Police expect Trump to lift limits on surplus military gear

[yortsed snacilbuper]

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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/police-expect-trump-to-lift-limits-on-surplus-military-gear/ar-AAlqgQL?li=AA4ZnC&ocid=spartanntp

[HassleCat]

1. Just what we need!

Further militarization of the police.

[doc03]

2. Why of course I heard one of his supporters the day after the election say

that Trump would send the National Guard to Chicago and clean it out. I am in a rural county in Ohio, we have two
cities the biggest around 6000 and the second of just over 5000. We have one of those armored tanks they used in Iraq
to clear IEDs and an APC.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

3. poor brownshirts

Gonna be out of a job soon

[Ilsa]

4. He has to get the police ready to put down the rebellion.

They won't care who they hurt because they'll be called in from another town instead of their own.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Can't have that effective Police State without local paramilitaries to put down faction swiftly.

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The funny thing is that this socializes the maintenance to the township residents.


Before, the weaponry would be at a National Guard or Army depot, distributing the cost at a Federal Level. The socialist states that receive most of their federal money from donor states, really don't really pay much to have the equipment stored in these facilities. The costs are distributed across the whole country.


Now, when local police departments get this equipment, the township residents are on the hook to maintain them.

The same township residents who might see their own equipment turned upon them.

Enjoy!


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