Firepower for USDA
There was a bit of buzz on the Internet and in aggie circles over a USDA request for bids to supply 10 submachine guns, ranging from incredulity to waggish remarks of "watch out, varmints." (One quickly learns USDA has its own bank, the Commodity Credit Corp; an air fleet, to combat wildfires; and artillery, used by the Forest Service to prevent snow avalanches.)