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Big Sis Ignores Congressman’s Demand For Briefing on Bullet Buys

“Congress deserves an answer” on huge ammo purchases

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.comMarch 28, 2013

Janet Napolitano. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Janet Napolitano has ignored a letter written by New Jersey Congressman Leonard Lance calling for theDepartment of Homeland Security chief to attend a congressional briefing and provide an explanation as to

why the DHS has committed to purchasing more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the last year.

Lance, who first promised to investigate the matter during a Tea Party event on March 15, sent a letter five

days later noting how there was “growing public concern surrounding the Department’s procurement of 

ammunition.”

“He is not asking for Napolitano to testify but to give us a congressional briefing because Congress wasn’t

aware of it. It deserves an answer,” Lance spokesman Todd Mitchell told the Daily Record.

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Over a week after the letter was sent, Lance’s office has still not received a response, similar to how 15 other

members of Congress were stonewalled by the DHS when they demanded to know if the huge bullet

purchases were an attempt by the federal agency to restrict ammunition supplies.

Instead of a formal explanation, the federal agency released a glib statement to the media claiming the

amount of ammunition purchased was not abnormal, that the bullets were bought in bulk “because it’s

cheaper for the agency,” and that the rounds were for training purposes only.

However, the DHS has completely failed to address the fundamental flaw in their explanation. Most of the

bullets purchased are hollow point rounds which are twice as expensive as full metal jacket bullets, rendering

the claim the agency is buying in bulk to save money redundant.

As former Marine Richard Mason told reporters with WHPTV News in Pennsylvania earlier this month, “We

never trained with hollow points, we didn’t even see hollow points my entire four and a half years in the

Marine Corps.”

Earlier this week, a weapons manufacturer who supplies ammunition to the federal government told the

nationally syndicated Savage Nation radio show that the ammo purchases were an attempt to “control the

amount of market that’s available on the commercial market at any time,” by forcing manufacturers to holdback stock.

Ammunition is in short supply across the country, with police departments being forced to barter between

themselves to meet demand while gun stores across America have resorted to bullet rationing.

Earlier this week, the DHS put out a solicitation asking for 360,000 more bullets to be delivered to the

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico, the same destination for 240,000 hollow

point rounds which were purchased only last month.

Last week, retired United States Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow sent a letter to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)

warning that the ammo purchases represent “a bold threat of war by that agency (DHS), and the Obamaadministration, against the citizens of the United States of America.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of 

Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

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