Agree, OP. Every day another thing to worry about.
BUT this is what we get with 4 more years of Obama, so we must reach deep down for strength to always be one step ahead.
When I feel beaten down, I think back to the conditions of our ancestors during the Revolution, walking on snow and ice with nothing but rags on their feet, leaving trails of blood. They were up to the task, and shall we because we are Americans.

Are ammo running in support of gun running.

The concern is not so much about patriots in DHS being armed. In case of civil war, they will not fire on their neighbors, fellow patriots. If Obama is openly pushing for civil war, the patriots would get that ammo to us by the ton.

The real concern is that Obama has an army of radical, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Jewish, anti-Christian jihadists. And the bullets may already be in their custody!!

Who is guarding the ammo?

“mandatory quarterly firearms qualifications and other training sessions.” Really? With hollow-points? Wait a minute, what exactly are "other traing sessions?"

Hey, they work for us right? What could possibly go wrong? It´s only right that Federal non-military should practice alot. s/o

He´s just ensuring that the government can supply customer support for all of those Fast and Furious guns.

´Suspicious´ doesn´t describe it. The *majority* of this ammo - from a year´s reporting now - is HOLLOW POINT AMMUNITION BANNED IN INTERNATIONAL WARFARE.

Thus we have an administration who won´t even act mildly tough with our *actual* enemies...

Stockpiling ammo with no other purpose (tho´ the Feds have claimed repeatedly, ´Hey, it´s just for target practice!) other than *shredding* anything it hits, and no targets in sight besides the American public.

And the jackass-in-chief thinks American citizen will ´give up´ any effective means of self-defense?

This is your government on drugs. *Strong* drugs...

You have to ask yourself WHY? WHY do the feds need 2 billion rounds?

It´s how they are handling Gun Control. Ok, they are too pansy to submit a bill on gun control, so they will just buy up all of the ammo.

I purchased some ammo today, but not all that I needed.

The Gov´t is trying to control us, without a doubt.

Those Democrat senators in states that went for Romney should be required to explain this post haste. Get them on the record.

What no 7 said.... I was looking online today and not a round of 22 long rifle anywhere.

My local store is out of everything but shotshells and some esoteric rounds. No .38, 45 or 9mm to be found.

If you can find it, buy it...

Why.
Why.
and etc.
Who will tell???
Anyone out there got an answer?

Why? Two reasons: to use against us, and to keep the shelves bare.

If half the 300 million in this country is Republican that´s about 13 rounds to pump into each one of us. That should quell any opposition.

Another thought.
Since they can´t disarm people, they have decided to buy up all the ammo so if one has a weapon...so what...they haven´ andy ammo.

That´s 6 shots for every man, woman and child in the United States. That should keep ´em in line.

Never fear, I am sure our brave Republican elected officials will get to the bottom of this. s/

‘The president
has lost some of the magic
that he had four years ago?...Smoke and mirrors then, Smoke and mirrors NOW!!

Levin is ´nuts´. Move along. Nothing to see here. /s

There is no proof of this at all. None. Time to get your foil hats rotated. Show me the RFPs, Levin and Bigelow. Then I´ll believe it.

...he did say something about a civil force that would rival the military did he not....

#18 is advised to see governmentbids.com. No tin foil here, just brass.

And just how much taxpayer money will be used for the safe storage of all this ammo?

The stores near me ration the amount of ammunition that individuals can buy. I don´t blame the stores as they´re only trying to ensure that no one person buys ALL of their stock.

I would dearly love to see the ammunition manufacturers ration sales to the Fed. If they were smart they´d realize that if push comes to shove, then the Fed will NOT be their friend.

Wrong. This is debunked here:

http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2013/02/dhs-buying-billions-of-rounds-not-so.html

People mistook the pricing quantity (1000 rounds) for the number of shipments. In fact, DHS was buying 240,000 rounds, not 2 billion rounds.

Criminals who sold and bought the illegal Fast & Furious guns complained they didn´t get ammo with the guns as Eric Holder promised.

/s

I don´t readily believe they´re buying all the ammo to create a shortage for gun owners. The shortage will be short lived, unless they plan to buy them up for the indefinate future which I think is unlikely.

I see the ammo purchases as complementary to their purchase of large quantities of auto and semi-auto weaponry, communications gear, medical supplies, armored transport vehicles, etc.

Remember how Obama wanted a domestic fighting force as powerful as the military? I think DHS is building such a force. I think it´ll be a three tier force, comprised of the federal law enforcement agencies (with DHS leading it), state law agencies, and local law agencies, with DHS leading the three tier cooperative effort.

I think the ammo will be stockpiled, along with all the other materials being purchased, at various locations around the country. I suspect they´ll be located at federal, state, and local facilities in key locations.

The other day I saw a headline (didn´t get into the article) about a confidential informant inside DHS who said the agency is practicing to deal with a general uprising of the population.

Also, the other day I watched a 30 minute video on the current "Global Currency War" we´re involved in, and actually created, through our recent QE1 and QE2 printing of money, and still there are calls for a QE3. We´ve devalued our currency by around 20% which helps us pay our international debts and other countries are beginning to fight back by doing the same with their currency. And, a global race begins to have the cheapest currency.

Acording to the video, the two prior currency wars created the Great Depression, WW2, and the economic stagnation of the 1970s. The video further explained how currency wars ruin people´s savings and investments which could also result in civil unrest and upheaval, and international war.

When the population´s money is turned into worthless paper by the political class, how would the population react? Would there be a general uprising?

Lastly, there was an article the other day about a litmus test that Obama is putting to high-ranking military officers wanting to move up. According to the article, the litmus test is asking the officer if, under a certain scenario, he could order troops to fire on citizens.

I get the feeling that something wicked is coming this way.

Odd...all of the reports indicate it´s hollowpoint handgun ammo....no 5.56 or 7.62?....given the shortages in these calibers the populace may indeed be better armed

It is to eliminate mass numbers of US citizens. "punish your enemies", "eliminate the opposition", "revenge" are oft spoken words by this regime. They have no desire to keep anyone around who does not adhere to the party line. We are now living under Pravda on the Potomac, and every other tin pot dictatorship since time immemorial.

Someone is sitting the the DOJ basement, carefully inscribing the names of Americans on the bullets ... two bullets per person.

OK, some of these comments are just kooky. Just sayin´.

However,one thing I´m not hearing, is what of these ammo manufacturers? Don´t you think that if someone who is a big shot in one of these companies would see a huge red flag when our Gummint is buying up (or submitting purchase orders for) so much ammo? Wouldn´t the Gummint submit to open bidding for a purchase of this size? This doesn´t pass the smell test to me. I´ll have to buy some ammo and get the low down on what is really going on.

Where are those in ammo sales/manufacturing who will confirm this overripe story or bury it? Surely some fine journalist will get the bottom of it...James O´Keefe?

It´s stimulus, back door gun control, and sets off the moon-bats! It´s a win-win-win situation for the libs.

Does anyone actually believe that with all the war technology at the government´s disposal, they would need that much low level technology to get the job done? They´re buying it up so that the people can´t.

Sooo tired of this tinfoil hat screed.
So they put out a call for bid on a huge number of ammo to be delivered over 4-5 years and ATK got the contract for most of it.

The real question is, what was delivered so far and did they actually used it up in training as they were supposed to.