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Trump expected to lift ban on military gear to local police forces
USA Today ^ | 8/27/2017 | Kevin Johnson

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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Not sure how I feel about this... ideally, the civilians in the police shouldn't be able to have any weapons that a civilian cannot posses.
1 posted on 08/28/2017 8:00:57 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: TexasGunLover

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. ;-)


2 posted on 08/28/2017 8:04:29 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: TexasGunLover

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.


3 posted on 08/28/2017 8:05:11 AM PDT by Mafe
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To: TexasGunLover

They wouldn’t need so much military gear if you’d do RICO prosecutions of the people behind the riots.


4 posted on 08/28/2017 8:05:47 AM PDT by marron
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To: TexasGunLover
Get real....This weaponry was out in full force after the Boston marathon....at Obama's command. Of course, this was Whitey land....so Obama had no qualms about any ones rights.

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.

5 posted on 08/28/2017 8:07:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: TexasGunLover

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.)


6 posted on 08/28/2017 8:09:25 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: TexasGunLover

Well, sanctuary cities need the weapons to ward off Trump’s immigration enforcers.


7 posted on 08/28/2017 8:10:14 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Mafe

Police are Civilians.


8 posted on 08/28/2017 8:11:28 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: TexasGunLover

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.


9 posted on 08/28/2017 8:11:36 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Houston, Texas)
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To: TexasGunLover

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.


10 posted on 08/28/2017 8:11:48 AM PDT by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
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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.


11 posted on 08/28/2017 8:16:54 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: TexasGunLover

They already have military gear.


12 posted on 08/28/2017 8:22:22 AM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden can't be fought)
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To: batterycommander

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


13 posted on 08/28/2017 8:23:27 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: TexasGunLover

Militarizing the police is a terrible idea, no matter who does it.


14 posted on 08/28/2017 8:33:16 AM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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To: TexasGunLover

Bad idea.


15 posted on 08/28/2017 8:48:38 AM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: Antoninus

Except when you need them militarized.


16 posted on 08/28/2017 8:58:22 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: wastedyears
They already have military gear.

Correct, but why give them more. I can see vehicles, but not more weapons that other civilians can't own.
17 posted on 08/28/2017 9:05:29 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: TexasGunLover

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.


18 posted on 08/28/2017 9:20:03 AM PDT by crusadersoldier
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To: TexasGunLover

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.


19 posted on 08/28/2017 9:21:43 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: TexasGunLover

Does the Military have any Anti-Urine Missiles?


20 posted on 08/28/2017 9:22:05 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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