Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want
Ok, you're a conspiracy theorist.
Ask the question others are asking. Why the department of Homeland security is in possession of over a billion rounds of ammunition. Why they purchased 750,000,000 million rounds of ammunition just before the election?
If we use just the latest purchase numbers and ignore the 400,000,000 they already purchased less than a year before.
That is roughly 2 and half rounds of ammunition for every person in the United States including babies and people in nursing homes. If you factor in every member of the NRA that adds up to roughly 190 rounds of ammunition.
for the roughly 160 thousand armed agents of the DHS that adds up to about 4,700 rounds of ammunition. Now certianly all of us have to agree that not all of those agents are required to put down range 4,700 rounds of ammunition a year. Probably more as less than a year before the last purchase 400,000,000 rounds of ammunition were purchased.
A few things you aren't factoring in.
1) How many rounds do you think a new recruit goes through during training? It would likely be, at least, around the "yearly" number of 4700 rounds.
2) Some agents are likely required to do intensive training. Federal Air Marshals are one I can think of. Sure, not all agents are going to shoot that much, but many will.
3) 4700 rounds sounds like a lot, but it's less than 100 rounds per week. (4700/52=90.4). I shoot twice that a week, typically. I know trained officers usually shoot less than civilians, but 2 boxes of ammo a week just isn't that much in my eyes.
4) This whole thing came from the language of a contract. If you're familiar with contracts (I'm not, but my wife deals with them all the time and explained this to me, and also read, and pointed things out in
the actual contract) that DHS did not buy 750,000,000 rounds of ammo. The contract stipulates that DHS might buy up to that much, but written into the contract it says that the minimum order is 1,000 rounds. In other words, DHS can buy anywhere from 1000 to 750,000,000 rounds. This is very common in contracts. You set your contract to be FAR above what you think you need, and stipulate as low a minimum number as possible, that way you basically have a direct line on ammo (or anything for that matter) if you need it. Not only that, the contract is for FLETC which is a training facility. In one of the amendments, it specifically says the ammo is for training purposes.
In the end, I'm weary of conspiracy theories in general, and about 95% of the drivel that gets released by infowars. Alex Jones is a nut case and isn't helping the cause. When he's wrong about something (again, 95% of the time) he never talks about how he was wrong, but when he gets something right, or scoops the MSM on something, he flashes it around and shows how right he is about things.
Is it possible that the government is preparing for civil disobedience? Yeah, anything is possible. Is it likely? I seriously doubt it. Without solid evidence, there's no way to know. A standard contract is not evidence.
