Wednesday, April 03, 2013

One More Detail

OK, now we know "how much." [Read]

Now we need to know "where."

[Via Andrea Shea King]
Posted by David Codrea at 4/03/2013 11:47:00 AM

2 comments:

Bear said...

Based on that data, DHS currently has nearly 2.5 YEARS worth of ammunition on hand (based on average of three previous FY usage- works out to more than 112,000,000 rounds per year). So if they're doing a "bulk purchase" to save money, why not instead save money by deferring the purchase of unneeded ammunition, and reducing the training cycle slightly to stretch existing on-hand stocks for three years?

Don't have the link handy, but I saw a claim attributed to a DHS spokescritter that 70% of their ammunition is expended in training. Which appears to suggest that 30% of the ammunition is fired on duty in the field: roughly 33,000,000 rounds (that's enough fired-in-the-field ammo to shoot more 10% of the entire population -- man, woman, child; legal or otherwise -- of the country). Every year. Which suggests that maybe they need to up the training usage to 99.9998%.

So... with three years worth stocked, they're issuing purchase orders for at least 1.6 billion rounds (of HP, not cheaper, money-saving ball): that's an additional 14 years worth of ammunition. On top of the existing 2.5 year surplus. Total: 16.5+ years.

4/03/2013 2:43 PM
Ned said...

Am I missing something,or did anyone else notice that DHS isn't listed responsive to question #4???

4/04/2013 12:03 AM

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