John Haughey over at OutdoorLife’s Blog has an interesting article on the SHOT show round up of Smith & Wesson lawbreakers.
The article is surprisingly sympathetic. As you know from my post The Smith & Wesson indictment irony I hardly share John’s sympathy.
From my point of view, what happened at S&W was pure greed. After a blockbuster year thanks to Obama, they still needed more money, and were willing breaking the law to get more of it. Without personally knowing the inner workings of S&W, I can say with confidence that they have numerous lawyers, all of which would know better then to say bribery would be a good thing for the company.
I do agree with John on the ridiculousness of the following:
“Let’s see, at $75,000 a year, it’s $6,250 a month per agent,” he calculates. “$6250 x 30 months = $187,500 per agent. $187,500 x 250 agents = $46,875,000 to arrest 22 people.”
Voila! That’s $46.875 million of your tax money to arrest 22 people, or more than $2.1 million each.
If FBI agents really do make $75k /year and all 250 of them were working solely on this sting, then that is a crazy amount of money. It would definitely work out to much more than $2.1 million if you factored in expenses besides just their salaries.
I’ll take this opportunity to make the same joke as I did in my last post:
If you are sympathetic towards S&W, buy some handcuffs – HERE :P
Reuters coverage of the S&W SHOT show incident – HERE
Hat Tip: SayUncle
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From someone who knows….
Go to http://www.opm.gov and see what any Federal Agent – GS 1811 – (Criminal Investigator) makes.
Click on General Pay Scale on the right side of the page.
If they’re there at least 10 years they’re grossing over $100K.
That’s almost any federal LE agency CI, but for sure all the alphabet agencies you know and love.
I believe the FEEBS go non-competitively to a GS-14. That pay, including locality pay of 19.2 percent for Atlanta, is $101,000.
That does not include LEAP (Law Enforcement Availability Pay) which would add another 25% to the base salary.
This puts a Federal Criminal Investigator @ the GS-14 grade making around $125,000.
How many of us bring home over that kind of change?
The Government Juggernaut never stops; it only grows larger and more powerful. Meanwhile City and State Governments are looking at furloughing all types of employees from janitors to LEO’s.
When is the Federal Government’s turn? I say that time is past due.
Awesome info, thanks Genius!