CNS News – by Ali Meyer The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is contracted to purchase 704,390,250 rounds of ammunition over the next four years, which is equal to a total of about 2,500 rounds per DHS agent, according to a January 2014 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled Ammunition Purchases Have Declined Since 2009.
“If DHS were to purchase all 704 million rounds over the next four years, and if they were used by 70,000 DHS agents and officers, it would be roughly 2,500 rounds per agent per year,” David Maurer, author of the GAO report, told CNSNews.com.
“That would be higher than what we saw in past years at DHS and higher than the average annual number of rounds per agent or officer at the Department of Justice (DOJ),” he said.
“The 704,390,250 number of rounds is like a ceiling or credit limit which DHS wouldn’t have to fully execute,” said Maurer. “It’s there to use over the next four years until fiscal year 2018, if DHS needed to purchase those rounds.”
In Appendix III of the GAO report, “Department of Homeland Security Ammunition Contracts, as of October 1, 2013,” it states that “the 29 existing DHS ammunition contracts extend over the next 4 fiscal years and have a remaining contract limit of approximately 704 million rounds (for various ammunition types) if every option for purchasing ammunition were exercised into fiscal year 2018.”
The appendix puts the contract ceiling cost at $285,356,645 for the 704,390,250 rounds of ammo.
As of October 2013, the DHS had a total amount of 159 million ammunition rounds on hand in inventory (see p. 22 in report), which when divided by the estimated number of DHS officers of 70,000, comes to about 2,271 rounds per agent.
To put these numbers in perspective, the report provides data on how many rounds were actually bought and how many rounds would typically be needed during training.
“We analyzed DHS data on ammunition purchases and the size of the firearm-carrying workforce for fiscal years 2008 through 2013 and found the average number of rounds of ammunition purchased per year per firearm-carrying agent or officer by component for this time period ranged between approximately 1,000 and 2,000 rounds,” said the report.
“This variation exists because each component independently decides, based on its operational needs, how much ammunition to allocate to its firearm-carrying personnel for training and qualification each year,” said the report. “For example, FPS provides each officer 250 rounds per quarter per handgun for firearm qualification, while ICE provides 100 rounds per quarter per handgun for firearm qualification.”
In fiscal year 2013, 900 rounds were bought per agent or officer at DHS and 1,200 rounds were bought per agent or officer at DOJ.
“According to CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] data, new Border Patrol agents each use approximately 3,300 rounds during training and qualification, compared with experienced officers who might use about 600 rounds,” reads the report. “DHS components provided data on the amount of ammunition typically used by a new law enforcement hire, which ranged from 2,000 to 5,000 rounds.”
“At both DHS and DOJ, federal law enforcement agents and officers are authorized to carry firearms, and are required to train in their use and pass certain firearms qualification standards,” reads the report. “Firearms proficiency is a key component of an officer’s ability to successfully fulfill the component’s mission and protect life and public safety.”
The report continues, “To help ensure the firearms proficiency of their firearm-carrying workforce, these agencies purchase a variety of types of ammunition for training, qualifications, and operational purposes.”
This is alot of ammo. They want to kill you all if you do not submit. Get ready y’all it is coming. If they buy ammo, you should buy ammo.
Yes Bulldog……this is really serious stuff. Very disturbing….and at a cost of ceiling figure, 285+ Billion dollars….
Certainly seems its going to blow. …….it’s going to take all of us and then some, part of the US Military, City police, county sheriffs, state units….some of all of this, if these mad men get this going…..in order to stop them!…..
It just does not look good does it! This is one hell of a lot of ammo….planned by someone…….
Brother reason,
We will prevail. They can have all of the ammo and money in the world. We have a belief and desire that they cannot defeat. They cannot defeat us.
I am not afraid. That’s not it. Nor am I afraid we will be defeated. I and maybe you also, understand if this blows nearly 100% of our people have never seen this before. I have…You too…and a few others…The cost to our property,lives,families,businesses,homes, economy and the list is long….this cost will be out of site. That’s where the main prep has to be…within the minds of all who live in our country….They have to get mentally prepared for this, best as one can….
It’s just a necessity …..that’s mainly my alarm..
good to hear from you bulldog
Good to hear from you to brother. I know you are not afraid.
