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DHS Purchases 21.6 Million More Rounds Of Ammunition, Has Enough Ammo For A 30 Year War
An approximation of how many rounds of ammunition the DHS has now secured over the last 10 months stands at around 1.625 billion. In March 2012, ATK announced that they had agreed to provide the DHS with a maximum of 450 million bullets over four years, a story that prompted questions about why the feds were buying ammunition in such large quantities. In September last year, the federal agency purchased a further 200 million bullets.

To put that in perspective, during the height of active battle operations in Iraq, US soldiers used 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month. Extrapolating the figures, the DHS has purchased enough bullets over the last 10 months to wage a full scale war for almost 30 years.

Such massive quantities of ammo purchases have stoked fears that the agency is preparing for some kind of domestic unrest. In 2011, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants into the United States, calling for the plan to deal with the “shelter” and “processing” of large numbers of people.
NO P1, you're getting this all wrong. It's an option to buy. This has all been explained in earlier threads. They're not going to buy......oh wait.....maybe you and Beardy were right in the first place haha.

Any news on the rounds bought? 5.56, 7.62, 9mm, hollows, AP, FMJ?