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2013-03-22 Government
DHS Refuses to Answer Congress on 1.6 Billiion Hollow Point Purchases
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Posted by Wholulet Flock2299 2013-03-22 14:33|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Uh, uh, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE FEBRUARY 2015???

gut nuthin.

Srsly.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-22 00:05||   2013-03-22 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 The scheme appears to have been/is to buy up or put under contract all standing and near future ammo, thus curtailing use of civilian weaponry.
Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-22 00:36||   2013-03-22 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 That's sure how it seems. If I was a manufacturer, I'd accept Benny Bux from individuals and retailers but require the government to pay in gold.
Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-22 00:44||   2013-03-22 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps holding them in contempt and throwing them in prison for a few weeks will assist their collective memories.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-22 08:05||   2013-03-22 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I certainly hold them in contempt, Mr. B.

And ReCongress as well. >:-(
Posted by Barbara 2013-03-22 09:14||   2013-03-22 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 1.6 billion rounds, enough for a 20 year war. Only hitch is hollow points are banned by the Geneva convention, can give it to the military. Their only use can be by DHS against Americans.
Posted by 49 Pan 2013-03-22 09:23||   2013-03-22 09:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "can't give it to the military." Sorry for the spelling error.
Posted by 49 Pan 2013-03-22 09:24||   2013-03-22 09:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, by the way, thats 10,667 rounds per DHS employee... Not bad.
Posted by 49 Pan 2013-03-22 09:28||   2013-03-22 09:28|| Front Page Top

#9 And now the cheapest ammo, .22 LR, is 30 cents per round, if you can find it, so this is at least $3000 per employee.
Only problem is that government explicitly denies any such large purchases - prove they're lying.
Alternative explanation is a hyped shortage motivates panic buying, which generates real shortage, which creates huge profits along the distribution chain (remember the gasoline crises of the 1970's?)
Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-22 09:33||   2013-03-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Refusing to answer questions cuts across that whole "nothing to see here" meme.
Posted by SteveS 2013-03-22 10:28||   2013-03-22 10:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Have her jugged for treason, I suspect she'll talk alot more while watching the firing squad practice.
Posted by Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2013-03-22 11:12||   2013-03-22 11:12|| Front Page Top

#12 I never liked this woman. I remember when she was governor of Arizona and attempting to block state legislation aimed at keeping a lid illegal immigration. That old fool McCain was with her on that one. Didn't get to see her picture back then so I never realized how ugly she is until she went to work for O'Bummer. Ugly in more ways than one.

How dare she refuse to answer a legitimate question from Congress. They should hold her in contempt. Can they impeach her?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-22 11:24||   2013-03-22 11:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Looking at the problem from a different direction - 1.6 billion hollow points is quite a storage problem.

Where are they keeping these bullets?



Posted by flash91 2013-03-22 11:35||   2013-03-22 11:35|| Front Page Top

#14 The scheme appears to have been/is to buy up or put under contract all standing and near future ammo, thus curtailing use of civilian weaponry

The vending source(s) appear quite suspect as well.
Posted by Pappy 2013-03-22 11:59||   2013-03-22 11:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Perhaps this is an investment scheme.

Public flunkies buy low, drive up price, sell later as mil surplus (higher than what they paid but below prevailing market rates).

One way of reducing the debt, I suppose.
Posted by no mo uro 2013-03-22 13:19||   2013-03-22 13:19|| Front Page Top

#16 Defund DHS and call it a day.
Posted by DarthVader 2013-03-22 15:23||   2013-03-22 15:23|| Front Page Top

#17 Does DHS have a secret army hidden in the desert somewhere like the Clone army in Starwars?

Who is going to use all of that stuff.

The various law enforcement agencies are screaming bloody murder about the inablility to buy ammo, so I guess when civil peace breaks down the private army can declare martial law and take over law enforcement.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-22 17:04||   2013-03-22 17:04|| Front Page Top

#18 DHS. Give the ammunition you are hoarding to our law enforcement agencies. NOW.
Posted by Wholulet Flock2299 2013-03-22 17:07||   2013-03-22 17:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Suspect they are giving it to Acorn.
Posted by watermodem 2013-03-22 17:12||   2013-03-22 17:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Defund DHS and call it a day.

That'd save a heckuva a lot of money. Make the Border Patrol another branch of the military and tell the rest of them, most particularly Ms. Napolitano, to go on home. Before 9/11 we were doing fine without them and I don't feel any safer now.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-22 17:26||   2013-03-22 17:26|| Front Page Top

#21 Make the Border Patrol another branch of the military

As long as they don't put it under Treasury.

We've already seen what Secret Service did to their uniformed service and what SS alumni did to the TSA...
Posted by Pappy 2013-03-22 18:28||   2013-03-22 18:28|| Front Page Top

#22 Control, Baby! Z>imbabwe here you come with a difference, confiscate the ammo if you canät confiscate the guns. Makes for a defenceless population, using stones and pebbles in their rifles, as in the First civil War.
Posted by Injun Stalin7884 2013-03-22 19:14||   2013-03-22 19:14|| Front Page Top

#23 So... who's tracking where this stuff is stored?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-03-22 20:26||   2013-03-22 20:26|| Front Page Top

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