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Why Does the Department of Education and USDA Need 'Weapons of War'?

Jul 20, 2022 · 9:53 second-amendmentsurveillancespending

Massie grills agency reps on why non-law-enforcement federal agencies are buying short-barreled rifles, body armor, and ammunition by the millions of rounds.

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  1. 0:00 Introduction
  2. 2:27 uh maybe you need to dispatch an unruly
  3. 4:53 in the senate but your bill's probably dead
  4. 7:27 so please either vote for the amendment or

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  1. uh are there any further amendments the amendment nature of a substitute mr chairman what purpose does mr massey seek recognition mr chairman i have an amendment to offer i reserve a point of
  2. order mr chairman clerk will report the amendment the point of order is reserved amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to h.r 1808 offered by
  3. mr massey of kentucky without objection the amendment will be considered as red the gentleman is uh recognized for five minutes to explain his amendment i thank the uh the chairman um the bill the
  4. underlying bill that we're marking up today purportedly does two things it purports to ban weapons of war
  5. although it doesn't ban the sks the m1 grand the m1 carbine or a variety of other weapons that were designed for the military
  6. but it purports to ban weapons of war and it purports to ban magazines capable of carrying more than 15 rounds there are exemptions in the bill
  7. for federal agencies sort of blanket exemption my amendment is simple it says that the
  8. exemption does not cover the department of education or the department of agriculture for either the 15 round and
  9. above 15 round magazines or the so-called weapons of war i am at a loss to understand why the
  10. department of education or the department of agriculture would need the so-called weapons of war to complete their missions
  11. and um i would if if i may i would yield to any of the democrats who went to tell me why the department of education needs weapons of
  12. war uh mr swalwell i'll yield to you i would just ask if they don't need them why do you need them i yield back i would i would say that
  13. they are not weapons of war but i am taking the intent of mr sicilini on good faith that he's banning weapons of war here
  14. and so i would ask him why would he ban something that he calls weapons of war what why would he allow the us
  15. department of agriculture or the department of education to have what he considers to be weapons of war he said these weapons that he
  16. seeks to design have characteristics specifically for killing people if it's you know if it's at the usda i would wonder
  17. uh maybe you need to dispatch an unruly animal but if that's the case why would he seek to allow them to have weapons that in
  18. his by his definition and i will yield two here in a second are designed for killing people yeah i think that exclusion is included because they both have
  19. law enforcement agencies the gentleman yield i will yield to the chairman if he would try to answer the question why the department of education
  20. department of agriculture would need every so-called weapons of war every such department including the department of education and the department every department listed
  21. including the department of agriculture and the department of education have their own security forces who might need uh weapons i would um i like to ask why do
  22. they need more than 15 rounds and why would they need uh what the democrats have mostly characterized as weapons of war if they're not going to war i i
  23. understand that they might need firearms and i understand that the military should be exempt from from this
  24. prohibition and the department of homeland security and the fbi and the atf i'm starting to wonder why the irs would need weapons of war
  25. and i really have to scratch my head to understand why it why an agency that is involved with dealing with the education of children
  26. needs weapons of war and also you know maybe i've got a few articles that i'll submit for the record later on it is true
  27. that the fda but you see i haven't i'm not i'm not saying don't exempt the fda i understand why the fda wants weapons of
  28. war they conduct armed raids on armish farmers undertaking the crime of selling raw milk
  29. like so i i didn't seek to exclude the fda from your exemption but i cannot understand why the usda
  30. a department tasked with helping farmers is needs weapons of war or how they would be able to help farmers with
  31. weapons of war if they show up with them and i don't have anybody really who seems to want to answer that question so i offer
  32. my amendment and urge its adoption i think it's common sense i think it improves the bill and increases for you all it's likelihood of passage
  33. in the senate but your bill's probably dead on arrival there anyway and i yield back versus the gentleman from ohio secretary uh strike the last word mr chairman is recognized
  34. the basic principle here is this under the legislation if the legislation passed law-abiding citizens will no longer be able to purchase an ar-15 the most common rifle in the
  35. country no longer be able to do that but but the government will even bureaucrats at agencies like
  36. as mr massey's pointed out department of education department of agriculture now something just doesn't seem right about that
  37. it just seems strange to me yeah and i think if you ask you ask folks in the fourth district of ohio that i get the privilege representing they'll say what that that's what this bill allows
  38. so that's that's all that's all this amendment is like look fbi okay department of education probably not
  39. probably yeah i mean it's like this is this is pretty simple so i'd be happy to yield more time if he's got me
  40. more to say but it's it's pretty basic but i'd be happy to yield to the gentleman from kentucky well to enter these agencies you have to go through a metal detector
  41. and uh they have a civilian mission they do not have a military mission and i think dan bishop said it well
  42. this it really begs the question are these and i'm not saying it as well as he did but how can you say these are weapons of war
  43. and then argue that they need to go to agencies that are not engaged in war and should never be engaged in war
  44. and let me just reiterate a vote for the underlying bill after voting against this amendment is saying that you think
  45. that these most americans would think are uh benign agencies like the department of education we're the government we're
  46. here to help like the department of agriculture we're the government and we're here to help most people don't think they need weapons of war that they
  47. don't have a military-style uh mission and you know i'm i'm not contending myself i
  48. am taking at face value that miss mr sissolini and what mr swalwell says that these are weapons of war they're clearly not weapons of war if you if you want to
  49. give them to the department of education which is involved in curriculum and whatnot in the department of agriculture these are not weapons of war
  50. so please either vote for the amendment or vote against the bill yield to the gentleman from florida the entire reason we have the bill of rights is because there are certain rights that have to be
  51. reserved to the people not government and mr massey's amendment shows how this legislation has turned the constitution the bill of rights on its head
  52. it takes powers reserved to the people and it deprives the people of those powers and rights and then it reserves explicitly the very same rights for
  53. government not for the military but for like the deputy commissar of pencil racers at the department of education they want you weak and the government
  54. strong they want you disarmed and the government armed to the teeth i'm reminded of a quote from austin powers
  55. where austin powers introduces one of his colleagues as a representative from the militant wing of the salvation army i didn't know he had a militant wing of
  56. the department of education or the usda but i am i am certainly aware that our fellow americans are concerned about a
  57. very troubling trend where these bureaucracies are getting their own militias and arsenals it would probably surprise most americans that just this
  58. year the irs has purchased 700 000 worth of ammunition so when you peel back all the layers of the onion the
  59. party of big government isn't actually against guns and ammo they're just against you having them because they want a citizenry that is repressed and
  60. dominated and ultimately subjected and by the way our founders were so brilliant they knew this would happen and they knew that the second amendment wasn't going to be about hunting or
  61. self-defense but about curating an appropriate balance that is necessary for a free society where we don't have to live in fear that one day some deputy
  62. administrator from the department of education is going to knock our door down and that as a result of us not having the appropriate protractor that
  63. we're somehow going to be in a in a disadvantageous position regarding our safety and far more important regarding our liberty i yield back to the gentleman from ohio under the gentleman
  64. from kentucky and as the gentleman from ohio has pointed out several times in this committee if they want federal agents at the school board meetings we don't need the
  65. department of education to go the fbi is already there i will yield back the gentleman from ohio back mr chairman