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Pentagon Will Give 13,000 Armored Vehicles to Police
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01/24/2014 09:28 AM
01/24/2014 09:28 AM
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Because, you know, the police really need them. Or something. ...Almost 200 trucks have been distributed to police departments since August and requests are pending for an additional 750 trucks. The vehicles, many of which feature machine-gun turrets, are off-limits to private citizens and businesses.
Lucky recipients run from the Ohio State University campus police force to Florence County, S.C., which replaced an armored vehicle from the 1970s that the sheriff department's SWAT team had used for about 15 years. A new armored truck would have cost at least $188,000.
"The price was right because it was free and it fit with what we need it to do," says sheriff's Capt. John Crouse. "It stops bullets. It keeps you from getting shot." Ohio State declined to comment.... Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Pentagon Will Give 13,000 Armored Vehicles to Police
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01/24/2014 02:10 PM
01/24/2014 02:10 PM
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I have mixed feelings about it since I got most of my tracked vehicle driver training on a couple of M113s that started out in a program like that and nobody else wanted them.
A lot of that stuff ends up as municipal back lot inventory that will be available to people like us when the time comes.
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Re: Pentagon Will Give 13,000 Armored Vehicles to Police
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01/24/2014 02:25 PM
01/24/2014 02:25 PM
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Would be fun to run and gun. I would hate to run against it.
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Re: Pentagon Will Give 13,000 Armored Vehicles to Police
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01/26/2014 02:25 PM
01/26/2014 02:25 PM
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These vehicles can be defeated with proper planning and know how. They may feel safe in it but they won't up against the right guys.
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