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Citizens buy around 10 billion rounds a year. The DHS purchases were not as large as your figures - they were about 20% with an option to buy over the next several years the rest at a certain price. Consider the DHS employs about 1/4 million people, probably third to a half in a front line capacity where they are armed. Say 100,000 maybe for arguments sake. They might get through 2000 rounds a year training, revalidation and general practice easy enough.

That is 200000000 rounds used a year. Just for training and practice and requalifying to carry a weapon. That is 200 million if you did not care to count the zeros. Bear in mind that the DHS is an over riding body for many agencies also. It is not a lot of ammo at all.

With regards to a government buying 1.6 billion rounds, how many or how few should a they buy considering they have around 1.5 million full time in the military and 1.5 million on reserve?

A billion is a thousand million, so 1.6 billion reserve is actually quite small. It is the amount of ammo that those in a full time military role would get through in a normal year - maybe even half. America has been fighting a couple of wars these last few years, so reserves will have dropped and stocks will need to be replenished. Added to that, how much ammo is 'gifted' to Iraq, Afghanistan, SK etcetera?

Now, part two, Obama asking commanders if they would order to open fire on citizens - all we have is, even it if it is true, second or third hand information. Could it be Obama asked 'Would you be deployed within the USA' which would be against the constitution, could he have actually asked about firing on citizens or could it all be made up - it could be any.

However, you must remember that if you took all of the senior military in the USA, you would have a couple of battalions, perhaps even a brigade. That would be about 5000 people who would be able to do the sum total of dick all. They are all over 35, most over 50 and most have not seen anything other than office service for 20 years.

It would be the privates and NCO's that would be called on to make the order so, and it just would not happen. A general might go against what he thought was right given the circumstances, asking millions of men to on families and friends? That is not going to play out, at least not in any way anyone giving the order would hope.