SHOCKING
The Federal government is buying UNPRECEDENTED stockpiles of MILITARY WEAPONRY
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-does-the-irs-need-guns-1466117176
>During a nine-year period through 2014, we found, 67 agencies unaffiliated with the Department of Defense spent $1.48 billion on guns and ammo. Of that total, $335.1 million was spent by agencies traditionally viewed as regulatory or administrative, such as the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Mint.
>The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history. Over the last 20 years, the number of these federal officers with arrest-and-firearm authority has nearly tripled to over 200,000 today, from 74,500 in 1996.
>The Internal Revenue Service, which has 2,316 special agents, spent nearly $11 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment. That’s nearly $5,000 in gear for each agent.
>The Environmental Protection Agency spent $3.1 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment. The EPA has put nearly $800 million since 2005 into its “Criminal Enforcement Division.”
>The Department of Veterans Affairs, which has 3,700 law-enforcement officers guarding and securing VA medical centers, spent $11.66 million. It spent more than $200,000 on night-vision equipment, $2.3 million for body armor, more than $2 million on guns, and $3.6 million for ammunition. The VA employed no officers with firearm authorization as recently as 1995.
If you all remember, a lot of ammo two years ago was in a massive, nationwide shortage, and the price of ammo was sky-high. When you'd ask dealers why the hell it was so expensive, they'd reply that the federal government had been buying in bulk -- logically, they said, "for a bulk discount."
But THIS is where all that ammo, and weaponry, has gone.
> They_wont_look_like-this.jpg
;_;
>>77732329
>b-but it's the bunkerfags taking all the .22lr
>>77732329
before I left for this tour our training doctrine has switched over from spotting IEDs to repelling ambushes in overwhelming numbers with rifles and machine guns in house-to-house combat
shits gonna hit the fan my friend
>>77732329
Honestly, if shit hit the fan, who would actually fight for this government?
>>77732753
Whose side are you on lad?
>>77732329
it's either 1 of 2 things
1) We have secretly nearly perfected nuclear defense technology
2) shieeeeet
>>77732826
The people drawing a check from it?
While I like to think the military wouldn't turn on the citizenry - at the end of the day they will just be "following" orders.
My thought is while most will disagree with the orders they might still follow through with them.
Money is a powerful motivator.
>>77732753
>Implying the military has any chance against the citizenry
Pointless imo
>>77733029
Actually they taught us in the military that the "just following orders" thing wouldn't absolve you of a crime. Soldiers will get in just as much trouble for following an unlawful order as the person who gave it.
Kind of a fucked up situation for soldiers to be in, but supervisors from tippy top to the very bottom would have to be on board with said unlawful order.
They know the civil war draws nearer and that their retribution will soon be at hand.
>>77733029
The military would fracture. An overwhelming majority of the military would not be okay fighting and killing American citizens. Even if one branch decided to fully side with government, other branches would turn against it and there would be units of dissent within that branch as well. American soldiers have families and civilian lives as well. They aren't going to kill their families.
The Marxists in DC do not expect the military to side with them, so they're arming the federal bureaucracy instead.
They know the shit is going to hit the fan soon, by design.
>>77733613
Are they training the EPA/IRS/etc paper pushers to fight?
>>77733320
The Marines are probably the only branch that would defect. That's why OP's article noted specifically that they are now in higher numbers than the Marines.
The Army has been training for Martial Law and they have a bootlicker general who wants assault weapons ban.
>>77732910
The peoples
>>77733204
They don't but theres a good chunk of fuckheads that would fight for a paycheck no matter what
> the EPA has guns, lots of guns
I guess they're getting serious about this global warming thing.
>>77733797
Well that's who they're arming.
>>77733834
>The peoples
Glad to hear it
>>77733918
>Well that's who they're arming.
