DHS Excuse For Buying Billions Of Rounds Of Ammo Exposed As Yet Another Blatant Lie

Mike Adams, NaturalNews.com |

Responding to a letter from Sen. Tom Coburn, the Department of Homeland Security — an agency that has no business being armed in the first place — says it’s buying billions of rounds of ammunition in order to “significantly lower costs.”

It’s all about saving money, you see. DHS isn’t arming up in anticipation of a shooting war on the streets of America, and it’s not buying thousands of armored assault vehicles for that purpose either. No, DHS is only buying all this ammo to save you money!

This response by DHS, of course, is an obvious lie. Why? Because a significant portion of the bullet purchases specify hollow point rounds. In case you didn’t know, hollow points are significantly MORE expensive than “ball” ammo (FMJ). Under the Geneva convention, hollow points are illegal to use in war because they cause far greater tissue damage, too. So they can only be used domestically, inside the United States in a civil action, not an international war.

If DHS really wanted to “significantly lower costs” on ammunition, it would have purchased FMJ rounds (full metal jacket), not hollow points. But in April of 2012, ammunition manufacturer ATK announced it had been awarded a DHS purchase contract for 450 million rounds of hollow point .40 caliber ammo. That’s almost half a billion rounds right there, and they’re all hollow point rounds.

The press release claimed, “The special hollow point effectively passes through a variety of barriers and holds its jacket in the toughest conditions.” You can read the full original press release at Infowars.com.

The press release on the ATK website, by the way, has been modified to remove any mention of “450 million rounds.” Read it here:
http://www.atk.com/news-releases/atk-secures-40-caliber-ammunition-co…

First it was a conspiracy theory that the bullets existed… now it’s a verified fact that billions of rounds are being purchased

2013-04-09 03:53:23

Source: http://www.whiteowlconspiracy.com/2013/04/dhs-excuse-for-buying-billions-of.html