Is Social security going to provide ammo?

What is happening in Washinton DC? This seems a bit overboard, why does the social security office and the weather bureau need ammo?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/now-social-security-administration-to-purchase-ammo/?cat_orig=us

First it was the Department of Homeland Security, then it was the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and now the Social Security Administration is set to purchase 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets that will be delivered to 41 locations across the country.

A solicitation posted by the SSA on the FedBizOpps website asks for contractors to supply 174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition.”

An online ammunition retailer describes the bullets as suitable “for peak performance rivaling and sometimes surpassing handloads in many guns,” noting that the ammo is “a great personal defense bullet.”

So they can fight off grandma when she comes for her check and they ain't got no money left.

It'll be interesting to see if this hits the mainstream news outlets

Am I the only one wondering what 174,000 .357 rounds look like?

Probably for security guards...

If you figure that a common delivery for a guard might be, say 500 rds per guard, 41 locations.. it comes out to be about 8-9 guards per location..

Yup, everything on the Internet is true.

This sounds like an extension of that rumor claiming the national weather service was stocking up on ammo.

Crazy, conspiricy filled people do pose a threat.

Especially to agencies as visible as the Social Security.

Duh, zombie defense.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: So they can fight off grandma when she comes for her check and they ain't got no money left.

Makes sense.

WND link? Filing next to Bigfoot's Babies for now...

Did you guys ever notice the machine gun nests surrounding the Ministry of Love building?

BRB, someone is at the door.

Nahhh, you'll never find the 'proof' on the 'Net, Winston Smith has been working overtime at his memory hole.

JohnInKansas wrote: Am I the only one wondering what 174,000 .357 rounds look like?

Like 174,000 .40s/w rounds necked down to 9mm.......

and damn, if I had known about this before I sold my G33, I would have just "borrowed" some from the SSA office next door......

JohnInKansas wrote: Am I the only one wondering what 174,000 .357 rounds look like?

62118 exactly. That's what it looks like.

http://oig.ssa.gov/sites/default/files/Brochure%20-%20Criminal%20Investigator.pdf

SSA has special agents just like many other large govt agencies. They carry guns and handcuffs and put people in jail. So maybe this is for their agents or criminal investigators.

I don't know why NOAA would need ammo. I'm guessing security guards or maybe they have agents as well. I can see SSA having agents to protect against fraud and others that steal from the social security, but I'm not sure what someone would steal from NOAA. Equipment maybe?

octavious wrote: I don't know why NOAA would need ammo.

It's all part of a new experimental plan to shoot down hurricanes.

Maybe NOAA has some security responsibilities at its facilities. They do a lot of work on mapping (navigational hazards, geodetic survey, etc.), protecting endangered sea critters, and of course weather. Messing with navigation and weather reporting could be part of an attack, terrorist or otherwise. And some of the poachers get violent.

The main thing I know about NOAA is that it's not good to mistake uniformed NOAA folks for Navy personnel. Some get touchy about that ...

I think slantvaliant's right; NOAA is considered part of national security therefore they would have contingency plans against attack.

Weather forecasting played a HUGE part in the D Day plans back in WWII. The night the decision was made to go ahead with the invasion was a huge gale, it must have taken some seroius talking on the part of the forecasters.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1463671/Bad-weather-nearly-brought-down-D-Day.html

http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/dday/

Hocrest wrote:

octavious wrote: I don't know why NOAA would need ammo.

It's all part of a new experimental plan to shoot down hurricanes.

plus 1.......

I figured it would be armed security to keep people from disassembling their dopplers and selling them off for scrap

Apexcarver wrote: Probably for security guards... If you figure that a common delivery for a guard might be, say 500 rds per guard, 41 locations.. it comes out to be about 8-9 guards per location..

We have about 50-60 on-duty guards here at SSA HQ at any given time, plus an undisclosed number here at the facility that prints the checks. There have been attacks on SSA personnel in the parking lots before, so there are regular patrols out there. Add to that our 10 major facilities nationwide plus a couple of supposedly secret locations for backup operations and you get a pretty good number of guards that woudl use that ammo. While the place doesn't look anything like it's portrayed in the last Die Hard movie, it's pretty secure.

Now, this doesn't count the 1400 field offices around the world.

One of the requisition reports I saw had 7.62x39 listed as some of the ammo being obtained. For those that don't know firearms that is the standard ammo for AK type rifles. This is not a standard caliber for any government used weapon.