{"id":21674,"date":"2014-02-06T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=21674"},"modified":"2014-02-06T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:37:24","slug":"us-postal-service-announces-giant-ammo-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/us-postal-service-announces-giant-ammo-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/patdollard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020514uspsammo.jpg?resize=266%2C177\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><em>&#8220;Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does the postal service, a NON-law enforcement agency, need with ammo? They cannot balance their books are in the &#8220;red&#8221; yet have the funds to buy ammo?? They posted the solicitation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity&amp;mode=form&amp;id=bc222ffef75536f044a0e0353788683b&amp;tab=core&amp;tabmode=list&amp;print_preview=1\">Jan 31<\/a> and now that it has everyone&#8217;s attention the USPS posted and an amendment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity&amp;mode=form&amp;tab=core&amp;id=9e5e0575261377927341552d8c3dca97&amp;_cview=0\">Fed 5th<\/a> stating &#8220;This is a standard purchase of ammunition to meet the law enforcement needs of the United States Postal Inspection Service and Postal Police.&#8221; Normally you could blow this off but based on the governments activity of stockpiling ammunition through all agencies from <a href=\"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/tag\/hollow-points\/#\">DHS<\/a> down to Dept of Education nothing can be trivialized! Let&#8217;s also keep in mind the purchases made by DHS were the result of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>one person<\/strong><\/span>, a lunatic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/08\/22\/homeland-security-employees-hate-filled-website-to-prepare-blacks-for-the-inevitable-clash-with-the-white-race\/\">planning a race war!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless I don&#8217;t think I have <strong>ever<\/strong> heard about Postal Service inspectors or Postal Police  being engaged in so much activity they need to stockpile ammunition. What this is, is another indication of the ever-increasing militarization of the US govt at all levels. Far too many agencies are arming up or increasing what they have&#8230; WHY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.&#8221; What does the postal service, a NON-law enforcement agency, need with ammo? They cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7077,21493],"tags":[36275,36276,36273,36274],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}