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Mainstream Media Asks, Why Is DHS Stockpiling Ammo, Weapons And Armored Assault Vehicles?

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March 11, 2013 Posted by: Off Grid Survival

After years of reporting on the Federal Government’s war on the American Public, someone in the mainstream media is finally asking why the Department of Homeland Security seems to be arming itself for a war on American soil.

Early this morning, Forbes released an article asking why the Department of homeland security was buying over 1.6 billion rounds of ammo, and why they need heavily armored personnel carriers designed for war. The article points out that DHS has stockpiled enough ammo for a 20-year war in the homeland.

Dispelling the myth that it’s all for training.

Despite the fact that most of the mainstream media has dismissed these purchases, by claiming they are for training purposes, the article rightly points out that DHS only uses 15 million rounds every year. At that rate, the current stockpile would last the Department of Homeland Security 106 years; keep in mind that the 1.6 billion rounds is what they’ve purchased in the last 10 months.

To bring the numbers into perspective, the Forbes article goes on to point out, “at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years.”

If this is all for training purposes, why are they purchasing MRAP armored personnel carriers designed for war?

So we need to ask, what exactly is DHS preparing for?

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    • fuzzy696

      They are using taxpayers money to over take the taxpayer themselves…..think about it.

      • icetrout

        Time for the worm to turn a hard right… What’s this crazy dyke have in mind?

      • WarriorClass

        Don’t pay taxes.

      • Mitch

        THE AMMO PART IS A HOAX!!!!

        Fact: Lake City ammo plant’s annual production is 1.6 BILLION, total, which is 6% of the Pentagon’s annual requirement. If that is the Pentagon’s annual requirement, then they were shooting a hell of a lot more ammo than 5,000,000 per month in Iraq.

        The Pentagon BUYS ammo from about six foreign countries and five domestic commercial ammo companies to make up the shortfall. The GAO said it took 250,000 rounds of small arms fire to kill each enemy combatant in Iraq. So…..it took a lot more than 70m rounds to fight the Iraq war. THESE figures were published in various arms trade magazines (INCLUDING Aviation Week And Space Technology.) three to six years ago. (LINK ) So, at this enlightening figure, DHS doesn’t have a whole lot of ammo, certainly not enough to control Detroit.

        HERE is a good article….
        The Great Ammunition Myth.(LINK )

        DHS uses 160 million rounds for training and qualification each year.
        40,000 agents in twenty sub-departments including Border Patrol, Customs, Security Services, ICE, etc. That’s a lot of ammo. Americans possess about 170 billion rounds of ammunition, adding about 16 billion each year.

        In a weekend class, we shoot about 8,000 rounds. Sounds like a lot, eh? Well, 15 students, but it’s only 533 rounds per student.
        Every round is a controlled training experience. No blasting wildly.
        Some serious SWAT schools will have students firing 10,000 rounds in four days. They will burn out a barrel in four days in their M4 5.56 carbine. So, while some speculate that the USG is buying up all the ammo, it’s bogus.
        Citizens will buy about 16 to 18 BILLION ROUNDS this year.

        • cforce

          Do you have an explanation for the armoured vehicles?

        • William

          You’re working overtime, I see, Agent Mitch. You must not have received the memo: THERE WILL NOT BE ANY OVERTIME PAID, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.

        • Joerg Klaemt

          Mitch,
          Let me ask you a simple Question :” On who’s Pay Roll are you ?

      • Mitch

        THE AMMO PART IS A HOAX!!!!
        See details below…

        • Volcano

          You still haven’t answered..cforce.. Do you have an explanation for the armored vehicles? Or are you going to throw a bunch of numbers again to confuse the sheeple.. And thanks William for reminding him about the Memo!!

    • MissingRonnieR

      A Congressional inquiry should be made as to whether the Secretary through misuse of government funds, is attempting to institute a defacto restriction on the trade of a legal commodity by limiting its available access to the market. If so the Secretary has violated Federal Law by circumventing the authority of Congress to regulate free trade.

      • Mitch

        ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 THE AMMO PART IS A HOAX!!!! ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一
        ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 See details ABOVE.. .▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一

        • janesy

          Mitch, how much is OFA paying you to give false info on blogs? Or, rather, the “official line” they want us to swallow. Don’t be a stooge Mitch, open your eyes! Or go on believing Obama is your best friend. Just don’t say we didn’t warn you

    • manufactured2012

      How about this?

      Daniel 8:23-25

      New Century Version (NCV)

      23 “When the end comes near for those kingdoms, a bold and cruel king who tells lies will come. This will happen when many people have turned against God. 24 This king will be very powerful, but his power will not come from himself. He will cause terrible destruction and will be successful in everything he does. He will destroy powerful people and even God’s holy people. 25 This king will succeed by using lies and force. He will think that he is very important. He will destroy many people without warning; he will try to fight even the Prince of princes! But that cruel king will be destroyed, and not by human power.

