Thread: Guns of the Fed's 1920-1950
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Old 03-08-2016, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by kwill1911 View Post
Back in June, 1945, The American Rifleman published an article by some guy named Hoover entitled "The Shooting FBI." The original article has some neat pictures but you can read the text at the link below.

American Rifleman | FBI Firearms Training: The Shooting FBI
For whatever reason, the way the FBI told the story added to the confusion. Of course, as discussed, this doesn't say agents DIDN'T carry weapons but only that statutory authority was added.

Kwill, please post the other pages. I'd like to add them to my file.

"Law enforcement officers without guns in this modern day would seem paradoxical, yet not so many years ago Special Agents of the FBI were without statutory authority to carry weapons. ...

The months of May and June, 1934, are red-letter months in the history of law enforcement in the United States. .... and on June 18, 1934, Congress empowered Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to carry firearms and make arrests."
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