Well, not tanks actually...but almost.
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 3, 2013, 9:55 PM
This is getting a little creepy.
According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm.
DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP).
homeland security mrap
Modern Survival Blog reported:
The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.
The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization. Under the Navistar umbrella are several other companies including International Trucks, IC Bus (they make school buses), Monaco RV (recreational vehicles), WorkHorse (they make chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
A traditional Irish rebel song about the AR15 that Joe Biden doesn't want us to have:
The Army came to visit me
It was in the early hours
With Saracens, and Saladins, and Ferret armored cars!
They thought they had me cornered
But I gave them all a fright
With the armor piercing bullets of me little Armalite!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=nHY14OVk7r0
Originally posted by sasquatch672This appears to be a contract for the Marines:
Well, not tanks actually...but almost.
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 3, 2013, 9:55 PM
This is getting a little creepy.
According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billio ...[text shortened]... ake chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
CONTRACTS
NAVY
Navistar Defense, L.L.C., Warrenville, Ill., is being awarded an $879,923,195 firm-fixed-priced delivery order 0023 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5032) for the procurement of 2,717 units of rolling chassis; 10 engineering change proposals; and 25 contract data requirements lists, for MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. Work will be performed in West Point, Miss., and is expected to be completed by the end of October 2013. Procurement funds in the amount of $879,923,195 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The original contract was competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4701
Originally posted by sasquatch672Maybe they plan to go looking for the ice that FEMA was supposed to deliver to the victims of Katrina.😀
Well, not tanks actually...but almost.
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 3, 2013, 9:55 PM
This is getting a little creepy.
According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billio ...[text shortened]... ake chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
Originally posted by sasquatch672The amount of ammo recently purchased by DHS would equal about 24 years of the Iraq war inside the US.
Well, not tanks actually...but almost.
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 3, 2013, 9:55 PM
This is getting a little creepy.
According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billio ...[text shortened]... ake chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
And no Americans should worry about police tactics like using CS grenades? How about the hundreds, perhaps thousands by now of FEMA camps with the inward facing barbed wire, and the stacks of plastic coffins?
Originally posted by sasquatch672The DHS was funded lavishly during the George W Bush administration, and everyone was waving the flag, and praising this as a "necessary step to keep America safe". Now they aquire some tanks, and all of a sudden it's "a little creepy" Please....😴
Well, not tanks actually...but almost.
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, March 3, 2013, 9:55 PM
This is getting a little creepy.
According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billio ...[text shortened]... ake chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).