Why does HUD need firearms?

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TMoney

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That's my question. I would think they could do more good with $700.00 hammers.

Anybody got an answer for me; I really don't know.

Thanks.
 
If I'm not mistaken, HUD has set up miniature 'police departments' in some of their 'Urban Developments'.

Which does tend to beg the question: why are employees of a Federal Agency enforcing State Law? Or are they enforcing Federal Law? And if they are enforcing Federal Law, have the 'Urban Developements' become reservations when I wasn't looking?

Hmm.

LawDog

[This message has been edited by LawDog (edited March 23, 2000).]
 
WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today announced he will direct the nation's 3,200
public housing authorities to give preference in their gun purchases to any gun makers that adopt a new code of responsible
conduct. The new code, agreed upon Friday by Smith & Wesson and the Clinton Administration, will make guns safer and keep
them out of the hands of children and criminals.

In addition to covering gun purchases by housing authorities, Cuomo's directive - to be implemented by regulation - will
encourage the authorities to apply the same requirement to private subcontractors that provide security at housing
developments. http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr00-57.html

dZ
 
We know IRS and their friends in the ATF are well-armed. I hear FDA is getting geared up, too...meybe they finally figured out that they will start taking casualties if they keep pushing people around?
 
Isn't the EPA armed, complete with entry teams, as well?

I'll echo the WTF? If these guys have that sort of problems, they should be calling the professionals, like the FBI or local LE.
 
they get the good stuff with high cap mags & we prolotariates get the smart gun with the remote off switch on Dick Tracy's watch.
:(

dZ
 
LawDog
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"Which does tend to beg the question: why are employees of a Federal Agency enforcing State Law? Or are they enforcing Federal Law? "

Hmmmmm....never thought of that before, good point sir! What's the answer?

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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
World Net Daily had a list at one time of all the Federal agencies that were armed and had LE "duties", Education, EPA, HUD are but three of the bunch. Heck even the DOI has swat teams. (that is Department of the Interior)

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"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
Thank you, my friends, for the enlightening information that will keep me awake for the rest of my freedom-loving life!(No matter how close to the apocolyse I may have been born).
 
I thought our elementary school teacher taught us that we are living in a democracy and the 'statute of liberty' represents freedom? Freedom from what? Many 'common people' in the early colonies risked their lives, and many died in the process, in fighting the British so that their great-great-great-great-great grandchildren could live in society free from oppressive government. The founding Fathers of this country signed the Death Wish when they created the Declaration of Independence. I guess it doesn't mean anything more 'cause talk is cheap - it's only history in the children's school books, and money rule everything else during times of economic prosperity in this country. It's too bad that the American people are becoming the Slaves to their government every where they go, even to the local Social Security Office where the gov't agents are armed to the teeth at the entrances and are quick to respond to any revolts by the 'common people.'
 
The whole thing makes me sick! The Federal Government is playing favorites by awarding contracts (gun sales to agencies) to Smith and Wesson over others makers not based on quality or bid but on the politics of disarming civilians. What we need is a gun maker owned and operated by women minorites who make state of the art weapons desired by police agencies but who refuse to cede the rights of the People.
 
With regards to thepost office......I had heard awhile back that the Postal Inspectors were issued mp5's, does anyone know the validity of that?.....I heard from a man Ive know for quite a few years that worked at a gun shop and reportedly heard it direct from a customer who was a Inspector......fubsy.
 
fubsy,

I know why the postal workers are armed. At my local branch there is a sign indicating that all mail is delivered to P.O. boxes by 9am.

Someone ;) modified the sign to read "9mm", and nobody's caught it yet.

Too much time on my hands...

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NRA/GOA/SAF/USMC

"Is your church BATF approved?"
 
If anyone has their copy of Unintended Consequences laying around (mine's on loan to a lawyer) I believe near the end of the book during a discussion between the President and that Judge Potter guy, they give a list of agencies authorized to pack heat.
 
Because power comes from the barrel of a gun. It seems that I've heard that before....Hmmm

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
 
I can definitely see a solid reason for HUD needing a LOT of firepower.

Any of you spent a lot of time in "the projects"?

'Nuff said. ;)
 
HUD and other Government agencies, operate on the principle that you and every other person who is not working for them are scum, that the Constitution was written for the agencies to use or ignore as they see fit, and that any person who stands in their way deserves to be mowed down.
 
To get back to the original question. If the projects involved are owned outright, by HUD, then that makes them federal property, and subject to federal law. If not? What in hell are they doing there?
Frankly. I've felt for a long time, that there is too damn much federal interference in our lives.
JMHO.
Paul B.
 
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