And they say WE are too irresponsible to own weapons like there

ABC/Fusion Investigation: Military Guns Missing From Police Agencies

Aug 29, 2014,

BY JIM AVILA, DANIEL RIVERO, and SERENA MARSHALL

 

 

 

 

A man is detained after a standoff with police, Aug. 18, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.

Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

     The guns-drawn streets of Ferguson jolted America awake to the militarization of the nation's police.

Local cops, often untrained in military tactics, may be carrying assault rifles used by our Marines and even Special Forces, commanding American boulevards from atop armored personnel carriers -- all using surplus weaponry donated by the Pentagon in a program designed to better equip civilian police against terrorists and heavily armed criminals.

“These are tools that law enforcement unfortunately needs,” Lt. Mitchell O’Brien with the Huntington Beach, California, Police Department told ABC News. “In North Hollywood, you had law enforcement officers going to B&B guns, looking for weapons so they could fight some criminals that had heavily armed, or were heavily armed with assault weapons.”

Also unfortunate, however, as we found in an ABC News/Fusion investigation, was that some police forces are not keeping track of these high-powered weapons.
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