Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio forced to return military-grade weapons, vehicles

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-forced-to-return-military-grade-weapons-vehicles/

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio downplayed his department’s impending loss of military-grade weaponry that he was defending just last month, KTVK-TV reported.

“It really doesn’t mean anything,” Arpaio said at a press conference on Tuesday. “Look at the handguns. They probably don’t work anyway. We have plenty of our own.”

Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department have four months to return about 200 weapons, including M-16 and M-14 rifles, as well as two armored vehicles, five helicopters, and 158 pairs of night vision goggles they have acquired through the Defense Department’s Excess Property Program, commonly known as the “1033 program.” ...

However, his department was “terminated” from the program after reportedly losing nine weapons since 1993. Arpaio said last month that between internal audits found between 20 and 22 firearms had “vanished” from his department, with several of them being taken home by officers after they retired.

[snooper2]

1. Here is the link the actual news organization "raw story" stole from

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http://www.azfamily.com/news/Sheriff-Arpaio-forced-to-return-weapons-to-feds-275381361.html

[KamaAina]

2. I'll be sure to tell all 400 of my FB friends not to link to Raw Story

[snooper2]

3. cool you rock!

[Gothmog]

4. I am glad that this idiot had to return his toys

[ck4829]

5. Don't you just love the classic cognitive dissonance ol' Arpaio is displaying?

His department has proven itself so incompetent that they have to return the gear that they loved having, and so his response is that they probably 'don't work anyway'.

Right out of the Fox and the Grapes, the moral of which is 'Any fool can despise what he can not get'.

[MohRokTah]

6. That's outstanding news.

This fuckwit shouldn't be trusted with a pea shooter, let alone anything more deadly than a pea shooter.