I can't want until we have
Armed, enraged American populace VS armed paper pushing libshit bureaucrats
I would watch that shit on ppv
The Obama regime is pushing to replace American citizens in the US military with foreigners. They won't have any qualms about shooting Americans.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/05/24/illegals-pentagons-backdoor/
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/17/30-gop-reps-join-pelosi-democrats-voting-pentagons-backdoor-amnesty/
post yfw it's to kick the shit out of the Mexicants once Big Boss is elected
Dont most local police in America disagree with gun control and refuse to enforce it like the 10 round mags in Colorado?
Would you have roughly just under half of the military, civilian gun owners and local sheriffs and whatnot against the rest of the military and federal agents?
>>77732329
>>UNPRECEDENTED
>IRS spent 11 million
>EPA 3.1 million
Wow, so much firepower...
>>77733810
USAF wouldn't but who cares about those nerds.
>>77734155
The Marines and Army have a lot of Timothy McVeigh wannabes, and if it was a libshit president, there would be no fucking chance they would follow orders.
>>77733810
Most of the Army is made of up niggers and spics who are dumb as shit.
>>77732329
>to read the full story, log in or sign up!
Fuck off.
>>77734228
Only in some Western states.
>>77734416
>he doesn't get the WSJ
how's that art degree working for you
>>77734416
I posted the main points. The final point is that OpenThebooks.com is the primary source of information.
>>77734271
Only a enemy commie like Obama or Hillary would ever pull that shit. It would never happen under an American president.
roman empire is preparing herself for collapse.
teehehehehe
hold on to your towels.
this shits gonna hurt.
Im so glad I left that shithole before I fully settled there. :^)
>>77734273
You're thinking of the Democrat party.
>>77734273
Most of the military is comprised of middle-class whites from non-communist states.
>>77734271
>there would be no fucking chance they would follow orders.
Well they can enjoy sitting on their ass in Leonard Wood for a few years
>>77732329
This is news from like 2011. Idiot.
>>77732329 (OP)
Four reasons I can think of
>crony contracts with arms dealers brokered by bought and paid for politicians and civil servants
>increased readiness for another war on terror
>preparing for a race war or civil war
>getting ready to disarm Americans with force
From most likely to least likely.
>>77734746
Was it tough competing with the mexicans for toilet scrubbing work?
>>77734873
really what it comes from is that government departments just grow and grow and get more responsibilities and nobody ever looks at it and says that there are redundancies across agencies. so when the EPA is supposed confiscate back water land from hicks they bring their own guys with guns rather than coordinating with the state police because somebody in charge of the EPA wants to do their own shit
>>77734873
Maybe they'll send these guns to moderate muslims, so they can liberate something.
>>77734873
>Three reasons I can think of
>>increased readiness for another war on terror
>>crony contracts with arms dealers brokered by bought and paid for politicians and civil servants
>>preparing for a race war or civil war
>>getting ready to disarm Americans with force
>>77735005
>three reasons
>posts four reasons
>deletes it so people don't see he is a dumbdumb
>>77734873
Most likely reason is they had their scope increased under Bush and Obama so now the agencies buy weapons because they can.
It's fun watching people that don't understand how the government work freak out over it
>>77732329
>>what are budget surpluses and military contracts for 1000 alex?
>>77735019
soon you'll be the poor pisson begging mexicans for a job.
great imperial "conquerer".
but I suspect you'll be too busy learning mandarin to appease your new land lords.
so long and "good" luck, fellow american. :^)
>>77734753
I remember the day Obama won the first election the chimp out that happened at my barracks as all the nigs ran up and down the halls screaming "We president now." Niggers and spics everywhere in the army.
>>77733320
Look. They just tell them the neighborhood has drug and gang violence, or an anti government terror cell. Cant pinpoint the main place of operation but know this neighborhood needs searched.
>>77735248
In pog units
>>77732329
>stupid anime bitch without pants or regulation hair
Triggered
>>77735239
>soon you'll be the poor pisson begging mexicans for a job.
Yes all those welfare recipient landscapers are going to take the economy by storm
The toilet bowl cleaner sure showed me.
