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Saturday, March 23, 2013

15 Congressmen demand answers from DHS on ammo purchases


California GOP Congressman Doug LaMalfa



Congressmen demand answer from DHS on massive ammo purchases

- - - Backbencher Congressmen demand answers while the GOP and Democrat leadership are silent.


Freshman California Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House peers have written a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal agency is buying so many rounds of ammunition and whether the purchases are part of a deliberate attempt to restrict supply to the American people reports Infowars News.

The DHS has committed to purchasing around 2 billion rounds of ammunition over the course of the last year. Many believe the purchases are exacerbating bullet shortages across the country, supplies already strained by record sales prompted as a result of the Obama administration’s gun control agenda.
 
“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any,” LaMalfa wrote in the letter.
 
“Are these purchases being conducted in a manner that strategically denies the American people access to ammunition,” the Congressman added.

According to the Record Searchlight, it is not yet known whether the DHS has responded to LaMalfa’s letter. The report also quotes gun store owners who are suspicious about the federal agency’s huge ammo buys.
 
 
Dr. Michael Savage
Obama's DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks
 
 
 
 
As Infowars News reported yesterday, other members of Congress who have asked similar questions to those posed by LaMalfa have been rebuffed.
 
“They have no answer for that question. They refuse to answer to answer that,” Congressman Timothy Huelscamp told WeAreChange reporters earlier this week, adding, “They refuse to let us know what is going on, so I don’t really have an answer for that. Multiple members of Congress are asking those questions.”
 
Huelscamp promised to keep asking and even threatened to back a move to defund the agency if answers were not forthcoming.
 
The AP report regurgitated claims by the federal agency that the bullets were bought in bulk to save money and were for training purposes only.

However, as former Marine Richard Mason told reporters with WHPTV News in Pennsylvania earlier this month, hollow point bullets (which make up the majority of the DHS purchases) are not used for training because they are more expensive than standard firing range rounds.
 
“We never trained with hollow points, we didn’t even see hollow points my entire four and a half years in the Marine Corps,” Mason said.
 
Read more at Infowars
 



Police State
Obama's DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks for "domestic" use,
plus nearly 2 Billion rounds of ammo.  One purchase was for 174,000 hollow-point
bullets for the Social Security inspector general's office.
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DHS has been buying tons of ammo, enough by one calculation to fight the 
equivalent of a 24-year Iraqi War.

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