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Aug. 20, 2012 5:43pm

Before joining the Blaze, Buck served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, assigned to the Counterterrorism Center and Office of Iraq Analysis. He […]

Before joining the Blaze, Buck served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, assigned to the Counterterrorism Center and Office of Iraq Analysis. He also served as an analyst for the NYPD Intelligence Division. He has field experience in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Buck has a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College. He is a native of New York City, where he currently resides.

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It raised many eyebrows when we learned last week that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration received 46,000 rounds of ammunition. This revelation—which we are now told was a “clerical error” — came on the heels of the Social Security Administration procuring “174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition.”

All of this leads to the question: Why do so many federal agencies need bullets?

While the government claims it needs the ammunition for training– that is exactly the problem. The expansion of the federal law enforcement and regulatory apparatus should be deeply troubling for anyone who believes in limited government and federalism. America has too many national authorities employing their own armed officers to police a vast and growing array of federal statutes. And in the process, these Feds trample on the police powers left to the states under the Constitution.

The growth of the federal law enforcement bureaucracy has jumped dramatically over the last 20 years. There are now 73 federal agencies that have armed officers, often called “special agents.” And all of these agencies now cordon off and enforce a federal fiefdom of the more than 4,500 criminal laws at the federal level and thousands of additional regulations that have sprung up in recent decades.

The result is a panoply of specialized, niche enforcement organizations that will be tasked to balance the rights of U.S. citizens with a need to justify their budgets. While the U.S. Congress has used the interstate commerce clause to pass sweeping legislation that has eviscerated state rights, the enforcement mechanisms have started to catch up with the rampant over-legislation.

As of 2011, there are at least 25,000 sworn (and armed) law enforcement officers working for federal agencies not traditionally associated with law enforcement, and 3,800 of them were specifically criminal investigators.

The list of agencies—many of which are recent creations—that have their own police forces is staggering. Even the Environmental Protection Agency has its own sworn officers, as does The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While NOAA only has 63 officers today, the EPA started out with one armed officer in 1978 and as of last year it had 265. There is also the General Services Administration, the Department of Education, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development—and the list goes on.

This is not to say that these agencies do not pursue, in many cases, real violations and crimes. And the protections intended by the laws themselves may be necessary. But the problem is that state and local law enforcement should be tasked to handle many of the issues that have been transformed into federal concerns.

There is a lot of overlapping and duplicative effort with these federal agencies. With approximately 800,000 local and state police officers in the United States, the burden of enforcing laws that cover wildlife, agriculture, or other localized issues should fall on those closest—and therefore most accountable—to the people they police.

As we head into the thick of the 2012 election, a majority of the American people claim to wanted a smaller federal government. Nowhere is the power and reach of the state more acutely felt than in law enforcement. But unless Americans begin to push back against this avalanche of federal police and regulators, the number of people receiving a paycheck to investigate and prosecute average citizens for opaque and even unknowable federal violations will grow dramatically.

Editor’s Note: Buck Sexton will lead a discussion about the proliferation of federal agencies with armed agents tonight at 6pm ET on Real News From The Blaze.

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:50pm
The Machine called government is out of control.

Go anywhere in this country and you’ll see fences, signs, no tresspassing, off limits, regulated areas, stay on the path, protected no go zones, endangered wildlife zones, park closed for seasonal mating of the arroyo toad, no fires, permits required, protective gear required, even the sky and water have limited use and are regulated. I mean the list goes on and on ppl and these hired gunmen are the enforcers of areas they have cordoned off from you and me…the PEOPLE. We are the ones paying for their salaries and benefits and are often treated as the enemy of this country.

I didn’t use to suck this bad people!

When we allowed moral decay, we allowed the government to regulate the results of our wayward and irresponsible behaviours. Now there is not much turning back until the final curtain is dropped.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:19pm
  Awsome post brother Chief.
  
