The national conversation has been about Gun Control.  Regulating the way that citizens access and procure firearms.  I am not going to pick a side there, that is irrelevant.  What is interesting to me is that while talking about that, three separate government agencies have ordered an obscene amount of Hollow Point ammunition.  Hollow Point ammo CAN be used for target practice, and in fact they may be.  I have no idea what the actual intent is, however when I looked at the agencies ordering, it made my eyebrow go up.

As usual, Ales Jones was on top of this from the beginning.  It all started with the Department of Homeland Security committing to a large ammunition contract.

Now the DHS and ICE I get.  One could understand why they need lots of bullets, hollow point or not, for target practice or not.  The second report described how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracted for a large number of ammo.  Okay, for me that’s a stretch, but I could even buy into them needing the ammo for something ocean/atmosphere related.

When you get to the third agency, that’s where the sell job becomes next to impossible.  The Social Security Administration has requested 174k rounds of hollow point bullets.  Read the article.  Alex and his staff do a great job of building a pretty compelling argument for social unrest being the mitigating factor.  Economic Collapse?  Presidential Campaigns?  An Assassination?  Who knows, but they are gearing up for something.