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Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?
American Thinker ^ | 05/15/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/15/2014 7:28:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Those federal bureaucrats who can’t be fired want to be able to defend themselves from angry taxpayers.  Or something.  AWR Hawkins reports for Breitbart:

A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks "the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in] .40 Cal. S&W."

According to the solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an "ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and a "30 rd. capacity" magazine.

They also want the submachine guns to have a "sling," be "lightweight," and have an "oversized trigger guard for gloved operation." 

But of course those feds have our best interests at heart, so there's nothing to worry about. And those efforts to disarm us are for our own benefit.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agdept; agriculture; federalagencies; guns; poliestate; submachinegun; weaponized
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1 posted on 05/15/2014 7:28:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 05/15/2014 7:29:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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If citizens can’t have these weapons, government bureaucrats certainly shouldn’t be able to have them. This is elementary. What is Congress doing to protect us?


3 posted on 05/15/2014 7:30:58 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

In case the Children of the Corn attack?


4 posted on 05/15/2014 7:32:14 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SeekAndFind

> Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?

Because they don’t train as often as beat cops and need the extra fire power to be sure they can kill you and your family “when the time comes.”


5 posted on 05/15/2014 7:33:10 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?"

Because real machineguns are too heavy to carry around all day.


6 posted on 05/15/2014 7:34:14 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: SeekAndFind

DISARM all federal agencies.
Make them work with local sheriffs in any situation requiring law enforcement authority.


7 posted on 05/15/2014 7:34:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone who wins this contract needs to be boycotted.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 7:36:15 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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9 posted on 05/15/2014 7:37:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
If I had to deal with the Children of the Corn, I'd want want a submachine gun, too. Don't know if it'd do much good up against He Who Walks Behind The Rows, though.
10 posted on 05/15/2014 7:37:48 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Children of the CORN throwing Killer Tomahtoes!!


11 posted on 05/15/2014 7:38:23 AM PDT by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO! Treason is the Reason! Impeach the Kenyan)
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FOOD SAFETY!!!!

When all caps and exclamation points won’t do.


12 posted on 05/15/2014 7:39:46 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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In a word: Peasants.


13 posted on 05/15/2014 7:40:58 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?

It can't be more clear: the BLM needs machine guns to better protect the land the feds steal from the states and to shoot and kill American patriots who try to defend their Constitutional rights against the tyrants in DC

14 posted on 05/15/2014 7:43:24 AM PDT by drypowder
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I suppose the Forest Service has some people who are routinely armed.


15 posted on 05/15/2014 7:45:05 AM PDT by sphinx
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When all caps and exclamation points won’t do.

When they figure out that hashtags really don't work.

16 posted on 05/15/2014 7:45:29 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?

Because when the SHTF they can seize the food supply to feed the bureaucratic elites. You never hear about government lackeys starving in totalitarian regimes when the rest of the sheeple are eating from dumpsters and landfills.

17 posted on 05/15/2014 7:48:41 AM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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The GOP House and Senate should create a contract with America and item 1 on the list should be to disarm all domestic government agencies except for: FBI, parts of Justice Department, and a small part of Treasury. I can’t think of any other agency that needs to be armed.


18 posted on 05/15/2014 7:48:45 AM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Same reason the DHS, IRS, USPS, and every other alphabet agency needs millions of rounds of ammo.


19 posted on 05/15/2014 7:49:12 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: txrefugee

“What is Congress doing to protect us?”

Not a damn thing. Neither republicans are democrats want to touch this issue.

The USDA wants to be send a swat team to your place if you have backyard chickens, or grow too many tomatoes of the wrong kind, or drink raw milk, or p*ss in the flower beds, or anything else that violates the new government agricultural mandates.

It’s to protect them from us. They might be attacked by mosquitoes, a terrorist gardener, or something. Who knows!


20 posted on 05/15/2014 7:49:42 AM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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