Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Social Security Administration buying Ammo?

And a lot of it, from the looks of things.
First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and now the Social Security Administration is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country. A solicitation posted by the SSA on the FedBizOpps website asks for contractors to supply 174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition.”
174,000 rounds of .357 Sig ammo? That's a lot of handgun ammo. The solicitation wants it to be:
shipped to 41 locations within 60 days of purchase. A separate spreadsheet lists those locations, which include the Social Security headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland as well as major cities across the country including Los Angeles, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle.
This is getting curiouser and curiouser.

9 comments:

John said...

Keep posting those locations as we might need some of that ammo. I sure like to know where to go when I'm in a hurry.

Anonymous said...

I was in the local SSA office a couple of weeks ago and there was a security officer there but I do not recall him being armed.

If the UPS is next I would even less know what to think.

Ben

Anonymous said...

uh meant USPS

Ben

Anonymous said...

I think they are staging ammo lol I hope not though. Second civil war I just dont know if i like this

Anonymous said...

In your experience how many rounds would an MP company use for training in a year?
Something smells bad about these ammo buys.
Fred

Handyman said...

Maybe it's a way to cause a shortage of ammo at retail for all us "domestic terrorists"; or at least increase prices due to short supplies. Notice that most of the recently placed gov't orders are for popular civilian self defense loadings and specify a 60 day delivery window. Just sayin'...

Pawpaw said...

Fred - to answer your question... An MP company uses a lot of ammunition in a yearly qual. They'd unload a couple of pallets and we'd shoot through it. Say, a hundred cases of ammo.

Bob@thenest said...

Just to be sure I'm keeping up, I bought 14 boxes, all non-Geneva-Convention-approved. Hey, if that's what SSA needs, I guess I do, too.

Hobie said...

Just what is it that the SSA enforces that needs armed agents?