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Scores of Police Weapons Are Missing in Long Beach
The Long Beach Police Department is missing more than a fourth of its shotguns and an unknown number of revolvers, officials said Thursday.
The second-largest police department in Los Angeles County was scrambling to determine whether the guns were lost, stolen or somehow misplaced within the agency. Investigators have uncovered no evidence so far that the firearms found their way into the wrong hands or were used in crimes.
II'm not going to overly hammer the PD for this, although I would think there would be some sort of periodic inventory of their weapons--I know I count muzzles every so often, and I'm the only person with the combo to the gun safe.
My point is that this is one part of our answer to those from "the other side" who think only the police and the military should have guns. "Funny you should say that, because the Long Beach PD lost x% of their guns, and I've never lost even a single one. It doesn't make me really comfortable that those guns could be in the hands of criminals. Why, how can I protect myself?"
The Long Beach Police Department is missing more than a fourth of its shotguns and an unknown number of revolvers, officials said Thursday.
The second-largest police department in Los Angeles County was scrambling to determine whether the guns were lost, stolen or somehow misplaced within the agency. Investigators have uncovered no evidence so far that the firearms found their way into the wrong hands or were used in crimes.
II'm not going to overly hammer the PD for this, although I would think there would be some sort of periodic inventory of their weapons--I know I count muzzles every so often, and I'm the only person with the combo to the gun safe.
My point is that this is one part of our answer to those from "the other side" who think only the police and the military should have guns. "Funny you should say that, because the Long Beach PD lost x% of their guns, and I've never lost even a single one. It doesn't make me really comfortable that those guns could be in the hands of criminals. Why, how can I protect myself?"