Originally Posted By: jumprightinit
The question behind all of this is why they even need the ammo. Why does every Federal agency have a Militarized , armed division? It's simple if you look at o's election speech's.
Every government agency has always had an internal law enforcement agency. Everyone of them including the Department of Education, the IRS, Social Security, even DHS. Nothing new, even the ammo purchases were made back 20 and 40 years ago. Same with the RFP's, they are business' nightmares, but if you win the contract and they do buy, it can be a good one.
As to the government creating the ammo shortage, read what the NRA has to say about it.
http://bearingarms.com/breaking-dhs-is-not-buying-up-all-the-ammunition/
Quote: Credit is due to the National Rifle Association for debunking conspiracy theories about “the government” causing this crisis. Last month’s issue of American Rifleman, the “official journal of the NRA,” lays out the case for why American gun owners have only themselves to blame for the steep rise in ammunition prices (and the steep fall in ammunition supply).
From 2000 to 2012, the NRA reported, excise taxes received by the federal government on ammunition sales (a proxy for ammo sales per se) roughly tripled in size. The dollar value of actual ammunition sales increased nearly 100% from 2007 to 2012. In real life, the NRA explained this means that ammunition sales “started to climb fast as gun sales began surging” in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election.
In simple terms we are our own worst enemy, people started to hoard ammo after Obama was elected. The civilians, you, me and our friends have bought 3 times as much ammo as they did before. Actually not me, I shoot no more now than before, and my ammo supply stay pretty constant.
At my stores ammo shortages were created by resellers, once the store people created an allotment the shelves started to refill in a hurry. The crew that would buy everything in sight can no longer do that, in the last year I cannot remember not being able to buy ammo that I wanted when I had shot up a couple of boxes. And I get the ammo at RETAIL not some inflated resellers prices.