Feds buying enough bullets for '24-year war'

							Feds buying enough bullets for '24-year war'
by Drew Zahn
02-18-13

Federal, non-military agencies, noted radio
host Mark Levin last week, have purchased
enough ammunition recently to not only
shoot every American five times, but also
engage in a prolonged, domestic war.
The numbers are based on recent reports that
put the total federal ammunition buy in the last
10 months at approaching two billion rounds.
“To provide some perspective,” Levin noted,
“experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq
war American troops were firing around 5.5
million rounds per month. At that rate, the
[Department of Homeland Security] is armed
now for a 24-year Iraq war. A 24-year Iraq
war!”
What do federal agencies need with all that
ammunition?
The government’s only official explanation for
the massive ammo buy is that law enforcement agents in the respective agencies need the bullets for
“mandatory quarterly firearms qualifications and other training sessions.”
The staggering number and lack of details in the official explanation, however, has led to rampant
speculation, including concerns the DHS is arming itself to fight off insurrection among Americans.
“I’m going to tell you what I think is going on,” Levin offered. “I don’t think domestic insurrection.
Law enforcement and national security agencies, they play out multiple scenarios. … I’ll tell you what
I think they’re simulating: the collapse of our financial system, the collapse of our society and the
potential for widespread violence, looting, killing in the streets, because that’s what happens when an
economy collapses.
“I suspect that just in case our fiscal situation, our monetary situation, collapses, and following it the
civil society collapses, that is the rule of law, they want to be prepared,” Levin said. “I know why the
government’s arming up: It’s not because there’s going to be an insurrection; it’s because our society is
unraveling.”
Audio of Levin’s discussion on the ammunition buy can be heard below:
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/feds-buying-enough-bullets-for-24-year-
war/#Kj8UJymH8CWwwxps.99

As WND reported, even major gun-rights organizations like the National Rifle Association have
attempted to tamp down worries over the amount of ammunition, suggesting the number of
bullets bought, spread out over five years and across all the federal agencies with armed agents –
considering the number of rounds needed for training, qualification and service bags – isn’t
                                                                           exorbitant.
                                                                           At the same time, however,
                                                                           others have wondered if
                                                                           billions of bullets isn’t too
                                                                           many to equip the sheer
                                                                           number of federal agents,
                                                                           what does that say about the
                                                                           number of federal agents?
                                                                           “It’s not the number of
                                                                           bullets we need to worry
                                                                           about,” Jeff Knox, director
                                                                           of The Firearms Coalition,
                                                                           told WND, “but the number
                                                                           of feds with guns it takes to
                                                                           use those bullets.”
                                                                          “There are currently more
                                                                          than 70 different federal law
                                                                          enforcement agencies
employing over 120,000 officers with arrest and firearms authority, according to Bureau of Justice
Statistics data for 2008,” explained Knox in a recent WND column. “That’s an increase of nearly 30
percent between 2004 and 2008. If the trends have continued upward at a relatively steady rate, that
would put the total number of federal law enforcement officers at somewhere between 135,000 and
145,000.
“That’s a pretty staggering number,” Knox continued, “especially when you consider that there are only
an estimated 765,000 state and local law enforcement officers. That means that about one in seven law
enforcement officers in the country works directly for the federal government, not a local jurisdiction.”
For years, WND has been at the forefront of reporting the growth in federal police power being
dispersed across dozens of government agencies:
    • In 1997, WND blew the lid off 60,000 federal agents enforcing over 3,000 criminal laws, a
      report that prompted Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America to remark, “Good grief, that’s a
      standing army. … It’s outrageous.”
    • Also in 1997, as part of a ongoing series on the militarization of the federal government, WND
      reported on the armed, “environment crime” cops employed by the Environmental Protection
      Agency and a federal law enforcement program that had trained 325,000 prospective federal
      police since 1970.
    • WND also reported on thousands of armed officers in the Inspectors’ General office and a gun-
      drawn raid on a local flood control center to haul off 40 boxes of … paperwork.
    • WND further reported on a plan by then Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to hire hundreds of armed
      Hong Kong policemen into dozens of U.S. federal agencies to counter Asian organized crime in
      America.
    • In 1999, WND CEO Joseph Farah warned there were more than 80,000 armed federal law
      enforcement agents, constituting “the virtual standing army over which the founding fathers had
      nightmares.” Today, that number has nearly doubled.
    • Also in 1999 WND reported plans made for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or
      FEMA, to use military and police forces to deal with Y2K.
    • In 2000, Farah discussed a Justice
      Department report on the growth of
      federal police agents under President
      Clinton, something Farah labeled
      “the biggest arms buildup in the
      history of the
      federal government – and it’s not
      taking place in the Defense
      Department.”
    • A 2001 report warned of a persistent
      campaign by the Department of the
      Interior, this time following 9/11, to
      gain police powers for its agents.
    • In 2008, WND reported on proposed
      rules to expand the military’s use inside U.S. borders to prevent “environmental damage” or
      respond to “special events” and to establish policies for “military support for civilian law
      enforcement.”
    • Most recently, WND reported that while local police have found themselves short of necessary
      ammunition, the federal government has been stockpiling billions of rounds for its non-military,
      non-FBI law enforcement officers.

                                         Knox conceded in his column that good arguments can be
                                         made for the existence of a dedicated border guard and federal
                                         agencies to protect high-ranking officials, protect the federal
                                         currency and coordinate enforcement of laws regarding
                                         interstate commerce, and so forth.
                                         “But bureaucrats who inspect the records of retailers and
                                         manufacturers have no business carrying guns and badges,”
                                         Knox opined, “nor do those who investigate white-collar
                                         crime for the Small Business Administration and the
                                         Department of Education.”
                                        Chris Knox, director of communications for The Firearms
                                        Coalition, told WND legitimate concerns about a police state
                                        stem from “a set of three intertwined problems,” namely,
                                        “militarization of local police, federalization of law
                                        enforcement (including local cops getting goodies from
                                        federal forfeiture actions) and the expansion of federal law
enforcement, where nearly every agency has its own armed service, not just the Drug Enforcement
Agency, but administrative agencies like the Department of Education.”
Give all those federal cops two billion bullets, Jeff Knox says, and now there’s cause for concern.
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