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- Miami
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:39pm
  They might be hoping there’ll be a rush on bullet resistant vest to boost the economy…?!
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:54pm
  Excellent!! the US has more folks in prision than any other civilized country. The constitution only lists three federal crimes. but the books are FULL of others enacted via legislaiton. Those laws need to be repealed; the states need to be the law enforcement agencies; not NOAA; .357 Sig; why not use an expensive calibre? pun intended.
  
  Federal LE is way outta control…..and for what?
  
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- mecanic
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:07pm
  people can’t really want that curtain to fall do they? because i don’t believe it will be good for us,american, or the world. anybody that isn’t more than a little worried has eyes that are closed and ears that are plugged.
  
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- beckyspatflaveredstew
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:47pm
  Well stated, so what is the solution?
  
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- jens63
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:16am
  I didn’t really buy SS explaination about their enforcement agents needing all this ammo, but didn’t have enough info to effectively refute it. Thank-you for this info…
  
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nighttrainno9
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:48pm
Our once proud country has become a police state and unless we react
quickly and without hesitation, we will be part of a FEMA re-education camp.
Obama has pissed the military off to the point I’m quite sure they won’t
follow his orders, so he is creating his own little army out of the
alphabet soup agencies. Remember, the govt. has become the enemy
of the working taxpayers and the people who work for the govt.
are obamas soldiers. obama has worked hard to destroy America,
in the words of coach brown, “lets serve him a big **** sandwich”.

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- bree001
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:47am
  Well he has managed to infiltrate the army with gays and Muslims. Does it not raise alarms that this is happening so close to election time? He knows he can’t win fairly so he needs to have a plan in place in case voter fraud doesn’t come through for him this time.
  
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- RebelRouser
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 5:03pm
  the majority of illegals are also joining the military by the thousands and thousands
  
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horsehockey
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:47pm
Why does the SSA have armed special agents? One explanation, honestly, was in case the elderly SS recipients get upset because of cutbacks in Medicare and/or SS benefits and revolt. Well, folks, Obama reduced Medicare by some 700 billion, it’s time for rebellion.

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:55pm
  You lie! The ‘cuts’ to Medicare are not cuts to the people on Medicare – they are savings realized by cutting fraud, abuse and over payment’s to insurance companies. The big insurance companies own the Republicans and using them to protect their huge profits
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:17pm
  ROFL, Simple! You’re so humorous you should be on Tv. (Then I could change the channel.) What ‘fraud’ was cut? You can’t name one agency or program that has had any cuts in fraud- quite the opposite. And your hero is doing nothing less than encouraging the fraud to continue. Heck, yours wasn’t even a ‘nice try’ at a rebuttal.
  
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- country_hick
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:52pm
  simpletruths; “they are savings realized by cutting fraud, abuse and over payment’s to insurance companies”.
  
  So what you are saying is that the Administration has known all this money was being stolen and wasted and allowed it to go on so it could, maybe, start to enforce existing laws and use it for the campaign?
  
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- Captain77
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:31pm
  You think what social security got was crazy. The Department of Homeland Security is in the process of securing orders for 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition. Don’t be confused, this is not the Army or the Pentagon, but Homeland security. Homeland Security deals with issues in the “homeland”. Wake up people! Something is coming and the government knows it. The scary thing is, who is this ammo build up for?
  
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- BigBrotherIsWatching
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 4:28am
  You must be high simpletruth! How do you cut 700 billion and not affect the people on medicare? You my friend have been brainwashed by this overpowering government!
  
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- Lowell1775
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 10:37am
  Bullsheet SimpleTruths (the name a lie in itself).
  
  Obamacare and Romneycare are proof big medicine, big pharma, and big insurance own them all. Get over the dimwit “us vs them” until you rightly figure out who us and them are.
  
  What a tool.
  
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- TexVet61
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:54am
  simpletruths- looks like we have a koolaid drinker.. so you acutally believe the talking points. why don’t you actually do your research. Obama CUT medicade to pay for his pet communistcare.
  
