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Police stations store at least some ammo for training, supplying officers on patrol, and restocking officers in the rare event they need to discharge their firearm. Do police precincts store substantial additional ammo in their armory to backstop them incase of supply chain disruptions, civil disturbances, etc? And if so, is there a "typical" industry norm of X hundred or thousand rounds per officer? Or do they typically store very little beyond what officers carry in their patrol cars because they assume consumption will be very predictable and 99.99% occur during annual training?

The thought crossed my mind because of the trope of scavenging from police stations in SHTF books/movies/video games about war/zombie apocalypse/plague/etc, but I dont have any idea if it's actually sensical. Is it plausible, or is reality more along the lines of "unless it's annual firearms qual day, the local police station has a lone box of 9mm in the armory and our dashing hero would be better off scouring the city for Gadsden flags in the hope of finding tens of thousands of rounds in Bubba's closet"?

Police stations store at least some ammo for training, supplying officers on patrol, and restocking officers in the rare event they need to discharge their firearm. Do police precincts store substantial additional ammo in their armory to backstop them incase of supply chain disruptions, civil disturbances, etc? And if so, is there a "typical" industry norm of X hundred or thousand rounds per officer? Or do they typically store very little beyond what officers carry in their patrol cars because they assume consumption will be very predictable and 99.99% occur during annual training? The thought crossed my mind because of the trope of scavenging from police stations in SHTF books/movies/video games about war/zombie apocalypse/plague/etc, but I dont have any idea if it's actually sensical. Is it plausible, or is reality more along the lines of "unless it's annual firearms qual day, the local police station has a lone box of 9mm in the armory and our dashing hero would be better off scouring the city for Gadsden flags in the hope of finding tens of thousands of rounds in Bubba's closet"?

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[–] • 10 pts

Our local, rural, county Sheriff's HQ has an armory with 10,000 rounds of 5.56 for their rifles; 1,000 rounds of 12 gauge "00"; 500 rounds for each Deputy; 100 rounds of bean bag rounds; 2 crates each of Flash-Bang grenades, CS gas, Red, White and Green smoke; hand-launched illumination flares; ground deployed hazard flares. Also, a full-auto Browning Automatic Rifle with a case of .30 caliber rounds and 20 magazines. The BAR is like new and has been in there since the end of WW2 when that Sheriff brought it home with him from the USMC. (It gets exercised once a year at the range as an award for the biggest drug-bust of the year) Also, of course, Spare parts for every Deputy's handgun and rifle. Issued handgun is the S&W Model M&P-40 (.40 caliber). Also military standard protective masks, NarCon inhalers; and other stuff. You would be surprised at how much good stuff we were able to get through Federal and State Grants. I did want to get a couple of Flame-throwers but was derned disappointed when the military didn't have none of them anymore. Same-same with "surplus" Claymores

The last 4 Sheriff's have all been ex-military, 2-Marine NCO's and 2-Army NCO's. Now, how do I know this? The Sheriff hired me some 15 years ago as the Armorer. I told him when he hired me that he got a good deal: I'm in a wheel chair, 100% disable USMC Veteran and I have all that VA-paid for "Armorer and Firearms Repair Schooling". Now, if I were a carpet muncher and a nigger I guess he would have gotten extra EEOC points, but that sure ain't happening here, fer sure.

[–] • 6 pts

Only 10,000 rounds?

I have friends with that much for just themselves lol

[–] • 1 pt

I've got a buddy who has a round for every resident of his small town, incase zombies.

[–] • 0 pt

i dont even have much ammo and I almost have that too lol. I dont think it matters much. I'd rather have 4 marines with 100 rounds each with me rather than being alone with 50k rounds.

[–] • 0 pt

I don't know. That depends...today's military standards are a joke. I know a couple guys in the military or recently got out. One was Army infantry and didn't know how to shoot a pistol, could only barely use an AR 15. The other is Army infantry, active duty and couldn't hold a pie plate sized group at 25 yards using irons on his own AR. In talking to me he said he scored marksman in qualifying....I hope the Marine Corps would produce better results

[–] • 3 pts

Your dept. Sounds like the kind of police dept that every police dept should be learning from and taking cues from. Great reply!

[–] • 0 pt

The difference being his department is the SHERIFF'S department v you talking about pole-eese. Police departments are private armed forces, owned by mayors, city councils, and such. Sheriffs departments answer to the public that voted them in office.

[–] • 1 pt

Same-same with "surplus" Claymores

Is that for when people dont take the hint from "Police line, do not cross"? ;)

[–] • 0 pt

you are literally a lying gaslighting POS

Your story doesn't check out at all...and if it did you would literally be a giant part of the problem... what? didn't have enough fun killing civilians for ZOG now you come and kill your own people huh?

fucking scum like you should be shot on sight