Posted on 03/17/2010 5:09:25 AM PDT by rellimpank
City of Pewaukee - In the wake of the breakup of the Police Department, city officials are trying to resolve a couple of nagging questions: What are they going to do with the 58,000 rounds of ammunition that are left over and why did the department stockpile so much?
The 58,000 rounds of handgun, rifle and shotgun ammunition are about five times more than a department the size of the city force would require in a year for duty and training purposes, some city officials said.
"It seems like it is way in excess of what you would need," Mayor Scott Klein said. "It begs the question of why it got up to so much and why would you continue to purchase it."
A Waukesha County sheriff's lieutenant told city officials that a department the size of the former city department - about 25 officers - would need slightly fewer than 11,000 rounds of ammunition a year.
The city disbanded its police department at the end of 2009 and began contracting with the Sheriff's Department for police to save an estimated $800,000 this year.
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“Use it to remove Obama bumper stickers 38/100ths of an inch at a time. “
lol. nice.
Just another “Hold my beer” moment.
I had a friend in the Marine Corps who liked to mess around with black powder pistols and gunpowder and stuff. He made some homemade “flash powder” one day and he was smoking a cigarette (Lucky Strike non filters). The ash fell from the end of his cig he was holding in his mouth and fell into the container of flash powder. It exploded and he got severely burned. He damn near got court martialed....................
I noticed you used “HAD A FRIEND”. Smart move.
I saw a guy almost shoot himself in the foot trying to do the “COWBOY SPIN” with a double action revolver.
Did it go off when he tried to spin it into the holster or did he drop it?...........
If their puny brains can't figure that one out, perhaps selling it on the open market and using the money to fund the police fund for a given period of time. Politicians must be required to undergo a lobotomy after being elected.
Just as he started into the spin.
He had a S&W .357mag mod 19 that he said he did it with all the time. He tried doing it with my S&W mod 57 .41mag. Heavier gun, and I’ve had some trigger work done on it. He started that spin, and I knew what was going to happen. I just tried to backup and get out of the way.
I couldn’t stop him, so I just figured somebody’s got to carry the news to the family.
Move at a right angle to the plane of the spin.............
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