Posted on 03/01/2007 7:51:41 PM PST by rellimpank
A submachine gun belonging to a Jefferson County SWAT officer was stolen out of the cab of his personal truck last week while he was at a sports bar, and Lakewood police are still trying to locate the weapon.
The officer was at the bar on Feb. 21 with other members of SWAT when the HK MP5 was stolen, said Lakewood police spokesman Steve Davis.
The sports bar, Jackson s Hole, is across the street from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Colorado State Patrol at 675 Kipling.
The officer parked his Ford pickup in the parking lot about 6 p.m., police said. When he walked outside at 8:20 p.m., he noticed his truck had been broken into, Davis said.
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I still want one......
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And yeah I know about the pricing. Buddy of mine has a MP5 he's had since '84, paid about $880 for it new.
I paid about $3000 for a lousy UZI 8 years ago and thought I got a good price.
Oh no. There are several other REALLY excellent choices available. Though an upgraded M60A4 isn't really all that bad....
Which is why DOD bought 5.5 million worth of them in 2005.... Pull trigger here for 850 round burst [1 min, 45 seconds rattytattat worth]
Driving drunk is cool but driving drunk with some firepower is better.
Let me rephrase that.I'd to think what a drunken, corrupt,incompetent cop could do with a weapon like that.
I was talking about legally and practically available. You have some MG42s 41s, etc. M-60 variations and ??? From your link
U.S. Government, U.S. Military, Foreign Military and Law Enforcement Sales Only
Great video!
Hey TheMom,
We gotta get one!
(AP) The family of slain Columbine student Daniel Rohrbough claims a Denver police officer killed the boy as the youth fled the massacre inside the school.
A motion filed in federal court said Sgt. Dan O'Shea, a member of the SWAT team during the April 20, 1999, shootings, was identified through testimony by a school administrator, Celine Marquez, who said O'Shea told her two days after the shooting that he feared he may have shot an innocent student.
The motion asks a judge to reconsider the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the Jefferson County school district and sheriff's office.
Brian Rohrbough has long claimed his son was shot by a lawman rather than by one of the student gunmen firing from inside the school because of the angle of his fatal chest wound. In all, 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, a Denver suburb, were killed before attackers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed themselves.
According to the motion, O'Shea's handwritten police report stated he shot a 9 mm machine gun from the base of a hill on which Rohrbough was shot and killed. Rohrbough's wounds were consistent with the student facing downhill and O'Shea firing from below, the motion said.
The court papers said Marquez was visiting Westridge Elementary School on April 22, 1999, when she encountered O'Shea, whose daughter attended preschool at Westridge.
According to the motion, Marquez thanked O'Shea for responding to the attack at Columbine. O'Shea broke down crying, saying he had thought he might have mistakenly shot an innocent student, the motion said. He told her he was relieved to learn that ballistics tests showed none of the victims had been struck by police bullets, it said.
Lawyer Barry Arrington, who represents the Rohrboughs, said the ballistics tests on the bullets had not been started when O'Shea spoke to Marquez. "Someone told Sgt. O'Shea a grievous lie," he said.
O'Shea could not be reached for comment, the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post reported. Denver Deputy Police Chief Dave Abrams said that he was unaware of the accusation against O'Shea.
"I think it's unlikely," he said. "I would seriously doubt it."
The motion also accuses Sheriff John Stone and his department of making 29 "blatant, bald-faced lies" about the investigation, including initially identifying a bullet recovered from Rohrbough's body as one from Klebold's weapon.
Brian Rohrbough said he didn't know about Marquez's story until a few days before a federal judge dismissed all but one of the Columbine wrongful-death suits last month. After the ruling, he asked Marquez if she would give a statement.
Marquez said she frequently told the story of her meeting with O'Shea, and "I felt I was relaying a hero's story."
According to the motion, sheriff's deputy Jim Taylor said that a Denver police officer was near him in the lower student parking lot during the massacre and that he remembers hearing machine gun fire and seing a boy, later identified as Daniel Rohrbough, get shot.
E4 upgrade kits for registered M60s are available, even if newly-manufactured guns are not. It knocks a couple of pounds off the Vietnam-configuration *pig* and improves reliability considerably. And at least a couple of registered M60E3 versions have changed hands recently.
I was sort of thinking MG82/MG25 Amelis and HK21s and 23s, however. And then there are some Stoner MK23 MGs in private hands....Pricey, but available here and there. But not what I'd get if I were so inclined.
Daniel Rohrbough was my cousin. His father Brian (also my cousin), dropped that claim quite some time ago, when police data was finally released that proved otherwise. Please do not repeat it.
An MP-5 would enable you to get fire superiority over a police officer real quick.
How can that be when the police already have them? I'm sure this guy will get his replaced. Or are you arguing that all citizens should ahve them for 2nd amendment reasons?
All police now carry automatic weapons in their cars? That's news to me.
Random theft or targeted, I wonder? If the former, I'd love to have seen the eyes on the thief when he found it. That's 18 large on the legal market, and I don't know what it'd go for on the street, but it'd sure beat stealing a stereo. If the latter somebody has been talking way too much about what he carries around.
It was news to me too, but the weapon was there and stolen from his personal car, so what else can you conclude?
You should delete your post. You have no reason to cite this. You weren't there, you weren't under fire, you weren't responsible for innocent lives and unless you are claiming someone was grossly incompetent, instead of simply making a mistake in the heat of the moment, there is no reason for you to get involved in this.
And now I see that the family IS involved and telling you you are citing incorrect information.
Do the right thing: delete your post and stop repeating that crap.
A big part of the premium you pay for legal full auto is the legality part of it. Probably $2g on the unofficial market. I was told that the police pay about $800 for them.
Not really surprising, I guess, and thanks for the information. The premium for obeying the law is a 900% markup on these beasts. Sure makes a feller enthusiastic about the law, doesn't it?
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