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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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81 posted on 05/15/2014 7:59:52 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: bamahead

Why do I need select fire arms?


82 posted on 05/15/2014 8:04:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Iron Munro
"The requirement for it to be chambered in .40 caliber limits the choices."

Is the 10mm a popular caliber over in Europe still? Shoulder a 10mm chamber back an 1/8" and you have a .40, I fire .40 out of my 10mm no problem but have to clean it well before I feed 10's again.

No comparison between those two either, with a stock to help with recoil I would take a 10mm any day of the week. Too bad ammo isn't that popular or cheap here, it does have some zing to it.

83 posted on 05/16/2014 5:29:55 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: all the best

To screw up our food production.


84 posted on 05/16/2014 1:10:56 PM PDT by Kackikat
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