California flubs again

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/weapons-stolen-los-angeles-swat-training-155758625.html

Weapons stolen from Los Angeles SWAT training site

By THOMAS WATKINS - Associated Press | AP – 5 hrs ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Red-faced police officials worked Monday to downplay the theft of dozens of weapons from a SWAT training center, stressing the guns had been altered and could not fire live rounds.

The 15 MP-5 submachine guns and 15 Colt .45-caliber handguns had been adjusted to fire training rounds tipped with plastic instead of lead.

Police said it would require specialized parts that are not available to the general public to convert them back to regular weapons.

"Right now these weapons are inert. They don't fire bullets," said Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andy Smith. "It takes significant skill and significant parts to reconvert these back."

The weapons were stolen early Thursday from an inconspicuous, rundown-looking ex-factory downtown, about a mile from SWAT headquarters. SWAT members were scheduled to train at the facility that morning and arrived to find the building had been burglarized.

A series of metal doors had been broken and the robber went through a roll-up door, got into a secured storage area and took the weapons.

"It is embarrassing," Smith said. "With 10,000 officers, with thousands and thousands of guns, .... unfortunately stuff's going to get lost once in a while. This is a particularly bad one."

Firearms experts said changing the guns back to their original form would be difficult for any criminal because their barrels, firing pins and other components had been altered.

"The amount of money it would take to convert them back to being actual weapons would cost more than going out and buying an actual gun," said Amy Driver, a firearms expert witness.

"It's not something these crooks are going to be able to do," said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives firearms coordinator Ken Tomlinson.

Forensics experts and police detectives were looking at all possibilities, including if the theft was an inside job.

"You wonder if this was a planned operation, what information they had, whether they were conducting surveillance," Deputy Chief Michael Downing told the Los Angeles Times.

Since the theft, "appropriate measures" have been taken, Downing said, without providing details.

However, regional law enforcement agencies have been notified.

Edited October 18, 2011 by Why_Me

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

what Morons!

I assure you they can be converted back and any of the parts except the receiver (which is unaltered for this modification) can be ordered on the internet and I can do the change in about 3 minutes.

That aside, so a guy walks into the 7-11 with an MP5 and you are going to argue with him? Sure, bash him a coffee pot because maybe it is one of those that can't shoot real bullets. #######????????????? Then CA will try to outlaw coffee pots.

Read it again. What effin' idiots!

[Amby 490]

It shouldn't be funny but I lol'd

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

what Morons!

I assure you they can be converted back and any of the parts except the receiver (which is unaltered for this modification) can be ordered on the internet and I can do the change in about 3 minutes.

That aside, so a guy walks into the 7-11 with an MP5 and you are going to argue with him? Sure, bash him a coffee pot because maybe it is one of those that can't shoot real bullets. #######????????????? Then CA will try to outlaw coffee pots.

Read it again. What effin' idiots!

The Peoples Republic of Kalifornia goes out of it's way to disarm legal US citizens and now it looks like it's trying to arm the criminals.

[Leatherneck 693]

How did the preps know to go through that particular door?

Inside job maybe...

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

It shouldn't be funny but I lol'd

I know. If it wasn't so serious, it would be funny.

[Ban Hammer 13,746]

The 15 MP-5 submachine guns and 15 Colt .45-caliber handguns had been adjusted to fire training rounds tipped with plastic instead of lead.

.............

"Right now these weapons are inert. They don't fire bullets," said Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andy Smith. "It takes significant skill and significant parts to reconvert these back."

someone needs to get their story straight.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

IMO, topic title should have been "California proves itself a flub, again"!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

How did the preps know to go through that particular door?

Inside job maybe...

Perp, short for perpetrator. Preps are college bound high school students.

[Leatherneck 693]

Perp, short for perpetrator. Preps are college bound high school students.

At 3:26 AM, typed with one eye barely open. You're correct.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/333518-jerry-brown-signs-ban-on-open-carry-handguns/page__view__findpost__p__4959349

Are Californians a protected class now?

Edited October 18, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv

[skiptex 225]

in the political forum here.. i can never tell who the GOOD or the Bad guys are

[^_^ 5,021]

Cool it, guys. Penguin and Charles have been pretty unforgiving lately.

ETA: thanks, anonymous mod... now i look like im talking to myself.

ETA2: anonymous no more!

Edited October 18, 2011 by \

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Two baiting post and an exchange of insults have been removed. Any further comments of this nature will result in a thread ban.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Pretty sad that Charles posted in the thread after the obvious baiting/trolling started from the original poster. Yeah, I know, it's report driven, but if something is blatantly in front of you, you still going to ignore it? Willfull ignorance is bliss I guess.