If she didn’t before, she does now, because she’s ordered 200 million rounds of pistol ammo for her employees. (From Paco Blog)
The Department of Homeland Security has placed an order for 200 million rounds of pistol ammunition (.40 caliber, hollow-point) over the next five years for use by its Immigration, Customs and Enforcement division.
Let’s see now, ICE has approximately 15,000 employees. Not all of them are licensed to carry firearms, but just to keep the math simple, we’ll divide the whole shebang into 200 million. That works out to a little over 13,000 rounds per employee over five years, or approximately 2,600 per employee per year.
Now, in case the entire population of Mexico tries to cross the border over the next five years, this would be enough to shoot everybody twice; however, this event seems unlikely, and would represent a pretty harsh response, anyway.
So, what’s it all about, Janet?
Every now and again, I visit some of the conspiracy tinged websites as they can be sort of entertaining in a sci-fi kind of way. I’m pretty sure that some might have answers, probably scary answers, but some might not be entirely logical in the strictest sense of the word.
KC, I’m with you, and I take these stories (this one fact: confirmed by Winchester) with a large helping of salt, but a few leave me scratching my head. Why so much ammo for a smll force? Why did Obama quietly cede jurisdiction in the US to Interpol? Etc.
One thing that spy, intelligence and propaganda agencies know is that in order to hide something, make it so incredible that no one would believe it. Incredible deceptions have been going on since ancient times.
“Oh, they’d NEVER do that. Uh, would they?”
Perhaps this is simply a backdoor attempt at gun control by the gubermint. Under the laws of supply and demand, drive the price of ammunition through the roof and no one can afford to buy rounds for their pistols.
Worked with the Soviets, Reagan drove them bankrupt with arm escalations. Just saying…
Hey, at least that money is going to a New Haven company…