This facility is the ICE Armory. Its the ICE Armory Operations Branch. What it does is it maintains all the firearms, it is the entry point and the exit point for all firearms.
Body armor and law enforcement equipment that we buy as the National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit
to deliver to ICE field entities and to some of our partner organizations in DHS.
This facility monitors and tracks and maintains the entire life cycle of the arsenal for ICE.
We do maintenance here, we do all the repairs, we do all the enhancements for the weapons.
We do research, we do development, we do ammunition research, we do ammunition quality assurance, we do acquisitions support.
We do quality and performance verification testing through the acquisitions process and we also acquire and stockpile supplies for issuance to the field.
This is a key, pivotal logistics facility that is used by ICE to supply its law enforcement officers with equipment
thats standard, that meets quality requirements and that ensures that they are able to perform their mission as ICE law enforcement officers.
This is the national maintenance facility for the NFTTU, National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit.
Here we have the workstations for all our armorers that repair firearms and do all the maintenance work on the weapons that ICE CBP and other agencies use.
We have some of the high speed tooling to do more high volume manufacturing and to do higher quality manufacturing because they are run through computerized instrumentation.
We have weapons for example that are being modified to fire training ammunition
to support some of use of force training that we do in the field not only in iCE but in other organizations like FPS.
Okay now this is an example of the refurbishment work we do. We'll have several of these older shotguns and these older shotguns that were purchased many years ago.
They had wooden stocks they had very simple beaded barrels and the finish is in various conditions of disrepair. You can see this one here has rust on it.
We completely disassemble the shotgun and we sandblast all the finish off the shotgun. We Then refinish it. We re coat the shotgun we then rebuild it with the new parts.
So you end up with a weapon that is modern, that is actually better made because it is assembled by hand by our expert gunsmiths here in the armory facility.
Part of our requirements that we have listed in our specifications is to test ammo for it's accuracy and it's reliability.
This particular fixture is our universal receiver, and it is a fixture thats used to isolate all variables
so we can actually squeeze the most accuracy that we can out of of the ammunition to be able to use it as a good standard.
This other fixture is a fixture that we use for the firearm. We also test the accuracy characteristics of the ammunition in a firearm that way
we have a good idea. There's different barrel geometry between a test fixture thats used in industry as the standard and a pistol.
One of the things we do when we complete a repair or refurbishment of a firearm, we have to do something called function fire.
The only way we can tell if the weapon actually works is we have to actually shoot it.
So we bring them out to this range, we set up the weapons on the table, we load magazines its called a compliment of ammunition and we fire several compliments of ammunition
through a weapon to make sure that the weapons operating as designed.
This facility is unique in its kind
in that we're the only organization in Federal law enforcement that does central acquisition and distribution of a wide range of law enforcement products.
And were the only, in fact were the only law enforcement organization that has an ISO 9000 2008 Certification Ballistics Laboratory
that does all our performance verification for the ammunition solicitations that we support and does all the acceptance testing for ammunition that we buy.
This facility allows us to provide the absolute best ordinance products for the law enforcement men and women in ICE.