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:42pm
sounds like the progressive gestapo is arming

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:47pm
  It’s because gold isn’t money – And, [government power extracts money].
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:04pm
  The truth of the matter is that if people don’t already know that [money] is derived from mental and spiritual captivity, then there really is no helping them. And, they wouldn’t notice literal chains and shackles anyways if it happened slow enough.
  
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JohnLarson
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:38pm
Too many guns?

Never thought I’d here those words on The Blaze. Shouldn’t every private and public worker be armed 24/7 as is their God given right?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:59pm
  Not when it is every idiot that works for the government with government issued weapons aimed at the public at large. Private ownership in accordance with the 2nd Amendment is a totally a different thing altogether.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:56pm
  Please tell me you’re not that stupid, John.
  
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- 2extreme4u
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:01am
  John won’t, but I will. “Hello, I’M John Larson and I’m just that stupid”.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:56am
  Uh, hello, John- shouldn’t every person be armed 24/7 as per their Constitutional right? In which case, the government shuld provide each of us with military grade weapons just as they are the Alphabet Agencies.
  Or are you against Common Joe from defending themselves?
  
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heyjim55
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:36pm
Is this what Obama was talking about when he said we needed a civilian defence force just as powerful and just as well funded as our military? The other side of this is unionizing all of these officers with the due’s going indirectly into the Democratic party’s pockets. I still think something else is going on here , maybe it is our worst fears.

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- 65Plus
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:47pm
  Yup. The National Socialist SS is here.
  
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Meyvn
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:34pm
We just have too many agencies period.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:26pm
“The result is a panoply of specialized, niche enforcement organizations that will be tasked to balance the rights of U.S. citizens with a need to justify their budgets.”

Well done, Buck

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athenaofgreece
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:03pm
nothing new, the FDA and USDA have been raiding with bomb squads, retail stores that sell “raw” milk, arresting owners, staff and confiscating products, then the farmers for making it, then fining farmers when they afford to pay their bills, arresting them again, and then running door to door of customers demanding the milk they’ve purchased. They are fining, arresting farmers for growing food for their own consumption (based on interstate commerce violations)… the FDA spy on their own scientists (then fire them) that dissent FDA corruption and whistle-blow on dangerous products being approved http://www.naturalnews.com/036875_FDA_paranoia_surveillance.html and according to my inside sources it is unlawful for any alphabet agency (that’s not actual law enforcement) to carry weapons ever…..in Michigan small farmers have been forced under threat of arrest to shoot all their pigs as NO ONE is allowed to own a pig that’s not pork manufacturing plant….

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ThePostman
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:59pm
NASA also has armed agents.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:42pm
  That’s for raiding local souvenir shops that feature trinkets that too closely resemble NASA patches and symbols.
  
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Truth and Justice
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:54pm
This is a classic example of what happens when government gets too big and there are no checks and balances!!

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resme
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:53pm
It’s all about power. You can call it whatever system you’d like. The center focus of communism,fascism,socialism,marxism is collectivism. Power to the state, or the select few.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:48pm
  A happy birthday to Ron Paul….77 years young
  
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- resme
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:47pm
  Right on, Did you hear about LPAC in Chantilly, Virginia? I’m thinking about going some awesome speakers will be there.
  
  http://lpac.com/lpac-tickets/
  
  Happy birthday, Ron Paul!!!!!!!!
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:56pm
  Wow, i didnt know about that. That is 3 hours from me – its on my calendar
  
  That is pretty much the all stars of the liberty movement
  
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Mil-Dot
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:50pm
Of course we have way too many agencies running around with guns. There will never be a shortage of loser goons that want to use force to get you to agree with them.

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Micah.Stone
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:49pm
Q: Why Do Weather Forecasters Need 46,000 Rounds of High Powered Hollow Point Ammo?
A: To eliminate the most vocal of the non-believers in the GloBULL Warming Hoax.

Q: Why Did the Social Security Administration Purchase 174 Thousand Rounds Of Hollow Point Bullets?
A: To eliminate seniors demanding their SS checks after OBOZO drives the US into total bankruptcy.

