Federal Government Disarming The Border Patrol

The Federal government recently began removing M4 rifles from Border Patrol agents due to supposed "safety issues".  Some government officials, like Iowa representative Steve King, aren't buying that story though.

King told examiner.com that:

“There’s no more reliable weapon in the world.” “Any agency like the Department of Homeland Security that has bought millions of rounds of ammunition over the past few years could certainly afford to replace with new serviceable M4s all the weapons they are [taking] for testing. This sounds to me like a ruse to start to take the weapons out of the hands of the Border Patrol."

"the M4, M16 and AR15 have interchangeable parts and feature identical action." “If there were any problem with them as far as safety was concerned, it would be all over the Internet.”

Art del Cueto, Tucson Border Patrol union president, told WND.com that:

in over a decade of time spent on Border Patrol duties, he has never seen so many weapons removed by the federal government at one time due to "safety" issues.

He said the agents who inspected and confiscated the weapons gave no advance notice, nor any real reason for taking them other than that they had "issues".

He added:

“We have trained armorers working as agents and if there were problems with any of the weapons, they could have been fixed without federal agents removing them,” he said. “We are hearing that some of the problems were firing pins. We could have removed firing pins without requiring federal agents to remove the weapon and send it off somewhere for repairs.”

Disarming those who protect our borders doesn't sound like a very bright idea to me.  How about you?