Do the police forces of the US have more guns and ammunition than the US Military has?

Answer 1

Almost certainly, no. There are about 800,000 law enforcement officers in the United States, where there are around 1.4 million people on active duty in the U.S. military, with another 850,000 in the various reserve and National Guard components. Assuming there is at least one firearm available for every member of the military, the military would have the police outgunned almost 3 to 1. Moreover, the military has much more powerful and larger weapons than the police, who use mainly pistols, shotguns, and semi-automatic rifles similar to those carried by infantry. The military uses far more ammunition than the police. Police officers qualify with their weapons at intervals ranging from one to six times per year, and typically fire 50 rounds at each qualification. Military riflemen expend many times that number of rounds on any exercise, and that doesn't take into account the ammunition used by machine guns, artillery, grenadiers, etc.