      • Love Ya

        thanks for your new century bible. i compared it to my king james and i would like to retype daniel 8:25. king james bible has a little different take on this bad leader. here goes “and through his policy also he shall cause craft (deceit) to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hand.” the bible in other chapters say: when you hear a leader say peace and prosperity, the end is near. check the 7 year tribulation prophesy that goes well with the devil for 3 and 1/2 years. i truly do thank you for your biblical insight.

        • Anonymous

          anything other than an original autographed copy of the bible signed by the author, god… is nothing more than delusional rants of stupids old men who have had too much mead and should not be taken seriously.

        • William

          That’s actually from the New Kool-Ade Bible.

    • James Smith

      Now you’re talking some truth, a revolt is 100% in order, that’s what they want “civil war” to usher in the new world order one world government by their u.n. communist Enforcers. Everyone is finally waking up to the communist enemy takeover. The banker perpetrators and the house, congress are in fact complicit accomplices being very serious extremely dangerous foreign financed criminals since it’s jail or worse for all of them. At one time in 2002 I was ridiculed shunned arrested beat-up my life threaten at gun point telling people the truth about 9/11 being a false flag inside job and now look 10 years later and everyone realizes what I already knew to be true about my infiltrated federal foreign communist government. Those that voted yes to the patriot act are communist conquering confessed criminals and should be arrested. Those that voted yes for NDAA are confessed harden blatant complicit criminals and should be arrested along with obama the fraud usurper indonesian citizen foreign british subject enemy constitution circumventing infiltrating conquering evil communist national security threat espionage spy murdering thief. You’re all under arrest for high treason with special circumstance of land conquering genocide and the only punishment that would fit that egregious crime is the death penalty.

      • Mitch

        ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 THE AMMO PART IS A HOAX!!!! ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一
        ……▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 See details ABOVE.. .▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一

    • Stevex09

      A liberal told me DHS is only exercising it’s 2nd amendment rights.

      • William

        And ours too, evidently. :mad:

    • CosmicKiwiPerth

      Ok, so when is the turning point when mainstream media speak up? When it`s too late I guess..

    • Anonymous

      It is a type of gun control ! Sure you can buy any type of weapon you want , but try buying ammo !

      • Mitch

        ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 THE AMMO PART IS A HOAX!!!! ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一
        ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 details in long post ABOVE.. .▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一

    • truther357

      BS …Obama and Soros mainstream media doesn’t know what’s going on in the government?
      These two foreign nation Marxist, criminal’s own the damn USSA government!
      A Islamic Brotherhood Muslim running the CIA!!!…should be enough to tell Us how far We have sunk into this ‘Socialist Sewer!’
      Wake America!!!Boycott…Boycott…Boycott

    • Anonymous

      Hollow points for training?

    • Anonymous

      YEAH, all you suckers are going to fall to the NWO TOO!! Including your families and friends. You supported the BEAST GOVERNMENT to the detriment of YOUR NATION and YOUR LIVES. You will NOT BE SAFE OR BE SAVED EITHER. The people of Europe were EXCITED to have HITLER and his NATIONALISM. But, their cheers turned into TEARS as the death and destruction come upon them and their countries.

    • Anonymous

      Folks need to start picketing this place and protesting them. They are arming our enemy. Navistar Defense LLC

    • Anonymous

      Since it takes and act of Congress to declare WAR, I would love to hear Congress thoughts on this, but as usual…., they have their thumbs up their BUTTS.

    • desertspeaks

      it would seem as though DHS is a PREPPER!!

    • nonononsense

      Friends and rebels I must comment on the petition. The government has permission to put away any political terrorists. That is any one that does not agree with them. (big hint there) … They are buying weapons for war to use here in our borders. They are buying ammunition to use here in our borders and they are not hiding it. (big hint here)….The laws they pass are for the backing of the UN. So the UN will not attack their governmental establishment when it turns on the people.
      If you believe still that this government is here to protect you then sign away. If you plan on putting up more of a fight than just words then please, be aware that they are going to be getting their list of names from more than on location. In this land DHS has authority over all other cabinets of our system. That means they get information from every known source in our all. And you should know by know they have given power to our local traitors (local police) to use surveillance without our knowledge. Wire tapping, visual aids to look through walls, internet programs to identify, and gather information on citizens. That one they bought from Britain iin july. It is part of google and facebook. Integrated right in the program now. They monitor everything. They are the first and last word in all things that affect our land. They will monitor the petitions that you send to the fake leader as well.

    • Cap-Z-ro

      ” Mainstream Media Asks, Why Is DHS Stockpiling Ammo, Weapons And Armored Assault Vehicles? ”
      ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

      There has to be some sinister ulterior reason for them finally “waking up”.

