cold iron Loc: White House

The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.

On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office posted a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website asking contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a variety of cartridges.

“The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition,” the notice reads, which also mentioned a deadline of Feb. 10.

The Post Office published the notice just two days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his proposal to remove a federal gun ban that prevents lawful concealed carry holders from carrying handguns inside post offices across the country.

Ironically the Postal Service isn’t the first non-law enforcement agency seeking firearms and ammunition.

Since 2001, the U.S. Dept. of Education has been building a massive arsenal through purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The Education Dept. has spent over $80,000 so far on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns.

Back in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also purchased 72,000 rounds of .40 Smith & Wesson, following a 2012 purchase for 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point by the National Weather Service.

NOAA spokesperson Scott Smullen responded to concerns over the weather service purchase by stating that it was meant for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement for its bi-annual “target qualifications and training.”

Looks like the left controlled federal government has some plans!

rodulfo-tardo

Total Government Single Party State, this is one step closer to the Omnipotent Government.

Loki Loc: Georgia

From recent history, it seems like the only people who should be prohibited from carrying firearms in the Post Office are the employees. I guess this new ammo purchase is to facilitate employees who feel the urge to "go postal."

3jack

It's obvious that you don't know that Postal Inspectors are sworn, armed Federal Law Enforcement Officers.

Postal Clerks are not armed and they handle large sums of cash. They are open to the general public and are vulnerable to armed robberies. Concealed weapons should continue to be banned from postal facilities.

I don't understand your issue with NOAA. Armed officers of the Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement must maintain proficiency with their assigned weapons. They are also Federal Law Enforcement Officers and they have to practice......get it....practice. I practice at least once a month, and on a good weekend I will expend 500 to 1000 rounds of combined .22, .357, .40, and .45 ammo. number of rounds purchased means nothing.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Oh, yes. Banning concealed weapons has worked so well everywhere else. In the last ten years, every mass shooting, with one exception, has occurred in a "gun free zone." Instead of a sign declaring "No concealed weapons," how about the more t***hful one that says "Welcome, mass murderer?" Concerning the Post Office, the patrons have more to fear from disgruntled employees than vice-versa.

MrEd Loc: Georgia

If they need ammo for training, then the government has enough ammo now to train it's people for the next 100 years. They are also arming the DOE and several other agencies that have no need for guns, since they don't use them, unless teachers are going to be carrying side arms now. You really need to look at what is going on here and it is not training that they are getting ready for. They have enough ammo now to fight a war for the next 10 years. I just wonder why the government is getting so heavily armed when they are trying so hard to take them away from us. Makes you wonder just what they are getting ready for............

3jack

You do know that the USA has the military available for any armed action needed and for any reason....don't you?

Kevyn

Do all of you really not know that there is a division of the USPS called the Postal Police that is responsible for law enforcement in connection with the postal service? They investigate everything from narcotics shipments in the mail, fraud involving mail, to robberies of mail, letter cariers and customers. Police officers serving the post office are armed and train with their firearms just like any other police agency. I think it is time for you to cook up another grand conspiracy as this one just hold water.

rodulfo-tardo

Whether left or right, once the "Progressive/Recessives" take total control, their only option is a Totalitarian F*****t Dictatorship, to enforce the regulations and restrictions they must implement, lest they loose the power over the masses, the "Police State" has existed by the gradually "accepted" changes that "tolerance and diversity" play, when the need for that Social Minutia, overtakes the Media, with the weather, [vortex] [celebrity] and any form of distraction we are bombarded with, the Omnipotent Government takes the place of God, but ignores the fact, or is it pre-planned?2009, saw an attempt by the government to corner the market on small ammunition, at first it seemed the purchase orders were war related, but .40 hollowpoint ammo, is illegal in the battlefield, as per the Geneva Convention, sometime in the late 1800's the U.S. Military does not use this round, usually police, law enforcement and private agencies, the issue all are missing is lead hollowpoints without jackets are not a standard issue ordnance, its devastating 'cavitation' in 90% of cases is fatal.
Ironic the Obama Administration, calls for tolerant diversity, but not if you are hit with a .40 lead hollowpoint a diverse round that is used in handguns, take your choice, and submachine guns, machine pistols they aer the same, H&K's MP 3 is one such weapon, the 9MM parabellum is what the mixed marriage would be, of a .45 cal. and your end product is the .40 round, in this trim, is effective at close range up to 25 yds. but best at under 15 ft. this shows a possibility of crowd control, may be reason why these purchases are made, the narrative of war, is not only old but a lie, the amounts of this ammunition [.40 cal] would have lasted 11 years if used at the height of both Iraq and Afghanistan's operations, the only people who waste ammunition for show are the robotic ideologue jihadis that Obama is arming without remorse, actually proudly announces how he providing weapons and ammunition to our enemies, his Muslim Brotherhood pals, in charge of pogroms against the Christian, to eventually be called Genocide, it t***slates to Jihad, Holocaust, mass murder or war crimes. He is actively arming the same foreign fighters that k**led our soldiers and civilians, but his job is not in the U.S. he is the enemy elected to establish the New Order, the Global Caliph**e, unless the drugs are too strong or went to marijuana school, read the news from abroad and draw your own conclusions.
Defense of Terrorists and terrorist acts committed domestically and every place outside, his declaration for Islamiism should have disqualifies him from running for any office that risks security breaches.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

You do know that postal inspectors are law enforcement "cops" right... Also up in this neck of the woods, weather forecasters need all the protection they can get.. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Honestly, I would like to know the links to this information. Betting this is mostly a explainable group of purchases or twisted BS... Thanks for the links....

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

The right wing nuts are the only group I know of calling for armed teachers. These ammo purchases have been gone over until the ink wont print... while ammo is short, I did get a box of 500 round about a week ago, so I can shoot rats... this is 22 LR talking about. I have no need for cases of aged military round from Cheaper Than Dirt, or any other supplier....

