Could the military buy its guns online in the future?

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Washington Examiner
Travis J. Tritten
May 18, 2017

The Defense Department may start doing a whole lot more online shopping in 2018, if Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry has his way.

The Texas chairman of the Armed Services Committee unveiled new legislation Thursday that aims to cut costly bureaucratic red tape at the Pentagon by allowing the military to buy everything from pens to treadmills from business-to-business sites such as Staples and Amazon.

That would free the federal government's biggest bureaucracy from using its current "expensive" and "onerous" contracting and scheduling process to buy its commercial goods, according to Thornberry.

But could it also work for firearms?

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Here's a lucrative swamp to drain.

Maybe they'd do well to buy some Hi-Point pistols and carbines and just scrap them when they break. Probably all you need for the many personnel not likely to see combat.

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of course, because Amazon will deliver directly to the battlefield by drone within an hour. 

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of course, because Amazon will deliver directly to the battlefield by drone within an hour. 

Today's joke is tomorrow's reality.

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Today's joke is tomorrow's reality.

I realized after I posted it that this could actually happen.