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oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:29 PM Apr 2015

516 firearms registered to the Police and they still lose some.

Records: Missing Flint police guns used in crimes around state

FLINT (AP) -- Police records say poor record keeping, break-ins and questionable gun storage practices allowed firearms to go missing from the Flint police department.

The Flint Journal reports records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act say several of the guns were used in crimes around Michigan.

The Flint Police Department conducted a full inventory of its firearms this year. During the inventory, officers were unable to locate 22 guns in addition to 17 earlier reported stolen and unaccounted for, covering a period from 1996 until the present.

http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story....8#.VSL6A_nF-So


Registration WORKS!!!

Except it apparently doesn't.

And the Police are exempt from it.

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516 firearms registered to the Police and they still lose some. (Original Post) oneshooter Apr 2015 OP
gotta get your throw downs from somewhere Man from Pickens Apr 2015 #1
So you are claiming that the Flint Police use firearms registered to department oneshooter Apr 2015 #2
sure why not Man from Pickens Apr 2015 #3
That's like a citizen with a collection of a dozen guns having one go missing. Eleanors38 Apr 2015 #4
 

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)
1. gotta get your throw downs from somewhere
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:38 PM
Apr 2015

"armed black man" in the official report doesn't get a fraction of the scrutiny that "unarmed black man" gets

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
2. So you are claiming that the Flint Police use firearms registered to department
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 10:22 AM
Apr 2015

as "throwdown" arms?

I would hazard a guess that you would do so, if you were a Flint cop.

You really need to think this through, with out the hatred.

 

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)
3. sure why not
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 11:05 AM
Apr 2015

when you can "testilie" and get away with it every time, details like that never see the light of day

I'll believe there are good cops when they start arresting the bad ones.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
4. That's like a citizen with a collection of a dozen guns having one go missing.
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 01:50 PM
Apr 2015

In general, firearms are too expensive to slough one off like that.

Maybe a tragedy of the commons?

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