I think folks are getting a little carried away with this. (not that I trust our government!) Every government organization also has an OIG (office of investigations thing) even NOAA and NASA. The people who work in these divisions are law enforcement people and they investigate crimes such as fraud and corruption. They are also armed, and they have frequent training with their firearms. It’s just one more example of how every government program increases the need for yet another government program. If we didn’t have HHS, HUD, etc. we wouldn’t need people to police them.
Why train with this particular sort of ammo however. To prove they can gut a whole target with one shot?
If what really bothers people is that so many different agencies have these little police forces, perhaps the Administration could propose a consolidated "National Police Force" combining all of them for efficiency?
That would go over real well, I bet.
My position is more philosophical in nature. I think the NSA should handle security measures and the other departments should be doing their thing.
If an agency needs an NSA agent or two in every office to provide proper security, I’m fine with that. But having each department having the ability to provide security and investigate its own problems gives them incentives rlthey should not have.
Normally. . . .I’d agree. But when you look at the other numbers. . .
Take the Social Security Administration. 174,000 rounds.
The Social Security Administration admits to having “about 295 special agents”.
That’s 589 and change rounds per special agent. Not knowing what specific pistol they carry, but let’s assume 50 rounds will be more than enough for one magazine in pistol and 2 full mags. And figure 100 rounds for annual qualification. So what are the other 439 rounds for ??