Raise your hand if you think some University PD guys just wanted to get some awesome stuff and go out “training” for a couple weekends as part of “work”.
Where I live we have an annual “Zombie Shoot.” For one of stations, the local sherrif’s department brings out its armored personnel carrier or whatever you call it, and you can sit inside and shoot zombies through the gun ports. Yeah, it’s cool, but as a tax payer it pisses me off.
The 40mm platform is commonly used for less lethal deployment, like tear gas. Probably should be in every police weapons locker – riot control is certainly a legitimate function of law enforcement personnel.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:54 am
Raise your hand if you think some University PD guys just wanted to get some awesome stuff and go out “training” for a couple weekends as part of “work”.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:10 am
Where I live we have an annual “Zombie Shoot.” For one of stations, the local sherrif’s department brings out its armored personnel carrier or whatever you call it, and you can sit inside and shoot zombies through the gun ports. Yeah, it’s cool, but as a tax payer it pisses me off.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Do they have an ROTC program? Or a grant to design grenade launchers? There could be non-nefarious reasons that the author missed.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:16 pm
The 40mm platform is commonly used for less lethal deployment, like tear gas. Probably should be in every police weapons locker – riot control is certainly a legitimate function of law enforcement personnel.