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Nick Ut / AP
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck holds up a rocket launcher taken as part of a cache of weapons received as part of a weekend gun buyback program at Los Angeles Police headquarters in Los Angeles on Monday, May 14, 2012. The haul also included 791 handguns, 527 rifles, 302 shotguns, marking a four-year low. A local supermarket chain donated $200,000 in gift cards to give out in exchange for the guns.
Nick Ut / AP
A pile of guns is displayed at a news conference after an annual Gun Buyback Program which netted 1,673 firearms over the weekend, marking a four-year low shown at the Los Angeles Police headquarters in Los Angeles.
It's worth noting that photographer Nick Ut made a famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning image from the Vietnam War.
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So if that marks a four-yr low does that mean that the program is working and reducing the number of guns out there, or is it because people aren't wanting to turn them in?
I'm willing to take them all off your hands Los Angeles. It would be a shame to destroy all those weapons. I bet there's a few in there that are actually worth some money.
Oh, bull.
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2012/05/were-only-ones-launching-hysteria.html
Rocket Launcher? ROCKET LAUNCHER??? HA HA Dumb Ass, put on your glasses, it says TRAINER, HA HA
Look, Roy Nathaniel Chester, do you REALLY think the LAPD Head Pig is going to tell the truth to Mere Citizens? Or that the groveling Media is going to call him on it?
HEY! YELLOW stripe means TRAINING equipment which means FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha Ha Ha! Stupid police chief: The "rocket launcher" is an M136 LAW (Light Antiarmor Weapon) one-shot (can't be reloaded) launcher which is only useful for practicing dry-fire. As noted above, it says "TRAINER" on the side. If the chief held it at a different angle, the camera would show that it to be an empty tube.
Burnt Meatballs: The yellow stripe means HE, BLUE means inert trainer. This one started out live, was fired, and then kept as an inert trainer. (We did it all the time in the infantry units I've been in.) Again, it can't be reloaded. Probably brought home by someone in the National Guard, whose wife/girlfriend/mother saw an opportunity to get a free gift-card for something she didn't want around.
This is grand-standing to force a solution where there isn't a problem.
What supermarket chain is it that doesn't want my business+
I hope there are smarter people in LA than their police officers..... It is TRAINING Launcher.. It even say INERT TRAINER on the side!
FYI You can get those at any ARMY/NAVY store. the ARMY throws them away! They are harmless. They are just a fiberglass tube! LMAO!