2 Rocket Launchers Turned In During LAPD Gun Buyback (PHOTOS)
By Dennis Romero Thu., Dec. 27 2012 at 2:27 PM 382 Comments Categories: WTF
The department says it picked up 75 assault weapons as part of its no-questions-asked effort that saw $100 dollar cards handed out for handguns and long guns and $200 for the kind of rifle used in the Newtown tragedy. The LAPD says 901 handguns, 698 rifles, 363 shotguns will also be destroyed.
Good stats. But this is the one that got us saying WTF:
Cops picked up two -- count 'em two -- rocket launchers (!) (and not one, as other outlets are reporting), an LAPD official with close knowledge of the program told us. Holy hell why do people on our streets have military grade rocket launchers?
rocket launcher long soqui.JPG Ted Soqui for LA Weekly
The official told us this is not that unusual, that "we've had them in the past."
He says that police believe the "shoulder-fired" weapons are antiquated, decades-old, launchers from wars past often picked up by collectors or passed down to family members by veterans.
The official described them as LAW weapons, for light-anti-tank weapons.
They propel rocket grenades, but the official called them "non-working" because they did not have the "projectiles" with them. Thank God!?
Asked if they could arouse terror concerns among FBI and Homeland Security officials, the lawman told us that the LAPD had received no inquiries and that the department would, in any case, honor its no-questions-asked commitment to keep the donors anonymous.
The US has a higher rate of rocket launcher crime than other countries.
I'm glad that Cic agrees that they ARE Rocket Launchers.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Police Chief Charlie Beck should be fired immediately for lying to the public!!! And he did it more than once.
........and admitted using it as a SCARE TACTIC!!!
FEAR MONGERING AT IT'S BEST!!!!
Dontcha just love a cop that lies??
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Police Chief Charlie Beck should be fired immediately for lying to the public!!! And he did it more than once.
........and admitted using it as a SCARE TACTIC!!!
FEAR MONGERING AT IT'S BEST!!!!
Dontcha just love a cop that lies??
Cops that lie seem to be a problem... So is another source that lies... Breitbart.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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