Post by Browning35 on Nov 11, 2014 21:00:11 GMT
Exactly. However at the same time any police dept in the US can ask for and receive M-16's, M-14's, 1911's, NV gear, thermal imaging, mags, helmets, body armor, grenade launchers, MRAP's and a whole host of other weapons and gear.
War Gear Flows to Police Departments (*Click*)
Now I'm not saying that some of these police departments don't necessarily need these weapons, vehicles, gear and accessories. In some cities they're practically warzones. However I have a really hard times believing that the United States Border Patrol is unable to do the same exact thing that all these State and Local Police Depts are doing.
When I was stationed out of the Fire Dept the Police Chief for that city was an EMT as well and he used to come to our C.E.'s and I was telling him about that program. He hadn't heard of it before and I just read about it in this AR-15 book written by Patrick Sweeney. There's a chapter in there dedicated to that. At any rate I investigated the 1208 and the 1033 program run by the DoD through TX-DPS (*Click*) (and **Click** ) for him and printed the contact info. I heard that they ended up getting some stuff from them after I left. This was a Police Dept for a city of less than 20,000 people.
So I find it a little hard to believe that the Border Patrol for the United States that's tasked with securing our nations borders has a problem coming up with rifles for their personnel if they really want them.
As a result I'm pretty sure that this is more politically motivated and less bureaucratic inefficiency.
War Gear Flows to Police Departments (*Click*)
Now I'm not saying that some of these police departments don't necessarily need these weapons, vehicles, gear and accessories. In some cities they're practically warzones. However I have a really hard times believing that the United States Border Patrol is unable to do the same exact thing that all these State and Local Police Depts are doing.
When I was stationed out of the Fire Dept the Police Chief for that city was an EMT as well and he used to come to our C.E.'s and I was telling him about that program. He hadn't heard of it before and I just read about it in this AR-15 book written by Patrick Sweeney. There's a chapter in there dedicated to that. At any rate I investigated the 1208 and the 1033 program run by the DoD through TX-DPS (*Click*) (and **Click** ) for him and printed the contact info. I heard that they ended up getting some stuff from them after I left. This was a Police Dept for a city of less than 20,000 people.
So I find it a little hard to believe that the Border Patrol for the United States that's tasked with securing our nations borders has a problem coming up with rifles for their personnel if they really want them.
As a result I'm pretty sure that this is more politically motivated and less bureaucratic inefficiency.
