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Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police

Posted by Soulskill on from the bazookas-for-all dept.

v3rgEz writes: Wondering how the St. Louis County Police ended up armed with surplus military gear, and what equipment other departments have? A FOIA request at MuckRock has turned up every item given to local law enforcement under the Pentagon's 1022 program, the mechanism by which local law enforcement can apply for surplus or used military gear.

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  1. Arms merchants are the real problem by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Arms merchants are the real problem. They should all be sho...umm. We should bomb their factorie.... ummm... Let's just nuke all the... umm..

    Lemme get back to you on this.

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  2. Re:No by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you give everyone guns they will find someone to shoot. And if you listen to the NRA, then you know that just isn't true. So your statement can't be true either.

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