Posted on 09/25/2016 9:43:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Southern California police agencies regularly lose track of all manner of firearms, from high-powered rifles and grenade launchers to standard service handguns – weapons that often wind up on the street.
An Orange County Register investigation of 134 state and local police agencies from Kern County to the Mexican border found that over the past five years at least 329 firearms were lost by or stolen from law enforcement agencies.
Dozens of these weapons wound up in the hands of criminals – and some were involved in crimes. In Northern California, a missing police gun was used in a suspected murder.
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This is hw the Dmes work to pass gun control: loosing weapons, allowing gangs to kill.
I’m sure CA isn’t the only place this happens.
These departments have this sort of thing happen because they allow it. Were they to do as the Marine Corps does, negligent discharges and lost weapons result in a trip to the brig, you will lose pay, you will lose rank, perhaps worse.
Recycled back to the black market to be used in more crimes.
Only dopes don’t understand this
I know of a sheriff’s department that had shotguns returned from officers that were so rusted they could not work the actions to unload them. Criminal.
Yet in most of these agencies in CA, if you (a citzen) lose or fail to report a stolen firearm, you are breaking the law.
WTF are the police doing with GRENADE LAUNCHERS?
Talk about the militarization of what is supposed to be a PEACE force!
There is no way they can criminalize regular citizens if the “most qualified to have guns” can lose them and not suffer the same punishments.
Those laws need to be abolished completely.
CC
They are for launching OC to control and disperse crowds
Ironic how unionized government workers are exempt from the laws they create but apply to us, the ones who vote them in and pay their lifetime salaries and healthcare.
Don’t live on the west coast, I bet. We’re locked into really bad laws re: gun ownership. It must be liberating to live in a state where you don’t fear for your very freedom taking a jammed rifle to the gun shop for repair. The degree of fear is palpable if you have any kind of something to lose by getting arrested. Just gone too far. 15 yrs ago my neighbor, a cop, was letting drivers off with a verbal warning if they were transporting, etc. He was kicked off the force for relaxed policing. And yes, he hassled the bad guys appropriately. Cops used to have a more benevolent attitude toward us citizens. Now they have no latitude as in the old days. Sigh.
329? That’s a lot of boating accidents
Not irony but entitlement and corruption on their part
As everywhere, zero tolerance equals zero God-given common sense.
Heroes losing guns? Say it isn’t so, Joe!
“I know of a sheriff’s department that had shotguns returned from officers that were so rusted they could not work the actions to unload them. Criminal.”
I once had the commander of a SWAT team tell me that you didn’t need to clean your weapons.
“WTF are the police doing with GRENADE LAUNCHERS?”
To launch tear gas.
My neighbor had a break-in and the thieves got three handguns. That was all they took even though the house is a target rich environment. He never reported them as stolen and that was ten years ago. I often wonder where the guns turned up and under what circumstances. No blow back on my neighbor.
Most SWAT teams don’t need to clean their weapons; they are never used. That attitude is reflective of many public servants, who simply demand the equipment they neglect.
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