Report: Non-military federal agencies spend $1.48 billion on guns and ammo since 2006.
-WFB: There are now more non-military government employees who carry guns than there are U.S. Marines, according to a new report.
Open the Books, a taxpayer watchdog group, released a study Wednesday that finds domestic government agencies continue to grow their stockpiles of military-style weapons, as Democrats sat on the House floor calling for more restrictions on what guns American citizens can buy.
The “Militarization of America” report found civilian agencies spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between 2006 and 2014. Examples include IRS agents with AR-15s, and EPA bureaucrats wearing camouflage. MORE
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Yeah, but in the over all scheme of things, the Marines are a much better group of men.
Tells me “they” know what’s about to happen. It just pisses me off that they’ve got better shit than me, and I helped pay for it.
Let’s declare war on some sad sack country like Mexico and send the U.S. Bureaucrat
Regiment to fight it!
Barry’s militarized anything from the IRS to Social Services. There are Departments of Education in SoCal that have had Tactical Weapons shipped to them. Makes you wonder if these agencies are his Brown Shirts. Training goes a long ways. Remember the BLM Rangers.
Obama’s Rat Bastard jack-booted thugs. Our Marine pilots are digging in junk yards for aircraft, while Obama arms everyone from White House gardeners to parking attendants at National Parks. Tyrannical.
As I wrote on an earlier post:
I’ll put my odds with the Marines. They’re trained for attack and kill. Most of the FedGov forces just want to live long enough to collect a retirement.
Let’s see now we could station the Departments of Education, Commerce and EPA in the Middle East and Treasury, Post Office, and Agriculture, in Germany with Interior, Health and Human Services in Korea and Japan and Housing and Urban Development and the other small agencies to support the NATO Mission!
Gun control? We need government control!
Homeland security, the FBI and the rest of them may have more guns and ammo than the Marines but they have much less Patriotism.
I’ll worry when it’s 10 to 1 against the Marines but not much.
“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”
“The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!”
John J. Pershing, General US Army
It gives the executive branch power – In case the military balks at shooting civilians.
When the Library of Congress is militarized, you know we have a problem.
Their actions are the very reason the second amendment was created.
“The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” – Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950)
“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you are very pro-gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.” – Stefan Molyneux