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EDOOIG-10-000004

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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14" - PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT - XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID - 14" LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
The required date of delivery is March 22, 2010.
Interested sources must submit detailed technical capabilities and any other information that demonstrates their ability to meet the requirements above, no later than March 12, 2010 at 12 PM, E.S.T. Any quotes must be submitted electronically to the attention of Holly.Le@ed.gov, Contract Specialist (Contract Operations Group), with a concurrent copy to Sherese.Lewis@ed.gov, Contracting Officer (Contract Operations Group).
The following clauses are applicable to this requirement:

Source: FedBizOps

Resident, Man Exchange Fire During Attempted Break-In

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Metro police said a man forced his way into an apartment, and then fired at least seven shots before leaving the scene.

It happened Saturday night just before midnight at the Blue Diamond Apartments, off Blue Lick Road.

Police said shots were fired between the unknown man and the resident, but no one suffered fatal injuries.

Police said an unknown man knocked on an apartment door claiming to be a relative.

"The girlfriend answered the door and she said, ‘Who is it?’ and the person at the door — it ended up being the victim’s brother’s name that they said. She didn’t recognize the voice and she knew the victim’s brother, so she knew it wasn’t him so she didn’t answer," said Louisville Metro Police Detective Mark Hord.

At that point, police said the man kicked open the door.

"The door flew open partially and the victim and his girlfriend said all they saw was a hand come into the door with a gun," Hord said.

Police said the suspect never fully entered the apartment, but still fired at least five shots.

The bullets missed everyone inside, but the resident fired back with his own shotgun he had under his couch, police said.

"He grabbed the shotgun, shot back one shot through the door that was partially opened. We could see several holes in the door coming from the shotgun," Hord said.

Police said it’s unclear whether or not the bullet hit the unknown man. When the man took off, he fired at least two more shots inside the apartment through a sliding glass door.

"There were several bullet holes in the blinds that hang over the sliding glass door, so the sliding glass door was just shattered. It’s weird that when you’re there, it’s a weird eerie sound because it’s still cracking and pieces are still falling," Hord said…

Source: WLKY News

Without that shotgun, this would have been a “Dial 911 and Die” kind of situation. Now, I’m glad this didn’t happen next door, but again, the value of the shotgun shines through. The pellets didn’t shoot through and injure the innocent. The 12 gauge shotgun is hard to beat for urban home defense.

HOLLISTER, Calif. – The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

It’s still unclear why John Patrick Bedell opened fire Thursday at the Pentagon entrance, wounding two police officers before he was fatally shot. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries.

Bedell was diagnosed as bipolar, or manic depressive, and had been in and out of treatment programs for years. His psychiatrist, J. Michael Nelson, said Bedell tried to self-medicate with marijuana, inadvertently making his symptoms more pronounced.

"Without the stabilizing medication, the symptoms of his disinhibition, agitation and fearfullness complicated the lack of treatment," Nelson said.

So how’d he get the guns and ammo? I thought these kinds of folks were “prohibited persons.”

His parents reported him missing Jan. 4, a day after a Texas Highway Patrol officer stopped him for speeding in Texarkana. Bedell told the highway patrolman he was heading to the East Coast, and began acting strangely — sitting on his knees by the side of the highway and turning off his cell phone when it would ring.

Bedell said it was his mother calling, prompting the patrolman to answer the phone and talk briefly with her. Family friend Reb Monaco said Kaye Bedell asked the officer to take him to a mental health facility, but that the son refused.

The patrolman let Bedell go after issuing a speeding ticket and a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, including a pipe and a green plastic box with marijuana residue.

Are you kidding me?

The next day, Kaye told deputies in California that her son had no reason to travel to the East Coast because he had no friends or family there and she and her husband were worried about his mental state, San Benito County Sheriff Curtis Hill said.

