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Gun safety police lose weapons on way to teaching

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
Gun safety police lose weapons on way to teaching course

A pair of North Carolina police officers lost their guns and ammunition on their way to teaching a gun safety course.

The officers from Raleigh arrived in Wilson to find their two bags had disappeared from the back of their truck.

A driver found the bag containing an MP-5 submachine gun on the motorway.

Another found a handgun on another motorway.

Local police spent most of the day searching for the weapons and ammunition until the residents contacted them.

An MP-5 can fire 9mm ammunition at a rate of 800 rounds per minute.

When the officers realised what had happened they retraced their route into town but couldn't find the guns and had to call local police.

Two dozen police officers and Wilson County sheriff's deputies helped in the search without success until the two residents contacted them.

A spokesman for Raleigh police didn't return calls for a comment.

Story filed: 20:12 Wednesday 17th April 2002
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_569354.html?menu=news.latestheadlines



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Comments

  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    As in some previous replys/opinions I have made to LEO misadventures----NUMBNUTS!!!

    "We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*

    **Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    A friend of mine was leaving a gun show when he hit a bump leaving the parking lot . His tailgate dropped and he lost 10 long gun cases out the back. We called his cell and got him stopped before he lost anything else and because they were hard cases they werent damaged.
  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Another example of why police should not be exempt from gun control laws.
    I sure hope their were some trigger locks on those lost guns. Could you imagine if someone got their hands on those lost weapons. With trigger locks on them, society would be safe.
    ....oh but I forgot cops are usually exempt fromn trigger lock legislation.

    Happiness is a warm gun
  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First I was going to say something, then I decided not to, then I changed my mind again. Ask yourself honestly, if an MP-5 fell into your lap from out of the blue, or in this case fell out of the back of a truck and into your lap, in a way that couldn't be traced to you, would you turn it in or bury it deep, for "just in case"?
  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just asking the question, dano. Obviously, the person who found it turned it in. If it fell out of the trunk of a police vehicle in my town today, I would give it back in an instant. If I was in Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots, had just called the police for help and was told too bad, they can't help, I should have bought a gun 7 days ago (true story that was reported at the time), and one fell into my lap, I sure as heck wouldn't turn it over until the situation was back under control, possible felony or not.

    Edited by - Gordian Blade on 04/18/2002 22:20:12
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