"Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor a hail of gunfire shall keep a Postman from his blasting off his appointed rounds"
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.
Earlier this year, the USPS posted a notice on its website, under the heading "Assorted Small Arms Ammunition," that says: "The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition. If your organization wishes to participate, you must pre-register. This message is only a notification of our intent to solicit proposals."
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Washington-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said: "We're seeing a highly unusual amount of ammunition being bought by the federal agencies over a fairly short period of time. To be honest, I don't understand why the federal government is buying so much at this time."
2 comments:
They should be able to just grab ammo from DHS...
However, I have to throw my cracker in the soup on this one. The Postal Inspection Service even predates the US Marshal's service in American history, established by Ben Franklin. They actually do a lot of police work and though I'm not one, I've work with them from time to time and they're a pretty good bunch of people. They do controlled deliveries of narcotics, investigate bombs and drugs sent through the mail, have a very extensive fraud investigation arm, etc. They need firearms. Not a SWAT team, but firearms.
They're paid out of the Post Office budget, not from DHS or DOJ, so they'll need to make their own purchases.
The Obama Administration has made all of us hyper sensitive to abuses and preparations for abuses. I suspect that this is legitimate. Unless they're ordering 12 billion rounds...
I figured there was a reasonable explanation for the Post Office stuff. The amounts are not that high anyway.
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