Hill also said Bedell’s parents found an e-mail from their son that indicated he had made a $600 purchase from a shooting range in the Sacramento area that could have been a gun or ammunition.

And what gave you the first clue, Holmes?

The 36-year-old Bedell returned to his parent’s home Jan. 18, telling them "not to ask any questions" about where he had been. But he left after that, and his parents didn’t know where he went.

I’ll ask questions in my own house of my own kids whenever I damned well please; thank you very much.

Little is known about his trip east, but authorities know he spent time in Reno, where Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley said he was arrested on Feb. 1 with two ounces of marijuana in his car but no weapons.

The Bedell family put out a statement Friday saying they were "devastated as a family by the news."

"We may never know why he made this terrible decision," the statement said. "One thing is clear though — his actions were caused by an illness and not a defective character."

Well, duh. So who sold him the guns and why wasn’t his extensive history of mental illness in the NICS?

Bedell, the officials say, opened fire with a 9 mm handgun just five feet from the nearest officer, Marvin Carraway. Fellow officer Jeffery Amos ran out of a nearby guard booth to confront Bedell, as did a third, unidentified officer. All three officers gave chase and fired at Bedell, who was struck in the head and left arm.

Witness Dan Namisi said he had just emerged from the Metro station, headed for a bus home, when he heard a "pop." The Uganda native hit the ground, and the next thing he knew, officers swarmed over him and put handcuffs on him.

Yeah, great. Grab the black guy…

The assault at the very threshold of the Pentagon — the U.S. capital’s ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001 — came four months after a deadly attack on the Army’s Fort Hood, Texas, post allegedly by a U.S. Army psychiatrist with radical Islamic leanings.

Hatred of the government motivated a man in Texas last month to fly a small plane into a building housing Internal Revenue Service offices, killing an IRS employee and himself.

The shooting resembled one in January in which a gunman walked up to the security entrance of a Las Vegas courthouse and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one officer and wounding another before being gunned down in return fire.

Source: Yahoo News

So, what’s your point? Is there some kind of connection here beyond garden variety insanity?

In my more paranoid moments, I almost suspect that the powers that be want this kind of stuff to happen so they can further restrict gun ownership. With all of these warnings signs, why wasn’t this guy picked up? Why wasn’t his info in the NICS? Just like Cho at Virginia Tech, the signs were clear for anyone to see.

OK, I’ll say it: despite my near-fanatical devotion to the Second Amendment, there are some folks out there who have no business being in possession of any kind of firearm, and this guy is one of them. Democracy and equal rights under the law presupposes rational behavior. Those who are incapable of rational behavior give up some of their rights. There is nothing wrong with that. Epileptics are not allowed to pilot jet airliners because they could have a seizure at a critical moment and kill a lot of people. The same goes with guns. A person who has demonstrated acute mental instability forfeits their right to unrestricted firearms ownership. Life is not always fair. Get used to it.

And as for poor John Patrick Bedell, had the people around him – his parents and local law enforcement – acted like adults and done the hard work of reeling him in, he might be alive today and two Capitol City police officers wouldn’t be in the hospital. 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An armed man was arrested inside the Wal-Mart on Hurstbourne Parkway around noon Friday.

Louisville police said 38-year-old Cecil Hume had a loaded handgun.

Police said Hume was spotted inside the women’s bathroom with the gun.

Officers arrested Hume and charged him with disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed deadly weapon.

source: WLKY

…and what exactly were you doing with your gun in the ladies restroom?

Across the U.S., most public universities ban students and faculty from carrying concealed handguns on campus. Colorado State University has, up until now, been one of the few exceptions to this rule. But now, campus leadership wants to change the policy, and that’s not sitting well with students and local gun rights advocates.

The university’s board of directors voted to pass a ban on carrying concealed weapons last year. At a news conference on the Fort Collins campus earlier this month, Terry Tyan, of the advocacy group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, says the ban — which has yet to be finalized — would violate Colorado’s concealed-carry law. She says that if the university continues to try to ban firearms, the school would be answered with a lawsuit.