Q: Why did Homeland Security purchased 450 million rounds of .40-caliber hollow point bullets that are designed to expand upon entry and cause maximum organ damage and then issue another DHS solicitation asking for a further 750 million rounds of assorted bullets, including 357 mag rounds that are able to penetrate walls?
A: There will be a lot of Americans upset if OBOZO steals the election in November and assumes full dictatorial power; these malcontents must be silenced.

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RickWhit
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:35pm
I will bet dollars to donuts that there is some type of pay incentive for a gov worker to pack heat.

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- Obama Snake Oil Co
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:02pm
  I am not sure about that but I will tell you, be prepared, when Obimbo loses the election, I suspect a riot based on “cheating” will come to view. This is what Beck fears and this is what I am prepared for. As they say around here, you may get me but it will not be without a serious fight. The military will not defend the president, they will protect the people, I am confident of that. Some may desert but they will uphold the constitution and defend their families. Pay attention to OWS, they maybe in silent mode, but there are there to incite riots for Pivens. Obimbo will go down but the confusion will cause havoc. Arm up, be prepared, listen, read and pay attention, do not trust these libterds.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:13pm
  OSOC
  I got your back. Nice post.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:56pm
  0BAMA SNAKE OIL CO, Have had the same feeling for about three years, but have been quiet about on purpose.
  
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obxned
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:27pm
Why are they so afraid of us poor, hard working, tax paying citizens?

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- gunslinger
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:51pm
  Because this hard working taxpayer (5400.00 in property taxes alone) has 4 versions of ‘Americas rifle’ too many to list other things in various calibers, and 30K rounds of ammo in the house, and I want to be left alone.
  And that does not fit with the federal SOP
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Slinger
  Never disclose the extent or lack thereof of your arsenal. That includes you other guys too. It just feeds them intel. Don’t do it.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:37pm
  We The People are the hurdle on the path to the NWO. America must fall for the NWO to rise. Hopefully most citizens will defend America and the Constitution when the time comes. Divide and conquer is what your witnessing today. But the enemy is unclear, Obama…yes, Dem…..yes, Repubs…….yes some of them. Its obvious that progressives ie. Communists have in fact taken over Washington. ALL establishment must go. Term limits must be set and citizens must wake up. Personally, its to late, we hit the berg, we will change captains, but 16,000,000,000,000 reasons say its to late. Thats not even the real number.
  
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sandrunner
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:16pm
I think I trust the criminals before I trust the progressive liberal government.

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OneTermPresident
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:11pm
But unless Americans begin to push back against this avalanche of federal police and regulators, the number of people receiving a paycheck…. “to investigate and prosecute average citizens for opaque and even unknowable federal violations will grow dramatically.”

I smell Agenda 21

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- WakingSheep
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:53pm
  That’s just tinfoil hat….ish!
  Even though I have read it on the U.N. website; it’s just bullocks!
  Not only that we will have real Constitutional leadership next year that won’t bow down to the U.N.
  
  BAAAAAAA
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:09pm
  Mr. W. Sheep…..”Even though I have read it on the U.N. website; it’s just bullocks!”……..Yes its just bullocks, even thought its showing up in townships all over America. Why would you not take them at there word. They don’t fear us. They should but they don’t. Read further and Wake Up Sheep bot. You have know clue to whats really going on. Start digging…..its a deep cesspool.
  
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:28pm
  That was all sarcasm. Agenda 21 is no sh’t. Us having another POS un-Constitutional president is not sh’t either.
  
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Anadara
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:10pm
When Government departments get Police powers it puts a whole new spin on the “Rule of Law.” It seems to me that it pretty much makes regular law enforcement irrelevant. And with that bundle of feces, you get turf disputes, inconsistent enforcement, arbitrary enforcement and an elitist attitude that holds the American people as Helots. …I agree there are too many agencies with guns and bounty hunter attitudes. Please Congress get these organizations under control.

