[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.

[archy]

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.

To add insult to injury, the perps in that earlier case also torched the FBI Blazer from which the buzzguns, M79s and grenades and ammo were taken. The little detail left out of the much-touted arrest of a couple of the usual suspects a few days later was that the ammo and grenades were not recovered; M203 grenades were going for $25-$50 each in one Memphis biker bar just after the event and I do not think that was an unrelated coincidence.

But I certainly concur with your Chamber of Commerce-unapproved warning for prospective tourists.