is preparing for large-scale mass panic in America.
And as we’ve exhaustively documented in the past, mass ammunition purchases by DHS are becoming quite common.
Earlier this year, Homeland Security stockpiled over 141,000 rounds of .308 Winchester ammunition, a rifle round well-known for its consistency in long-range shooting.
The agency requested 168 grain rounds in particular, which have an effective range of 800 to 900 yards.
And last year, DHS released a market survey asking companies if they were able to provide two million rounds of ammunition under short notice.
The survey also asked companies for both their capabilities in producing “large quantity orders of any training caliber specified” within two months and what their lead time would be for a single order of two million rounds.
It has been estimated that over the past couple of years, DHS ammunition purchases have totaled over two billion rounds, with much of the ammunition being hollow point rounds known for their effectiveness at stopping human targets.
DHS also spent $80 million on armed guards to protect government facilities in New York last year and even sought more guards for federal buildings in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
More recently, the agency spent over $58 million for security details for two Social Security offices in Maryland.
While these expenditures reveal that DHS is gearing up for civil unrest, the bulk ammunition purchases in particular are also exacerbating current ammunition shortages across America in what can be described as back-door gun control.
And it isn’t just DHS making large-scale ammunition purchases.
Last February, the United States Postal Service announced it was seeking “proposals for assorted small arms ammunition.” After intense scrutiny, USPS later claimed that the mass purchases were for its Postal Police.
But there is a massive arms build-up by just about every federal agency in existence. Even the U.S. Dept. of Education has been stockpiling firearms and ammunition since at least 2001.
Source: infowars.com
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Goverments burn down just as fast as there created. The people that unite against evil dictators and propaganda lies and media strings will come out on top.
This dept is not arming themselves for deer….
This is going to be very bad and now they bann ak47S
well just when you thought it could not get any worse
The manufactures need to boycott the govt.
oh my better get out there and buy as much as eye can lmao
Dillan Contreraz they gonna try to flip us all
Well you have these ammo horders too! One person buying 10,000 rounds?! If the c**p hits the fan, there’s no way for one person to use 10,000 rounds, 90% of it will fall into the enemy’s hands, you will have to keep moving and you can’t carry 10,000 rounds in your pack! This makes it hard for the rest of us to get any. Then you got the scalpers, buying bulk ammo, causing a shortage, then reselling it at 2 to 300% profit. They are just as unpatriotic as the regime in washington. Around here, these guys get their buddies working in the sporting goods stores to hold the ammo for them, especially .22 rounds. Where a box of 550 would cost 25 bucks, they are reselling it for 75 bucks. If people would stop buying it they might stop doing it. Hard to get rounds are .22, .45, .223/5.56, 7.62×39 around here. People think they will be able to stay in a bunker, sitting on top of all that ammo and melt the barrel off their weapon throwing so much lead. One RPG will end that idea quickly.
argh stop it what about all those turkeys that need eating !!!
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