Hell with that - get after the county and city boards to prevent the acquisition to begin with. Doesn’t need to go to congress or even the state with exception of the allowance to sell, it’s a local call that allows the buy.
It costs a lot of money to maintain, store, operate and provide training for military grade hardware. And there are other signficant contractual costs involved as well.
Who pays for the life cycle ownership costs of all this gear? Where is all the money coming from?
As usual, look for the money trail and you will begin to understand.
That was tried back in the days of Billion rounds of ammunition and other MRAP’s being divied up to po po departments...
Remember we were told it is not true, then we were told it was to replace stores of ammunition and vehicles that were deems unsafe to use, or diminished quality due to inadequate storage protection (ammo)...
Now its common place at every single incident newsworthy to broadcast, that we see all of this hardware in plain view, and poof...
It becomes the “new normal”...
All it takes is time (they have) to get those of us paying attention, to lose interest, a voice, someone to listen to our concerns...And Poof...
It becomes the “new normal”...