{"id":31506,"date":"2012-08-14T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31506"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:39:38","slug":"noaa-needs-46000-rounds-of-40-cal-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31506","title":{"rendered":"NOAA needs 46,000 rounds of .40 cal. ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-national-weather-service-is-shopping-for-46000-rounds-of-ammunition-2012-8\">Business Insider<\/a> reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s Weather Service is in the market for 46k rounds of .40 caliber bullets for some reason. Maybe it&#8217;s their new method for scaring hurricanes away or something. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Weather Service stations in Ellsworth, Maine, and New Bedford, Mass., are slated to receive 16,000 rounds of .40 S&#038;W   jacketed hollow point (JHP) bullets.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>6,000 rounds of S&#038;W JHP will be sent to Wall, New Jersey and another 24,000 rounds of the same bullets will be handed over to the station in St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes on the heels of the Department of Homeland Security buying 450 million rounds a few months back.<\/p>\n<p>Right after DHS placed their order, I ordered some green tip 5.56mm and I just got my ammo can full yesterday from 5 months on backorder.  Of course, I was holding out for stripper clips, because I don&#8217;t load my magazines a bullet at a time. But it seems to me that the government is buying up all of this ammo to make it harder for us private citizens to get it. Cheaper Than Dirt jacked their prices up $20\/400 rounds of 5.56mm right after that government order in March.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if they can&#8217;t get our guns, they&#8217;ll price ammo out of our reach. I don&#8217;t have any .40 cal. Short &#038; Weak weapons, though. I opted for the 10mm instead, and the 10mm is too manly for government agents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s Weather Service is in the market &hellip; <a title=\"NOAA needs 46,000 rounds of .40 cal. ammo\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31506\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NOAA needs 46,000 rounds of .40 cal. ammo<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}