WASHINGTON — Schools may be gun-free zones, but the U.S. Department of
Education is locked and loaded.
The agency put in an order this month for 27 new short-barreled shotguns to
replace some of its aging arsenal.
You didn't know that the Education Department had an arsenal?
The department and other federal agencies have weapons because the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 and some earlier laws empowered agents in their offices
of inspector general to carry firearms.
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