by Chip Jones | January 7, 2013

The newest federal agency designed to protect our national security is the Department of Homeland Security….or is it? Going to the DHS website, they proudly assert that “The Department of Homeland Security has a vital mission: to secure the nation from the many threats we face. This requires the dedication of more than 240,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation & border security to emergency response, from cyber-security analyst to chemical facility inspector. Our duties are wide-ranging, but our goal is clear – keeping America safe.”

Programs under its official purview are: 1. Customs and Border Protection, 2. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 3. U.S. Secret Service, 4. U.S. Coast Guard, 5. Transportation Safety Administration, 6. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and finally 7. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

As you will see, four (4) of these component agencies have law enforcement, paramilitary powers, or outright military history. Two (2) others have vast enforcement power, and the last intervenes in natural disasters and provides aid to citizens at times of natural disaster.

Under the cover of protecting the nation from another “9/11” has been built a superagency whose mandate has been redefines to include “aviation” rather than “airport security”, “cyber security” and “chemical facility inspection” rather than “emergency response.”

The question this article asks is whether we are experiencing enhanced protection from foes outside our borders, or is we are creating an even greater threat within our borders, the threat of an over achingly powerful domestic army.

A few events have gone unreported or “unsynthesized.” First and foremost, DHS has bid out and received a huge number of rounds of ammunition in the last year.

In 2009, DHS secured 200 million rounds of ammo. However in 2012 alone, DHS took delivery of 450 million rounds in March, weeks later followed by an order of a whopping 750 million rounds. By means of comparison, 750 million rounds of ammunition is ten times what was used in Iraq in one year of combat. But add it up. That is a total of 1.4 billion rounds of ammo.

Then let’s look carefully at another federal program hidden under DHS’s auspices, the “Federal Law Enforcement Training Center” (or FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia.

Included in that entity are programs that include:

Rifle Training Program,
Precision Rifle Observer Training Program (37 hour sniper course available for any law enforcement official, regardless of assignment to a sniper role),
Reactive Shooting Instructor Training Program,
Survival Shooting Training Program, and finally, a personal favorite,
Submachine Gun Instructor Training Program (that utilizes the HK MP-5, UMP-40, Colt M-4 rifle, the SMG 9mm and the FN P9 (if nothing else, hit this hyperlink to view it!).

What is astonishing is that FLETC uses 20 million round of ammunition a year in its training courses total. 1.4 billion rounds purchased last year is a 70 year supply! What could they possibly need that much for?

Now let’s go to a tidbit reported at Conservative Reports Online earlier, in a discussion of the arming of Libyan rebels in Benghazi. As was stated, US arms merchant Marc Turi had been legally supplying arms to both Qatar and the UAE. What we also, at that time, reported was:

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“It is of no little interest that a scant two months later, Marc Turi’s home in Arizona was raided by agents of the Department of Homeland Security. (emphasis added) Mr. Turi stated that he believed that this raid, and the ongoing investigation into his arms dealing, is in direct response to his legal supply of US weapons to Qatar, and the fact that the Qataris “handed them out like candy”, with little concern about what factions received them.”

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Why not ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) or the FBI? Wouldn’t these agencies be more logical to investigate this? Which of the 7 agencies under the the DHS umbrella has the purview to raid a home for a firearms investigation?

If one cannot sensibly answer, start thinking large, well-armed federal agency with broad, expansive and growing enforcement powers, with 15 times the ammunition expended in a year in Iraq, and let us know if the Gestapo comes to mind…

http://conservativereport.org/homeland-i...ost-or-gestapo/

This is a January article. The government continues to buy ammo and bullets. I just talked to someone who reloads, and he is telling me the difficulties he's having getting reload material.

If anyone has a mind to, it may be worthwhile updating/posting newly announced purchases or figures as to government shoring up weapons.

You know their intent is to use them against US