JayS
January 24, 2013, 11:39am
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It’s spreading bullshit like this that paints the legit gun owner as the crazy person and gives “ammo” to the anti-gun lobby to get these laws passed. We’ve been over it before, there is nothing sinister or scary about this ammo purchase.http://www.nyspeed.com/showthread.php?231726-Tin-foil-hat-on …-homeland-security-ammo-order…
Specifically:
Let’s look at the numbers a little closer and see if we can pry the tinfoil hat off old Bluey for a couple minutes.
It’s 450 million rounds over 5 years
So that’s 90 million per year. DHS employs 135,000 weapons-carrying officers. That’s 667 bullets per year for each weapon carrying officer. It’s a lot if you use the scare tactic of the chain email’s “one bullet per citizen”, but when you stop to think about hitting the range once a month for practice it’s just 56 rounds per month.
By comparison as a non-LEO but strong believer in the 2nd Amendment and personal protection I hit the range about once a month and go through a minimum of 100 rounds per trip. Suddenly 450 million, or 56 bullets a month per officer doesn’t seem at all like marshal law is about to be declared.
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/apr/30/chain-email/chain-email-says-homeland-security-purchasing-many/
Sure, not all off them will hit the range once a month. Of course, of the ones that do I’d be willing to bet they use way more than 56 rounds. I know if I could shoot for free any time I wanted and it would be considered not only part of my job but something that could likely save my life at some point I’d be ripping through 1000 rounds a month.