WHAT'S GOING ON ??????????

On Friday’s night broadcast of his radio show, Mark Levin speculated that the federal government is stockpiling ammunition to ensure the rule of law in the event of a total societal and economic collapse.

On Feb. 8, Investor’s Business Daily editorial writer Andrew Malcolm penned a piece about the Department of Homeland Security amassing what he called “sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times –including illegal immigrants,” or more than 1.6 billion bullets.

“I’m going to tell you what I think is going on,” Levin said. “I don’t think insurrection. Law enforcement and national security agencies — they play out multiple scenarios. They simulate multiple scenarios. I’ll tell you what I think they’re simulating: the collapse of our financial system, the collapse of our society and the potential for widespread violence, looting, killing in the streets, because that’s what happens when an economy collapses.”



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/16/le...#ixzz2LArQ6APX

And no official explanation offered..

Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo?

By Andrew Malcolm at Investors Business Daily
Posted 02/08/2013 09:02 AM ET

In a puzzling, unexplained development, the Obama administration has been buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months, with the Department of Homeland Security just placing another order for an additional 21.6 million rounds.

Several other agencies of the federal government also began buying large quantities of bullets last year. The Social Security Administration, for instance, not normally considered on the frontlines of anything but dealing with seniors, explained that its purchase of millions of rounds was for special agents' required quarterly weapons qualifications. They must be pretty poor shots.

But DHS has been silent about its need for numerous orders of bullets in the multiple millions. Indeed, Examiner writer Ryan Keller points out Janet Napolitano's agency illegally redacted information from some ammunition solicitation forms following media inquiries.

According to one estimate, just since last spring DHS has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. That's sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times. Including illegal immigrants.

To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, DHS is armed now for a 24-year Iraq war.

The perceived need for so much ammunition in federal custody is especially strange given Obama's double-barreled emphasis in his inaugural address on the approaching end in Afghanistan "of a decade of war." And he also noted, "We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war."

The lack of a credible official explanation for such awesome ammunition acquisitions is feeding all sorts of conspiracy theories, mainly centered on federal anticipation of some kind of domestic insurrection. Napolitano has at times alluded to threats from the extreme right-wing.

Other conspiracists harken back to an Obama Colorado campaign speech in July, 2008. That day he deviated from his prepared text to say:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Writing at American Thinker, Lee Cary noted at the time that the speech context seemed to involve expanded opportunities for community service. But as still happens when Obama goes off-teleprompter, his non-fortuitous word choice on the fly such as "national security force" prompted numerous writers to speculate since about some kind of national Obama para-military force.

And as great as Obama's unlikely, newly-revealed passion for skeet-shooting might be, that involves shotguns, not handguns over-heated from blasting off millions of rounds.

Additionally, Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona, is widely expected to seek the 2016 Democrat presidential nomination. But you wouldn't think she'd need that much ammo for such a bid.



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hahaha..... maybe their going to first take our guns then kill us all

Nothing quite so sinister even though the conspiracy theorists would have people believe so. It's a multi-year buy, much of which is to be used for training.

http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/defen...bullets/nWPX6/

The numbers of rounds purchased vs the employees don't compute....... and why are they ramping up the volume of ammo purchased over prior years?


It doesn't make sense.............per your Statesman article the DHS uses 15 million rounds per year; so why do they need to buy 1.6 billion rounds, or 100 years supply ?

Yeah its for "training" Whirly. Lots of training, about 100 years worth.

The ammo manufacturers apparently won't be making ammo in the future to buy, so we have to spend the money we don't have now, for future training exercises.

Levin is a really smart guy. It makes sense that the government is preparing for what could amount to a civil war. It may not happen; who knows what's going to happen. It is clear that the current path of run away spending is not sustainable and the political will to stop does not exist. This is not going to end well.

Bill Ayers estimated that twenty five million counter-revolutionaries would have to be killed in re-education centers after the radical left took over.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...execution.html

No Joe, all those rounds we don't have the money to pay for, are for training exercises. Big Sis says so, and she would never tell an untruth.

Get on-board with the program dammit! LOL!

The sequestration can't happen fast enough (March 1). Cut the Defense budget now.