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Huffington Post Sez Social Security Administration Wants to Buy 174000 Bullets
SemperFiGuy:
Maybe the SSA is getting into reloading. Make the bullets into cartridges.
Anyhow, the story is that the SSA is ordering 174,000 125gr bonded, jacketed hollow points for "training and security purposes".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/17/social-security-administration-bullets_n_1797069.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,social-security
That amount is either (a) a lot of perps to shoot or (b) a wastage of HPs on range practice.
Further, The Examiner sez that the TSA want to order 450 Million "bullets".
http://www.examiner.com/article/more-federal-agencies-buy-multithousands-of-rounds-of-ammo
Can't wait for all that ammo to go government surplus. [Where is last year's government surplus, since they claim that the SSA "makes a similar purchase each year"??]
Can't wait to pick up all that brass!!!!!
sfg
Ronvandyn:
It’s not the TSA buying it but DHS according to the article. DHS is an agency that has many law enforcement components under its umbrella including Federal Air Marshalls, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Boarder Protection, the US Border Patrol, the United States Secret Service, just to mention a few. While the TSA does have some armed officers, they work only in specific places and have very specific authority. Yet even they need to practice, hence the reason why TSA might buy some rounds.
Believe it or not, the Social Security Administration has armed federal law enforcement officers in its ranks. I have no idea why, but they do. I don’t believe it’s to protect granny while she cashes her check at the beginning of the month. Many federal agencies do, many of whom have no visible reason for armed officers. I look over the list every now and again and some just make no sense to me at all.
Ron
bkoenig:
It seems ridiculous that each individual agency has it own set of armed officers.
SemperFiGuy:
Ronvandyn:
Actually, I'm practicing sloppy reporting so that the major news agencies will hire me as a crime reporter and I can write articles about semi-automatic revolvers.
Yes, you are entirely on target. it wasn't the TSA that was referenced in that particular Examiner article. [Best bet would be that they also do buy a few rounds from time to time for whatever purposes.]
Many web articles say it's the SSA, HHS, and DHS. Some writers have asserted that these major purchases might be affecting the supply of cartridges to the handgun consumer market. Haven't noticed such in my shopping, however.
I guess if a federal agency is large enough and has enough offices, buildings, garages, grounds, whatever, then it will have a fairly large security staff, and many of them will be armed.
Situation is interesting. It does raise the paranoia level of those who engage in that sort of thing.
Thanks for the calibration.
sfg
Ronvandyn:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 18, 2012, 07:38:31 PM ---Ronvandyn:
Actually, I'm practicing sloppy reporting so that the major news agencies will hire me as a crime reporter and I can write articles about semi-automatic revolvers.
Yes, you are entirely on target. it wasn't the TSA that was referenced in that particular Examiner article. [Best bet would be that they also do buy a few rounds from time to time for whatever purposes.]
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Yeah, we get more than our fair share.
Here is a statistic for you. Today we are finding more than double the number of firearms at checkpoints than we were 10 years ago. Double. And the passenger loads remain at about the same volume. Interesting. And just about 90% of those are loaded in some form (loaded magazine, one in chamber, etc).
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 18, 2012, 07:38:31 PM ---Many web articles say it's the SSA, HHS, and DHS. Some writers have asserted that these major purchases might be affecting the supply of cartridges to the handgun consumer market. Haven't noticed such in my shopping, however.
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Me neither. I stop off a Cabela’s every 2 weeks or so and the shelves are just as full each time I visit as the last. Better to reload your own anyway, that way you always have a ready supply just in case.
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 18, 2012, 07:38:31 PM ---I guess if a federal agency is large enough and has enough offices, buildings, garages, grounds, whatever, then it will have a fairly large security staff, and many of them will be armed.
Situation is interesting. It does raise the paranoia level of those who engage in that sort of thing.
Thanks for the calibration.
sfg
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Like I said, I just cant figure why some agencies have armed officers. Maybe it’s a “status” thing for the higher-ups, “Look, we have guns too!!”. Go figure.
Ron
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