{"id":22742,"date":"2016-06-26T13:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22742"},"modified":"2016-06-26T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:10:12","slug":"boston-globe-the-fda-is-stockpiling-military-weapons-and-its-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22742","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe: The FDA is stockpiling military weapons \u2014 and it\u2019s not alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2016\/06\/25\/the-fda-stockpiling-military-weapons-and-not-alone\/iGbHhnnkTbsSMnnO23obiI\/story.html\">The FDA is stockpiling military weapons \u2014 and it\u2019s not alone<\/a> by Jeff Jacoby:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AMERICA\u2019S GUN CULTURE has been a subject of intense interest and controversy for years, with concerns frequently raised about shadowy militias, paramilitary extremists, and unstable zealots in possession of alarming quantities of explosives and firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the current din over assault weapons and body armor, consider one domestic organization\u2019s fearsome arsenal of military-style equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In the space of eight years, the group amassed a stockpile of pistols, shotguns, and semiautomatic rifles, along with ample supplies of ammunition, liquid explosives, gun scopes, and suppressors. In its cache as well are night-vision goggles, gas cannons, plus armored vests, drones, and surveillance equipment. Between 2006 and 2014, this organization spent nearly $4.8 million to arm itself. Yet its aggressive weapons buildup has drawn almost no public attention.<\/p>\n<p>Does all this firepower belong to a jihadist terror cell? A right-wing hate group? A vicious urban gang?<\/p>\n<p>None of the above. It is the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, an agency of the US Department of Agriculture, that has built up such a formidable collection of munitions. And far from being an outlier, it is one of dozens of federal agencies that spends lavishly on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe: The FDA is stockpiling military weapons \u2014 and it\u2019s not alone by Jeff Jacoby:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22743,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742\/revisions\/22743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}