Pretty Much EVERY Government Agency Has Guns

For those conspiracy-minded people who think the U.S. government is out to get them, here’s some ammunition they could use: the arming of federal government employees now shows the number of non-Defense Department federal officers carrying firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000)

That shocking statistic comes courtesy of a Wall Street Journal op-ed penned by former Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and Adam Andrzejewski the founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com.