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(30 January 2013, 15:41)Geordie_Rob Wrote: http://www.naturalnews.com/036847_ammo_p..._lies.html

Says here the us govt. has ALREADY bought 1.4bn rounds.

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Sorry, that's 1.4bn rounds they can't use as they're banned under geneva convention.

Funny, because when you follow its link to a source it:

A) Is a conspiracy theory news site

B) Says 'Department of Homeland Security is planning to buy a further 750 million rounds of ammo'

The important part there is 'planning'.

The 750 million comes from the statement of intent provided by the government to ammo manufacturers and suppliers, the synopsis of which is on the infowars website. It states:

Quote:“The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Glynco, Georgia anticipates awarding multiple award indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity (IDIQ) firm fixed price (FFP) contracts for commercial leaded training ammunition (CLTA) of various calibers for law enforcement officer firearms training courses at the following FLETC facilities Glynco, GA, Artesia, NM, Cheltenham, MD and Charleston, SC and to other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies. The Government guarantees a minimum of 1,000 rounds per year on each resultant contract. Contracts will be for a base year and four (4) 12 month option periods,”

You see, it is the option to buy 750 million rounds over 5 years at a low price. It is really nothing at all.

As to the hollow points - the Geneva convention states they cannot be used in war. Sure, they cause a lot of tissue damage, but 5.56 mil rounds cause just as much as they tumble and create massive cavitation.

So why would they want hollow points. Training. When you train in enclosed spaces with hollows, you are much less likely to get potentially life threatening ricochets and much less likely to penetrate or damage the fabric of the range. Fire off 100 FMG rounds at a wall and then 100 hollows at the same type of wall, tell me what is more damaged.

All in all, it may equate to 5 rounds for every man, woman and child in the USA, or 15 for every gun owner. I would say it was very optimistic that they would get away using 15 rounds per gun owner if anyone is taking this fanciful idea seriously.

How many rounds were fired by Feds at Waco or Ruby Ridge? Did it not work out at around 250,000 rounds per kill in Vietnam, it was the same in Iraq and I would wager the same in Afghanistan. This means two things:

1. If the US government are planning on killing citizens and gun owners, they need to up there order of bullets by an order of magnitude of two three to have any chance of doing the job - IE buy 10,000 times more bullets than they have bought.

2. A shit load of ammo has been fired in the last 10 years and needs replaced.

Of course, common sense and logic are not sexy...