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Can someone please s'plain to me why the USDA needs submachine guns?

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  • Samuel Whittemore
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2013
    • 717

    Can someone please s'plain to me why the USDA needs submachine guns?

    Have the Fruit Flies become THAT much of a problem?

    "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
  • #2
    daorozco86
    Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 376

    Maybe they're going after the bad apples?

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    • #3
      Moemoe1
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2012
      • 1571

      My theory is that they are using different government agencies to hide the large purchasing of ammunition and weaponry. Just like the Postal service and other government owned agencies. It's pretty logical that's what is going on. It's a front to supply something bigger without triggering a frenzy of questions if they were bought from one single government run agency.

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      • #4
        daorozco86
        Member
        • Jan 2014
        • 376

        The Government is to agencies as a person is to credit cards. We use different credit cards for certain purchases. Government uses certain agencies/departments for different purchases. Just like moemoe said

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        • #5
          Zedrek
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2011
          • 1812

          They are pulling the "terrorism" card.


          [QUOTE
          OIG Investigative and Law Enforcement Authority

          The Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), was administratively established by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1962 following a major criminal fraud scandal affecting several agencies within USDA. OIG was later legislatively established by Congress under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law [P.L.] 95-452), as amended.

          Pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978 and Section 1337 of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (P.L. 97-98), OIG Investigations is the law enforcement arm of the Department, with Department-wide investigative jurisdiction. OIG Special Agents conduct investigations of significant criminal activities involving USDA programs, operations, and personnel, and are authorized to make arrests, execute warrants, and carry firearms. The types of investigations conducted by OIG Special Agents involve criminal activities such as frauds in subsidy, price support, benefits, and insurance programs; significant thefts of Government property or funds; bribery; extortion; smuggling; and assaults on employees. Investigations involving criminal activity that affects the health and safety of the public, such as meat packers who knowingly sell hazardous food products and individuals who tamper with food regulated by USDA, are also high-profile investigative priorities. In addition, OIG Special Agents are poised to provide emergency law enforcement response to USDA declared emergencies and suspected incidents of terrorism affecting USDA regulated industries, as well as USDA programs, operations, personnel, and installations, in coordination with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, as appropriate.

          The enactment of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-37) authorized OIG to receive funds and property through criminal and civil Federal forfeiture proceedings, and through equitable sharing of forfeited funds and property controlled by the U.S. Department of Justice. Forfeiture proceeds have severe restrictions mandated by statutes and U.S. Department of Justice policy as to how they are used. Forfeiture funds cannot be used in lieu of the OIG's regular appropriations.][/QUOTE]
          sigpic10mm collector

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          • #6
            Sunday
            Calguns Addict
            • Jan 2010
            • 5574

            They need them for when we will stop them. F the gestapo.
            California's politicians and unionized government employees are a crime gang that makes the Mexican drug cartels look like a Girl Scout Troop in comparison.

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            • #7
              Corsair415
              Member
              • Jan 2013
              • 451

              When good food goes bad, the USDA is there to put a stop to the threat.

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              • #8
                ElvenSoul
                I need a LIFE!!
                • Apr 2008
                • 17431

                Whsn you havs to kill every mad cow in the herd! Accept no substitute!
                sigpic

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                • #9
                  AGFNTB
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2014
                  • 804

                  Originally posted by GayGuns
                  Can someone please s'plain to me why the USDA needs submachine guns?
                  Isn't that what the anti-guns say about US?

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                  • #10
                    sealocan
                    Calguns Addict
                    • Mar 2012
                    • 9954

                    I only wear a tinfoil hat sometimes, because its entertaining and it does keep your head pretty warm...but I'm pretty sure every single agency is going to be armed or is already armed.

                    I'll just leave these 2 I found from some recent news


                    "The Social Security Administration statement, posted Thursday, noted that their agents need firearms and ammo in the course of training, investigations and responding to threats against offices and employees.*

                    And this.

                    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, found itself scrambling to respond to a similar report this week about an order for 46,000 rounds of ammo. Though the agency initially indicated it was for the National Weather Service -- leading to questions about why the National Weather Service could possibly need so many bullets -- a spokesman clarified the bullets are actually meant for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement. A "clerical error" resulted in the order saying the ammo was for the weather service."

                    from Fox News and it probably means nothing at all but I'm glad we know about it, because we're paying for it.

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                    • #11
                      TheRealVIC
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2010
                      • 513

                      damn, those inspectors are packing some heat
                      It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!- Emiliano Zapata Salazar

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                      • #12
                        Samuel Whittemore
                        Senior Member
                        • Jan 2013
                        • 717

                        And THAT "something bigger" is exactly my concern.

                        Originally posted by Moemoe1
                        It's a front to supply something bigger...
                        "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

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                        • #13
                          Samuel Whittemore
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2013
                          • 717

                          Nice, and if I were an idiot -- comforting, to see they're covering their arse.


                          Originally posted by Zedrek
                          They are pulling the "terrorism" card.
                          http://www.usda.gov/oig/invest.htm
                          "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

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                          • #14
                            11HE9
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2011
                            • 771

                            Originally posted by GayGuns
                            And THAT "something bigger" is exactly my concern.
                            This ^^^


                            * adding more tinfoil to the Costco list

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                            • #15
                              AGFNTB
                              Senior Member
                              • Jan 2014
                              • 804

                              Originally posted by sealocan
                              ..the agency initially indicated it was for the National Weather Service
                              Preparing for Sharknado?

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