Were the feds simply wasting taxpayer funds? Or, perhaps, amassing a secret army? At the same time, it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to use hollow point ammunition on the battle field," that post read.
It means the occupying federal government is acquiring this ammunition to be used against the American people. Yet what began as a fringe conspiracy theory has gained momentum over the past two months, finally making it all the way to Congress. The conspiracies popped up on more mainstream Republican-leaning outlets like Fox News and the Daily Caller , albeit typically in a less alarmist vein. Then last week, two Republican lawmakers, Reps.
Jim Jordan Ohio and Jason Chaffetz Utah , lent the conspiracies more credibility, holding a joint hearing to demand answers. And though he stopped short of fully embracing the "secret army" theory, Rep. Jeff Duncan R-S. Other lawmakers posited a slightly different theory: The government, uncertain whether new gun laws would prevail in Congress, had authorized the purchases to remove ammo from shelves.
If the government couldn't take away guns, it would just take away ammo instead, the theory went. In response, Sen. Its agents investigate Social Security fraud and other crimes. When they say they are cracking down on waste, fraud and abuse, they apparently mean it. As former Marine Richard Mason recently told reporters with WHPTV News in Pennsylvania, hollow-points which make up the bulk of the DHS purchases are not used for training because they are more expensive than standard firing-range rounds.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I still think the intent here is to buy up ammunition to exacerbate shortages in the private sector. With the feds buying up so much ammo, prices for private-sector purchasers goes through the roof. President Trump has an opportunity to propose changes concerning gun control , but not in the way his opponents are calling for.
Trump should listen to the advice former U. Tom Coburn memorialized at Forbes last year after the Orland nightclub massacre: the non-military, non-law enforcement — paper pushing administrative federal agencies — are the ones who should be subject to stricter gun control laws, not the general public.
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