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Thread: Border Patrol Rifles Deadlining

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    Quote Originally Posted by TCB View Post
    There is an "approved" list of optics (and other gear) but our Sector replied with a big ol' negative to a request to mount a personally owned Aimpoint (approved model) on a work gun. I hear other Sectors are better about this stuff...big boy rules apply down here as to personal magazines. There was a memo put out to our Sector a while ago saying no magazines other than ones supplied by the Patrol are to be used.
    If your sector can't come up with a reason for denying you approved optics, then your union should be balls deep in their ass, same with magazines. Most of the time stations buy decent commercial mags in bulk, 1 Brownells 30 rounder looks just like the next, unless they are issuing them out at the start of shift or putting them on you property card, who is going to be able to tell an issue mag from one you purchased and took care of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iraqgunz View Post
    Someone told me that the Sectors are kind of like the LAPD in the each one is it's own little fiefdom. Maybe, I am wrong. That being the case it's pretty easy for the HMFIC of policy to say here's how it will be.
    Mostly true, each sector does everything a little different. Top management and workload generally dictate how squared away things are. Just like a Jimmy Carter peace time Army was way different than a GW war time Army.

    I may not be a USBP agent, but I don't need to be one to recognize that there is a huge bloated bureaucracy that is stopping the guys in the field from getting what they need, or they would already have it.
    Upper management has always been a problem and the merger with DHS has not helped. The most simplest explanation is that big gov does not care about the border. They obviously have to give it some lip service to appease some of the voting block. Every year DHS does a survey on their components. Every year BP come in last or at the bottom. Every year the Agents say the same thing " the most import job out there that no one gives a **** about "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Horned Toad View Post
    If your sector can't come up with a reason for denying you approved optics, then your union should be balls deep in their ass, same with magazines. Most of the time stations buy decent commercial mags in bulk, 1 Brownells 30 rounder looks just like the next, unless they are issuing them out at the start of shift or putting them on you property card, who is going to be able to tell an issue mag from one you purchased and took care of.
    Like I said, big boy rules apply to magazines...I asked our last lead FI about P-Mags a couple years ago and he told me that they used to issue them out...as far as he knew I had some..."full" GI mags (28 rounds (sometimes way less)) are issued out at the beginning of shift, the quality ranges from good to piss poor, although I think we got a new batch recently (I haven't used them for a long time).
    As for optics, that guidance came direct from Sector (approved optics apparently also means .Gov purchased). Most of the assigned rifles have an EoTurd on them but the pool guns are iron sighted. I did just manage to score an H-1 from a buddy at Sector that is now on my property card (and rifle) WooHoo!!!
    But yea, management needs to show some leadership and get this shit straightened out...that's really all it will take.

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    Not to take pleasure in your agony, but I thought my agency was the most screwed up in the Feds. At least now I know someone else is on par with us. Good luck, and stay safe.

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    Yea... Pretty sure CBP rifles is now where near a priority.


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