Posted on 10/22/2017 11:28:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We live in a dangerous world. For the 70,000 officers at Homeland Security and the 40,000 officers within the Department of Justice, proper training and equipment are vital to their daily law enforcement duties. Over a nearly two-year period - the last years of the Obama administration (FY2015 - FY2016), these law enforcement agencies spent $138 million on new guns and ammunition. That seems reasonable.
What’s curious, however, is that traditionally administrative agencies spent more than $20 million. Four notable examples:
1) The 2,300 Special Agents at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are allowed to carry AR-15’s, P90 tactical rifles, and other heavy weaponry. Recently, the IRS armed up with $1.2 million in new ammunition. This was in addition to the $11 million procurement of guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment procured between 2006-2014.
2) The Small Business Administration (SBA) spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to load its gun locker with Glocks last year. The SBA wasn’t alone – the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service modified their Glocks with silencers.
3) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a relatively new police force. In 1996, the VA had zero employees with arrest and firearm authority. Today, the VA has 3,700 officers, armed with millions of dollars’ worth of guns and ammunition including AR-15's, Sig Sauer handguns, and semi-automatic pistols.
4) Meanwhile, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agents carry the same sophisticated weapons platforms used by our Special Forces military warriors. The HHS gun locker is housed in a new “National Training Operations Center” – a facility at an undisclosed location within the DC beltway.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Seems almost all federal agencies have their own SWAT teams.
We sent a large order of ammo to a federal agency last week.
How about it, President Trump?
The old expression: "Plain as the nose on your face" seems to suffice.
I am in favor of gun control for our government.
>>Seems almost all federal agencies have their own SWAT teams.
Actually, the American Sicherheitsdienst just wears many different shoulder patches. One day, they will put on one patch.
And what was all that about buying/ordering of billions of rounds of .45ACP that the government did during 0bama?
A perfect example of the Bureaucrats are still in charge.
Every time I see that beoch’s picture, I pray I live long enough to see her literally hanging from a lamp post. She’s got it coming.
“1) The 2,300 Special Agents at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are allowed to carry AR-15’s, P90 tactical rifles, and other heavy weaponry.”
So I’m the proud owner of ‘heavy weaponry’? Who knew?
It’s the UniParty’s own “private” army because the know they cannot depend on anyone else for their “security”.
Obama’s federal police force (army).
Needs to be derailed now.
AR’s and P90’s spew tiny bullets fast.
30-06 and .308 reach out and touch at much greater distance.
Health and Human services?
https://www.hhs.gov/about/strategic-plan/introduction/index.html#mission
Mission Statement
The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of Americans by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. Or to cap your ass.
“For the 70,000 officers at Homeland Security and the 40,000 officers within the Department of Justice, proper training and equipment are vital to their daily law enforcement duties.”
Out of that 110,000 how many even held a gun before? I would suspect a whole bunch of them accidentally shoot themselves or a colleague. And if they have Glocks? Oh boy! I wouldnt want to be anywhere near them on a range or the street.
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