Why is the Postal Service seeking "small arms ammunition" proposals?

[dixiegrrrrl]

From General Services admin. website, a US Post office request for contractors to supply ammunition:

Synopsis:
Added: Jan 31, 2014 4:54 pm
The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition.
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=bc222ffef75536f044a0e0353788683b&tab=core&tabmode=list&print_preview=1

What on earth?????

[dionysus]

1. easy. officers investigating mail fraud and the like are armed like any other law officer and

have to go through firearms training and qualification.

[Uben]

2. I think they use the ammo on......

...people who forget to put on a stamp or forget to raise the flag on the box. It's legal for them to kill you in 27 states. You did tip your carrier at Christmas didn't you?
















/sarcasm

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Actually, I DID tip him 20.00.

He gives us excellent above and beyond service and has known me since 1994.
He brings packages and mail down the driveway to the porch in bad weather, even tho he is not supposed to.
And I suspect he would not be interested in gun noises.

[Uben]

17. Great!

I usually give my carrier a gift card to somewhere. We were big into ebay a few years ago, and our carrier was a godsend.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Postal Inspectors.

All the ones authorized to carry weapons have to qualify, I'm sure, so they need range time.

[NutmegYankee]

4. Probably for the United States Postal Inspection Service

They have about 1,000 police officers who investigate mail crimes. Like any other police force, they have firearms and need to train.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspection_Service

[NickB79]

10. I smell a new Law and Order spin-off in the works!

Law and Order: USPIS

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. "the case of the crooked stamp"

[Abnredleg]

5. The US Postal Inspection Service

Is one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies and has approximately 1,000 armed agents. This is just a routine purchase for training ammo.

[whistler162]

7. Come on people we need a good POUTRAGE

on this, not facts and logic.

[X_Digger]

8. WHHHARRRRRGARRRBLEEEE!!!!

Oh noes!!!111!!111! Eleventy!!11!!!

(Sorry, that's the best I could do on short notice.)

[hatrack]

14. Poutrage? I think not! What we need is drooling, pants-crapping PARANOIA!!!!

[msanthrope]

9. Because, Obama.

Seriously, though....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspection_Service

[Ikonoklast]

11. My buddy's wife is a member of the USPIS.

She carries a firearm to work every day.

She also has to qualify with that firearm.


Without ammunition, it's kinda hard to use a firearm as anything other than a hammer or doorstop.

[MineralMan]

12. Google is your friend.

Outrage is not.

[jberryhill]

13. Is this the new conspiracy theory?

In what fever swamp did this particular mundane purchase arise?

[hatrack]

15. This has been all over the Wingosphere for months . . .

All those government agencies buying all that ammunition!

Freedumb!!!

[NickB79]

18. Gun nuts are pissed that ammo is in short supply

After the Aurora and Sandy Hook shootings, ammo has been FLYING off the shelves, because so many gun owners are paranoid that Obama is about to ban it (never mind the fact that would be impossible to do legally with any of the presidential powers he has access to). I've seen guys grabbing many THOUSANDS of rounds of ammo at a time to add to their growing stockpiles. And when the ammo factories can't meet demand and the shelves run dry, rather than realize that their rampant buying and hording has had ANY effect whatsoever on ammo supplies, the gun nuts turn around and claim it's all a government conspiracy to enact backdoor gun control measures.