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DHS
Won't Answer Congress On Billion Bullet Purchase
Bullet
Buys: Fifteen members of Congress have written a letter to
the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal
agency is
buying so many rounds of ammunition. We'd like to know too.
Freshman
California Republican Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House
colleagues, who signed on to his March 5 letter, are asking the
Department of
Homeland Security to explain why it is buying 1.6 billion rounds of
ammunition
of various calibers. They aren't happy with explanations provided so
far in the
press by lower-level officials, answers meant to debunk "unfounded"
concerns.
As
we have noted, DHS has been buying lots of ammo, enough by one
calculation to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraqi War.
Peggy
Dixon, spokeswoman for the Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center in Glynco, Ga., told the Associated Press that the training
center and
others like it run by the Homeland Security Department use as many as
15 million
rounds every year, mostly on shooting ranges and in training exercises.
The
massive purchases are said to be spread out over five years
and due simply to the best practice of saving money by buying in bulk
what
comes down to five rounds of ammo for every man, woman and child on the
U.S.
That's a lot of practice and training.
A
good portion of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition are being
purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal
government's
second-largest criminal investigative agency. Yes that's the same ICE
that is
releasing detained criminal illegal aliens onto our streets because of
sequestration cuts.
Jonathan
Lasher, the Social Security Administration's assistant
inspector general for external relations, explained the purchase of
174,000
hollow-point bullets by saying they were for the Social Security
inspector
general's office, which has about 295 agents who investigate Social
Security
fraud and other crimes.
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