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[JJEH]

Our county has a $733,000.00 MINE RESISTANT VEHICLE. Cool

Militarized police forces is the product of our behavior! That's what we get for acting up and I understand that there's no way back to where it once was.

Heck, LEO's get shot during traffic stops. People barricade themselves, taking hostages, kill students, rob banks, own full automatic weapons, admire cop killers like some sort of god, etc.

What do you expect? Can't call Fort Benning, GA all the time...

 

[sipowicz]

Here in West Hollywood we got a $500,000 rainbow colored tank that shoots confetti and 600 pairs of high heel combat boots.

 

[Maximumbob54]

I think this is somehow connecting to a public records search that shows transactions with DRMO.

 

[Coldshooter]

.45 at $58 I could spend that on ammunition. It would be great if the Government would cull out the legitimate collector's items sell at market price and put the $ into supporting vetern's affairs.

 

[LostintheOzone]

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960

Personally, I don't think an MRAP is going to do a lot of good in a hostage situation or an IED placed in a crowd of people like the Boston marathon. Most of this gear is pretty innocuous, including the rifles, but those armored vehicles were designed for the battlefield. Those things should be given to the nat'l guard, the local police don't need them. This isn't northern Ireland just yet.

 

[zzzippper]

They should be selling the weapons to the public via CMP.

 

[the ringo kid]

Nueces County showed they had only 2--5.56 and 2--7.62 rifles--no other special toys.

However, Kleberg County showed a Mine resistane veghicle--vaued over $700,0000 smackaroos, a utility vehicle--about 20 5.56 rifles, one.45 and i forget what else? I might add, the Sheriffs dept in Nueces County is much bigger than in Kleberg ounty.

 

[the ringo kid]

Maricopa Co. Arizona got 82 pages and millions of dollars worth of equipment including 2 fixed wing aircraft at almost a million dollars each.
Interesting items to members here are page after page of 7.62 rifles which I suspect are M14s. Additionally multiple pages of M4s and, believe it or not several, pages of 45acp pistols(old 1911's?).
I guess I can sleep better tonite!
Jim

However,I cant "see" Sheriff Joe abusing that stuff like the current sheriff of Kleberg County.

 

[the ringo kid]

Why can't it be like the old days when they gave you BARs and Thompson Machine Guns. Or the sixties when everybody had M1 Carbines and M14s.

I wonder what ever happened to the Thompson 1919s that the NYPD bought up in the 1940s, anybody know?

Texas used to have all that stuff and more--but Bush sold them all off to collectors--about 1995 or so. On the perimeter pickets at the units I worked at--the rails still were the kind where you could swing a .30 or a .50 cal machinegun anywhere around it no prob.

 

[the ringo kid]

Here in West Hollywood we got a $500,000 rainbow colored tank that shoots confetti and 600 pairs of high heel combat boots.

Ill do one even better.Here--we have a Tiger tank that shoots rounds full of paint. (ALA) Kelly's Heroes.

 

[Maze 686]

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960

Personally, I don't think an MRAP is going to do a lot of good in a hostage situation or an IED placed in a crowd of people like the Boston marathon. Most of this gear is pretty innocuous, including the rifles, but those armored vehicles were designed for the battlefield. Those things should be given to the nat'l guard, the local police don't need them. This isn't northern Ireland just yet.

The people doing rescues in Arizona right now during the flooding might not agree with your outlook on how MRAPs have to be used.

 

[jbull380]

Ill do one even better.Here--we have a Tiger tank that shoots rounds full of paint. (ALA) Kelly's Heroes.

It was the Sherman that shot paint. One of my favorite movies.

 

[venomballistics]

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960

Personally, I don't think an MRAP is going to do a lot of good in a hostage situation or an IED placed in a crowd of people like the Boston marathon. Most of this gear is pretty innocuous, including the rifles, but those armored vehicles were designed for the battlefield. Those things should be given to the nat'l guard, the local police don't need them. This isn't northern Ireland just yet.

Chicago PD has a live scanner feed online, you sure about that?

 

[eyegots2no]

They need that stuff-----

How else are they gonna come get YOUR guns.

 

[the ringo kid]

It was the Sherman that shot paint. One of my favorite movies.

Woops, quite correct. How did I miss that one? Its one of mine too. Ahwell, that Tiger really ainta Tiger anyway--its a T-34.

 

[Rule3]

Not sure why we need a $658,000 mine resistant vehicle here in Big Horn County, Wyoming. ???

Hey you got a deal! Ours cost $733,000. Must have upgrades like leather seats and a Moon Roof

Could have paid some salaries or given raises for more officers.

 

[LostintheOzone]

The people doing rescues in Arizona right now during the flooding might not agree with your outlook on how MRAPs have to be used.

We have a lot more flooding here than they do in AZ. Never seen or heard of an MRAP being used for a rescue although our sheriff has a few. They use helicopters for that. Maybe they do things a little different in AZ. don't know. My friend who manages the agency garage told me the county doesn't have the resources to properly maintain their MRAP's.

 

[jbull380]

Those MRAPs only cost the departments 2500.00 each.

 

[LostintheOzone]

Chicago PD has a live scanner feed online, you sure about that?

I've seen that and listened to our sheriffs dispatch. Most of the time you can't understand what they're saying. It almost sounds like they are intentionally trying to garble their speech or use code that is hard to decipher. Chicago probably is a lot like Belfast without the IED's.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

L.O.L.....Here...Barney got a second bullet. Nada...zip...Zero...Nothing.!!!!


But a couple of counties over, I think it would been a whole lot cheaper if they would have just got some flashlights for seeing in the dark, instead of 16 pages of night vision goggles, at over $10,000 a pop....

What are they going to do with all those "Flyers gloves"???????

25 sleeping bags???????



Oh well...we paid for it all...Might as well keep it close to home....



WuzzFuzz