On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:55:27 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:42:25 -0700, George Plimpton
wrote:

On 3/24/2013 10:40 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:22:09 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

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Question: In addition to the above, do you see anything wrong with the
DHS ordering a couple billion rounds of ammo, purchasing millions of
body bags and coffins, and ordering 2,700 light tanks for itself?

Here, wake up, and stop getting your "news" from "Modern Survival
Blog" and the gazillion paranoid nutcases who believe them:

http://www.defense.gov/contracts/con...ontractid=4701

Of course, there's no mention of ammunition, body bags, coffins or light
tanks at that site.

The "light tanks" are the trucks that are first mentioned. A little
surfing will show you that the "tanks" actually are armored personnel
carriers.

The contract is for refurbishing 2,717 truck chassis that have been
returned from Iraq. It's a recycling job and the contract is being let
out by the Marines. Some rightard bloggers went insane over this
(actually, they were already there) and imagined tanks rolling down
Main Street.

As for the ammunition, I addressed that in another post. If you run
the numbers, you'll see that the DHS is a bunch of real pikers. Tom
shoots many times more ammo than federal agents do. For example, the
annual allotment of .357 mag ammo assigned to each SSA agent, mostly
for target practice, is less than Tom shoots in three weeks.


Whoops, I forgot to divide by five, for the five-year contract.
Actually, it's 120 rounds/agent/year. That's less than Gunner shoots
to warm up his barrels.

The bulk of it is going to ICE and related agencies, for practice and
service.

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Ed Huntress