Saturday, August 25, 2012

The History Of DHS Ammunition Purchases


The History Of DHS Ammunition Purchases
By James Smith
25 Aug 2012

“This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.”
– Adolf Hitler
The question of whether a leader is good or a tyrant is an age old question. Being the one who wears the crown opens you up to criticism from all levels, and to be quite frank, you can’t make everyone love you.
This article is to outline purchases by the Department of Human resources since August 2002, a ten year span. The Department of Homeland Security was created by then President Bush as a preventative measure from further terror attacks on American soil. And since its inception, has been fodder for skeptics and fuel for those demanding a smaller, unintrusive government.
Below you will find the lists of solicitations, hyper linked to their pages located at http://www.fbo.gov. The following filters were used:
  • US Coast Guard and Secret Service were not accounted for. The USCG rarely requested ammunition, and the Secret Service were mainly “Award Only” notices. No amounts of ammunition could be obtained.
  • Any “Award Notice” only entries were omitted due to the lack of needed information.
In the first chart, you find the hyper linked solicitation, the total number of rounds requested, and the agency requesting the ammunition. Of all of the sub-departments, only Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) ordered ammunition outside the filters discussed above.
Solicitation Link
Date
Quantity
Agency
3/2/2004
970,000
ICE
6/23/2004
200,000
FLETC
7/6/2005
100,000
FLETC
8/22/2005
300,000
FLETC
8/26/2005
100,000
FLETC
9/10/2005
1,222,000
ICE
12/12/2005
1,500,000
FTETC
1/10/2006
317,000
FLETC
4/19/2006
166,000
ICE
5/4/2006
39,600
ICE
5/12/2006
300,000
FLETC
6/7/2006
100,000,000
ICE
6/29/2006
21,570,000
FLETC
7/25/2006
270,000
FLETC
7/25/2006
5,000,000
FLETC
8/9/2006
50,000
FLETC
9/13/2006
200,000
FLETC
9/21/2006
15,000
FLETC
3/14/2007
32,425,000
FLETC
6/25/2007
106,000
ICE
6/26/2007
83,000
ICE
8/9/2007
109,000
FLETC
8/28/2007
100,000
FLETC
8/31/2007
256,000
ICE
9/25/2007
57,000
ICE
4/17/2008
375,000,000
ICE
5/12/2008
100,000
ICE
6/4/2008
149,000
ICE
6/6/2008
85,000
ICE
6/18/2008
600,000
FLETC
7/2/2008
6,000,000
FLETC
7/22/2008
19,572,000
FLETC
7/25/2008
208,000
FLETC
8/8/2008
200,000
ICE
8/20/2008
7,375,000
ICE
12/19/2008
200,000,000
ICE
2/2/2009
240,000
ICE
2/3/2009
135,000
ICE
3/4/2009
25,000
FLETC
4/28/2009
18,000,000
ICE
7/6/2009
30,000
ICE
7/7/2009
92,000
ICE
7/8/2009
65,000
ICE
8/24/2009
130,800
ICE
8/25/2009
69,920
FLETC
4/19/2010
213,920
FLETC
8/12/2010
109,200
ICE
8/12/2010
350,000
ICE
8/22/2010
49,400
ICE
12/17/2010
375,000,000
ICE
5/9/2011
25,750,000
ICE
7/12/2011
450,000,000
ICE
8/8/2011
24,000
ICE
2/6/2012
165,000,000
ICE
3/1/2012
10,000
FLETC
4/12/2012
8,450
FLETC
4/17/2012
70,000,000
FLETC
6/6/2012
12,000
ICE
7/20/2012
43,000
FLETC
8/16/2012
75,000
FLETC
8/17/2012
58,000
FLETC
The second chart, show below, demonstrates the total number of ammunition requested by year. After that chart, is the breakdown by percentage of the year against the total amount requested. As can be seen, 58% of all the ammunition that has been ordered, was ordered under the Obama Administration.

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