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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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7. The FBI are the elephant in the room.

Reply to HeartachesNhangovers (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 3, 2022, 06:54 PM

Dec 2022

Honestly, no one gives a crap about what postal inspectors carry. I doubt most people even know. But when you say "armed agencies that rarely use their weapons," you're basically undercutting your whole premise. "It's a perfectly sufficient weapon as long as you don't plan to use it" isn't exactly a hot selling point.

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So ... Straw Man Dec 2022 #5

I didn't mention the US military - they aren't a federal agency. HeartachesNhangovers Dec 2022 #6

The FBI are the elephant in the room. Straw Man Dec 2022 #7

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Correction noted. Straw Man Dec 2022 #9

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