Posted on 08/28/2017 8:00:57 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
Edited on 08/28/2017 10:20:57 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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What is it that you “can’t” possess? ;-) Sad thing is, if the local lib politicians disallow using the equipment, what’s the point of obtaining it? Oh. Duh. Put down the rebellion by nazis, kkk and other conservative groups. ;-)
I think the surplus equipment should be available to both police and civilians. But two things standing in the way of that are the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act.
They wouldn’t need so much military gear if you’d do RICO prosecutions of the people behind the riots.
And it took an alert homeowner to find the little bas**** in his boat.
Look at the weaponry at the airports...on the streets of NY. They are not old Smith & Wesson rifles.
Spin it as: civilians should have all weapons military may possess - exactly as the Founding Fathers intended. The “letters of marque” clause of the Constitution presumed private ownership of cannon-laden battleships.
(OB nukes: per adaptation of Cooper’s Rules, and unlike most weapons, all nukes are always armed and always pointed at all innocents within blast radius, so short of extreme measures (for which no suitably rich would risk all) anyone having one may/should be immediately disarmed with extreme prejudice.)
Well, sanctuary cities need the weapons to ward off Trump’s immigration enforcers.
Police are Civilians.
Timing is good. I think the preparation is good. There is a domestic terrorist group, specifically one, that would love to prey on those in a weakened state in Texas.
We are fighting a war, or about to fight one, IMO, on our own shores.
One of the purposes of this ban removal is to give the local authorities some capabilities to evacuate citizens trapped by flooding. These vehicles have large, high wheel bases that can navigate flooded roads.
Precisely; hundreds of surplus MRAP vehicles sitting in various DoD compounds. V-hulled, high clearance vehicles, well-suited for water rescues.
Outfitted with water cannons and other riot control equipment, they would also be useful in going after Antifa. Of course, the police have to be ordered to take action, and that ain’t happening in places like Berkeley.
They already have military gear.
Correct plus this program before it was stopped was going on for decades many departments and local governments received all kinds of surplus equipment over the years.
One non police item I saw was the local air port got a huge truck mounted snow blower to clean run ways with.
It was so big that it had it’s own full sized diesel engine to run the blower.
When I worked a summer job with the local highway department back in 73 74 I drove a duce and half truck they brought as surplus.
The local SO. had Garands, M1 carbines and Thompson’s they brought back in the 60’s
Again this program is nothing new
Militarizing the police is a terrible idea, no matter who does it.
Bad idea.
Except when you need them militarized.
A number of the local departments in my area got MRAPs and Humvee’s. The now sit in department parking lots with weeds growing up through them as they realized they could not afford maintenance on them.
Bad move. One of the biggest problems with Trump is that he has no respect for civil liberties or concerns about the police state.
Wars, crackdowns on civil liberties or police state measures will backfire on Trump. The populist voters who crossed over to give Trump the win do not want this, neither do Trump’s core supporters on the right.
Does the Military have any Anti-Urine Missiles?
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