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Social Security Questioned Over Ammunition Purchase

Order for 174,000 rounds roused some eyebrows

Reason Staff | 9.4.2012 6:44 PM

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Praise the Internet and pass the ammunition: the blogosphere is roiling with conspiracy theories over a Social Security Administration shopping list for 174,000 hollow-point bullets.

Depending on whom you believe, police who protect Social Security Administration officers are either preparing for impending financial doom by purchasing lethal ammo to put down rioting citizens, or they're just making a standard purchase of ammunition for a federal police agency.

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