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 ...
That neck...perfect for a Columbian necktie.
“AR’s and P90’s spew tiny bullets fast.
30-06 and .308 reach out and touch at much greater distance.”
Long before they see you. Never know what hit ‘em.
You forgot Federal Reserve employees - guy at church is an AUDITOR and has been carrying a weapon for a few years.
I am of the opinion that ALL SWAT teams need to be under the direct control of an elected county sheriff. Further than each and every “no knock” warrant (anything less than knock and identify) require the posting of a bond for damages and carry the risk of liability to the Sheriff’s office for any and all damages.
Federal and state agencies who want to use SWAT, should NOT be allowed to develop their own forces and be required to use the local sheriff’s SWAT team.
“Federal and state agencies who want to use SWAT, should NOT be allowed to develop their own forces and be required to use the local sheriff’s SWAT team.”
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Why?
I was never under the impression that county government was better than state or federal government.
And what about large city departments that have SWAT teams?
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This is nothing new! Been going on for years!
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Is THIS why stats show so many guns in America in hands of gun owners???? (in hands of fed employees of mostly non-Law Enforcement)????????????????
“THEY”....The People??????......Hardly!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Semper POTUS.45 TRUMP—If We Can Keep Him?/!
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Why local elected sheriff?
Because he is the “posse comitatus” ( power of the country) of the whole of the US. Show me any other LEA that is accountable to the people and not the government that forms them.....
“Seems almost all federal agencies have their own SWAT teams”
NOAA, the weather people, has a SWAT team.
“More importantly, why do we even need to ask why?”
I think most of us here know why.
In MA the sheriffs department is virtually meaningless———sheriff’s answer to the state.
There is no county government——counties are rarely mentioned.
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...because they fear Citizens will eventually hold them accountable???
...because they fear the citizens will decide they don’t want the agency anymore.
The all gun no gold guys?
can I say, “Hmmmmmm....” yet?
The same thing happened during the obama error.
They are buying it for the people who will kill them and take it away from them.
Huh?
Do they have a model out I haven't seen that is way longer and fires something a skosh more potent than a .22 Magnum? d;^)
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Anxiously awaiting my flamage from the P90 fanboyz club.
Everyone likes guns.
Seems civilians should get the surplus back since they paid for it.
There is no elected county/borough or Parrish chief LEO? I know I avid MA for some reason... Now I know why, that and funny language ( seriously, my wife of 35 tears hails from NH and ME, so I get it....) egh?
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