Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
February 5, 2014
The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that
can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.
The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military
federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition.
The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military
federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition.
On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office
posted a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website asking
contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a
variety of cartridges.
“The United States Postal Service intends to solicit
proposals for assorted small arms ammunition,” the notice reads, which also
mentioned a deadline of Feb. 10.
The Post Office published the notice just two days after
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his proposal to remove a federal gun ban that
prevents lawful concealed carry holders from carrying handguns inside post
offices across the country.
Ironically the Postal Service isn’t the first non-law
enforcement agency seeking firearms and ammunition.
Since 2001, the U.S. Dept. of Education has been building a
massive arsenal through purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms.
The Education Dept. has spent over $80,000 so far on Glock
pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns.
Back in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration also purchased 72,000 rounds of .40 Smith & Wesson,
following a 2012 purchase for 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow
point by the National Weather Service.
NOAA spokesperson Scott Smullen responded to concerns over
the weather service purchase by stating that it was meant for the NOAA
Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement for its bi-annual “target qualifications
and training.”
That seems excessive considering that JHP ammunition is
typically several times more expensive than practice rounds, which can usually
be found in equivalent power loadings and thus offer similar recoil
characteristics as duty rounds.
Including mass purchases by the Dept. of Homeland Security,
non-military federal agencies combined have purchased an estimated amount of
over two billion rounds of ammunition in the past two years.
Additionally, the U.S. Army bought almost 600,000 Soviet
AK-47 magazines last fall, enough to hold nearly 18,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm
ammo which is not standard-issue for either the U.S. military or even NATO.
It would take a Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy, one of the
largest cargo aircraft in the world, two trips to haul that many magazines.
A month prior, the army purchased nearly 3,000,000 rounds of
7.62x39mm ammo, a huge amount but still only 1/6th of what the magazines
purchased can hold in total.
The Feds have also spent millions on riot control measures
in addition to the ammo acquisitions.
Earlier this month, Homeland Security spent over $58 million
on hiring security details for just two Social Security offices in Maryland.
DHS also spent $80 million on armed guards to protect
government buildings in New York and sought even more guards for federal
facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
While the government gears up for civil unrest and stockpiles
ammo without limit, private gun owners on the other hand are finding ammunition
shelves empty at gun stores across America, including shortages of once-common
cartridges such as .22 Long Rifle.
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