Thread: Obama’s Government Prefers Empty Guns and Knife Fights

Obama’s Government Prefers Empty Guns and Knife Fights


Would it come as a surprise that most of the raw materials that munitions manufactures require to produce bullets come from foreign countries? Recently, I spent of few days visiting local gun dealers, investigating ammunition shortage issues, calling ammunition distributors about inventory problems, and researching the raw materials required to make a bullet. Ammunition manufacturing is a very complicated and heavily regulated business.
According to local gun shops, since last year, ammunition prices have increased over 40%. According to ammunition distributors, this is directly related to manufacturer’s inventories being depleted by government purchases and the scarcity of raw materials needed to make more bullets and replenish inventories.
In this article, I will use the term “bullet” to describe the actual projectile, casing and propellant, combined as a single unit, which can be fired from a gun. Example: Without “bullets” guns are worthless.


At the risk of over simplifying the complicated, bullets are made of brass (an alloy of copper and zinc), lead (a material that is toxic) and gun powder (potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur). All raw materials required to make a bullet are first mined, then refined (two processes frowned upon by our EPA and environmental lobbies), then purchased by government licensed and heavily monitored munitions manufacturers. From there, these component parts are combined using manufacturing processes, which according to the government, create dozens of potential deadly toxic by-products that require EPA oversight and regulation. Get the picture?


I don’t know why it has taken so long for Americans to realize that gun control has always been about ammunition supplies. More importantly, it’s about the mining, manufacturing, and the import/export of raw materials required to produce bullets. As the largest consumer of bullets, the federal government has the power to control the manufacturing capabilities and inventories of all domestic munitions manufacturers and with that, the cost and availability of the bullets Americans require for our self defense. They also have the ability to control the importing and exporting of the key ingredients required to make every caliber of bullet or shell casing known to second amendment advocates. This includes the materials needed for do-it-yourselfers who subscribe to the school of reloading.


All the wild rumors aside, the basic laws of supply and demand are being used to begin the government’s process of controlling ammunition supplies and pricing in America. Raw material shortages, for making bullets, are also being controlled by the Obama government much in the same way they control, through overregulation and import/export manipulation, every industry they see as a threat to Obama’s plan to fundamentally change America.


This Administration and our government as a whole are experts on splitting hairs. Given that the second amendment says nothing specifically about the individual right to purchase or stock pile ammunition, is it such a huge leap to conclude that government is not coming for the guns, but the bullets? Is it also inconceivable that Federal ammunition laws, like the ones being tested in Connecticut, will one day become the law of the land?


For a brief period, back in 2009, the Obama Administration attempted to eliminate spent bullet casings by requiring their shredding. Then they remembered they had an election coming up in 2010 and another in 2012, so shredding was ended. Late last year, the Obama EPA attempted to prohibit the use of lead in rounds and shells used for hunting on Federal land. The Obama EPA claimed the use of lead in ammunition was an environmental hazard. Given that using any other available material, currently available, would render all bullets armor piercing, and by extension illegal to purchase or own under federal law, the Obama EPA was forced to back off its attempts at ammunition regulation.


President Obama doesn’t have to worry about anymore elections. He just has to worry about raising enough money for his party to buy the Senate and Congressional seats he needs in 2014. Magazine capacity limits are nothing more than a distraction covering for what is really happening to Second Amendment rights in America. Call me crazy, call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but is it so hard to imagine that the State Department (can you say Keystone pipeline?), the EPA, and U.S. Import/Export policies and treaties will not be used to make bullet making materials even more scarce in the future? What do you think the cost of firearms ammunition will be in 2 more years and what of its availability?


The Mining industry is under attack in America. As a result, America imports more raw materials today then it exports. This has been a growing trend for years. Countries like China, India and Russia are now the biggest miners of raw materials on the planet. I guess there is something to be said for cheap foreign labor and non-existent EPA regulations after all.


