achilles, why do you waste your precious energy and time to educate fools who WANT to believe that governments are good? save your ass, for Christ sakes! do not attempt to save anyone else, as they will hate you for that.
okay achilles, I can see you are passionate about this, and I was needlessly inflammatory. Here is the question. How do you know that ammo is for us citizens? How do you know some very serious threat is not around the corner?
What type of serious threat would warrant such a massive build up of ammunition for an agency with domestic powers only? Mexican invasion? Invasion from outer space? If this were the military, you might be on to something.
Homeland security will be militarized in such an instance. Especially if the threat is on these shores.
The point is, we shouldn't have to be making assumptions about it. They should be explaining it to us and to congress. BTW, if we had to furlough air traffic controllers, where does the money to do this come from? I'm also told that airports have had long security lines recently due to furloughs of TSA personnel, supposedly caused by the sequester.
I'd like to see the ammo manufacturers tell DHS to take their order and shove it so far sideways it makes their head swim. If they all relocate to Texas then they could pull it off probably... As an aside, I wouldn't own a business in any other state than Texas: in lawsuits loser pays the winners attorney costs! Only Alaska has anything close to that and I'm not going to Alaska to try to find talent to run a business... just not going there...
(Probably too late for that. DHS likely already has price and delivery quotes or this wouldn't be a story.) But why stop there? Why not the entire supply chain? Mining, refining, transportation, energy, warehousing, etc., why not every entity in the supply chain, upstream and down, refuse sales if those sales have anything to do with DHS? Thousands of jobs might be lost, but hey, it's important to protect America and its... workers. ; )