.40 cal hollow points for Homeland Security

[TMD]

The other day, I received a note saying that MILLIONS (don't have the number of millions at hand--but it is many) of .40 S&W hollow-point ammo have been ordered by Homeland Security.

This story has been circulating every few months for the past 3 years since you know who became the commander in chief.

 

[Destructo6]

The US Border Patrol uses about 4.5 million rounds a year for basic qualification only. That excludes Academy ammo, additional training, issue for individual practice, and remedial training.

USBP is merely one component of CBP, which is merely one component of DHS.

Service-issued duty ammo is the only ammo allowed to be fired through Service-issued weapons.

 

[Mike Irwin]

"Its extraordinarily ordinary for the government to over order most anything..."

Every Purple Heart awarded post 1945 was struck in 1944 and 1945 with the expectation that they would be needed for those wounded and killed during the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.

As of 2003, apparently over 120,000 were still in stock.

 

[SPEMack618]

All three of Pop's Purple Hearts were struck during WWII.

 

[horatioo]

Could one of the reasons for the govt buying so much ammo be to make that ammo less assessable to everyone else? They buy so much that it gets scarce. It costs them nothing to buy it, they just put it on the credit card.

I added to this thread even though it is old, because I see the govt is buying even more hollow points now.

 

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Time for a close - that purchase has been discussed into the ground and not seen as a conspiracy.