The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years. In America.
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Doesn’t sound like enough.
Depends on how proficient the shooters are I suppose. I just know that it gets harder to aim when you are being shot at... and that will start up within seconds in many, many parts of this country. The cities will be "all jacked up" but in the country ... well let's just say "country folks can survive". Another thing to consider is that the cities will be easily starved for the true necessities for life in short order if shit goes kinetic. Air. MIght be smokey but still there. Water... that takes some work and electricity with sound plumbing. Hard to work on pipelines under constant threat of attack. Then food. Siege warfare is unchanged once the machines stop running. Even the military knows this. Surround them and don't let anything in or out.
I've always said, it's not the ar15 they need to fear but the Remington 700 with the 20x scope.
Excellent attitude.