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  • Tarn_Helm
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 2126

    Guns vs. Guitars

    I guess the August 24, 2011 raid by Fish & Game on the Gibson guitar factory shows why the IRS requested bids for 60 Riot Shotguns: "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts."

    The IRS is not alone in being a federal agency buying guns for no obvious reason.

    Should the Dept. of Education be buying shotguns with our money?
    Remington Shotguns
    Solicitation Number: EDOOIG-10-000004
    Agency: Department of Education
    Office: Contracts & Acquisitions Management
    Location: Contracts (All ED Components)

    "The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14" - PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT - XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID - 14" LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
    The required date of delivery is March 22, 2010.
    Interested sources must submit detailed technical capabilities and any other information that demonstrates their ability to meet the requirements above, no later than March 12, 2010 at 12 PM, E.S.T. Any quotes must be submitted electronically to the attention of Holly.Le@ed.gov, Contract Specialist (Contract Operations Group), with a concurrent copy to Sherese.Lewis@ed.gov, Contracting Officer (Contract Operations Group)."

    The "crazy meter" of the .gov is at full tilt.

    We were warned that enemies would be subject to harassment if they opposed him.

    Of course, you can use allegedly illegal material in your products if you support him.


    Brave New World meets 1984.


    EDIT: I was thinking IRS. Thanks for the correction. Wrong jackbooted thug agency.
    Last edited by Tarn_Helm; 08-27-2011, 8:57 PM. Reason: oops; "crazy meter" of the .gov at full tilt.
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    choprzrul
    Calguns Addict
    • Oct 2009
    • 6544

    We've pegged the crazy meter.....

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    • #3
      Alarm Guy
      Member
      • Jan 2011
      • 183

      It wasn't the IRS who raided Gibson but rather the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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      • #4
        SanPedroShooter
        Calguns Addict
        • Jan 2010
        • 9732

        I beleive it was the fish and wildlife service that raided Gibson. The issue was improperly (according to laws of India, not the US) imported wood, not taxes.

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        • #5
          SanPedroShooter
          Calguns Addict
          • Jan 2010
          • 9732

          Jinx!

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          • #6
            Tarn_Helm
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2007
            • 2126

            True.

            Originally posted by Alarm Guy
            It wasn't the IRS who raided Gibson but rather the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
            Good catch.

            I edited.
            "The Religion of Peace": Islam: What the West Needs to Know.

            America is Not a Democracy

            ". . . all [historical] experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
            [of governmental abuses and usurpations] to which they are accustomed."
            Decl. of Indep., July 4, 1776

            NRA Benefactor/Life Member; Lifer: CRPA, GOA, SAF & JPFO

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