Note not “Military Style” but MILITARY WEAPONS!
Los Angeles schools’ police said on Tuesday it would give up three grenade launchers it acquired for free through a federal program now facing mounting scrutiny for supplying local agencies with military-grade equipment, the L.A Times newspaper reported.
…The Los Angeles School Police Department, which serves the nation’s second-largest school system, would keep 61 rifles and an armored vehicle built to withstand roadside bombs, the newspaper said.
…A police sergeant who declined to be named confirmed the department had the equipment and said it is needed “for the safety of staff, students, and personnel” but could not confirm what if anything the department was relinquishing.
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, and the grenade launchers, would only have been used in “very specific circumstances,” he added, without elaborating.
Note this is not LA PD proper, but the LA SCHOOL Police! I’m willing to look the other way on the rifles, as they are likely M4s, possibly with the auto-sear disabled. I don’t LIKE it, but I’m fine with every beat officer, no matter the beat, having access to a rifle. The REAL difference between these M4s and a standard AR-15 is really simply if the department paid for it.
Of course the department would pay for it with public funds, and if these rifles actually work (which nobody is claiming they don’t) they still have value, and were paid for with public funds, so the “Savings” is little more than a shell game. So ALL AMERICANS, rather than the tax payers of LA are paying for these guns. I almost like that LESS. I understand the logistics, I don’t like the implementation. Hell the US Government could torch-cut the guns and sell them as “Parts Kits” which could be easily converted to civilian-legal AR-15s by pinning a muzzle device to the threads making it 16+” and replacing anything damaged by the torch, and this would RECOUP federal money by exchanging the surplus goods for private money.
Then there’s the MRAP and the grenade launchers. No info on what they are, but given they are mil-surp stuff they’re probably M203 or similar 40mm launchers. I guess you could launch tear gas and baton rounds through them, still why would the School system be in charge of something like a riot?
In the end it is people getting “Cool shit” for free. Still you put a hammer in your tool box, the world starts looking like a nail.
Also with the exception of the MRAP (which I think any old civilian could buy, order, or build…correct me if I’m wrong) the other stuff is NFA items, and the M4s are post-84 Non-transferable Machine Guns. AKA illegal for you or I to own.
Why do the cops get these cool guns for free when we’d need to play paperwork games and pay $200 or simply be denied access to the MGs? Easy because GUN CONTROL groups ALWAYS exempt police from their fun gun control bills.
So really we have anti-gun groups giving SCHOOL Police machine guns, grenade launchers, and MRAPs. Hey, but they’ll blame the NRA the next time the LA Police pull a Chris Dorner on somebody.
So, when are we forming are own little town to get in on the 1033 gravy train?
Also, I think they are A1’s Weer’d with a 20″ pencil barrel, triangle hand guards, and ‘da switch’.
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They should get rid of the MRAP, too. For practicality purposes.
Six miles to the gallon, at LA prices. Plus if the thing breaks, there’s not a mechanic anywhere outside the military who knows how to fix it, and those guys probably aren’t allowed to work on MRAPs the military doesn’t own.
But they’ll keep it. They think they look bad-@$$ riding around in a “tank”.
If the rifles are, in fact, “M4s with the auto sear disabled” wouldn’t that mean that the LA School District police are in possession of “firearms easily converted to full-auto”?
Since ordinary citizens are not allowed such things, why should we tolerate them being in the possession of a school cop?
Of course Californians are strong believers in the force-field of pure good emanating from a Police Badge. Cops can be totally trusted with machine guns, tanks, grenade launchers, and close air support. Meanwhile the people of California are such savages that they can’t be trusted with an 11 round magazine, an R-15 Hunting rifle, or even a **GASP** Hi-Point!
That argument makes sense, that’s why it doesn’t work in California, or here in Mass!