    • LifeStyle6070

      “METAL STORM” look it up on you tube. 1 MIL. rounds a minute!!!I.Y.A.O.Y.A.S.

    • Anonymous

      Mainstream Media Asks, Why Is DHS Stockpiling Ammo, Weapons And Armored Assault Vehicles?

      Simple! It’s to keep us SAFE! :twisted:

    • dalek1967

      I have a couple questions.

      They say it is for training. Training for what? WWIII?

      If it is for training, why hollow points? When I am sighting in my scope or practicing, I use cheap old solid bullets. It saves money. I save the hollow points which cost more for hunting or any crook stupid enough to show up.

      I wasn’t born yesterday.

    • janesy

      I see the military buildup here in my small TX area. We are supposedly pulling out of all wars, yet a brand spanking new, mult-million $$ Natl Guard Armory was built here last yr. Our old one was basically just a brick bldg. This one has super high security checkpoints & is HUGE! And around back they have small tanks, mortars, army trucks, & more things I can’t even identify. Why on earth would we need this type of brand new equipment & Natl Guard fortress if we are on the road to peace with our enemies? We never had this type of weapons & tanks at the old armory. This stuff is meant for us. Otherwise it’s a colossal miscalculation & the govt thinks this is Afghanistan. Oh, and it’s sitting right off a main interstate highway, ya know, for convenience. :!:

    • Anonymous

      Are they doing this for protection from an outside invasion from a country? Are they just putting on a show and the vehicles are on loan and paperwork was doctored to make it look like they bought 1.6 billion rounds of ammo to put a scam on the American people and keep us in line? Are they planning for the second American Revolution/Civil War? Is some global catastrophe going to happen soon that only a few know about? Is the Anti-Christ and his minions behind this so when the Anti-Christ takes over this will be another agency to do his bidding? Or is it something so nefarious we dare not think about it? The recent anti-gun groups and laws passed and if the DHS did indeed purchase this ammo and vehicles it’s just too much of a coincidence. Will DHS employee’s fire on American people? Some will if ordered but I think the majority would refuse as would the National Guard and American troops. I will pray for peace. You folks who aren’t saved may want to consider it. The Bible is the truth. No matter what your sin God will forgive you if you ask him. Look at all the things in the Bible that have been proven. Are they just coincidence? Also a lot of things in Revelations in the Bible are coming true. Yes things in Revelations have happened before but not in as great a number as now. Are the End Times soon? No one knows but God. Personally I think the are. Look at all the surveillance and privacy violations that are happening to people now. Talk not only of a U.S. identity card but a global identity card. The next step after that will probably be the Mark of the Beast. Please get saved now because if you die before you are saved you won’t like where you end up. God Bless.

      • Anonymous

        I think you are right anonymous about it being close to End Times and the Anti-Christ is behind this. I hope people will listen to you and get saved.

      • Anonymous

        People should do a little research and find out on their own how a lot of things in the Bible has been proven also do some research about how many natural and unnatural disasters have occured in the last 10 years compared to previously. The number of earthquakes, floods, volcanoes erupting, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, animals dying, the number of new diseases and increase in old diseases and diseases thought eradicated are making a comeback, famine, pestulence, pornograpy, decadence, greed, apathy, despair because of how are leaders have let us down, and the economy. I know there are more but that is all I can think of now. I also encourage people to get saved as soon as possible. God Bless everyone.

    • Countyguard

      Pay no attention to this… it is nothing to be concerned about. Just go about your business and let “US” take care of you as we see fit. Our fruits should prove our true intentions, shouldn’t they?

    • clockwork angel

      Look at all that has been stripped of the military including key figures and take a look at the massive build up of the Department of Homeland Security Force..1 billion rounds of ammo,tanks,drones,check points through out the US , 50 mill on new uniforms -for who foreign “visitors”? and executive orders being signed under the cuff away from the media…..sh*t I live in St.Pete fla..old folks town so wtf do we need a armored personnel carrier for…but we have one and a hundred more in a guarded parking lot behind a Raytheon building out of the publics view.

    • wvbowhunter

      If the ammo part is a hoax, then why can’t regular citizens find anything on the shelf? Why can’t reloaders find primers? Why did onlinr ammo companies send a mass e mail to all their customers telling them the opposite, I received two of them. Why, when you ask folks who work there, why the shortage do they tell you it’s the govt. thing and panic about upcoming legislation? Go try to sell it somewhere else Mitch. This govt. is preparing for civil unrest, and why are there military units marching through towns and cities? Why did the DHS order targets showing a pregnant woman, kid, and an old man in his house, all hold ing a gun? Desensatize agents that’s why? Drones now over several cities, why Mitch, why? This is not the United States govt. I used to know.

    • Neil Armstrong

      Just look at the machine that’s being built if you want to know where things are going.

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