Well, one conspiracy theory was that if the bumblement buys a huge amount of ammo and clips, manufacturers will have to expand production to meet the demand.

... After which the gumblement would cease purchases, saddling the industry with so much excess capacity and overhead that bankruptcies would spread like wildfire, thus destroying the ammunition industry in the US.

No, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but those kinds of 'logical conclusions' amuse me.

Technically there is no Ammo Shortage according to most Gun Magazines. It is the gun owning public who is to blame, besides the govt.All ammo manufacturers are running 24/7. Besides fulfilling govt contracts first then supplying all the gun stores in the US. Most of the Gun Manufacturers are doing the same, thanks to the Greatest Arms Salesman in the World our president. So, I shop for ammo all over Az. and buy reconditioned eastern european weapons.
Lock and Load it is almost time!

Uh, last I heard employees are not allowed to bring firearms on the premises. But, if they do succeed in getting idiots to use the PO for financial accounts, they may need to arm the workers for when the account holders come and try to actually get their funds. Ha! Another government entity handling my money? Sure, they've done a bang up job so far with my taxes and fees. I think johnrobert2 is correct. A front for a different destination. And a bait and switch. What is really going on within the realms of the PO?

I already mentioned the Post Office intending to make loans. Apparently the idea uppermost in Post Office minds is...to sell ties! I'm talking about the kinds of ties you wear. Haberdashery! Really it sounds like the PO is desperate for Great Ideas to improve revenues!

I understand that the Post Office intends to make loans of all types at its branches, in addition to its mailing services. Since that would mean each employee could handle thousands of dollars per day, it would make sense to have armed guards on the premises.

I think that was the one, yeah. Thanks for the assist!

Were you per chance thinking of the Battle of Athens? That seems like it would be inline with the thought you were trying to get across. (I think)

I probably used the wrong one, yes. Shay's rebellion was a rebellion against the Constitution - not the one I had in mind at all.

What I was going for was that if the federal government is stockpiling ammunition to use against the citizenry, I wouldn't put it past a few enterprising souls to plunder them. In fact, I thought I heard a story recently about a local sheriff's department getting raided.

Like domestic movie theater, mall, and school 'party crashers'?

The potentials are mind staggering...and sure to make martial law welcomed.

I remember reading a while back the head of the dept of Education needed his own security detail...while he denies all the children the right to have their schools protected

Aren't schools gun free zones? But then the Dept Ed has to have something to do since they don't have any Constitutionally-derived responsibilities.

If you wanted to arm anyone, anywhere in the world, with weapons that would not be obviously tied to the US, then the AK47 would be the weapon to do it. Rebels in Syria. Militias in Mexico. Drug cartels in Columbia (whoops did i say that?). Anyone whatsoever.

well I thought it was interesting that every piece of mail was photographed

There is a series of SHTF books that begins with "Going Home" followed by "Surviving Home" and "Escaping Home". Not bad. I especially liked the first. However, the author describes an interesting use for the Postal Service. Evidently the Postal Service has some interesting potential powers in a crisis/emergency situation including collecting information on residents of homes. I don't know how to find out more about this but it seems like an interesting subject.

Do they make this ammo available to soldiers in the field then-or are you suggesting something else?

This is the part of the story that concerns me the most:

"Additionally, the U.S. Army bought almost 600,000 Soviet AK-47 magazines last fall, enough to hold nearly 18,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo which is not standard-issue for either the U.S. military or even NATO.

A month prior, the army purchased nearly 3,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo, a huge amount but still only 1/6th of what the magazines purchased can hold in total."

What possible need could the U.S. Army have for ammo that cannot be used by our troops? False flag believers could have a field day with this one....

I guess that was for just one office in the dept of education-it's attorney general office.

From the article:

"Since 2001, the U.S. Dept. of Education has been building a massive arsenal through purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The Education Dept. has spent over $80,000 so far on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns."

So....in 13 years they have purchased roughly 200 pistols and 40 shotguns. Not really enough to supply any respectable "black program". An odd government department to be buying firearms, mind.

The next ting I would check is how many combat trained veterans are employed by these agencies.
If enough are there this could be the secret army that some have talked about Obama having.
Just kidding. It is concerning about non-military and non-law enforcement agencies buying ammo etc.

Well, I guess this explains why the postal rates are going up again.

I wonder which part of Obama's promise to have his own Army didn't we get, when we re-elected him?

So where is MY executive order stating I can be the next subsidized ammo hoarder?

Oh, right. I wasn't a campaign bundler...