WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:18.752 2 00:00:18.752 --> 00:00:31.231 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. 3 00:00:31.231 --> 00:00:37.170 Body armor and law enforcement equipment that we buy as the National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit 4 00:00:37.170 --> 00:00:43.143 to deliver to ICE field entities and to some of our partner organizations in DHS. 5 00:00:43.143 --> 00:00:51.484 This facility monitors and tracks and maintains the entire life cycle of the arsenal for ICE. 6 00:00:51.484 --> 00:00:56.723 We do maintenance here, we do all the repairs, we do all the enhancements for the weapons. 7 00:00:56.723 --> 00:01:04.464 We do research, we do development, we do ammunition research, we do ammunition quality assurance, we do acquisitions support. 8 00:01:04.464 --> 00:01:16.943 We do quality and performance verification testing through the acquisitions process and we also acquire and stockpile supplies for issuance to the field. 9 00:01:16.943 --> 00:01:24.851 This is a key, pivotal logistics facility that is used by ICE to supply its law enforcement officers with equipment 10 00:01:24.851 --> 00:01:32.425 thats standard, that meets quality requirements and that ensures that they are able to perform their mission as ICE law enforcement officers. 11 00:01:32.425 --> 00:01:39.366 This is the national maintenance facility for the NFTTU, National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit. 12 00:01:39.366 --> 00:01:49.743 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. 13 00:01:49.743 --> 00:02:02.122 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. 14 00:02:02.122 --> 00:02:08.161 We have weapons for example that are being modified to fire training ammunition 15 00:02:08.161 --> 00:02:14.501 to support some of use of force training that we do in the field not only in iCE but in other organizations like FPS. 16 00:02:14.501 --> 00:02:26.079 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. 17 00:02:26.079 --> 00:02:40.760 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. 18 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:52.572 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. 19 00:02:52.572 --> 00:03:04.517 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. 20 00:03:04.517 --> 00:03:12.659 Part of our requirements that we have listed in our specifications is to test ammo for it's accuracy and it's reliability. 21 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:19.933 This particular fixture is our universal receiver, and it is a fixture thats used to isolate all variables 22 00:03:19.933 --> 00:03:26.006 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. 23 00:03:26.006 --> 00:03:34.314 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 24 00:03:34.314 --> 00:04:01.708 we have a good idea. There's different barrel geometry between a test fixture thats used in industry as the standard and a pistol. 25 00:04:01.708 --> 00:04:08.848 One of the things we do when we complete a repair or refurbishment of a firearm, we have to do something called function fire. 26 00:04:08.848 --> 00:04:13.920 The only way we can tell if the weapon actually works is we have to actually shoot it. 27 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:20.860 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 28 00:04:20.860 --> 00:05:06.673 through a weapon to make sure that the weapons operating as designed. 29 00:05:06.673 --> 00:05:09.609 This facility is unique in its kind 30 00:05:09.609 --> 00:05:17.717 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. 31 00:05:17.717 --> 00:05:26.659 And were the only, in fact were the only law enforcement organization that has an ISO 9000 2008 Certification Ballistics Laboratory 32 00:05:26.659 --> 00:05:35.335 that does all our performance verification for the ammunition solicitations that we support and does all the acceptance testing for ammunition that we buy. 33 00:05:35.335 --> 00:05:43.309 This facility allows us to provide the absolute best ordinance products for the law enforcement men and women in ICE. 34 00:05:43.309 --> 00:05:43.309