Homeland security buying even more ammo

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I remember when they did this just two years ago and their back at it. Really makes you wonder don't it?

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.

Published federal notices about the ammo buy have agitated conspiracy

theorists since the fall. That's when conservative radio host Alex

Jones spoke of an "arms race against the American people" and said the

government was "gearing up for total collapse, they're gearing up for

huge wars."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/14/why-is-department-homeland-security-buying-so-many-bullets/#ixzz2LwKvrRBd

 

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Another link and some fun facts.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homeland-security-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/

The DHS has more armed personnel than Canada has military members.

and

The Department of Homeland Security has a larger budget than the armed forces of: Russia, the UK, France, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Brazil. If it was its own military force it would be third in the world behind the USA and China.