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

It is good you do not subscribe to any conspiracy theory you could be loosing sleep if you did...

Loki Loc: Georgia

What would be your solutions to school violence? (I mean, a doable solution, not some left wingnut conspiracy theory). I read all these posts from the left side about "gun nuts," and the "evil NRA," (which organization I am a member of, and if we had half the power Liberals seem to think we do, there would be far less gun control in this country, and what remained would work, and be enforceable). I have yet to hear anything from the left even resembling a workable, practical answer.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

When I was 18 and got my first real job, with my first pay check, I joined the NRA. The focus has changed now, at least as I remember back in my youth.. I agree, gun laws hardly worth a damn. poor enforcement, poorly written, ineffective....I have post before about one school that seemed to have the safety issue in hand.. Do not recall the location... Had a single entrance, into an atrium closed by a second set of doors, guard in the atrium, bullet resistant window, ID ck and clearance done before the second set of doors opened via button withing the closed office area.. Seemed to be well thought out with good design and followup by the people working the entry system...Do not see armed teachers as a solution... Most of the teachers I know, including the one I once hunted deer with, I would not be comfortable with them being the last line of defense.... The focus of teachers tends to not be shooting but rather the contents of books...

rodulfo-tardo

Military purchases of ammunition are made on a revolving, standing quota, the .40 caliber lead hollow point, is illegal to use in combat by 'international law' the Geneva Convention that goes back, to the late 1800's when "big game" ammunition was deemed illegal for military use, little known is the fact that 'conventional' ammo is meant to wound not k**l, the theory being that one casualty will take at least three from combat, to treat, and evacuate the supporting fire will detract from the enemy targets.
The use of the lead hollow points, is for close up 'work' the stopping power best suited to neutralize and provide 'optimum' crowd control. Decentralized agencies have the advantage, over the use of an ammunition best suited for combat. It is no secret the 'standard' round is the jacketed .40 cal. for D.H.S., E.P.A., D.E.C., and State Police, this gives the flexibility to carry more bullets, with an interchangeability of different weapons the rate of fire, becomes the only reason. There are similarities to the simplification policies of Albert Speer, the "Architect and Armaments Minister of the Third Reich" take for instance the arsenal of some police, and especial units with so many new agencies to support Obama's "civilian army, equally if not better equipped than the military" this was promised by our 'resident in chief ' in 2008, it explicitly promises the formation of an armed contingent to keep the civilian population under constant surveillance and fear of retribution. Sidestepping the restrictions made against using the 'military' against the people, this was ignored by Clinton's response to the Divinians compound, when armored units from Ft. Hood were used by orders from Janet Reno, coincidentally commanded by Gen. Wesley Clark.
Again I have digressed, but to reiterate let me just say, the standard armaments for these especial units, not only Post Office, but Parks Police, and most police departments, along with the previous, include the following ordnance.
Handguns are automatic, .40 cal, H&K MP 7's automatic submachine guns, also in the .40 cal. trim, shotguns are usually Benelli, the military version and are semi-automatic 12 gauge, and shot, then there is the M4 carabine the short version of an M16, some are NATO round .308, but also there are some in .40 cal trim, all these are issued in pairs, together with other weaponry mostly classified, at first were to be anti-terrorist units that would exclusively get these. The budgetary cuts, made it mandatory to cut personnel and increase fire power, it is my belief this as legitimate, however the standards have also been lowered, the 'legal training' focuses on how to avoid litigation, not on the laws that they are to protect.
Dangerous is how police work, has become "ideology" driven, not the reason why a police force exists, this observation comes from active 'older' officers, who worry how easy it has become to integrate enforcement, not from the law enforcement they had learned but with the replacement of purpose, easy way to direct political obedience not law enforcement alone.
The current climate indicates a social bomb is about to burst, but most dangerous is the infiltration of every agency by the F*****t S*********t Muslim Brotherhood, a case in point goes to an 'incident' on 10-04-12 about 4:00 A.M., on the Grand Central Parkway, in N.Y.C., National Guardsman Noel Polanco was speeding after his job as security for a local nightclub.
N.Y.P.D. 12 year veteran, Sgt. Hassan Hamdi was also driving, he 'clocked' the vehicle some 10 miles above the speed limit, with sirens blaring lit up Polanco, who came to a stop eventually according to what records say, this is a routine traffic stop, I realize among the most risky police interventions are 'domestics and night time traffic stops' there is one thing obvious to see that is the I.D. parking decal placed on the rear bumper of all vehicles entering and parking in a reserve National Guard facility, then there is the decal on the driver side windshield, the 'officer' approached the vehicle with what was reported to be a rifle, [M4 or MP7 with extended stock?] things get murkier with every official version read. The driver had his hands on the steering wheel, regardless Sgt. Hamdi shot him dead at close range, through the closed window of his car. Story related by his girlfriend, a member of the N.Y.P.D., who has strangely changed her story to match the 'official' story, the charges for the experienced Sgt. were changed to "road rage" nothing more
the moral of this narrative is who the liaison was between the N.Y.P.D. and D.H.S., of whom Hamdi was an attached unit of, her name is Lydia Kahlil a Muslim Brotherhood "Arab Affairs" intermediary with the Federal Government, take to account the date, it was barely four weeks since the B******i Attack, originally Al' Sharpton was to make his r****t noise [Polanco was of Latin descent] but somehow this professional 'Gauleiter' was diverted by the Trayvon Martin self defense shooting, more of financial jump, for the criminal r****t this freak is. Last conversation with the dead man's mother led me to believe her interest was to keep the rest of her family safe, imagine you or I shooting a fellow driver, surely "road rage" would never fly.