Bloomberg (no paywall): “In the final weeks of the 2025 fiscal year, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agencies went on a spending spree to outfit officers as they fanned out across American cities: $12.2 million for rifles, $11.3 million on tasers and $3.7 million worth of chemical munitions and less lethal materiel. Those were among a slew of weapons, ammunition and protective equipment made or sold by companies that have seen a huge spike in revenue from the Department of Homeland Security, including several that usually sell their products to the military. Take Geissele Automatics, a Pennsylvania-based weapons manufacturer that contracts with both the Department of Defense and DHS. It agreed to sell $9.1 million of precision long guns and accessories to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $3.1 million of rifles to Customs and Border Protection in September – two of the company’s biggest ever deals with the federal government. (Geissele Automatics founder William Geissele declined to comment, citing a nondisclosure agreement.) That same month, as the Trump administration started focusing its immigration crackdown on Chicago, ICE agreed to spend a total of almost $140 million on weapons, ammunition and other equipment for their officers. Of that, more than $7 million was designated for training purposes to support the massive hiring surge the administration has promised. CBP put in orders for another $65 million worth of such gear, ranging from uniforms to gas masks and body armor. The result has been on full view in Chicago’s neighborhoods and other cities across the country, where armed and masked officers from federal law enforcement agencies have been arresting immigrants and citizens alike, shooting protesters with pepper balls and tossing canisters of tear gas into crowds…”