Feds making an attempt to manipulate the market, dry up supply? Buy in addition to billions of bullets already bought by feds

The Department of Homeland Security is arranged to buy over 62 million rounds of ammo commonly used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, just weeks after the ATF was pressured to back down on a restriction on M855 bullets.

A article on FedBizOpps.gov this week unveils that the DHS is seeking to deal with a company to supply 12.6 million rounds of .223 Remington ammunition per year for a span of five years – totaling 62.5 million bullets.

The application clarifies that the buy is meant, “to achieve price savings over the current .223 Rem duty ammunition.” The bullets will be utilized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection professionals nationwide for “training” reasons.

The .223 Remington is one of the most typical rifle cartridges in use in the United States and is utilized both in bolt action rifles and semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini-14.

In 2013, right after worries about the DHS purchasing large amounts of several different kinds of ammunition, weapons companies observed that the feds may have been trying to control the ammunition industry by requiring manufacturers to hold back stock from general purchase.

“If they periodically do this in increments, they’re going to control how much ammo is available on the commercial market,” a weapons maker explained to Michael Savage, including that the agreements with bullet makers designate that everything produced goes to the government as the number one concern before it is permitted to enter the commercial sector.

In March 2013, Californian Congressman Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House colleagues published a letter to the Department of Homeland Security challenging to know why the federal organization was purchasing so many units of ammunition and whether or not the buys were part of a planned effort to limit supply to the American people.

“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any,” LaMalfa authored in the letter.

The mass buy comes after efforts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to prohibit M855 ammo, another well-known round for AR-15’s utilized by hunters. The ATF validated the restriction by saying that the bullets were “armor piercing” and a threat to law enforcement officers.

After being on the receiving end of a massive repercussion, the feds were pressured to back down and ATF director B. Todd Jones eventually tendered his resignation. Democratic Congressman Steve Israel called the ATF backdown “cowardly” and promised to revive the restriction.

The ATF’s threat to prohibit the ammo in the short term triggered costs of the bullet to spike more than double in cost.

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• eXChroma

  Doesn’t really mean anything since they already have all the ammo they need. If they start a war with the public, they flat out lose. May take a while, but their chances of winning with anything less than supernatural technology(by our modern standards), is pretty much 0.

  Apr 15, 2015, 3:30 pm 1