This Is How Important Securing The Border Is: Border Patrol Stripping Agents Of Their Rifles
BY Herschel Smith
10 years ago
The News 4 Tucson Investigators have uncovered that some U.S. Border Patrol agents have lost a key part of their arsenal. And that has agents who patrol along the border here, extremely worried.
We learned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Offices of Border Patrol and Training and Development are inspecting the quality of agents’ M4 carbines throughout Border Patrol sectors nationwide. But agents tell us, some of those M4s have not been replaced. And, we’ve learned, agents are required to share rifles amongst each other.
“There’s a lot of agents that are pretty upset over it,” said Art del Cueto, president of the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector union. “We know it’s a dangerous job. We know what we signed on for but we want to have as much of the equipment as we need to perform the job.”
The M4 carbine is used by the U.S. military and by Border Patrol agents. It’s even used by the Border Patrol’s tactical unit, BORTAC. Agent Brian Terry was carrying the M4 when he was shot and killed in December 2010.
Del Cueto tells us that because some of those M4s have not been replaced, agents are pooling their weapons, which makes it difficult to personalize the settings on a rifle, such as the sights.
“The problem is they are now pool guns so what happens is instead of having their individual ones they have sighted in they’re having to use a pool weapon that you don’t know who used it before you,” del Cueto said.
Customs and Border Protection released a statement to the News 4 Tucson Investigators last week, stating: “CBP’s Offices of Border Patrol and Training and Development are jointly inspecting the serviceability of M4 carbines throughout Border Patrol Sectors nationwide. Some of (the) inspected M4 carbines were deemed unserviceable and removed from inventory to alleviate safety concerns. Inspections will continue to ensure the unserviceable M4 carbines are repaired or replaced for reintroduction into the field. No further information is available at this time.”
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Prather believes removing some of the rifles maybe politically motivated. He says he was told that many of these guns are being removed for issues that are easily repaired like the firing pin and bolt.
He broke down a M4 as he spoke.
“This weapon is designed to be able to be in a battle situation, changed out rather quickly even so fast that modern weapons have areas to hold spare bolts,” he said.
That makes him suspicious that the agency could be disarming its agents.
The U.S. government has enough surplus weapons that every local yokel Sheriff’s department gets machine guns and armored vehicles on your tax dollars. But the Border Patrol agents are getting their rifles confiscated by the Border Patrol. It sort of makes you think that the administration is trying to cause an invasion, no?
So it’s worse that sending weapons South of the border to criminal cartels in an attempt to shore up the case for a demand letter to FFLs. Now we want to ensure that agents who want to stop the criminals aren’t armed. There’s your administration and your tax dollars at work.
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On November 11, 2014 at 9:52 am, St Bernard said:
Do you think these law enforcement types will ever figure it out? You pigs ain’t nothin’ but pawns. So suck it up!
On November 11, 2014 at 7:11 pm, Paul B said:
I think if I worked for the government I would have to think long and hard about going to work tomorrow
On November 12, 2014 at 12:43 pm, Bobbye said:
Under these conditions you do not go to work. You go to your job and collect your pay. Most figure out how to pass 8-12 hours without a conflict. Border patrol pay isn’t bad.
On November 12, 2014 at 4:01 pm, The Old Guy said:
That rumbling noise you hear is Charlie Askins rotating in his grave.
On November 12, 2014 at 11:14 pm, Miles said:
As I, and others, have said elsewhere: It has the appearance of CBP having let a contract for weapons maintenance. All I can say for sure about .gov contractors is, 1 That if you don’t follow the letter of the contract, the contractor will sue….and win. and 2 They’re noted for quite often taking their own sweet time doing the work when the contract has been written specifying a minimum manhour per work operation.
If only in house, qualified and trained WG-6610 Smallarms Repairers (remember, this is Uncle we’re talking about) are being used, CBP has probably (how many do they have on staff? Not many is my opinion, maybe one or two per patrol sector) overloaded them to the point where it may take years to perform what used to be called “3rd Echelon Maintenance” in the Army on 16000+ weapons. No to mention getting the needed parts on hand.
On November 13, 2014 at 8:16 am, rambler said:
Guess Americans just can’t have those guns even in the line of duty. The gov has given up securing the border in favor of the drug cartels, human trafficers and foreign invaders because they’d all make great voters for the dems. Just giving the country away one piece at a time.
On November 13, 2014 at 8:31 am, TexasStomp said:
RECALLS! IN EVERY BORDER STATE! FEBRUARY 1, 2015!
ANY member of the new congress who doesn’t act to reverse this policy need not unpack their luggage. They won’t be there long enough to need a change of underwear!