Actually funding has dropped 10% for every year that there has been a continuing resolution, instead of a real budget.
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They have to share rifles with other agents? What the hell is that about?
The money spend by the current POTUS in one month of his "let's keep 'em here and feed 'em plan" would probably fix most if not all of these issues. BP needs to get a clue and have personnel in their individual sectors trained to fix these issues. If a phuking private in the military can work on weapons, so can I BP agent.
There are so many way to fix these problems but the money is being blown elsewhere.
It's the government, someone, somewhere along the way said "we should only let certified armorers at these locations service weapons" and someone else bought into it. It's all about making yourself invaluable so you job can't be done away with.
It's out of the Border Patrols hands. They're not the ones who make the decision to send all their weapons to Harper's Ferry and Benning. It's someone further up the chain than that.
Everyone knows how the government works. There's no quick fix to a situation like this. It will take a lot of time to convince someone to change the status quo.
That's not to say that there probably aren't some stations out there that do some work on their own. There are plenty of guys out there who, like most of us, have built their own rifles and have plenty of knowledge to be able to fix most issues. It's just not the norm and it's technically against policy so it'll never go widespread.
Yes, it seems beyond accidentally bad...
How many of these armorers have ever run a rifle to failure? How many of the deadlined rifles have been tested to see if they actually fail? :rolleyes2
Can they use personal rifles? If it were me, no damn way am I going without a rifle with all the POS drug runners and dealers flowing over our border on a daily basis. It's unfortunate that you'd have to do such a thing but the lazy a$$holes on welfare and border jumpers need extra money with Halloween right around the corner don't you know. I'd also be buying up my own ammo even though that's also ridiculous. It's sickening that these men and women are expected to patrol and protect our borders while under equipped.