Sometime back, I wrote an article about the Obama supported United Nations Arms Treaty (titled: Obama Thinks U.N. Control is a Good Idea). I don’t think it was very popular. However, I revealed what I thought was the most startling yet rarely discussed component of this proposed U.N. Arms Treaty: U.N. Global Gun registration and ammunition stock pile monitoring. I promise you, President Obama has an executive order, waiting to be signed, that will require background checks/licenses for ammunition purchases and low volume purchases will eventually fall under the stockpiling guidelines vaguely outlined in the U.N. Arms Treaty.
Remember Oklahoma City? What happened to fertilizer and gun powder after Timothy McVey and Terry Nichols blew up a building using a truck and materials purchased at Feed and Grain stores? Wake up, America. There not coming for your guns, they are coming for the bullets. First they make them unaffordable, then they make them less accessible, and eventually your guns become as useful as a knife in a gun fight. For the love of Pete, many Sheriff’s Departments (remember the guys who said they wouldn’t enforce new gun regulations) are having problems getting ammunition and are taking to depending on reloading for practice/training rounds. And they run with fully automatic bullet spraying man killers. That’s a lot of reloading of overused brass.


With the Obama Administration, it will never be about upfront commonsense government. It’s about subversive control of the masses to perpetuate our eventual enslavement. It’s about the bullets America, it always has been. Remember, Vice President Joe Biden told us: “It’s just the beginning.”


A gun powder shortage almost cost our forefathers the War for our nation’s independence. Look it up.



http://lastresistance.com/1808/obama...-knife-fights/

But of course he does, while he keeps his drones, para military police, AR 15's and etc. Awake yet???

Border Patrol Now Experiencing an Ammunition Shortage

Friday, April 5, 2013
Despite the Department of Homeland Security recently putting in orders to purchase billions of rounds of hollow point ammunition for a purpose of what officials say is target practice, training and quarterly qualifications, Border Patrol agents were told yesterday afternoon that they will not be issued any new proficiency ammunition for next quarter.
Townhall has obtained an email that was sent to Border Patrol agents stationed in the El Centro border sector by a supervisor.

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Despite the Department of Homeland Security recently putting in orders to purchase billions of rounds of hollow point ammunition for a purpose of what officials say is target practice, training and quarterly qualifications, Border Patrol agents were told yesterday afternoon that they will not be issued any new proficiency ammunition for next quarter.
Townhall has obtained an email that was sent to Border Patrol agents stationed in the El Centro border sector by a supervisor.

Enforcement Personnel,
Due to budget concerns and ammunition availability, we will not be getting issued any proficiency ammunition for next quarter. In addition to these reductions, we are also being limited to qualification ammo only. What this means to you is that you will not receive the normal 150 rounds for practice and we will not have any extra ammunition for a combat course following normal qualifications.

If you have the ammunition available and would like extra practice during your qualification day, the firearms instructors will have a training course available for Indio Station Personnel, keeping in mind basic marksmanship skills as well as tactical training with a limited amount of ammunition. You are not required to bring your own ammunition.

If you do not have extra ammo to bring, you will be given extra time to clean and maintain your issued handgun as well as station long arms.

If you have any questions about this quarters quals please feel free to send me your concerns.
Thanks.

According to information obtained and published by Senator Tom Coburn, Customs and Border Protection [CBP] purchased 36,475,000 rounds of ammunition at a cost of $12,255,040 for fiscal year 2012. CBP plans to purchase more for fiscal year 2013 at a cost of $12,528,146. In total, DHS plans to spend $37,263,698 on ammunition for all sub-agencies this year. As of November, 20, 2012, CBP had 94,404,329 rounds of ammunition in its inventory. DHS had 263,733,362 rounds available.
The information released by Coburn also states, "Approximately 70 percent of CBP ammunition is used for quarterly qualifications, mandated firearms training, advanced firearms training, as well as testing and evaluation. Twenty percent of CBP ammunition is allocated to maintaining CBP’s operational posture. This includes rounds for duty use, as well as for maintaining CBP’s special response teams. The remaining 10 percent is dedicated to maintaining ammunition reserves at both the national and local levels."
Local chapter 2554 of the National Border Patrol Council asks on its website, "We get a 32% pay cut, even though Congress gave CBP enough money to cover salaries, and now we can’t even maintain proficiency with our service weapons to defend ourselves in the field.....Why is there an ammunition shortage? Why can’t Border Patrol agents get enough ammunition to maintain proficiency, especially at a time of increased cross-border smuggling and illegal activity? Where is all this ammunition going?"

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