Is there a website that keeps track of all the inexplicable government agencies running around with armed employees? By inexplicable, I mean those like the Dept. of Education that lack a law enforcement mission.

Well, it could be for more hopeful reasons. The Education Department IG may be planning on cracking down on activities favored by the unions. Being prudent, they realize any opposition to unions is generally met with violence by the unions and that such union violence has a long and dangerous history.

Okay, so that was just wild speculation but it could happen but probably only under different administration.

There is a list on Wikpedia, but I'm sure its not complete. HUD, for example, has SWAT teams. IRS agents aren't supposed to carry unless enforcing alcohol or tobacco excise taxes but they do.

United States

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
United States Coast Guard (USCG)
Coast Guard Police (CGPD)
Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS)
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
United States Border Patrol (USBP)
Federal Protective Service (FPS)
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
United States Secret Service (USSS)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)

Department of Justice (USDOJ)
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
United States Marshals Service (USMS)

Department of State (DOS)
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Diplomatic Security Service (DSS)

Department of Commerce (DOC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement

Department of Treasury
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division (IRS-CID)
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)
United States Mint Police (USMP)
United States Treasury Police - merged into the US Secret Service Uniformed Division in 1986.

Department of Defense
Defense Criminal Investigative Service(DCIS)
Pentagon Force Protection Agency
Department of the Army
United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (Army CID)
United States Army Military Police Corps
Department of the Air Force
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (Airforce OSI)
Air Force Security Forces
Department of the Navy
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
Office of Naval Intelligence Police (ONI Police)
Marine Corps Provost Marshal's Office

Department of Education
Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Office of Criminal Investigations

Department of Agriculture (USDA)
U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations
Office of Inspector General

Department of the Interior (USDI)
Bureau of Indian Affairs Police
Bureau of Land Management Office of Law Enforcement & Security
National Parks Service
National Park Rangers
United States Park Police
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement

Other Major Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
Central Intelligence Agency Security Protective Service (SPS)
Federal Reserve Police
Library of Congress Police
National Security Agency Police (NSA Police)
Smithsonian National Zoological Park Police
United States Capitol Police (USCP)
United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)
United States Supreme Court Police
Veterans Affairs Police

And all these people get to carry on an airplane!

Is it possible that Major Mike's list is the standing army that the framers of the Constitution were so worried about? And, additionally, how many of these bureaus are actually constitutionally authorized?

Just wondering???

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