Police expect Trump to lift limits on access to surplus military gear, like grenade launchers...

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: Business Insider

If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments.

National police organizations say they'll hold Trump to that promise.

President Barack Obama issued an executive order restricting that access in 2015 amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Since then, federal officials have recalled more than 1,800 items, which have been destroyed through target practice or otherwise disposed of, officials say.

But state and local police organizations have protested, insisting that military-style vehicles and gear help protect officers' lives and public safety — for example, a privately manufactured, tracked armored vehicle played a key role in the police response to the mass shooting at a county government building in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-police-expect-trump-to-lift-limits-on-surplus-military-gear-2016-12

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Just what this country needs, more militarized police. Backyard party too loud? Call the swat team!!

[pangaia]

1. Yeah, I saw this. We are in for a military/police state.

[iluvtennis]

2. Yep, police state, that is what he wants - that is why he is filling his cabinet with Generals. GAH

[enough]

4. Very useful to have a well-armed police force if you're planning to criminalize dissent. (nt)

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[theaocp]

3. Fucking grenade launchers and BAYONETS!!!

Where WILL the thugs dig their foxholes? You'd be better off selling this shit to patriot dipshits in Northern and Western Michigan! Fucking christ.

[Javaman]

5. in other news...

vast stocks of Viet Nam era napalm has been put for sale to local police.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. No worries. We have the gun nuts to protect us from tyranny!

[elmac]

7. in a fascist state

it will be us against them, them being police and military. It will no longer be a civilian police force, it will no longer be law enforcement, it will be totalitarian rule by thugs who want to extract every bit of humanity from our population, conquer and enslave. Destroy all aspects of a Democratic state. This is our future.

[billh58]

8. This will make the

Second Amendment absolutists, and their very vocal supporters very happy. More guns and weapons of war in our communities make for a more polite society they say...

[J_William_Ryan]

9. Criminalizing dissent

A conservative dream come true.

[mrmpa]

10. let the local taxpayer

Have a say on whether or not these things can be bought

In many communities taxpayers would not allow these to be bought

Right now these purchases are directly made from budgets without taxpayers knowing exactly whats going on

[LiberalFighter]

11. Those that support this should suffer the results of improper use.

[LarryNM]

12. They will become like the Stasi and Gestapo

and the populace should treat them accordingly.

[magicarpet]

13. Just for the LEO community ?

I'm a taxpayer and originally paid for this war equipment. I should at least get first refusal.

I got a squirrel who hangs out in the backyard around the bird feeders. Wanted to use a grenade launcher and blast it . Then make some redneck stew.

I am a member of the local white nationalist club - those sorts of munitions would come in real handy for me and my buddies when we go hunting for non-Amerikkkans.

...... snark.......