man drew his gun while waiting to buy ammunition

[Nate]

So you dont believe the people who protect our airports should train and qualify with the weapons they carry around your kids?

Oh they should train but when I see the amounts of ammo being requested far exceeding training and usage amounts, especially the. 308 it causes me concern. How could any of these security branches other than the armed services need that much ammo over 5 years?

Aren't you concerned?

 

[Vermiform]

So you dont believe the people who protect our airports should train and qualify with the weapons they carry around your kids?

I don't believe they can even be trusted with potato guns. The less proficient they are with firearms, the better in my book.


Edited to add:

If Air Marshals fall under TSA, I retract my statement and apologize for posting while under the influence of a muscle relaxer.

 

[Fred_G]

Oh they should train but when I see the amounts of ammo being requested far exceeding training and usage amounts, especially the. 308 it causes me concern. How could any of these security branches other than the armed services need that much ammo over 5 years?

Aren't you concerned?

How dare you question the gubment! They are looking out for your best interest! Your lack of loyalty to the gubment is noted Comrade.

 

[Jack]

Oh they should train but when I see the amounts of ammo being requested far exceeding training and usage amounts, especially the. 308 it causes me concern. How could any of these security branches other than the armed services need that much ammo over 5 years?

Aren't you concerned?

What are you concerned is going to happen? Where did you see these ammo figures?

 

[olivs260]

What are you concerned is going to happen? Where did you see these ammo figures?

Obviously they're going to detain us at airports and put us in camps.

 

[Scott.Thornton]

Obviously they're going to detain us at airports and put us in camps.

I like camping. I'm sure the American Japanese during WWII did also.

 

[Jack]

I like camping. I'm sure the American Japanese during WWII did also.

 

[Nate]

What are you concerned is going to happen? Where did you see these ammo figures?

You don't have to look very hard. The report of these numbers have been in the press, even in the liberal media...surprise, surprise.

While I won't name the legislator's office I was able to confirm that these numbers are real and are actually being examined. However, what has been left out of the press reports is that these are 5-year committment to purchase plans, not actual deliveries of ammunition.

My concerns are why are non-military organizations purchasing military sized lots of ammunition. When you add that some of these organizations typically do not have their agents regularly train with firearms anyway then again why such huge lots? Why is the TSA getting so many select fire firearms? Why the huge quantities of .308? Those quantities would suggest to me someone is intending to shoot machine guns a lot.

Again this could be reasonable. Still it should be explained why we are doing this, since this does not seem to be an armed services procurement.

 

[oleheat]

Well....I just hope the TSA uses better judgement with their firearms than they always have with the people they search.

 

[Jack]

You don't have to look very hard. The report of these numbers have been in the press, even in the liberal media...surprise, surprise.

While I won't name the legislator's office I was able to confirm that these numbers are real and are actually being examined. However, what has been left out of the press reports is that these are 5-year committment to purchase plans, not actual deliveries of ammunition.

My concerns are why are non-military organizations purchasing military sized lots of ammunition. When you add that some of these organizations typically do not have their agents regularly train with firearms anyway then again why such huge lots? Why is the TSA getting so many select fire firearms? Why the huge quantities of .308? Those quantities would suggest to me someone is intending to shoot machine guns a lot.

Again this could be reasonable. Still it should be explained why we are doing this, since this does not seem to be an armed services procurement.

Could you point me in the right direction, I googled around a bit but didn't see anything alarming.