Is this a pre-award or post-award situation?  If pre-award, you could
propose it, justify it, and just wait and see if it flies.  If post-award, I
would tend to want written agency approval... not only that it is
allowable, but that it is allowable as a direct cost.  The argument could be
made that this is an indirect cost unless killing wild animals is a part of the
proposed scope of work.
Interesting question... we may need to know this if we ever go on
Jeopardy.  I'll take Sponsored Projects Weaponry for $500, Alex.
-Jennifer Morgan

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Jennifer Morgan
Director of Sponsored Programs
Office of Grants & Contracts
Allegheny Campus
Allegheny Univ. of the Health Sciences
One Allegheny Center, Suite 880
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  15212
412-359-1523 (voice)
412-359-1556 (fax)
xxxxxx@pgh.auhs.edu

>>> Phyllis Shaw <xxxxxx@COMP.UARK.EDU> 07/06/98 02:43pm >>>
This is not a facetious question.  We have really been asked this by a P.I.

Can you purchase firearms on a federal grant?  We have a P.I. who
would
like to purchase a "gun" (rifle?) on a grant and we haven't found
anything
that says this can or can't be done, at least in the NSF regs.

My questioner assures me that this is a serious question and that the P.I.
wants to use the gun for protection from "wild" animals on a field trip.

Has anyone else encountered a "similar" situation?

Thank you.

Phyllis T. Shaw
Research Accountant
Financial Affairs
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
xxxxxx@comp.uark.edu