Claim: Says the Department of Homeland Security has ordered "enough rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to kill every man, woman and child in the United States," possibly to combat "massive civil unrest" or "an invasion by a foreign power."
Fact-check: Chain email says Homeland Security purchasing many bullets perhaps in anticipation of civil unrest or an invasion
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2012-04-30T00:00:00