They will learn as we did. 🙂
They can defeat us and they will defeat us if we continue to do nothing. What has the militia in the last 100 years? Mark Koernke says their will be no more Wacos. Well that’s pretty vague, just what does that mean? The “militia” is standing by and watching our country being torn irrevocably apart. Either the “militia leaders” are being paid to do nothing or they’re COWARDS. Take your pick.
They will defeat you and your kind.
What has the militia done? If it were not for the militia, you would already be a disarmed slave and most probably the victim of a genocide.
A handful of us have had to hold the line for twenty years. We took the beatings and went to jail, while you were enjoying your vacations and your easy life.
Now the time has come when YOU are going to have to step up and you drop to the ground in the fetal position and start pissing yourself and start crying, “We are defeated”.
You are the f#@king coward. If people like you had stood up when the first 500,000 infringements were being put on us, it would have never gotten this far. You are the coward, you low life piece of shit. When you want to look for who is not doing anything, try the mirror. When you say they will defeat us, that would not include the free men who have been fighting every inch of the way.
You dare to try to attack Mark Koernke, who has already sacrificed seven years of his life and various attempts thereon to preserve your freedom.
Slither off somewhere else, you f#@king maggot.
And as for the rest of you reading this, here is an example of a real enemy agent. A low life piece of shit who would like to think he can manipulate the situation when he has never confronted the enemy because he is again and finally, the coward.
Thanyou Henry, you were a whole lot more civil towards that bill guy than what I would have been.
I better shut up about what I think about that bill guy as I really don`t feel very good and then I hear this bill talkin that way.
I`ll be just layin` back for a while as I don`t want to be inappropriate if ya`ll know what I mean.
Yea F` u bill And that is all I got to say to ya!!! screw ya.
This bill guy was commenting the same BS on the alex jones video. Trying to blame the militia for everything that is wrong with the country. It seems a little too much of a coincidence for someone to come on a sit like this and start talking crap about the militia. He is either an alex jones groupie of works for one of the government agencies.
Just my opinion.
No more Wacos,what that means is unlike at Waco folks won’t stop for the local police when the feds are getting ready to slaughter another group of citizens,that’s what I get from no more Wacos anyhow,folks will come in and fight back,many turned away probably armed in the Waco fiasco.There may,hell,probably will be more Waco type actions but they will not be televised and folks not reacting,feel this whole gun registration in Ct./N.Y.could be the scene for the next Waco.Bill,what will you do if Waco slaughter activity happen in your area is my question,not saying you have to pick up a gun but will you do something to clog the gears of oppression,you don’t you may be the victim of a Waco type slaughter down the road.
Put Obama and soros out front if they have guts enough to go there.I am 76 and tired of waiting.Locked and loaded.Put those two mothers out front I want them.bring it on.
“Shoot what your enemy carries” Sound advice??
These gov agencies are buying billions of rounds with our tax money and the ammo glass case at my WalMart is still empty and has been empty for 4 years now. It’s bull shiet.
RINO “John Wayne” Cornyn Supports Obama’s Gun Grab
http://americandictators.blogspot.com/2014/02/rino-cornyn-supports-obamas-gun-grab.html
Free ammo and range time from past posts here…9mm http://deti.mil.by/templates/swf/Pistol/index.swf
AK47 http://deti.mil.by/flash/?id=9
Practice makes perfect???
ammo is hard to come by on the civilian front, it will be up to the ammo manf, to tell DHS to eat shit and they will sell to the American public first. Until the Ammo industry grows a pair, this trend will continue.n
All the wally worlds have visited have ammo,sure,3 box limit but stop in a couple times of day if necc.,there is plenty at reasonable prices all over the net,even .22 LR you keep your eyes open at times a reasonable price but still the hard round to get compared to others at a fair price.I would keep stocking up a bit if you need to as see possibility of executive order of some sort screwing with the supplies again,that said,at moment it is readily available,have fun at your range/where ever you practice!On a side note.you can try and dump all politicians who fund this,remember,in theory that is our money!
Lock and Load. I can just feel it in the air. As soon as it gets warmer the shtf this spring or summer.