Posted on 03/23/2023 3:12:55 PM PDT by Prolixus
A patrol rifle was stolen from a marked State Police cruiser in Malden overnight, sources told WBZ-TV's I-Team.
MALDEN - A patrol rifle was stolen from a marked State Police cruiser in Malden overnight, sources told WBZ-TV's I-Team.
It happened at an apartment complex. The cruiser was parked in a garage at the time. The I-Team sources said the thieves broke in and stole the rifle and ammunition from a locked compartment inside the vehicle. They said it "appears to be a professional job."
The cruiser belongs to a trooper assigned to Logan Airport, sources said.
Like an M4.
Oh wait, it is an M4.
CBS? We’re all reading about this coast to coast?
They should call out the national guard and bring in the FBI as this is clearly a threat to national security.
Yep. Select fire.
Oh, so as you said, when the police have them, they’re “patrol rifles,” but when we have them they’re “powerful weapons of war” assault weapons.
“They should call out the national guard and bring in the FBI as this is clearly a threat to national security.”
The local news assures us it’s only a “patrol rifle.”
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Does Mass. have anything like safe storage laws? I know the officer probably won’t get the same penalty that us proles would get if we were to leave a “patrol rifle” in our vehicles and it was later stolen.
See Also: Personal Defense Weapon
No doubt an insurrectionist rebel. Massachusetts has a history of that sort of stuff.
It's different, I guess. Depends on who has possession.
So now it's an assault rifle, maybe.
Yes, my first question as well, what is a “patrol rifle”?
Was it an assault rifle or a defense rifle?
“Does Mass. have anything like safe storage laws?”
Massachusetts has gun laws piled atop gun laws.
At the very least, a private citizen leaving an M4 with ammo in a car would result in a loss of one’s FID card / LTC if the weapon is stolen.
What are those worth? $1000? Who, particularly a “professional”, would break into a police car to steal one?
Yes.
“What are those worth? $1000?”
Try $15,000. This is not Andy Griffith’s “patrol rifle.”
IDK. Full-auto makes it interesting. No legal paper trail for the new owner is another plus.
For Chicago airport duty, friends in high places are required.
And several of them.
When I was a kid in Chicago it was a thing to steal billy clubs out of cop cars. Cops don’t even carry billy clubs anymore.
That’s it. In police hands, it’s a safe and appropriate “patrol rifle”.
In your hands, it’s a dangerous and irresponsible “assault rifle and murder machine”.
Logan Airport. That’s “F” Troop. I wonder if a Fekawi Indian stole it?
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