{"id":39485,"date":"2025-10-22T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=39485"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:49:03","slug":"no-ice-probably-didnt-buy-guided-missile-warheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/10\/22\/no-ice-probably-didnt-buy-guided-missile-warheads\/","title":{"rendered":"No, ICE (Probably) Didn\u2019t Buy Guided Missile Warheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">On September 19,<\/span> US Immigration and Customs Enforcement made a $61,218 payment for \u201cguided missile warheads and explosive components,\u201d according to the Product and Service Code (PSC) included in the payment record on a federal contracting database.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThis award provides multiple distraction devices to support law enforcement operations and ICE- Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs,\u201d the record\u2019s description section reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Substack Popular Information mentioned this payment in a Monday article, which focused on the fact that ICE spending in the \u201csmall arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing\u201d product category increased by 700 percent between 2024 and 2025. (Spending increased by about 636 percent, per WIRED\u2019s analysis of the same category and time periods Popular Information measured.) Word of the payment also circulated on Tuesday after a post on BlueSky by Democratic Wisconsin state senator Chris Larson went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It turns out, concern over ICE agents planning to use warheads is likely based on a mistake. Quantico Tactical, the company listed as the supplier of said warheads in the federal payment records, does not sell any explosive devices. (It sells a variety of firearms, switchblades, and weapon accessories.) David Hensley, founder and CEO of Quantico Tactical, told WIRED in an email that the PSC \u201cappears to be an error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cQuantico Tactical does not sell, and I suspect that CBP ICE does not purchase, \u2018Guided Missile Warheads,\u2019\u201d Hensley said, referencing Customs and Border Protection. He added that the rest of the payment record appears to be correct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">PSCs are assigned by a government agency\u2019s contracting office, not the private contractor. Hensley declined to speculate on what the correct PSC for the payment may be. He also declined to clarify which \u201cdistraction devices\u201d ICE purchased. However, ICE made two other payments to Quantico Tactical for \u201cdistraction devices\u201d in September 2024 and August 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The descriptions for both payment records claim that they are for training programs run by ICE\u2019s Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs (OFTP). Both payments records use the PSC for &#8220;chemical weapons and equipment,\u201d which includes items like &#8220;flame throwers&#8221; and &#8220;smoke generators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">An ICE \u201cFirearms and Use of Force\u201d handbook from 2021 does not mention any approved use of flame throwers, but it does mention the use of &#8220;chemical munitions&#8221; such as smoke, pepper spray, and tear gas. (It notes that their use must be approved by the agency&#8217;s associate director and the OFTP.) Quantico Tactical does not list smoke bombs, pepper spray, or tear gas for sale on its website, though it does list accessories like smoke-resistant goggles and holders for mace, flash grenades, and smoke bombs. It\u2019s unclear what ICE may have purchased.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#ICE #Didnt #Buy #Guided #Missile #Warheads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement made a $61,218 payment for \u201cguided missile warheads and explosive components,\u201d according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39487,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39485\/revisions\/39487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}