9 million in orders in a week

[Tuffbroadhead]

WOW the DHS is BUSY!!!! 9 million dollars spent in a week for contracts running 900,000 dollars a year to Sig Sauer and Heckler and Koch for the next 5 years...

http://www.examiner.com/article/stoc...ss-than-a-week

[Artos]

...seems excessive tuff.

[txsteele]

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but come on.......surely they can't use that much ammo just qualifying and training????

[txsteele]

So I do ask, "What's up?"

[Tuffbroadhead]

...seems excessive tuff.

Lets look at it with a open mind..

DHS purchases..

9 million dollars in parts over 5 years from Sig and HK
1.6 billion round purchase order
2717 Maxxpro MRAP's being retro fitted..
50 million dollars in new uniforms
7000 new select fire weapons

All I can say is DHS is growing fast...

[Artos]

Do we have any scale on what they have purchased over the past decade?? In other words, is this par for the course or is it just recently to see these sort of buys??

I understand it is growing & covers a broad scope of LE, but wow...

[Floyd]

Preppers prepping

[Bily Lovec]

its nothing unusual.
kepe in mind who all falls under the DHS umbrella. they needs lots of ammo

[txsteele]

its nothing unusual.
kepe in mind who all falls under the DHS umbrella. they needs lots of ammo

Who???

I guess I could research but that wouldn't be any fun....plus I can "pad" with this post

[Coach W]

Who???

I guess I could research but that wouldn't be any fun....plus I can "pad" with this post

And then the reply "thanks" to that post.

[Artos]

Pretty sure the Guard falls under DHS...just surpising to see these numbers with nobody reporting any previous history of buys??

BP & US Customs are also under DHS...the sequestration has cut back the lanes at all POE's here along the border by about 20-30%!! If nothing happens in April, we are looking at a 50% staff reduction!! You have any idea how that will affect our area??

Why the big pinch on man hours but a huge spend on products?? I'm just asking here...

[Loneaggie]

I'm wondering if that's even 10% of what they spend on gas and other consumables. Heck they probably go through a million dollars of printer ink a year. Sounds like a lot , but is it? Any comparison to say a large metro PD?

[Lungbustr]

Lets look at it with a open mind..

DHS purchases..

9 million dollars in parts over 5 years from Sig and HK
1.6 billion round purchase order
2717 Maxxpro MRAP's being retro fitted..
50 million dollars in new uniforms
7000 new select fire weapons

All I can say is DHS is growing fast...

Dang almost seems like DHS is going to war with somebody. 1.6 billion rounds is enough ammo to sustain a hot war for 20 yrs. Wonder who that could be that they are gonna wage war on?

[Lungbustr]

Pretty sure the Guard falls under DHS...just surpising to see these numbers with nobody reporting any previous history of buys??

BP & US Customs are also under DHS...the sequestration has cut back the lanes at all POE's here along the border by about 20-30%!! If nothing happens in April, we are looking at a 50% staff reduction!! You have any idea how that will affect our area??

Why the big pinch on man hours but a huge spend on products?? I'm just asking here...

Border Patrol, that is where all this stuff needs to be put to use. There are plenty of cuts that need to be made but not on our borders. We definitely need more manpower there, and laws with teeth. But they love not securing our borders, so that will never happen.

[Artos]

Furloughs go into effect in April...