Originally Posted by Bat Guano

Somewhere around here I have a service-wide inventory list, by make, model, and quantity, of all the INS/Border Patrol firearms as of 1974 or so.

Sometime around 1980 or so I heard that the bean counters had bought a bunch of Mossberg .308 rifles for the Patrol in lieu of the requested Remington 760s, to save a couple of bucks. The word was that they were JIB (junk in the box) and so bad they were never issued. The only one of the type I ever saw made Japanese Arisakas look good.