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| Pentagon To Destroy $1 Billion In Ammunition |
| 2015-06-11 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #5 Our whole defense industry process is broken. Not broken. Deliberately sabotaged. And we will pay dearly for it too. |
| Posted by: Devo 2015-06-11 21:36 |
| #4 Something sounds fishy here... because unless something has drastically changed, the US Army is in charge of buying small arms ammo for the entire DOD. They figure out the requirements, order it, and then store it for WHEN IT'S ORDERED BY ANOTHER SERVICE. That was the way it was done when I was in, at least ('78-'98). I'm going to suggest something else - this stuff may have been bad for one reason or another, and this is how they're hiding it. Somebody got a crony contract for ammo, and we ended up buying something more dangerous to our guys than the enemy. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-06-11 18:30 |
| #3 I suspect at least in part the intent of the original massive purchase -- and the news about it -- was to upset the domestic bullet market and drive people to give up their guns in the face of impossible expenses. But capitalism did its usual thing and compensated, as badanov has documented with his "This Week in Guns" column every Saturday. But to dump $1 billion of bullets on the market all at once would a) like before not have a permanent impact on the market (I bet a great many bullet makers would happily give their overworked employees a week or two of vacation), and b) result in an awful lot of people storing an awful lot of extra bullets under their beds until they were used up at the range, precisely not what the executive branch would like to achieve. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-06-11 17:10 |
| #2 A little thing called the internet (DARPA approved). Post I have and I want. Follow up via telecom. Really difficult. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-11 15:54 |
| #1 Our whole defense industry process is broken. From the F-35 to ammo to getting supplies to the troops. Broken. Broken. Broken. But plenty of opportunities for graft! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-06-11 13:16 |