R.I.P. Scout26
Several years ago, the BATF got their pee-pee smacked for assembling an air wing of 22 surplus USMC OV-10 Broncos.The State Department owns them now, and they deploy out of Patrick AFB, spraying South American cocaine fields with Round Up.
I wonder what restrictions there are on reselling the stuff once it's in their possession. If it was legal, an enterprising police department could basically become self-funding by reselling milsurp and any other "surplus" equipment they don't need anymore.
The MRAP is pretty good at defending folks from lightly armed, small ragtag groups of bad guys in an arid desert climate.
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
I also don't even think this is a credible source. Again, i've heard NOTHING official about large MRAP purchases by DHS.
I agree, considering that gateway pundit is big on speculation and making stuff up, and short on facts. Their cited source is modernsurvivalblog. I don't know anything about them, but I am skeptical.
Again, i know we have them, but I have no credible info about numbers.BTW, i asked the folks here what HSI was doing in CO. They said that there's a lot of smuggling/migrant traffic through there enroute to other places.
The MRAPs were transferred to DHS from the Department of Defense, free of charge. But despite recent reports, they have actually been in service since at least 2008.Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/homeland-security-serving-warrants-mrap-2013-3#ixzz2MrsxejRK
On May 3, 2012, three ICE agents were shot and injured while serving "high-risk" warrants during an early morning sweep of San Francisco Bay area gang members, according to a report from Yahoo! News.Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/homeland-security-serving-warrants-mrap-2013-3#ixzz2Mrt6yHxg
Approximately 16 ish.http://www.businessinsider.com/homeland-security-serving-warrants-mrap-2013-3So, sorta true but very very exaggerated.
So - we've had a special militarized federal police for five years.I feel so much better now.
You've had it for a lot longer than 5 yearshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
Holy hell. It's like giving a loaded gun to a chimpanzee...
the last thing you need is rabies. You're already angry enough as it is.OTOH, there wouldn't be a tweeker left in Georgia...
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! AND THROW SOME STEAK ON THE GRILL!