This was the first article I read and here are excerpts;

 

"It is quite apparent that Obama is disarming 
<a class="" href='http://www.examiner.com/topic/border'>border</a><span> <a class="" href='http://www.examiner.com/topic/patrol'>patrol</a><span> <a class="" href='http://www.examiner.com/topic/agents'>agents</a> in advance of his forthcoming executive order that will provide amnesty to illegal immigrants. Approximately half of the United States Customs and Border Patrol's M4 carbine <a class="" href='http://www.examiner.com/topic/weapons'>weapons</a> have been taken away by the <a class="" href='http://www.examiner.com/topic/federal'>federal</a> government, supposedly because the weapons posed safety concerns for border agents. Some people do not buy this explanation, such as Representative Steve King (R-Iowa.)</span></span>

 

Congressman King said with a laugh: “There’s no more reliable weapon in the world,” and that “Any agency like the Department of Homeland Security that has bought millions of rounds of ammunition over the past few years could certainly afford to 
replace <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">with new serviceable M4s all the weapons they are [taking] for testing. This sounds to me like a ruse to start to take the weapons out of the hands of the Border Patrol.” King stated that "the M4, M16 and AR15 have interchangeable parts and feature identical action," and “If there were any problem with them as far as safety was concerned, it would be all over the Internet.”"</span>

 

I wasn't too sure about this as it wasn't all over the news so I did some digging and this investigative report out of Tucson confirms the weapons are being taken away, not replaced, and agents are having to share resources.


 

So what is the opinion of this board? 

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