By Tiffany Gabbay
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded defense contractor ATK with an
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement for .40
caliber hollow point ammunition. According to an official ATK press release, U.S. agents will receive a maximum of 450 million rounds over a five-year period.
The order may seem unusually high, but gun experts I talked to said
it is not necessarily unusual and simply reflects a long-running
practice by DHS and law enforcement agencies to use any remaining budget
surplus on items routinely used and that would not be called into
question. The idea being that if an agency does not use its entire
budget in expenditures, the government will lower its budget the
following year.
On the other hand, the decreased retail availability for hollow
points does drive up demand, and hence price for such ammunition.
Whether the consequence is an intended one, remains to be seen.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-is-homeland-security-buying-450-million-rounds-of-hollow-point-bullets/
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