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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You should probably read their GAO report to get a better understanding of context. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-14-119.pdf
A few highlights:
In other words, ammo contracts for 1.6 billion rounds is only about twice the contracts DHS has open in October 2023.
DHS has basically twice as many armed agents as the NYPD has officers. They're not taking over America with that. Wisconsin puts over 400k armed citizens out every year for deer gun season.