So Now ‘Militarization’ of Law Enforcement Is a Problem for Democrats?

Ruby Ridge.

Waco.

Those two events ring in the minds of pro-gun individuals, and for good reason. Militarized federal law enforcement decided to play cowboy, and innocent people were killed.

For Democrats, though, it wasn’t a big deal. They didn’t mind it, nor did they blink when U.S. Marshals in tactical gear snatched open a closet and sent Elian Gonzales back to Cuba.

Now, though, a purchase contract for firearms intended for ICE is generating all kinds of outrage.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded more than $17 million in contracts, mostly to businesses, in the Philadelphia area since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, with more than half of that money going to a firearms manufacturer in Montgomery County.

The local data, compiled by The Appeal, highlights the Trump administration’s spending related to raids and enforcement operations as the agency carries out the president’s mass deportation agenda, including its purchases of weaponry.

Geissele Automatics, a firearms manufacturer based in North Wales, has the largest and perhaps most consequential contract with ICE in the Philadelphia area.

The company — which specializes in selling high-grade, AR-15-style semiautomatic weapons and parts to consumers, law enforcement agencies, and the military — entered a contract with ICE for nearly $9.1 million in September 2025, according to federal data.

The payment was for the delivery of “precision long guns and accessories” to support ICE agents as well as the agency’s tactical programs, the data show. It’s unclear where the equipment is being used.

Neither the company’s founder, Bill Geissele, nor a representative from the company’s sales team returned a request for comment.

Nationwide, ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection has dramatically increased spending on firearms in Trump’s second term, according to a report earlier this year from U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), leading to outcry from Democratic officials and voters who say the agency has become a militarized force with little oversight or accountability.

That outrage continued this month when Democrats voiced their opposition to ICE’s plan to provide ICE officers with electric shock gloves. Schiff’s oversight report, released earlier this year, called ICE and CBP’s contracts for weaponry a “misuse of taxpayer dollars to maximally arm federal immigration agents.”

Now, let’s think about this for a moment.

ICE agents enforce immigration law, and that includes going after people known to have cartel ties. There are reasons for them to have serious firepower.

The term “precision long guns” suggests we’re talking about something akin to Geissele’s King Hunter rifle, which is a bolt-action long gun useful for long-range shooting. You know, a hunting rifle that we’re not supposed to worry about anyone having a problem with.

Regardless, though, where was this outrage when a militarized federal law enforcement system was killing innocent children through reckless tactics, rather than defending themselves from leftist loons trying to run them over? I’m just curious when “militarized” law enforcement became a problem for them.

These are guns for overwatch, where they’re just providing cover for the agents on the ground who don’t know what they’re dealing with and, frankly, can’t get local police help too much of the time. That’s all it is.

But ICE is bad, and that’s enough for them, I suppose.

Screw the economic boon to the Philly area. No, what matters is that illegal aliens can still roam our streets, kill our people, and be back out on the streets when they finish their sentence as if they actually belong here.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their extreme gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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