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Sara123
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:08pm
Thanks for writing this editorial! I want to be free. A police state is not safe.

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ckhenson
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:06pm
And, by the way, did you know the Veterans Administration has their own police force? Security at VA facilities couldn’t be contracted out?

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ckhenson
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:05pm
Buck, it’s cartridges until it is fired. Then the “bullet” strikes it’s target.

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mercenary4freedom
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:04pm
obama’s america

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- WakingSheep
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:50pm
  Was it Obama that gave us the DHS or TSA?
  Republicans and Democrats both get the blame on this. I wasn’t even old enough to vote when the aforementioned agencies were created.
  This mess won’t be cleaned up in my lifetime either.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:13pm
  WAKINGSHEEP, No, but it under 0bama’s tutelage they work under now.
  
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:34pm
  Rjj
  Exactly…. Who will they be under a decade from now?
  It doesn’t matter who the are “under” as they all suppress contitutionsl liberties. How many times has the government actually reduced its scope?
  Obamacare or the “replaced” Romneycare will be no different to my grandchildren than the FED is to us today. Nobody cares because that is legislation from a century ago that dramatically affects us today.
  The machine will just keep on growing…..
  
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JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:59pm
To our oppressors aka Politicians and Governments

Now as you urinate on the small remaining flame of the torch of freedom, lit by our forefathers, “we the people” do hold you accountable, for you had many other nobler choices, you chose to enslave the people.

“We the people” will come for you, just as others have come for their destroyers in the past, and you will pay for your deception, corruption, treachery, abuse, thievery and incompetence.

I do not stand alone; you forget, I am “We the people”

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- TexVet61
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:42pm
  I too am “We the people” and like my forefathers before me and my fellow veterans, I will continue to uphold the oath I took when I joined the Military, that oath was to protect the country I love and the freedoms we enjoy.. Unlike an entire CORRUPT administration and a congress too pussyfied to do anything (or corrupt, you choose)
  
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- JohnQTaxpayer
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:48pm
  Thank you for your service and the service of all veterans
  The true keepers of the torch of freedom
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:18pm
  Amen JohnQ,and remember, we will NOT comply.As ive said before, hussein and the rest of Washington have no clue what they are up against,as Beck said, WE outnumber them….
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:42pm
  Right on John. Until a few of these creeps are chased down in the streets they will continue to sell us out. They may not pay tomorrow, or next week, or next year. But, they will pay.
  
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kaydeebeau
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:50pm
Who uses hollow points for target practice?

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- goldmankc
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:04pm
  looks like the feds, and on our dime
  
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- Anadara
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:11pm
  I do.
  
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- TexVet61
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:35pm
  I do, I reload and I can get generic .40/.45 cheaper than I can get FMJ namebrand tops… so that means I don’t have to worry if I have target loads in a mag… but I also load gold dot and gold saber for defense loads so while there is a difference, its not much.
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:42pm
  Wad cutters for general practice and sighting in.
  
  But you train how you fight and fight how you train.
  
  If you do not use plenty of hollow point in your action training, you will be really unprepared for the results.
  
  But the fedgov thinks they are smart and stupid people like us just don’t understand these complicated things.
  
  Weaponizing bureaucrats giving them para military training is a deeply troubling trend and the next president needs to start cutting back on government by taking weapons off these Rambos.
  
  You need law enforcement to serve a warrant and catch a bad guy? Call the State Police to ride along with you. This will help the entire Republic sleep better at night.
  
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- gunslinger
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:55pm
  Depending on the target ..I do. But it does get a little expensive. :)
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:25pm
  Occasionally I run two magazines of hollows through my gun just to make sure that there aren’t any problems using hollows. It’ expensive, but it is good to make sure that everything operates well.
  
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- MAX0O1
  Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:26pm
  SCARY huh?
  
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- 65Plus
  Posted on August 21, 2012 at 8:50pm
  They do, if we are the targets. They cost almost 2X FMJ ammo.
  
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