[SubGeniusX]

OOPSIE!!!

"We’re concerned with getting these guns off the street," Gwyn said. "We have a lot of folks working on it right now."

[operation clinton cleanup]

SWAT teams use machine guns?

[mtbopfuyn]

The officers, who were traveling from Raleigh to Little Rock for training

Should have signed up for last week's training class.

[appleharvey]

And we’re supposed to forfeit our right to bear arms to people like these brain stems?

[umgud]

WOW, no background check or waiting period.

[trumandogz]

The SWAT Team must have slept through the seminar at the training in Little Rock called:

“How to Lock the Doors on Your Van”

[exit82]

What—the SWAT vehicle doesn’t have an audible alarm?

Yeah, now here’s a group I want responding to a 911 call.

They’ll pull up, open the doors while chanting “hut,hut,hut,hut” and yikes! No weapons!

The only thing that could be worse in this story is if the cops were sitting at a donut shop.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

The Little Rock FBI stocks grenade launchers?

[magslinger]

“I’m the only one in this room professional enough...” reference in 3, 2, 1...

[knarf]

With all of the sundry 'bashings' that have no other purpose but to rend the fabric of America ... I really want this story to be false.

Yes, I know, some cops shouldn't be ... but to have such a stupid thing to happen to not one, but two or more SWAT members is just surreal.

[vetvetdoug]

This is the second time a FBI SWAT team has lost their weapons in Memphis. About four years ago the diverse component of Memphians broke into and stole several fully automatic M-16’s, grenade launchers, sniper weapons, and grenades from an FBI SWAT van. Memphis is a cesspool I keep telling you, you park there for anything at your risk no matter who you are.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Raleigh’s finest ping.

[Andrew Byler]

Inside the SUV were grenade launchers, M-16 rifles, submachine guns and other potent weapons, which were found after an intense three-day search.

Why does an FBI unit need grenade launchers? Does our government really consider its citzens its enemy?

[microgood]

Cops do not need this kind of firepower. Nor do we need 99% of the SWAT Teams we have now. It is really a bad trend over the last twenty years that needs to be reversed. There are over 40,000 SWAT Raids a year now, even for things like child support payments, where 20 years ago there were less than 1000.

Most cops are not very well trained to use this military equipment, and some police forces have modified their autos to only operate in single fire mode as a result. Part of the justification is that criminals are using more and more firepower, which is simply false.

[elkfersupper]

[petertare]

Let me splain sometun folks.

There is so much Homeland Security cash floating around that every little Barney Fife cop shop is now stocked with the equivalent of a company size armory. Almost everyone now has a sniper rifle beside the M16. I aint kidin. Barney would even get a new glock and a full magazine in his pocket nowadays.

[unixfox]

If you or I had left the keys in our vehicle we would have been ticketed. But these guys leave friggin machine guns in an unlocked vehicle and we are supposed to be "on the lookout"?

Piss on them, let em eat crow!

[jordan8]

SWAT doesn’t need and shouldn’t have automatic weapons. It’s just more of the idiotic and dangerous game of playing soldiers.

[Constitution Day]

"Memphis police were looking Monday night for the thieves who stole seven weapons from a North Carolina SWAT team van parked in South Memphis.

Members of the SWAT team based in Raleigh, N.C., were eating at Interstate Bar-B-Que, 2265 S. Third, about 3:30 p.m. Monday when they realized their van had been broken into, said Lt. Jerry Gwyn of Memphis felony response."

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[Atlas Sneezed]

Militarized law enforcement forces are the standing army our founders feared.

[Old Professer]