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[Ranger514]

In case you hadn't noticed, BGs have become both more militant and fanatic than they were when we were younger. Until relatively recently, we haven't really had to worry about the threat of domestic and foreign terrorism on our soil. My former agency received some military surplus, older edition, night vision equipment. Ooooh...scary, kids!

 

[italiansport]

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

 

[Mydogmax]

My neighbor city of Minneapolis has 3 grenade launchers.

 

[Cyrano]

El Paso county got 48 pages of stuff!!! Most of it was pretty innocuous, and I didn't see any vehicles, but some of it was a little odd:
sword and scabbard, 4 ea.
Sight reflex. 30 @ $340 ea.
Rifle 7.62mm, 30 ea @ $130.
Rifle 5.56mm, 77 ea @ $120.
Helicopter, observation, 7 ea. Cost unknown.
Helicopter, utility 1 ea @$922,704. With the operating costs helicopters incur, I don't think El Paso County can afford to fly them.

 

[CO_Kid]

My neighbor city of Minneapolis has 3 grenade launchers.

Used to launch gas or impact rounds

 

[Mcwsky09]

My county got a Ghille suit and a $1500 all in one fax printer and desk chairs among 21 pages of stuff (I haven't looked at it all yet)

 

[JohnSW]

My (very low crime rate) suburb used a Homeland Security grant to buy a BearCat armored vehicle. That sounds like massive overkill, but it reportedly has been used for armed or suicidal people barricaded in their homes, security for presidential visits, and security for a national political convention. (In our area, the various police departments share specialized units.)

 

[arjay]

My county bought many many pages of rifles (I lost count) 450!

 

[Rule3]

We got several pages of 5.56 rifles but the best was this!

MINE RESISTANT VEHICLE1Each$733,000.002/13/2014

Guess we need to watch out for mines on the Beaches now!

 

[supan0va]

MINE RESISTANT VEHICLE 1 Each $412,000.00 9/16/2013

It must have been Mine Resistant Vehicle Month at our dealership

 

[supan0va]

anyone else have revolvers? If they're getting S&W's for this cheap, I want in.

MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008

 

[CO_Kid]

We got several pages of 5.56 rifles but the best was this!

MINE RESISTANT VEHICLE1Each$733,000.002/13/2014

Guess we need to watch out for mines on the Beaches now!

We got some heavy duty vehicles, something like these. They are used for severe weather rescue, floods, blizzards, and to get to hard to reach areas in case of wild fires.

 

[handejector]

I dislike militarized police units because of the ease of escalating a situation that shouldn't be escalated.(think Waco) . A police mindset should not be a military mindset.

It is a tough call in today's world.

Like all of you, I certainly do not want to see an armored vehicle blocking my driveway with a loudspeaker demanding that I relinquish all firearms after a hurricane.

However, picture this-
Newsflash is reporting two local schools have been seized by terrorists threatening to blow them up with all the students unless Achmed el Badguy is released from Gitmo by noon.
There are also reports of another heavily armed group in the vicinity of YOUR kid's school.
How do you feel now about the cops having an armored vehicle to place at YOUR kid's school?

Farfetched?
Sure it is.
It is as farfetched as flying airplanes into skyscrapers on purpose.
How many times had you ever expected THAT?

Beslan school hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Hunter8282]

Kent CO MI got an "Abdominal Crunch" - value $2000! WTH?

 

[arjay]

It's an interesting dilemma as to what to do with all this stuff.Sell it to our allies,only to have them lose it? Lock it all up somewhere?Spread it all out and spook the average joe?

 

[Maze 686]

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?

 

[Grog]

I assume it includes all of the cities in each county.

I know a small PD a friend was on (5 officers, population about 3000). They got a M14 and some 1911s back around 2004-2008.

 

[Arik]

This thing is not exactly correct. For my county there are 23 Boroughs and 31 townships. Some are small, having 2 - 3 cops....mostly Boroughs. But the townships are quite large having 20 - 50 cops each. And yet there are only 2 pages of stuff. Besides this is nothing new. Back in the 80s Philadelphia had C4 and used it

 

[JohnSW]

It is a tough call in today's world...However, picture this- Newsflash is reporting two local schools have been seized by terrorists...

The local newspaper reports:"the FBI has told his office "in the nature of about a dozen" people from Minnesota have left the country to join the terror group operating in Syria."

In the future, what if one or more of these new recruits decides on local terrorism, rather than going to Syria? We have a number of high profile potential terrorism targets in the area.

 

[CO_Kid]

anyone else have revolvers? If they're getting S&W's for this cheap, I want in.

MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008
MN REVOLVER,CALIBER .38 SPECIAL 1 Each $89.57 6/9/2008

Where can I get one?