{"id":1947,"date":"2013-11-13T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/11\/13\/and-here-i-thought-i-was-being-fruga\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:09","slug":"and-here-i-thought-i-was-being-fruga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"And Here I Thought I Was Being Frugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12552,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/publicintelligence.net\\\/weapons-discovery-terrorism&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/publicintelligence.net\\\/weapons-discovery-terrorism\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12553,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/info.publicintelligence.net\\\/DHS-FBI-Weapons.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12554,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.offthegridnews.com\\\/2013\\\/11\\\/05\\\/dhs-and-fbi-say-americans-with-large-amounts-of-guns-are-potential-terrorists&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20141028181248\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.offthegridnews.com\\\/2013\\\/11\\\/05\\\/dhs-and-fbi-say-americans-with-large-amounts-of-guns-are-potential-terrorists\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 12:21:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 14:44:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 14:44:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nBuying ammunition when it is on sale or even just before an announced (or unannounced due to current events) price hike to me just makes sense. It appeals to my innate sense of frugality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicintelligence.net\/weapons-discovery-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It also, I am informed,<\/a> now makes me and thousands of others like me guilty of &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221; that might <a href=\"http:\/\/info.publicintelligence.net\/DHS-FBI-Weapons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;indicate pre-operational terrorist attack planning or criminal activity.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp; This is from a joint Department of Homeland Security and FBI &#8220;Roll Call Release&#8221;.&nbsp; The example given to justify calling this suspicious activity was the case of the Norwegian killer who murdered a number of children at a summer camp back in 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>(U\/\/FOUO) Possession of large amounts of weapons, ammunition,<br \/>\nexplosives, accelerants, or explosive precursor chemicals could indicate<br \/>\n pre-operational terrorist attack planning or criminal activity.&nbsp; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>They also referred to &#8220;military-grade weapons&#8221;. I guess that would mean my Swiss Schmidt-Rubin K-31 rifles as they are actual Swiss Army surplus not to mention my Garand and Springfield 1903A3.<\/p>\n<p>Given I found this due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthegridnews.com\/2013\/11\/05\/dhs-and-fbi-say-americans-with-large-amounts-of-guns-are-potential-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story on Off Grid News<\/a> I wondered if this was just some sort of &#8220;survivalist&#8221; paranoia with little documentation. No, it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The DHS-FBI bulletin does include this disclaimer at the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>(U\/\/FOUO) Constitutional activities should not be reported in a SAR or<br \/>\nInformation Sharing Environment (ISE) SAR absent articulable facts and<br \/>\ncircumstances that support the source agency\u2019s suspicion that the<br \/>\nbehavior observed is not innocent, but rather reasonably indicative of<br \/>\ncriminal activity associated with terrorism, including evidence of pre<br \/>\noperational planning related to terrorism. Race, ethnicity, national<br \/>\norigin, or religious affiliation should not be considered as factors<br \/>\nthat create suspicion (although these factors may be used as specific<br \/>\nsuspect descriptions). <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;After all the hyperbole contained in Roll Call Release, one has to wonder just how many police departments in many areas will even notice the &#8220;constitutional activities&#8221; disclaimer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying ammunition when it is on sale or even just before an announced (or unannounced due to current events)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2821,2822,1352,2823],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ammo-stockpiling","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-fbi","tag-frugality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9556,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}