“Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail – a self-generating byproduct of the people’s hysteria.” “The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.”
First came the ammunition requests, and now it’s time for the weapons. The incremental creep of arming government thugs continues one step at a time, one breath at a time, until it becomes one American death at a time.
Department of Homeland Security has placed an initial order of up to 7,000 5.56x45mm North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) personal defense weapons (PDW), with a contract life of 5 years, to numerous Department of Homeland Security components, which includes Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC).
The winner of the contract would receive the assured minimum is $30,000 but not to exceed the maximum ceiling of $9,800,000.
What is the 5.56x45mm?
From Wikipedia:
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATOnomenclature 5.56 NATO) is a riflecartridgedeveloped in the United Statesand originally chambered in the M16 rifle. Under STANAG4172, it is a standard cartridge for NATO forces as well as many non-NATO countries.[2]It is derived from, but not identical to, the .223 Remingtoncartridge. When the bullet impacts at high velocity and yaws[3] in tissue, fragmentation creates a rapid transfer of energy which can result in dramatic wounding effects.[4][5][6]