# Tin foil hat on..... homeland security ammo order... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 9, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tin-foil-hat-on-homeland-security-ammo-order/222890 "2012-05-09T22:55:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**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:** [May 10, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tin-foil-hat-on-homeland-security-ammo-order/222890/14 "2012-05-10T12:57:15Z")
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. > **[Chain email says Homeland Security purchasing many bullets perhaps in...](http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/apr/30/chain-email/chain-email-says-homeland-security-purchasing-many/)** > > Stock up on soup. Account for children and pets. Lock the doors, dim the lights. A chain email forwarded to us by a reader March 24, 2012, suggests the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has mysteriously ordered a lot of bullets. Specifically, the... Sure, not all off them will hit the range once a month. Of course, of the ones that do I’d be willing to be 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/tin-foil-hat-on-homeland-security-ammo-order/222890)._