The region’s county sheriff, Jim Alderden, says if the CSU policy is put into place, he will not jail anyone found guilty of violating it.

"What CSU is trying to pass is a policy," Alderden says. "And their position is that the university policy trumps state law and the U.S. Constitution."

Alderden says school policy should not trump state law. But under Colorado law, campuses do have the authority to implement weapons control policies. And the university’s spokesman, Brad Bohlander, says that most other campuses in the state already have these policies.

But Bohlander says the ban won’t go into place until a specific university policy is approved. So far, CSU officials have been pouring through public comment on a draft of the plan…

Source: NPR.org

OK, let’s review. You have your own business, moderately successful with some ups and downs. You live in a lovely house with your wife and step-daughter in one of the most interesting cities in the country. You play base in a rock band with your friends just for fun, and privately own your own aircraft. You get a bill from the revenuers for $13K and the best you can think to do with yourself is to burn down your house and fly this great plane into a cheap black glass office complex and kill yourself and some other people. Great. Way to go, Joe.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you Joseph Stack III, stone cold bug nuts crazy.

Joe, you probably can’t hear me very well right now since you’re dead and probably scattered around in a bunch of little pieces, but I’m superstitious enough not to take anything for granted, so I’ll say it anyway. Joe, there are people in Haiti right now with their arms and legs torn off drinking from sewers because they have no fresh water, and they still cling to life because something in their souls tells them that this life is worth living and what they do with it counts. There are soldiers walking the dusty streets of Afghanistan knowing any minute they can be hideously maimed, but they do it anyway because they believe that what they’re doing matters and the world will be a better place if they do their job well. There are old ladies sitting in dark and cold apartments trying to decide if they should buy food or the heart medication to keep them alive, and they buy the meds because they believe that their lives matter.

And you, Joe? You’re just insane. That’s all. You’re not a hero or a martyr. All you really managed to do was to raise questions about the security of civil aviation. Nothing changed, except for Vern and his wife, and your friends and your wife. They are all really hurt because you let them down in a big way. Everyone trusted you and you proved yourself completely unworthy. The news media is all a-twitter about if you are a “domestic terrorist” or not. But, we know the truth, don’t we? You’re not a terrorist; you’re just plain old crazy.

Before we sweep the scattered little bits of you into history’s garbage compacter, I want to be clear on this. Were we supposed to be inspired, to rush into the streets and lynch all the IRS agents? Were we supposed to speak in hushed tones of your “heroic sacrifice”? Were we supposed to memorize your narcissistic tome as if it were some kind of gospel? Sorry. I didn’t get the memo. What you did manage to do, however, was to accomplish the impossible: you caused me to feel sympathy for an IRS agent. Ain’t that a bite in the ass?

On February 22, a new law on guns in national parks takes effect.  The law repeals a National Park Service rule that has long prohibited Americans from lawfully possessing firearms in national parks for self-defense.

The new law, passed last spring by an overwhelming bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate, will allow people to possess, carry and transport firearms in national parks, in accordance with state law.

However, many details remain to be worked out.  Reports indicate that National Park Service officials are debating issues such as the definition of "federal facilities," where firearms will remain prohibited under a different federal law.

Source: NRA-ILA

Gun rights advocates have a California police detective in their crosshairs after he apparently posted comments on Facebook advocating that "open carry" supporters should be shot.

East Palo Alto Police Det. Rod Tuason apparently posted the remarks on his Facebook page in response to a friend’s status update, which suggested that gun advocates who carry unloaded weapons openly — which is legal in California — should do so in places like "Oakland, Richmond and East Palo Alto" and not just in "hoity toity" cities.

"Haha we had one guy last week try to do it!" Tuason replied. "He got proned out [laid face-down on the ground] and reminded where he was at and that turds will jack him for his gun in a heartbeat!"

