Strictly Street Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Was reading an article about how much ammo the feds are buying and ran across this:The document also lists a requirement for 1.6 million pistol cartridge 9mm ball bullets (40 quantities of 40,000 rounds).What the heck is a "ball bullet"?http://www.infowars.com/dhs-purchases-21-6-million-more-rounds-of-ammunition/Anybody have a guess on what they need all that ammo for?To put that in perspective, during the height of active battle operations in Iraq, US soldiers used 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month. Extrapolating the figures, the DHS has purchased enough bullets over the last 10 months to wage a full scale war for almost 30 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) Standard fmj. Non hollow points. Edited February 7, 2013 by Tpoppa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strictly Street Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 So it's just a regular ordinary bullet. Who knew?I was reading about the 10 million pistol cartridge .40 caliber 165 Grain, jacketed Hollow point bullets. I know what they are but I don't think I've ever heard regular bullets called ball unless it was for black powder.Must be hanging out in the wrong circles. Still can't figure out what they need 1.6 billion bullets for?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 The term 'ball ammo' is used in the military. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owndjoo Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 a lot of the ammo is used in training. We blow through over 70k rounds in one day of machine gun training sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomcat0403 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 The term 'ball ammo' is used in the military.This^Ball is the FMJ round for any type of firearm used by the military. No markings on it besides the copper round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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