Posted on 08/18/2007 6:37:08 PM PDT by fishhound
Missile dumped at US gun amnesty Florida map A man in Florida surprised police by handing in a surface-to-air missile launcher during a gun amnesty in the city of Orlando.
Under the no-questions-asked scheme, "Kicks for Guns", anyone who surrendered a firearm would receive trainers or $50 (£25).
The Orlando Sentinel newspaper said the man exchanged the rocket launcher for designer footwear for his daughter.
He told the newspaper he found the 4ft (1.2m) weapon in a shed last week.
The unidentified man said he had tried in vain to get rid of the launcher, which is designed to blow aircraft out of the sky.
"I took it to three dumps to try to get rid of it and they told me to get lost."
"I didn't know what to do with it, so I brought it here," he told the newspaper.
Besides the missile launcher, Orlando Police collected more than 310 guns during the amnesty.
After inspecting the rocket launcher, police spokeswoman Sgt Barbara Jones said: "I tell you, you never know what you're going to get."
The title says “Missile” but the story says “launcher”. There’s a difference....which is it?
What doesn’t make sense about this is why he didn’t alert the authorities and instead chose a “no questions asked” way to turn it in-—after trying to take it to the dump.
I just copied the title.
This was mentioned on FoxNews earlier and they said it was a launcher.
Try an empty TOW shipping and launch tube.
Send the press back to military boot camp.
Iranian woman turns in two missiles that fell on her house after coalition forces routed insurgents, see pic.
With both your points made the article seems like crap.
If it is a launcher...
They don’t say whether it is functional.
If it is not...
then i don’t think its a weapon.
I am more curious to know if the guy was b&e-ing someone elses shed. Because it doesn’t say it was his shed.
MANPAD....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293666,00.html
This story says it was a shed that he tore down last week. It doesnt say whose shed it was. If it was a launcher, then it was just the empty tube that was left after one had been fired, right?
If you believe this story, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’ll trade you for a pair of new “designer” cowboy boots. This story is BS.
The big thing is how much can I get for a potato launcher????, or is it a potato tube, cannot be a potato missile until you shoot it.
US launchers use batteries not commonly available, and which go dead after a few months.
Soviet launchers use a hand powered crank.
The missile is obviously long gone unless we have a very dumb cop here. Just a bunch of garbage.
This article was posted earlier and someone found a website that most likely showed it to be an old tow (anti tank) missile. Cant recall name of site..sorry.
Thanks. Nothing to really worry about. It definitely isn’t worth 50 bucks unless you’re paying for it with somebody else’s money. LOL!
The Press wouldn’t know the difference between an A$$ and a hole in the ground.
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