Dozens of law enforcement agencies across the US are now reporting the loss of the military weapons given to them under the Pentagon’s 1033 program.
Ooops, now where did we put that M-16??
Take Huntington Beach, Calif., which was given 23 M-16 rifles and has reported one missing.
“Bottom line is the gun is not here and we were suspended from the program, haven’t received anything since 1999,” Huntington Beach Police Department Lt. Mitchell O’Brien told ABC News Friday.
O’Brien told the network the lost weapon could have been melted down, but that’s uncertain.
“Bottom line is the gun is not here and we were suspended from the program.”- Huntington Beach Police Department Lt. Mitchell O’Brien
“Probably, [it was] one of those things where we used it for parts and the spare parts probably got discarded at some point — but again, it’s inconclusive,” he said. “But we are pretty confident nobody got into our armory and took it.
The program O’Brien was referencing is the Pentagon’s 1033 program, which gives away surplus military weapons to local police departments. In a report Friday theCox Washington Bureau said Huntington Beach is one of 145 local law enforcement agencies across the country that has been suspended from the program. Three states — Alabama, North Carolina and Minnesota — also have been suspended.
Cox named some of the banned agencies.
The Daytona Beach Police Department was suspended after reporting a lost M-16 in January.
“We still have not been able to find it,” Daytona Beach Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt told Cox.
The Napa County Sheriff’s Office was banned after someone stole a rifle from an employee’s personal vehicle.
“If I knew where it was, I’d go get it,” Undersheriff Jean Donaldson told Cox. “It’s equipment we can obtain at no cost to our budget, so the taxpayers don’t get taxed twice.”
KARK-TV in Arkansas said three law enforcement agencies in the state have been suspended for losing weapons or having weapons stolen: the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, the Woodruff County Sheriff’s Office and the Judsonia Police Department.
James Ray, who oversees the 1033 program in Arkansas, told the station officials are worried the missing weapons could end up in the wrong hands.
“I have no reason to believe that, but if we don’t know where they are then hopefully we can get them back,” he said. “I mean they’ve been reported stolen by the law enforcement agencies….”
“It just appears that the Pentagon’s not minding the store, that once the inventory is gone, it’s out of sight, out of mind—and we can’t afford to have weapons of this type walking around the streets,” Steve Ellis, vice president of Tax Payers for Common Sense, told ABC.
A Pentagon spokesman told the station that 8,000 law enforcement agencies participate in the 1033 program and that 98 percent remain in good standing.
Source: foxnews.com
Photo: AP
He is supplying someone else don’t care about us time to get off fb and rise up WE need to take back OR country not the politicians… But most of us rely on other people to tell us what to do or how to live
Did you not see all the ISIS boys….Got all new trucks and all kind of stuff unk OBAMA…
civil war coming so we know where they went to
Obamas agenda !
I think this is all an inside job
it all needs taken. cops dont need tanks and machine guns
Yes. War is coming and Obama has armed the enemy and given them loads of armored vehicles to be used against us. WHY IS HE STILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND NOT IN PRISON?
how did they loose them or were they taken by terriorist and Obama’s police letting them take the weapons and was this his plan all along since he ok the giving of military weapons to the police and did he advise the terriorist where the weapons were located.
Jack every home of every cop in them please forces simultaneously and I’ll bet you find your arms
The police are fighting criminals with an overwhelming supply of weapons and ammo that defeat body armor and you people are happy the police are losing weapons and armored vehicles? You do understand that we do not live in a place like Mayberry anymore right? Criminals are toting Ak-47’s with armor piercing rounds these days. You people are fine with it, but the police officers who face these criminals would like some protection if that is ok. I know everyone has been lead to believe that the big bad police are coming for your first born, but you have been lead astray! We are sons, daughters, husbands and wives, moms and dads!! We care for people just as much as any of you do and we actually live in the communities that we protect. If anything most of you local police will be fighting with the people but a lot of you are too damn stupid to understand this for some reason. Stop listening to idiots and think for yourselves again!