>>77735482
isn't there some shitty bait thread where you can make stupid jokes about flags instead of here
>>77735248
Slightly unrelated but why do i see a lot of black men in armoured vehicle roles like tankers and M2 Bradley crews? I thought you had to be fairly competent to do stuff like that.
>>77735562
>make stupid jokes
I am 200% serious
>>77734245
>IRS spent 11 million
Thats only about 15 million m16a4s
>>77734873
>increased readiness for another war on terror
>EPA and IRS and VA
Yeah nigger, we're sending the tax man to go get Muhammad al Britani.
>>77735693
Did they just take surplus stuff from national guard units or did they buy them new? They could probably buy millions of ARs for dirt cheap if it was surplus stuff from the military.
Well yeah, Americans started an arms-race with their own government.
I mean if they genuinely believe that small arms can be used to effectively defend you from an army then they'll just buy more small arms themselves too, no?
>>77735693
If that's all you buy
>>77735863
>if they genuinely believe that small arms can be used to effectively defend you from an army
What is Vietnam, Afghanistan, and 1776 America
>>77735693
the IRS does not have 15 million employees.
>>77732329
Going to need all them guns for when Hillary wins the presidency and immediately gets us in a war with Russia.
>>77732329
>the government will attack us using military hardware!
Unless they replace the entire military and government with foreigners and Communists I doubt they would start a civil war. The people actually doing the fighting would rather not shoot the people they tend to like. Also liberals hand holding wouldn't allow for total war, exception being the Militia standoff where they became more totalitarian than they already are.
>>77735863
>I mean if they genuinely believe that small arms can be used to effectively defend you from an army
it can and does, actually, or at least, makes their orders harder to execute.
what you gonna do when the marxist xenomorphs come to take you away to the gulags?
use curse words? That didnt work much for the russians.
>>77732329
I believe they're buying this to laundry money or to arm some "moderate rebels" in Middle East.
>>77736121
nobody will ever answer this question.
>>77736121
>Afghanistan
You know they haven't won and wont control any part of the country until NATO leaves, right?
>>77735863
It'll be fairly useless unless they actually train with it though. Heck, even basic stuff like cycling the weapon to clear a jam during a firefight takes some training.
Also, those government employees have families and stuff too. Why wouldn't they also defect? Why be loyal to some globalist asshole who wants to take out your fellow citizens, and who doesn't care about you in the first place?
>>77736417
They won against the Russians, and will win against us because the only thing preventing them from taking control is an occupying force that just need to be outlasted, which they're obviously doing.
>>77733266
>Soldiers will get in just as much trouble for following an unlawful order as the person who gave it.
Good thing for the mercs that the order to execute "domestic terrorists" and felons possessing "illegal weapons of war" in their own homes would not be an "illegal order."
>>77736417
REKT by >>77736729
gg wp
>>77736729
no they won because the shitter known as the USSR was amidst collapse....much like the USA is these days. :^)
>>77736729
That's the point. The US is never going to leave the US now is it?
>>77733320
>An overwhelming majority of the military would not be okay fighting and killing American citizens.
Omar the Dead Terrorist was an "American Citizen." You'd shoot him between heartbeats if given the order.
Mercs are paid to follow orders. You'll do what you are told.
>They aren't going to kill their families.
Nope, just any husbands that dare resist by drawing their own firearm. And the family dogs. The wives and children will be spared after a brief detainment and a boot on their neck. At least as long as they don't have a gun...
>>77736955
See
>>77736955
>>77736973
Part of that collapse came from from overextending themselves, just like we are.
>>77736988
If you change never to mean within 10-15 years, then sure.
>>77733810
Too bad I deleted a screencap of a well argumentated post from a guy who pretented to work at the pentagon in a department about the issue.
He basically said, based on projections, that between 1/3 and 1/2 of the troops would desert during the first 3 months if a civil war happened and a substantial part of the remaining ones would lead sabotage actions and passive insubordination.
