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US Senator: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply

Inhofe: “I believe it’s intentional”

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
May 6, 2013

A US Senator has stated on record that he believes the Department of Homeland Security is intentionally attempting to exhaust civilian supplies of ammunition by buying huge bulk amounts, as documented by Infowars for some months.

Appearing on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC in New York, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. said that the Obama administration was attempting to “dry up the market” and deprive gun owners of bullets.

“We have in this country the Second Amendment that preserves the right to keep and bear arms, and the president doesn’t believe in that.” Inhofe said.

“President Obama has been doing everything he could to stop the private ownership of guns in America,” the Senator added. “Yet he’s been voted down in a big way by a large majority, and so my feeling is that he’s doing this to buy up [ammunition] so honest, law-abiding citizens here in the United States, like my son, can’t even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much.”

“We had someone testify the other day the DHS has the ‘right’ – this is a bureaucrat who said this – they have the ‘right’ to buy as much as they want, and they’re planning to buy 750 million rounds,” Inhofe said, referring to a House committee hearing last week, during which the DHS’s chief procurement officer denied that the agency was stockpiling ammunition, while simultaneously admitting that the huge open orders had been submitted.

Inhofe pointed out that the amount of ammunition on order “is more than three times the amount our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation.”

As we recently reported, the DHS announced plans to purchase another 360,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition to add to the roughly 2 billion bullets already bought over the past year.

In addition, last week, The DHS released a market survey asking companies if they are able to provide 2 million rounds of ammunition within a short time period, increasing concerns that the federal agency is continuing its arms build up even further.

“I believe it’s intentional,” Inhofe said, describing the situation as “just another effort to restrict gun activity and ownership.”

“This has never happened in this country before. We’ve never had government trying to take that much control at the expense of law-abiding citizens. And we’re not going to let it happen.” Inhofe added.

Ammo shortages across the nation are now commonplace, with gun stores forced to resort to bullet rationing, and self production in an attempt to satisfy as many customers as they can, while some police departments are having to barter between themselves to meet demand.

Despite the official denials backed up by unquestioning media reports that the DHS is buying an abnormal amount of bullets, the Government Accountability Office announced last week that an investigation of the purchases is “just getting underway.”

Two weeks ago, Inhofe introduced legislation into the Senate that would limit such stockpiling of bullets by federal agencies.

The bill, known as the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability Act, or AMMO act for short, would stop short of limiting the Department of Defense on ammo purchases, but would prevent the DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from purchasing or storing more ammunition than those agencies retained on average between 2001 and 2009.

Speaking about the legislation, Inhofe noted:

“It’s designed to have the Government Accounting Office inventory not the Defense Department but all other departments that use weaponry,” Inhofe said, “as to what they’re doing in terms of the amount of ammunition they have bought to dry up the market for honest, law-abiding citizens.”

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this isn't a new topic. but i have been wondering what you guys are seeing. Still empty shelves?
 

Funny that a sort of shortage came here. Walmart, Bass Pro shortage. Private gun stores in town, no shortage. But I suspect that ammo manufacturers are thrilled and will produce more by summer's end than DHS can buy. And Obama gets closer to leaving every single day. Time passes pretty quick. Can't wait to see who the demos run for Pres.
 

Funny that a sort of shortage came here. Walmart, Bass Pro shortage. Private gun stores in town, no shortage. But I suspect that ammo manufacturers are thrilled and will produce more by summer's end than DHS can buy. And Obama gets closer to leaving every single day. Time passes pretty quick. Can't wait to see who the demos run for Pres.

elections coverage is sooo overdone, please don't ask for it sooner
 

this isn't a new topic. but i have been wondering what you guys are seeing. Still empty shelves?

Jeff every Monday,Wednesday ,and Friday my husband has been looking for the lowly .22 lr mainly to no avail.he has had some luck with .380 and .38 special,much more powerful and deadly than .22 so the availability there is baffling
 

Funny that a sort of shortage came here. Walmart, Bass Pro shortage. Private gun stores in town, no shortage. But I suspect that ammo manufacturers are thrilled and will produce more by summer's end than DHS can buy. And Obama gets closer to leaving every single day. Time passes pretty quick. Can't wait to see who the demos run for Pres.

Good luck! By 2016 the economy will be pounding away on all eight cylinders. Change will be a tough sell.
 

I am finding .45 cal, but lately 9mm is hard to find.... anytime I find .45, 9mm, 22, and 12 gage I buy it...... I will continue to buy till I feel comfortable with my stockpile.... 5k each is a nice number......
 

Jeff every Monday,Wednesday ,and Friday my husband has been looking for the lowly .22 lr mainly to no avail.he has had some luck with .380 and .38 special,much more powerful and deadly than .22 so the availability there is baffling


that's what I don't get about it, why would the gov buy up 22lr's?
 

Good luck! By 2016 the economy will be pounding away on all eight cylinders. Change will be a tough sell.

hope you are right NF as I have jumped into the mf ( better edit this before I lose points- Mutual Fund) market
 

Lets see it is 2013, so only have to wait 3 more years.............. Way we are headed by 2016 there will be a lot bigger problems....
 

so far during my 57 years, every year brings bigger problems no matter what else
 

It has been increasingly bad for my 24 years.
 

Yea, Me too. Thought if I tried the Peter Pan thing maybe it would help. Alas,, My knee and Shoulder are still sore! lol
 

Why are you guys so negative?

I was putting the 16 election on the economy. i do that because usually the economy is the decider.

What could be worse?

I'm sure you guys noticed this but since the stock market bottomed in 1932 everytime it has gone down it has come back and gone higher. Over that time we've had world war, korea, vietnam, cold war, presidential assasination, presidential resignation, impeachment. oil embargos, double digit interest rates, savings and loan crises, FDIC running out of cash, real estate collapse, terrorist attacks, 911, mortgage collapse and a bunch of stuff i've left out. And thru it all the stock market has come back and gone higher.

So tell me what wiil happen over the next 3 years that hasn't happened over the past 80? What's gonna change?
 

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What's interesting with the Gov't buying up all this ammo, is that it's in limited calibers, .223, .308, 9mm. Where are all the other calibers going?
It seems to me that they are ordering so much munitions that the ammo companies don't have the time to change the line to load the extra calibers mostly used be the American shooting community, US!

Being a handloader, I've long horded components just for this reason. Recently the only shortage has been in primers, and that seems to be getting better in the past couple months. It's the shortage of the rimfire cartridges that has me stumped, distributors can't even fill small orders to dealers, and when they do, it's not a very profitable deal, one dealer is getting for a 100 pak, what a 500 round brick used to go for.
 

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