# Rifle Guys, Boom boom bang bang.

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rifle-guys-boom-boom-bang-bang/227562>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [December 3, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rifle-guys-boom-boom-bang-bang/227562 "2012-12-03T12:21:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 582

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rifle-guys-boom-boom-bang-bang/227562/582 "2013-01-24T11:39:03Z")

</div>

> [@9c1ny](#):
>
> why yes, yes they would , heres their real plans for us-
> 
> [http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-ammo-rounds-security-560/](http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-ammo-rounds-security-560/)

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](http://www.nyspeed.com/showthread.php?231726-Tin-foil-hat-on)…-homeland-security-ammo-order…

Specifically:

> [@Tin foil hat on..... homeland security ammo order...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tin-foil-hat-on-homeland-security-ammo-order/222890/14):
>
> 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.
> 
> 1. 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/](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.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rifle-guys-boom-boom-bang-bang/227562)._