I wonder when is the last time the SSA was involved in a hostile takedown and shoot out in which a SSA agent was shot at or needed to fire their weapon?
Well, it is a fact that the US Dept. of Education has SWAT teams (plural) and they have been used.
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
Lie, Lie, Lie
It is time to DownSize DC and Eliminate entire rogue Departments of the Federal Government.
The debate has been twisted.
It should *not* be why the SS needs bullets, which they can blow off by saying that they need bullets to enforce the law.
The debate *should* be, why in pluperfect hell *is* a non-police, non-military government agency enforcing laws?
That is, just because someone is a federal employee does not mean that they should be able to perform federal law enforcement, including the power of lawful arrest.
The federal government has 100+ federal police agencies. Why are non-police agencies *permitted* to have agents solely under their authority? Can’t they “borrow” some when they become aware of a criminal violation of the law?
The bottom line is that the Social Security Administration, the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Transportation, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, Railroad Retirement Board, Small Business Administration, FDIC, AMTRAK (three different departments), the Tennessee Valley Authority, and USAID,
DO NOT NEED TO HAVE SWAT TEAMS, ARMED AGENTS, POLICE AUTHORITY, ETC.
If they need it in the performance of their duties, they can borrow some. With a court order.
Why does Social Security need 174,000 bullets?
Under Obama to thin out the number of those collecting SS.
Why can’t SSA just bring along a local cop or deputy to make the actual arrest, once they identify a miscreant?
Having an organic police force for something so “tame” as Social Security or the Department of Education is wildly wasteful.
Then again, just how many federal police officers are there, in total? If SSA can add 300 to the mix, just how many gummint “redcoats” are we talking here? Something tells me there is one hell of a civilian army at Obummer’s command!
ONLY 590 rounds of hollow-points per agent! What’s to worry about? /sarc
No one should be surprised by this. He’s doing what he promised to do:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118371/posts
They bought .357 Sig semi-automatic pistol rounds, NOT .357 Magnum REVOLVER rounds. Big difference. 590 rounds per ‘agent’, that’s 11 boxes off the shelf, and yes, when firing semi-automatic weapons, you can go through a box or two as a private citizen. I agree that JUST buying hollow point ammunition, does not fit the need for ‘range time’, since hollow point ammunition for a private person, can go from $20 for 20 rounds, which is not cheap!
I still think that the same government that gave us Fast and Furious, is using as many departments’ budgets to acquire a VAST amount of hollowpoint ammunition, and do intend it to be unleashed upon the American populace.
Now I ‘get it’, why a lot of folks, unlike me, are really serious in purchasing semi-automatic rifles. Me? My John Wayne rifle is good enough, having done my Ar/AK time in SouthEast Asia.
Cost containment or end-of-life care, depending on which end of it you're on.
Most will be expended on the firing range.
Umm excuse me?
They are going to use JHP on the range instead of cheaper ammo?
Sounds like a load of Barack to me. [Please excuse the bad language]
they need it why? “investigating fraud”? if/when they discover some, it’ll be catch and release like ICE and illegals,Black Panthers and voter intimidation, or whatever other crime you can think of committed by a ‘disenfrancised minority’ ...hell, the gubmint is running ads to get MORE people to sign up for entitlement programs.
I am not worried about the purchase of this relatively small amount of ammo by this agency .
What truly worries me is the 1.2+ Billion rounds being purchased by the Dept. of Homeland Security . Bearing in mind the the most ammo used by the DoD in a 2 front war in jihadistan was a mere 70 million rounds .
That is than 10 times the amount the army & marines expended in 2 active war zones & they say trust us we know whats best for you.