Annual ammunition purchases at DHS have declined since fiscal 2009 from 133 to 75 million rounds, about on par with what the Justice Department purchases each year, GAO has found.
DHS component officials said the decline in ammunition purchases in fiscal 2013 was primarily a result of budget constraints, which meant reducing the number of training classes, and drawing on their ammunition inventories, according to GAO-14-119.
The ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the report provides needed oversight into DHS ammo procurement. He also pledged to “conduct rigorous oversight of DHS programs and will specifically work with Congress and the GAO to examine how duplicative federal police forces cause excess and waste across the federal government.”
