Police Chief Asks Citizens for Ammo, Gets 1,500 Round Loan Amid Strong Response

cnsnews.com ^ | Thursday, May 16, 2013 | Gregory Gwyn-Williams, jr.

[ConservativeInPA]

As the "Great Ammunition Shortage" continues, police departments across the country are struggling to supply their arsenals. One police chief turned to the community for help, and citizens stepped up.

In Proctor, Minnesota, police chief Walter Wobig says that his suppliers have told him he'll have to wait "months" for the 1,000 rounds he's requested.

When Wobig turned to the residents of Proctor by putting out a call for help meeting his department's ammo needs, citizens contacted his office, eager to help.

"The citizens were like, 'If you need something, we got plenty here,'" said Wobig.

One resident and a Proctor police officer loaned 1,500 rounds from their personal stockpile to the department.

The Chief says others offered to help too. "I had several other calls from other citizens that said, 'Hey, if you need more ammunition we have plenty,'" said Wobig,

The Chief says that when his ammunition order is filled, he will be repaying the citizens for their contributions.

[archy]

1,000 rounds isn’t much.

M2A1 .50 caliber metal can:

.22 long rifle: 5000 rounds

9mm Parabellum: 1440 rounds

.45 ACP: 1000 rounds

5.56mm NATO/.223 [in bandoliers/stripper clips:] 840 rounds

7.62 NATO, bandos/strippers: 420 rounds

.50 Browning, M9 links 100 or 105 rounds

[archy]

If I asked him to loan me ammo, it would be no problem. Texas State Police are similar. I know one of the district bosses and he is a great guy. Would trust him with anything I own. Are they all like that? No, but many are.

A couple of decades back, One Saturday I was stopped at a *police roadlock* by a city cop wearing a uniform shirt and jeans, backed up by a reserve sheriff's deputy in street clothes, their roadblock consisting of a Ford Mustang and a pickup truck. The city cop was wearing a holster and .38/.357 Magnum revolver, the other guy had a 5-shot .38 snubby.

The first guy came up, checked and found out I was alone in my 2-door Corvair, and relaxed considerably. He then filled me in that there's been a bank holdup in the county seat, and that 3 bank robbers with automatic weapons were described by witnesses as the bad guys; happily I did not match the *male/negroes* part.

I observed that they might be equipped a bit light for taking three shooters with buzzgunsm, and enquired as to weather either had been in the military. Yep, the townie cop had been in the USAF. Had he ever qualified with the M1 carbine? He sure had. Would he like to borrow mine for an hour or two? He sure did, and his pal was equally happy for the loan of a folding stock Remington 870 pump shotgun with an 8-round magazine, plus a sidebag with 00 buckshot and slugs. I even enquired where they'd find it most useful for me to park the car to cut things down to a 1-lane flow of traffic, and then I told them I was going to walk up a nearby hill with an apple and some cheese and a bottle of Diet Coke, and read a bit from my book of poetry. And I took my rifle along with me; they didn't say a thing about that.

But I did. It's your job and your county, I told 'em, and I'm not about to play without an invitation. But my rules of engagement were: if 3 guys with burpguns in a car come along and put you guys down, I'm going to take them from on top of the hill with my rifle, and everybody in their car dies. They got it, and we set up a couple of car horn signals to call me back if it was over or if any of a couple of other things came to pass.

And half an hour, 45 minutes later, beeeeeep, beeeeeep. Over the radio, they got the word that the bad guys had been caught on another road, hopefully where there was a little larger detail with a little more/better equipment.

But as they unloaded and recased my carbine and shotgun, they were curious: if I was willing to loan out the carbine and shotgun, what was in my third case, the one I was willing to take on a whole bunch of well-equipped bad guys [who, it turned out, had a pair of cutdown .22 semiauto rifles] So I showed them. They'd never seen a H&K M91 semiauto rifle before, nor any Energa antitank rifle grenades.

Nice couple of guys, overworked and outmatched. Nice to be able to give them a little bit of a hand.

[dansangel]

Love that story, archy. Thank you for posting.

[Texas Fossil]

I like redneck LEO’s. City or County.

The police in TX always know that if they get in over their head, the locals can and will help.

I think I first realized it when the tower shooter in Austin was “occupied” by locals while the police made their way to top of the tower.

[Billthedrill]

LOL! Yeah, that ought to get the job done all right.

[Sawdring]

I got done with a job for work today at about 8:30 so I decided to go to the Gander Mountain in Woodbury, MN. They opened at 9 am and there was a line of about fifteen people at the door. As soon as they opened the door everyone went directly to the ammunition area. I walked over to the gun counter and they had 12 calls from people asking if their ammunition shipment had come in yet on the phone. Their shipment was late and wouldn’t be in until about 11. So everyone emptied back out because the good calibers were gone.

[Iron Munro]

Are they all like that? No, but many are.

I agree. It's those who are not that are a major concern.

And even those you know and trust might not treat others they don't know the way they would treat you.

[Squantos]

Packed a Hk51 around for a few months in Ecuador.....great lap gun for cruising the napo river .....