The current logistics would be almost impossible to sustain, especially since the US power grid is very vulnerable.
>>77737198
no, I'll tell you why it collapse.
The invasion and agression of communist agression on Afghanistan had prompted a massive mujahideen buildup and retaliation forces.
the crooked red generals in moscow saw this, shiat themselves and ran back to the ural villages where they came from.
>>77733029
>The people drawing a check from it?
>Thinking gov employees make that much money
If we get in a war with Russia then the military would gladly follow orders to keep the US from being overwhelmed on too many fronts and falling apart.
If the grid goes down a revolution turns into backstabbing for food. Then we're fucked.
>>77737422
>the US power grid is very vulnerable
Basically every aspect of our domestic infrastructure is hilariously vulnerable, and a small group of guerillas could shut down basically the entire country in the event of civil war, even if they only acted as lone wolves.
Cutting off supply lines alone would be incredibly easy, as would taking out bridges and power grids.
>>77737498
The resistance fighters were also backed by us, more likely then not, and I doubt the USSR wanted to get involved in a prolonged proxy guerilla war.
>>77736417
>You know they haven't won
Neither have you.
t. Fabius Maximus
>>77737745
>The resistance fighters were also backed by us
You only supplied the valuable stingers, which the Afghanis are grateful for, in exchange for goods and services.
These red faggots were already targeted, with or without USA's help
>>77732329
I love guns.
>>77737730
>If we get in a war with Russia then the military would gladly follow orders to keep the US from being overwhelmed on too many fronts and falling apart.
No, they would desert and go in to the woods. Just like everyone else that has figured out that a war between Russia and the US would go nuclear.
>>77737745
>a small group of guerillas could shut down basically the entire country in the event of civil war, even if they only acted as lone wolves
This, plus the fact that a good portion of MIC logistics are handled by civs and private sector companies. The government could be dismantled without a shot being fired.
>gov goes stassi and bans guns, martial law, etc
>suddenly half the 18-wheelers in the country have "mechanical issues"
>shipments of every fucking thing needed by the military are stuck on 2 lane highways in the middle of nowhere
>>77737988
Well the Afghanis would have won either way, but they were chased out faster because of our backing, which was probably a bad thing because without our help the USSR might have put more resources into the fight and bankrupted themselves sooner.
>>77735673
Fucking retard
>>77735863
Using bombardment against your own people would make the conflict an instant loss for the government.
I don't even speak about nukes and other massive destruction weapons.
Anyway when people think about civil war they still think of the good old territory warfare but the truth is that with the hyper urban society that we have it will probably looks a lot like guerrilla warfare.
By the way a very interisting aspect of civil war which is almost NEVER adressed is cyberwarfare.
Disrupting propagandas, hacking satelittes, intercepting intel, disabling vehicles etc...
A lot of things asking little hardware and manpower with skills that a lot of people could be able to developp in USA.
>>77738437
>The government could be dismantled without a shot being fired.
I wouldn't bet on it, they didn't buy billions of rounds of HP for no reason. The country might crash and the supply lines might collapse with very little effort but the government and their alphabet soup goons all ready got their supplies. Its the millions of starving people with guns they need to worry about. But hey, they got billions or rounds so...
>>77738648
I don't need to know about your hobbies tbqh
>>77738721
fug that picture
brings memories back
like flashbacks from vietnam to an american hero
>>77733834
>The peoples
It's only two words, but this is the best post on this whole board today.
>>77739872
>>The peoples
some peoples more than others, as always
you dumb communist fucker
What is buying in bulk for a discount?
It's funny that you guys believe a civil war will be the government going around killing people.
If a civil war starts in the USA you can be sure those three letter agencies will starting acting like militias, while the greatest ally will move your gold to the Israeli central bank to take care of it (for a small fee, of course).
>>77732329
There is going to be a massive genocide of whites by western govornments very soon. Everyone who uses this website will be killed.
>>77746235
BRING IT
THE FUCK
ON
