You may have heard that the government has been
buying a lot of bullets lately. The
Department of Homeland Security is buying more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammo
over the next 5 years. That’s more than
enough ammunition to fight the Iraq War for almost 25 years.
Of course, conspiracy theorists immediately jumped
to the FEMA camp conclusion. If you’re
not familiar with the FEMA camp conspiracy theory here it is in a
nutshell. The government, they say, is
setting up FEMA camps or concentration camps all across the country and at some
point there will be a fabricated state of emergency and all enemies of the
Obama administration will be rounded up and taken to these camps.
The problem is the FEMA camp conspiracy was hatched
long before President Obama ever took office.
The theory dates back to at least the 1980s when left-wingers were
convinced Ronald Reagan was going to round them up and put them in FEMA camps
because of their opposition to Reagan’s Contra support in Nicaragua. Ollie North, the theory goes, was the
mastermind behind the FEMA camps and was well on his way to implementing the
plan until he was snared by the Iran/Contra scandal.
The FEMA camp theory usually walks hand-in-hand with
the FEMA coffin theory, that the government has purchased millions of plastic
coffins in which Obama plans to bury his enemies. Looks like it would be much easier to just
burn us but perhaps that wouldn’t be good for the environment.
So, if the government is not stockpiling bullets for
the forthcoming martial law and FEMA camps why is it buying so many? My theory all along has been quite
simple. Obama and his gun-grabbing
allies on the left have had little success in banning guns. They can’t even get the so-called assault
weapons ban reinstated which, by the way, didn’t ban real assault weapons,
which are automatic weapons. It just
banned semi-automatic weapons that looked
like assault weapons. In other words, it
was gun profiling from a crowd that claims to abhor profiling and stereotypes.
If they can’t get the guns the logical Plan B is to
go after the ammo. After all, what good
is a gun if you have nothing to shoot?
Notice how every place from Walmart to gun shops is running out of
ammo? Coincidence? I don’t think so. My theory is the government is using its
purchasing power to create a shortage of ammunition. Sure beats being thrown into some FEMA camp.
And I’m no longer alone in this theory. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) offered up the same
theory recently and he’s much closer to the government than I am. He’s proposed a bill in the senate which
would limit non-defense federal agencies to pre-Obama levels of
ammunition. It’s a fantastic idea but it
doesn’t seem to be getting much traction.
Probably because most of the senators are already on board with this whole
FEMA camp thing.
The irony of the entire gun debate is that gun
enthusiasts have turned out to be their own worst enemies. Each time the liberals start making noise
about taking guns the second amendment folks start running up the price of guns
and ammo. One gun shop told me they
still can’t keep anything with an AR in its name in stock. Now with the government buying up ammunition
certain types of ammo are more scarce than a bride at a Barney Frank wedding.
Until congress does something about the government
there’s not much we can do except stop feeding the hysteria and stop playing
into their hands.
