Homeland Security buys 450 million rounds of hollowpoint HST for domestic use

[mbott]

Our agency pays alot less for jhp's than you and I do, even on closeout at cheaper than dirt. There is a very slight savings for using fmj's, but in the grand scheme of how much it costs to train and equip an LEO, it's not really significant outside of situations like the academies where they are going through  LOT of ammo.

There are two reasons why ammunition used by Law Enforcement is less expensive than ammunition sold to the general public.  First is that most law enforcement agencies do not have to pay the Federal Excise Tax that the general public pays.  That's an immediate savings of 11%.  The second reason is that the margin used by distributors selling to law enforcement is much smaller than that used to compute the price of ammunition sold to the general public. 

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Mike 

[Czeetah]

In a perfect world with unlimited time and funding. Unfortunately people (Police authorities and the citizens who pay the taxes to support the authority) are not interested in paying the vast amount of money needed to:

a) Set up such a qualification test

b) Hire and train people suitable to administer such a testing regimen

3) Hire and train officers who are able to benefit from such a training regimen

4) Pay the infrastructure and ammunition costs needed to run such a training scheme on a regualr basis

5) pay the vast overtime bills to cover the officers running the training and covering those undergoing the training.


They are not interested in how many officers are at some super tactical training course because voters can't see them, but only how many they have on the streets writing tickets and patrolling.

Before anyone tells me cutbacks on training are a false economy, since one shooting will cost a municipality millions, that is what liability insurance is for, and the premium is cheaper than the training cost.

Yep, same old same old.

American Citizen: "I want better roads, better trained police, smarter teachers, shorter lines at the DMV. Oh, and by the way, cut my taxes too"

lol

[CoalTrain73]

Yep, same old same old.

American Citizen: "I want better roads, better trained police, smarter teachers, shorter lines at the DMV. Oh, and by the way, cut my taxes too"

lol

Well, that wouldn't be such a problem if our "Elected Representatives" didn't pi$$ our tax dollars away like it was some kind of contest!!!