The Obama alphabet soup still trying to buy up ammo, now the TSA is in on it.

[NightShade]

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/washington-still-sucking-up-ammo-supplies/

Long article lots to read but the TSA is trying to buy 3.5 million rounds of .357SIG

The beginning of the article is below.

The federal government drew the ire of Congress for sucking up ammunition supplies so fast that citizens and even police forces have been unable to meet their own needs.

Lawmakers looked into legislation to force the feds to back off, but apparently nothing has been done.

The latest agency to buy massive amounts of ammunition is the Transportation Security Administration, which doesn’t even arm most of its agents.

The FedBizOpps.gov website reports that the TSA is seeking to purchase nearly 3.5 million rounds of .347 SIG caliber training ammunition. Weapons experts told WND the .347 is an unknown caliber, and the document likely contained a mistake, instead intending to reference a .357 caliber.

The agency’s workers mostly are unarmed, with the primary exception being the federal air marshals who travel aboard airliners to deter and respond to violence, hijackings and terrorism.

There are no firm numbers available on the number of agents, but experts estimate there are several thousand. The planned purchase, then, would give the agency the availability of nearly 10,000 rounds per day for “training.”

TSA officials declined to respond to a WND request for more information.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitan0 admitted in April that the federal government was drying up ammunition supplies.

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She was asked by a House panel about the huge government purchases, estimated to be in the range of 1.6 billion rounds, enough for many years of war at the rate ammunition is used by the U.S. military.

Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., wanted to know whether the reports were accurate.

“This was a five-year strategic sourcing contract for up to one-point-whatever billion rounds,” she confirmed.

Calculations done by the Washington Examiner suggest the reported 1.6 billion rounds would be enough for “something like a 24-year supply of ammunition on hand.”

Other consumers of ammunition, however, from the weekend hunter to police departments, are finding the shelves bare.

For example, Utica, N.Y., police have been told it could take up to 10 months to get the ammunition they order. The department especially is having trouble getting .223 and .45 caliber rounds, the type that the federal government also orders.

 

[Spata]

TSA VIPR teams. martial law. christian extremists. 1984.

 

[71buickfreak]

I will hold my concern until the garbage workers union buys a bunch of .22. Oh, wait, they are all mafia, too late.

 

[Glocktogo]

World Nut Daily

Nuff' said.

 

[twoguns?]

Boy I'm sure glad I dont shoot .357 sig , there Cant be much of that stuff around.

I wonder if theyre using 22 to practice until they get the first millllion rounds>...Huh

 

[TerryMiller]

Something that I'll mention, although it may not apply to the TSA making the purchase, but every time that Congress passes a continuing resolution to keep the government funded, what they do is simply re-authorize what the last budget included. Where that is a major factor is that if an agency purchased a lot of ammo in the year of that there was actually a budget, then the continuing resolutions REQUIRE that those agencies make the exact same purchases, even if they don't need the ammo. That applies across the board, if the last budget called for the army to buy 15 attack helicopters, they still have to buy those.

All that plays a big role when you remember that the Senate hasn't passed a budget in over 5 years. So, every year since Obama has been President, ALL the purchases of the last budget have to be purchased again.

 

[Hobbes]

Something that I'll mention, although it may not apply to the TSA making the purchase, but every time that Congress passes a continuing resolution to keep the government funded, what they do is simply re-authorize what the last budget included. Where that is a major factor is that if an agency purchased a lot of ammo in the year of that there was actually a budget, then the continuing resolutions REQUIRE that those agencies make the exact same purchases, even if they don't need the ammo. That applies across the board, if the last budget called for the army to buy 15 attack helicopters, they still have to buy those.

All that plays a big role when you remember that the Senate hasn't passed a budget in over 5 years. So, every year since Obama has been President, ALL the purchases of the last budget have to be purchased again.

Senate passed a budget this year.

 

[AKguy1985]

World Nut Daily

Nuff' said.

this guy knows whats up.

 

[dugsok]

Don't you just love the way our elected officials keep our interest at heart and fight for our rights--HA!