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Agencies gunning up
I'm not sure IRS needs 15 machine guns and over 3,000,000 rounds of ammo, let alone why the National Institutes of Health needs its own arsenal. These days an agency just doesn't rate if it doesn't have a SWAT team. I know FEMA (who main job is to provide emergency housing and write checks) has a SWAT team with snipers; they used to practice at a range I frequented.
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SURPRISE!!!!
Five (?) years ago ALL these angencies started buying SHITLOADS of ammo and of course a weapon or 2 to put IT into.This is OLD NEWS, no doubt "they" have been TRAINING on a regular basis.....
Gee! Wasn't that under gun runners obama and holder?
Oh, yeah. It was!
No citizen should ever be less equipped than the Ferdal and State employees.
Except the the feds only have the following police powers outside DC:
1) punish counterfeiting of current coin and securities
2) punish piracy ON THE HIGH SEAS
3) punish felonies ON THE HIGH SEAS
4) punish offenses against the law of nations
5) secure copyright/patent
6) treason
7) slavery
All other federal police powers are unconstitutional. IF the Framers saw fit to explicitly grant certain police powers, AND the constitutional scholars of the time such as Story say the states retained police powers, where do the unconstitutional police powers come from? It cannot be the N&P clause because points 1-5 come from the same section of the Constitution as the N&P. Reading the N&P to cover unwritten powers makes these granted power unnecessary and makes the statement that the Framers had no idea what they were doing.
As Madison stated, the federal government has powers that are "few and defined". To be defined requires them to be written.
@ Geoff,
What about CBP? ...ICE?
Fully automatic weapons ammo? That would be belted ammo, I guess....
So, why do these agencies have belt-fed weapons at all?
It seems that these agencies basically have their own internal gun club, paid for by the taxpayers.
The only Government employees that need to be armed are the U.S. Secret Service, The U.S. Marshall Service and FBI Special Agents.
Not TSA, Social Security and other non-law enforcement agencies.
IMO.