Now they’re stock piling other calibers and arms. Along with the manuals and tools related to the individual pieces. I believe they’re out to limit the availability of everything. So as to cause the shortages they want, which in the long term will keep Americans from being able to respond to actions that may go hot. So they think, and plan.
Like I’ve said, get everything you can, while you can…NOW To include all related support items for your piece(s). Spare ejectors, firing pins, armorers manuals, etc. For if you don’t, all you’ll have are glorified clubs and paper weights. Remember, obscenities and throwing rocks won’t do you any good.
The U.S. Army is now looking to stockpile nearly 3,000,000 live rounds of Soviet-era Russian ammo popular with civilian shooters.
A U.S. Army solicitation posted July 18 on the Federal Business Opportunities web site asks for “non-standard” ammunition from vendors which includes:
– 2,550,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ball ammo
– 575,000 blank rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo and
– 425,000 rounds of 9x18mm Makarov ball ammo
The army intends to store all these rounds in ammo storage facilities at both Camp Stanley in Boerne, Texas and the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.
As the solicitation implies, the 7.62x39mm and the 9x18mm Makarov are notstandard-issue in the U.S. military or NATO.
Rather they are calibers developed by the former Soviet Union which are now commonly used by civilian shooters in the United States.
The 7.62x39mm in particular is extremely popular with private gun owners due to the wide availability and affordability of both military surplus ammo and firearms chambered for this round, such as the AK-47 and the SKS.
Handguns chambered for the 9x18mm Makarov, such as the FEG PA-63, are common, inexpensive imports.
The desired list of calibers attached to aprevious, related acquisition request also included oddball rounds such as the .303 British and the 7.62×25mm Tokarev.
In addition to this solicitation for nearly 3,000,000 live rounds of Russian calibers popular with the public, the army made a similar request last year for a long-term weapon supplier who can ship both foreign non-standard and obsolete U.S. military weapons anywhere in the world.
According to this 2012 request, the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) wanted to find a vendor who could “reach around the world at any given moment to gather and provide multiple types of weapons and weapon parts.”
The extensive list of desired weapons included firearms popular with civilians such as the aforementioned AK-47, 1911s, M1903 Springfields, Walther PP/PPKs (another common import), and other “commercial and para-military weapons.”
This solicitation also asked for “books, manuals, tools, and gauges” pertaining to the firearms.
Headquartered in New Jersey, ARDEC is primarily known for its research in advanced weapons such as lasers and nanotechnology.
These unusual requests prompt the question as to why the U.S. Army, and especially the army’s advanced weapons research and development division, needs a vast quantity of non-NATO rounds and decades-old – sometimes even 100-year-old – firearms popular with civilians for worldwide deployment “at any given notice.”
The ARDEC request in particular seems too broad.
Are World War I era M1903 Springfields really that common in today’s battlefields, or even the popular CZ-52 imports which have been retired from Czechoslovakian service since 1982?
Are these obsolete weapons used that frequently in current world conflicts to warrant specific mention in an army acquisition request?
Do century-old firearms really need to be shipped all around the world for “research and development?”
What about the huge purchase of 425,000 9x18mm Makarov rounds?
Are they going to somehow end up in the sidearms of Obama-backed Syrian rebels, especially aftertwo congressional panels cleared the way for shipping small arms to Syria?
Handguns chambered in 9x18mm Makarov are still commonplace among Syrian militants becauseSyria received military aid from the Soviet Union for over 20 years.
These solicitations, with planned acquisitions ranging between $500,000 to $22,000,000, definitely forge fears of back door gun control by creating artificial scarcity that denies Americans access to a wide-range of firearms and ammo, especially in the wake of the U.N. arms trade treaty which was signed by Obama but rejected by the Senate.
Regardless of the army’s intentions, these large-scale purchases will only further intensify firearm and ammo shortages for gun owners across the country.
Good. They can have it. That Russian steel-cased ammo screwed up the ejector on my P-89.
Maybe storing it for the Russians who are already hear working with the military?
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Getting ready for a flase flag attack?…..The Russians are coming, the russians are coming.
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You have got to be kidding. 9 Mak was the best deal around in a CZ-82. Now this is going to be like 40s&w.
They’re buying up everything to deprive a starving U.S. market. Here we are 6-12 months (depending on what components/supplies) into a ammo/components drought. 22 rimfire especially hard hit. ATK/CCI is supposedly shipping 3 million rounds out weekly. We’ve been bullsh!tted by the manufacturers. Yeah, I know you can get stuff at black-market prices that most people I know can’t afford.
They’re going to let us have all the firearms we can buy, but feeding them is going to be another matter. Russian stuff is of low quality, but it’s better than tossing rocks at them; ask the Palestinians how that works out when they rock throw at 22 rimfire armed Zioturd criminals.
My ‘Kay’ works fine with Russian ammo.
Thumbs up & good. Son’s Russian Skank eats Russian spamcan ammo like it was starving.
Gotta love the eskay. Btw, last time i bought a brick of 22lr, it $20. As I understand, bricks are currently nowhere to be found.
Found Remington 22LR Golden HP @ $159.99+ship per 525 bulk pack in Washington State. MiniMag Solids are $44.99/100 pk. No black market there, eh?
They (Zionists) know what they’re doing. Funding both sides to assure total destruction in Syria with hopes of the war spreading/leading to war with/in Iran. The fact that they are drying up the foreign feed guns bullets is just a great by product. That way when gas goes crazy because the Iranians shut down the Straight of Hormuz and gas hits $20, $30 a gallon or higher, civilians panic and the petroleum economy tanks. They will have achieved their final wet dreams of declaring marshal law and declaring the end to all currencies and replacing it with one WORLD currency.
I have no idea how old you are, but my grandpa said the same exact thing in early 1982 & he was 96 then.
I’m 26 and will be 27 next month. I very educated on what’s going on in the world.
It don’t really matter their ammo will be our ammo when the time comes !
Boy, they are trying to buy up every round they can get their hands on to starve the rebels like us out. Gotta make sure only the NEW WORLD ORDER Global Government can have guns and ammo and no one else. Global Totalitarianism at its finest. After Russia, they will go after the next big country with guns. These bastards won’t rest until there is nothing left and by playing both sides, these bastards are hell bent on getting what they want. SHOOT’EM ALL and burn their Satanic bodies into dust!