National Weather Service - you guessed it -Ammo Purchase!

[PegLeg45]

It's for shooting down rogue weather balloons.      

[alfsauve]

I don't know and I'm not defending the NWS, but could it be for defense of strategic weather stations?  But that begs the question of why they aren't protected by some other federal agency.

Is NWS part of tracking/predicting radioactive fallout in the event of a nuclear attack? 

Hopefully we'll learn more.

[twyacht]

NOAA has its own LE Division and enforcement depts. They are licensed to protect a large area of fisheries and wildlife areas.,....with guess what??

GUNS!!!!

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ole/ole_about.html

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Extensive Area of Jurisdiction

NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement is responsible for carrying out more than 35 federal statutes. The agency's jurisdiction spans more than 3 million square miles of open ocean, more than 85,000 miles of U.S. coastline, the country's 13 National Marine Sanctuaries and its Marine National Monuments. It's also responsible for enforcing U.S. treaties and international law governing the high seas and international trade.

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Loosen up the tin-foil guys.......(For now),.....

[tombogan03884]

There will always be waste in Govt. there is no reason the good guys shouldn't benefit once in a while.
Like buying tools through your employer so you get his discount.
Glad to see we did not screw some fellow shooters out of cheap ammo.   

[lhprop1]

Now the SSA needs ammo?  Again, Infowars is the source, so take it with a grain of salt, but . . . whiskey tango foxtrot?

http://www.infowars.com/social-security-administration-to-purchase-174-thousand-rounds-of-hollow-point-bullets/

[Sponsor]

[santahog]

I think Alex Jones may end up hauled away in a straight jacket, and proven right in absentia. 
(From a non-Paul-Bot.) I also think he's already driven himself more than half crazy in doing what he does.. 

[GASPASSERDELUXE]

I can just visualize thousands of 70,80 and 90 year old seniors attacking the SSA in their walkers, wheelchairs and canes. It would more likely be the ones with the phoney disability payments etc who would be making the most noise.

[tombogan03884]

Don't underestimate old folks !

[twyacht]

Grandma won't get thrown off the cliff, too much trouble,....she'll just be shot...

Geez,.....Alex Jones? Seriously?

[Solus]

Read yesterday or the day before that SS payments for those applying after that day will have there benefits calculated so that they will no longer get back all they paid in.

Those who signed up before then are just losing all the interest their payments would have earned.  Now, you lose some of the principal also.

They might need the ammo after all.