Secretary Napolitano and the DHS needs an intervention

By James Smith

10 April 2013

Credit buying is much like being drunk.  The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.  ~Joyce Brothers

Shopping:  The fine art of acquiring things you don’t need with money you don’t have.  ~Author Unknown

Shopping is a woman thing.  It’s a contact sport like football.  Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.  ~Erma Bombeck

Secretary Napolitano really should read more Erma Bombeck, she may learn something about herself.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put in the third solicitation of this year for more ammunition on March 18, for 360,000 rounds of 165 grain .40 caliber S&W jacket hollow point (JHP) rounds.

Today, the winner of the contract was announced, and Garcia Enterprises, a frequent awardee of ammunition contracts was the winner. They receive $105,490.80 for the ammunition, or at a steal of a deal at only 29.3 cents a round.

I believe that Secretary Napolitano has an addiction to ammunition buying:

Signs of shopping addiction include the inability to stop oneself from making purchases, conflicts with loved ones over expenditures and lying about shopping. While many people love shopping, people who do so compulsively do it despite negative consequences, such as going deep into debt, says Jon Grant, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, which houses a clinic for impulsivity disorders. “They might get a lot of enjoyment from buying the item, but by the time they get home they’re uninterested. . . . It’s not about the acquisition of the item itself, it’s about the experience of acquiring it. They get a rush from it,” he says. Kimberly Palmer, US News and World Report

This contract award comes days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one of the largest buyer of ammunition, that they did not have sufficient ammunition for training – even though hundreds of millions of rounds have been contracted for purchase. From the National Border Patrol Council website:

Why is there an ammunition shortage? Why can’t Border Patrol agents get enough ammunition to maintain proficiency, especially at a time of increased cross-border smuggling and illegal activity? Where is all this ammunition going?

According to financial information provided by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) purchased 36,475,000 rounds of ammunition at a cost of $12,255,040 for FY 2012, with plans to purchase more for FY 2013 at a cost of $12,528,146. In total, Secretary Napolitano plans to spend $37,263,698 on a variety of ammunition for all agencies under her control this year. As of November 20, 2012, CBP had 94,404,329 rounds of ammunition in its inventory. DHS had 263,733,362 rounds available.

With all of the ammunition purchases, let’s learn something about this particular type of round.

The .40 caliber round is a 10 millimeter round, which is slightly larger than a 9 mm round and smaller than a .45 caliber (11.43 mm).

Learn more with the following stories:

• The Most Dangerous Game – 21st Century Edition
• You have been lied to by the Government, again – and here’s how you can know
• DHS prepares for fiscal cliff by ordering hundreds of thousands of rounds
• Latest ammunition purchase reeks of collusion and Chicago Style politics
• Did the new Alternative Media actually save American lives?

The internet is filled with comments as to the legal use of hollow point rounds, and they are legal to use in combat. Most people will wrongly state that their use is outlawed in the Geneva Convention, but it was the International Peace Conference at The Hague that the use of expanding bullets were discussed. The ammunition’s forerunner was banned in 1899, and a portion of that ban is shown here:

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