US Postal Service Joins in Federal Ammo Purchases

[BBQ.Uncle]

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/USPS-ammo-purchase-federal/2014/04/14/id/565541/


Add the U.S. Postal Service to the list of federal agencies seeking to purchase what some Second Amendment activists say are alarmingly large quantities of ammunition.

The Energy Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Commerce Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development are a few of the federal entities that boast an armed division, tasked with investigating fraud and suspected criminal activities. As such, the agents get to carry guns.

"Most of these agencies do have their own police forces," said Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts-based Gun Owners' Action League.

That, perhaps more than federal ammunition purchases, is the larger issue, he suggested...

 

[soloman02]

I was actually about to post this because I too saw the same headline on Durdge. Then I did some research for a better source and saw articles from February.

Then I saw a NES thread on it:

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/238910-The-Post-Office-is-stockpiling-Ammo

 

[BBQ.Uncle]

D'oh. I did a search here and didn't see that. Thanks.