Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?

American Thinker ^ | 05/15/2014 | Thomas Lifson

[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.

[bamahead]

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[Vendome]

Why do I need select fire arms?

[Abathar]

"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.

[Kackikat]

To screw up our food production.