Interior Dept. doesn’t want GOP taking away its guns

Published June 21, 2016 10:26pm ET



The Interior Department is blasting Republicans for pushing a bill that would disarm its land management agents.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, introduced a bill that would abolish federal law enforcement at the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and leave policing on federal land to local law enforcement.

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