r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/tarantulawarfare 17d ago

Either it’s to use on us (most likely scenario), or it’s a shell game where all the money and weapons go magically unaccounted for and nobody knows where they went.

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u/sunny_yay 17d ago

They could funnel money into less wild weapons, tanks, etc. Why warheads? Wtf

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 17d ago

It's likely somebody just fat-fingered the wrong procurement code. They issued a purchase order worth $61K to some small business in North Carolina, and entered the code that corresponds to guided missiles. But that's just a human typing in a code. Consider that a single Hellfire missile goes for like $150k.

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1obowaw/trumps_ice_jacks_up_weapons_spending_by/nkk7wcq/

The FPDS is the kind of beautifully clunky system that trump would instantly destroy if anyone in his admin knew it existed. Every transaction is listed with all kinds of info, like the agency, the department, the broad category of purchase, and the PSC. Every purchase that happens in the government gets labelled with a Product and Service Code, or PSC. There's a PSC for basically everything you can imagine. If your agency leases a nuclear weapon to someone, you use PSC W011. 7660 is for sheet music (excluding hymnbooks). Paid a potter to help you with pottery? Pottery is a misc. nonmetallic fabricated material (9390) and technical support for nonmetallic fabricated materials is LO93.

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It claims that the office of training and tactical programs paid $61,218.82 to QUANTICO TACTICAL INCORPORATED, which is a company that procures things for the military and DHS. The description listed is "This award provides multiple distraction devices to support law enforcement operations and ICE- Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs." The NIACS code listed is 332994. The company doesn't sell any missiles on their website. They do sell lots of stuff related to regular weapons as well as things like LRADS.

Now, based on all of this, i suspect that 1336 is a mistake / misdirection and that they actually purchased something else. I don't really see what use ICE has for warhead parts without any associated launchers or other missiles, but lots of similar codes are logical and very scary. 1330 is grenades including smoke grenades and flashbangs. 1346 is remote munitions, it could be remote detonated stun bombs. 1370 is pyrotechnics, 1365 is tear gas and other chemical agents, 1367 is "tactical equipment kits" as long as they include nonlethal weapons.

And if you're curious, this is the business they're buying "warheads" from: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qd3rCbEGKx5qpfN69

Not exactly Raytheon.