DHS Ammo Purchases: Gun Control by Another Name?

According to reports, the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled over 1.6 billion rounds of ammo for its various agencies, and one of the worst side effects of this appears to be a shortage of ammo for private gun owners. 

The question is–what if the shortage is intentional? 

Bear with me here. I am not a “conspiracy theorist” nor do I believe that DHS is stockpiling bullets in order to wage war on Americans, as some commentators have suggested. 

However, I do believe they know these massive ammo purchases are driving supply down and prices up, and that’s generally a good thing for an administration that doesn’t think people ought to be able to own guns to begin with. 

Think about it this way–although reports indicate DHS had 1.6 billion rounds stockpiled as of spring 2012, they recently ordered over 20 million more.

Many of these rounds are in .40 cal and 9mm–two very popular rounds for civilians–and will be manufactured by ATK, which owns Federal. Federal, as you know, produces a lot of the ammunition that civilians used to purchase at Wal-Mart and other stores, when Wal-Mart and other stores could find ammo to put on their shelves.  

The bottom line–gun owners are facing a perfect storm. Civilians are buying up every box of ammo they can find in anticipation of a federal gun grab and less ammo is making it to the shelves to replace what is being purchased, largely because so many rounds of ammo are being sent to fill government orders. 

Sounds like gun control by another name.