Several comments later, the detective suggested shooting the gun rights advocates, some of whom have carried firearms openly in recent weeks in California’s Bay Area, particularly at Starbucks locations.

"Sounds like you had someone practicing their 2nd amendment rights last night!" Tuason wrote. "Should’ve pulled the AR out and prone them all out! And if one of them makes a furtive movement … 2 weeks off!!!" — referring to the modified duty, commonly known as desk duty, that typically follows any instance in which an officer is investigated for firing his weapon.

Those comments caught the attention of a California attorney and blogger, as well as a Virginia man who started a Facebook group calling for Tuason’s termination.

John Taylor, whose Facebook group had 54 members as of midday Friday, said the Facebook thread confirmed gun owners’ worst fears.

"Any sworn officer who suggests shooting law-abiding citizens for exercising their most basic constitutional rights deserves the full wrath of America’s gun owners," Taylor told FoxNews.com. "It’s an affront."

California’s Penal Code makes it illegal to carry concealed weapons without a county-issued license. But it is legal to carry an unloaded weapon in plain view in a holster. In most cases, it is illegal for an unconcealed weapon to be loaded…

Source: Fox News

I still believe in the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of speech, and I don’t think people should lose their jobs for posting an off-duty rant on their Facebook page, but when the person posting the rant has the capability to back up their misguided opinions with deadly force and malicious prosecution, well, we have a problem.

I will confess to having some mixed feelings about the open carry movement. While it may be within the scope of those rights protected by the Second Amendment, open carry does pose practical and political difficulties. Given the level of violence, terrorism and insanity out there, police officers do face a difficult problem when they see someone carrying a gun. The police officer has to determine the intentions of the gun carrier without trampling on the carrier’s rights. The carrier may be an upstanding citizen and he may be the next mass murderer. Also, in many regions of the country, people just aren’t accustomed to seeing citizens packing guns around, and I do have some concern that this practice could trigger a backlash which could result in more restrictive gun laws.

In the story quoted above, it is clear that this officer is talking about open carry advocates with unloaded guns whose intentions are known. The officer wants to “prone out” these open carry advocates to teach them a lesson, and threaten them or even shoot them with an AR-15, a felony in itself. This is a severe abuse of police power. Because of this, I find these remarks completely reprehensible and I do believe the officer should be disciplined. I wonder how many of his colleagues harbor the same opinions?

Alcohol Restrictions, Curfew Lifted In King

Police Chief: King Remains Under State Of Emergency Until Monday

KING, N.C. — Authorities lifted a curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday.

Authorities said the state of emergency declaration would continue until Monday 9 a.m., barring any unforeseen circumstances or severe changes.

Effective Sunday afternoon, alcohol restrictions and a curfew were lifted. All other remaining restrictions would continue until Monday, said Paula May, King police chief.

Other restrictions include a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person’s own premises.

Also on Sunday, the emergency shelter established by the American red Cross at West Stokes High School was closed.

"We appreciate the support and cooperation of everyone with our efforts to keep the citizens of King safe," May said.

The state of emergency was declared Friday due to severe weather.

Source: WXII12.com.

Solicitation Number:

TIRWR-10-Q-00023

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Added: Feb 02, 2010 7:08 pm Modified: Feb 02, 2010 7:50

Quotes are solicited under Request For Quotation (RFQ) number TIRWR-10-Q-00023. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; a written RFQ will not be issued. If your company can provide the product listed in the RFQ and comply with all of the RFQ instructions, please respond to this notice.

This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside and only qualified sellers may submit quotes. NACIS code for this requirement is 332994. The RFQ opens on the date this announcement is posted and closes Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 2:00:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. Response should be emailed or mailed by the closing date to Marc.Feinberg@irs.gov or IRS, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612. FOB Destination shall be Washington DC.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.

Submit quotes including 11% Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET) and shipping to Washington DC.