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Oil Reserve Officials Get Cheap Guns
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Posted on 12/18/2001, 4:15:10 PM by Sir Gawain

Oil Reserve Officials Get Cheap Guns

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Officials at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve misused government authority to get discounted handguns for personal use, a federal probe found.

Workers used government letterhead and assigned a false security badge number to at least one employee in order to buy the semiautomatic guns directly from the manufacturer, according to an Energy Department report obtained by The Times-Picayune.

The scheme involved an Energy Department official and at least half-dozen administrative employees working for the private contractor that operates the reserve. The employees were reprimanded but allowed to keep the guns.

The contractor, DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations, was docked $20,000 by the department.

Federal prosecutors said they will not bring criminal charges.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the national oil stockpile that is maintained in case of an emergency. The oil is held in 2,000-foot salt caverns at sites in Louisiana and Texas.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist

1 posted on 12/18/2001, 4:15:10 PM by Sir Gawain
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2 posted on 12/18/2001, 4:15:24 PM by Sir Gawain
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To: sirgawain
Well, hell's bells...I'll take a discount on guns in exchange for a reprimand...I used to get reprimanded for nothing.
3 posted on 12/18/2001, 4:19:18 PM by gundog
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To: sirgawain
I say "tough shit". Thr more guns the better. Wish I had an inside track to cheap weapons.
4 posted on 12/18/2001, 4:21:25 PM by kimosabe31
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To: kimosabe31
You want an inside track on cheap guns? Try gunbroker.com, auctionarms.com, then find a local FFL-holder who'll do transfers by looking in Shotgun News' list (www.shotgunnews.com?)
6 posted on 12/18/2001, 5:15:15 PM by Redbob
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To: MRAR15Guy56
MRAR15Guy56 you're an asshole.
7 posted on 12/19/2001, 3:27:42 AM by kimosabe31
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