Just weeks after the Obama administration was forced to back off the ban on M855 bullets, a solicitation by DHS pops up on FedBizOpps.gov for a purchase of 62 million rounds of AR-15 ammo.
It couldn’t be more clear that the feds are once again seeking to raise prices and dry up the market for one of the most common rifle cartridges used in the US. DHS now has over 2 billion bullets, enough to kill 1/3 of the world’s population.
If you haven’t stocked up on ammo yet, the time is now.
“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any,” LaMalfa wrote in the letter.
The bulk purchase follows attempts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to ban M855 ammo, another popular round for AR-15’s used by hunters. The ATF justified the ban by claiming that the bullets were “armor piercing” and a threat to law enforcement officers.
After being on the receiving end of a huge backlash, the feds were forced to back down and ATF director B. Todd Jones subsequently tendered his resignation. Democratic Congressman Steve Israel called the ATF backdown “cowardly” and vowed to revive the ban.
The ATF’s threat to ban the ammo temporarily caused prices of the bullet to surge more than double in price.
Although federal agencies are increasingly hiding their purchases by limiting public information on fbo.gov, it can still be conservatively estimated from available data that the feds have purchased at least 2.11 billion rounds of ammunition since April 2012:
Date Reported Agency Amount Caliber
April ’12 – Feb ’13 Various 2,000,000,000 Various
03/25/13 DHS 360,000 .40 S&W
07/26/13 NOAA 72,000 .40 S&W
07/26/13 Army 2,550,000 7.62x39mm
07/26/13 Army 425,000 9x18mm Makarov
08/19/13 TSA 3,454,000 .357 SIG
02/11/14 DHS 141,000 .308 Remington
04/22/14 DHS 25,000,000 12 Gauge
05/22/14 TSA 24,000,000 .357 SIG
04/15/15 DHS 62,000,000 .223 RemingtonTOTAL 2,118,002,000
That’s enough ammo to kill around 30% of the world’s population.
Furthermore, U.S. soldiers were shooting around 5.5 million rounds of ammunition per month during the war in Iraq, or 66 million rounds annually. Using that figure, the feds have stockpiled enough ammo over the past two years to fight a 32-year war.
Who is selling to the Fed?
More tax dollars to take away our weapons and insure that OB Police Force has no compe$#%&!@*ion . When will folks realize you are being scraficed by socialist taken over. If we do not fight this action against tyranny now, later is too late.
Yes the has never in our history been a government so anti American and they will stop at nothing to crush the American way of life so buy as much ammo as you can afford you are going to need it .
Why is Homeland Security buying more ammunition today? Are we paying for ammo that is to be used to round up “people” for FEMA camps? Are we stockpiling for WW3? Are we just buying it so the price goes up and the average homeowner can not afford to buy ammo for home safety? Why and how much money are we spending? The American people have a right to know what their tax dollars are being used for and whether it is used or just wasted!
So they stock up on ammo that’s okay but if you do it yourself your an extremists unless you’re Muslim of course.
Sold to who??
All Americans have armed themselves and stocked up on a lot of ammo for protection of their families. A big percentage of people are carrying concealed weapons all the time.
Check Snopes on this.
Do not think for one minute that the arm forces would all go against the goverment
sick thought …… how many muslims are obama state dept and the un bringing into the usa? and for what reason refugees ? No christian refugees allowed ? who has a certain person said he would side with over americans . That is more than a sick thought