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"....Treasury Dept. printing plant in Fort Worth (where they print paper money)."

Let me tell all y'all about this place.

Prior to about 1980's, all US paper currency was printed at BPE (Bureau of Printing and Engraving) on 14th St. in Washington, DC.
After a plane crash in DC, BPE realized that if a disaster ever hit their DC plant, the printing of US paper currency would cease.

So they decided that there should be a 2nd US plant to print paper currency. About 18 US cities vied for the honor of hosting
this plant. Las Vegas, NV was one of them. But eventually Fort Worth was chosen.

Initially DC thought that Fort Worth would have <nn> % of the printing load. But since Fort Worth has state of the art printing
presses, and plenty of capacity, Fort Worth now prints 60% of all US paper currency.

Carefully examine your paper currency. Somewhere in the small print will be the letters "FW", meaning that Fort Worth produced
the bills. If there is no "FW" present, then the bill was printed in DC. But since the FW plant is here, it would be rare for Texans
to get any brand new DC bills. Some of the other codes in small characters reflect the particular machine on which the money
was printed.

The plant has multiple fences around it and many armed LEO's. They carry Sig Sauers. The plant visit is free, but since this is
a federal facility, you may not carry on your person, and you can't even leave your guns in the car in the parking lot. If you
take this interesting tour, leave your guns at home. The plant is just off I-35W in North Fort Worth, IIRC it's on/near FM156.

Over and out.

SIA