Dept of Education getting 27 SBS's

[squidly]

There was a link on drudge.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?id=16f1571b63e3d75d15583cc75b21d58c

The Pro Arms folks are smarter than me and have lots of connections so I'm hoping y'all can tell me why the Dept of Education (of all the gov't agencies) would need 27 short barreled Remington 870s. Very sweet sounding 870s too.

I realize that they are the government, they are here too help and we should trust them but part of me is nervous hearing this.
The other part is just jealous because I want one too!

[Daeglan]

What I want to know is why the Dept. of Education needs shotguns for?

[BikerRN]

What I want to know is why the Dept. of Education needs shotguns for?

Because it's hard to get the little hellions back in the classroom after recess. 

Biker

[tscentral]

 but part of me is nervous hearing this.

I'm not going to say that is completely unfounded.

But a little elucidation of the why. They are actually for the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General (ED OIG). Every federal department has an IG, and every IG has some special agents. They investigate waste, fraud, and employee misconduct. So they save taxpayers money if they are doing the job right.

Inspector General Act of 1978 gave them statutory law enforcement authority and section 812 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 provided firearms, arrest, and search warrant authorities.

http://www.ignet.gov/
http://www.ignet.gov/pande/standards/agleguidelines.pdf

Hunter

[flop-shank]

Only 27 guns? I'll bet tscentral is on to it.

[squidly]

Thanks, Hunter.
That makes sense.
Now if I could only lose the mental image of my smokin hot 8th grade science teacher wielding a sawed off shotgun..........

[flop-shank]

Thanks, Hunter.
That makes sense.
Now if I could only lose the mental image of my smokin hot 8th grade science teacher wielding a sawed off shotgun..........

I'd like that. She'd put the shotgun down and....... you know ( ), same mental image then as now.   Actually, she was my tenth grade sociology teacher (cougar, rrrrraaaawwrrrr).

[Miggy]

Inspector General Act of 1978 gave them statutory law enforcement authority and section 812 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 provided firearms, arrest, and search warrant authorities.

There is a blog entry here somewhere......