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traditional branches of .gov being armed I have not much quarrel over

but there's a whole slew of new "fed" employees that they seem to be arming

as Bob said, I believe .gov was already adequately armed

and since they can't seem to balance a fing checkbook, I can't see any reason for them to spend even more money. YMMV

I don't know what you mean by this.



Travis

I don't understand what this means.

Assuming 50,000 uniformed personnel consume 100 shotgun shells per year for training and qualification, wouldn't 25 million shotgun rounds equal a five year contract of ammunition?

Maybe my math is off.


Travis

They're planning on shooting a lot of Americans, it would seem.

the feds COULD hide this sort of purchasing, but they don't even bother.

Or a clue....
This is kinda fun, I wonder how far it can go......oh yeah I forgot it involves a liberal skunk, pretty much deems it endless.

I have a very minty Oberndorf Mauser short rifle that serves as a memento of precisely that illegal German military buildup. They were prohibited by the Versailles Treaty from manufacturing military rifles, so they had engraved on all of them "Sport Modelle." It's just a like-new WWI style Mauser 98, just shorter in length, the precursor to the model they eventually standardized for WWII.

Well that certainly is an interesting perspective.

The Marine Corps qualifies how many people every year? Let's see... How many Marines are there? 200,000? How many rounds do they fire to qualify? 50?

That would mean in one year the United States Marine Corps would require 10,000,000 rounds of 5.56 to QUALIFY. No training. No SAW's. No fighting. Just to QUALIFY their personnel.

So I'll ask again since so many people on here seem to have an idea:

How many rounds of 12 gauge should the DHS order?


Travis

Well, considering that a box of 22's was always about a buck, and so was gas from about 1976 or so. Gas is now pretty near 4 bucks.
If I had to pay 5 bucks for a box of 22's, not such a big deal.

i don't need no stinkin .223, f'n military chit.

actually. I think it's because they all need the practice.

for them to get on par with some of the people here will take years

If I knew as much as you, I'd babble too.


Travis

The match is lit......

who knows when it'll be dropped.

My question is why do they need 50,000 uniformed personnel? Why does BLM need a standing army. Why does EPA need a standing army? Why does the Post Office need one? Virtually every department in government including IRS has a standing army. Why?

Show us the way derby! Show us the way!




Travis

Praying the mid terms go well and another dem doesn't occupy the whitehouse for the next 1000 years.

I don't [bleep]' know.

But that has nothing to do with the conversation. The conversation involves the justification of this amount of ammo for 12 gauge shotguns. So let's talk about how many rounds of 12 gauge shotgun this entity requires.

I read an article the other day that stated the Border Patrol has 20,000 personnel, that Customs consists of another 20,000.

That leaves about 10,000 for the Coast Guard and those are the only three I can think of under DHS. So let's crunch some numbers here.


Travis

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What I mean is they don't need anything more than what they already have.

Really? There are 40K in the Coast Guard. You do know the Coast Guard is in the Persian Gulf and have been right?

All you need is a frigging bong you POS liberal Yankee.

I've been buying shotgun shells every time I go by the sporting goods store knowing it is a matter of time they will be hard to find too.