[GingisK]

Odd to see Obama do the right thing for once.

[pgkdan]

That equipment needs to go. Local cops don’t need armored personnel carriers.

[sparklite2]

Actually, I slept okay at night before the SWAT team
became militarized. Maybe they’ll even quit killing dogs.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They were never meant to have them permanently anyway.

They were just being staged with police departments so that they would be distributed throughout the country when Obola declares martial law and turns them over to his #BLACKLIESMATTER civilian army.

[ColdOne]

Who is getting all this equipment now?

[TexasCajun]

Payback's a bitch!

Police Can Seize And Sell Assets Even When The Owner Broke No Law

[familyop]

It's a domestic dispute.

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[IronJack]

"These things are useful tools and the president taking them away will put more officers in jeopardy and at risk of harm or even death."

"We find it nearly impossible to write traffic tickets and shoot peoples' dogs without our M1A1 Abrams tank. Or at the very least, a Bradley Fighting Vehcile. I mean, what are we? Weenies?"

[Vendome]

Fk them.

I agree with the administration on this one.

[Autonomous User]

It is time to bring back Officer Friendly.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Wyrd bi� ful ar�d. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

”President Obama issued Executive Order 13688 in January after the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Mo., . . .”

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

What we cannot expect to hear from Obama guard dog Fx News concerning Obamas executive orders dealing with military vehicles is the following.

The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for local police departments. And not having such power is significant for the following reason.

Regarding executive orders, ”executive orders” a term not found in the Constitution, please note the following. The Supreme Court clarified in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that executive orders do not have the force of law unless legislatively supported by Congress - provided that such legislation is reasonably based on Congresss constitutional Article I, Section 8-llimited powers. But as previously mentioned, such powers do not include regulating local police departments.

So regardless that lawless Obama is always being scapegoated, the real problem with Obamas unpopular executive orders is the following imo. We have a corrupt, Constitution-ignoring Congress that wrongly allows lawless presidents and activist justices to unconstitutionally exercise legislative branch powers, powers that Congress does not even have with respect to local police departments..

So please bear in mind that patriots need to support Trump and Cruz with a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress.

Getting back to local police departments, they should arguably refuse to give up their federally funded military vehicles by claiming that they are recovering state / local revenues which were stolen from the states through unconstitutional federal taxes.

”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

[Teotwawki]

Anyone else remember the TV show Hill Street Blues and the character Lt. Howard Hunter? He was portrayed as a nut job and mocked for wanting special weapons and even a tank. Nowadays, it’s common equipment in any police department of any size. A lot changed in 30 years.

[Smokin' Joe]

Fine. Hand them over to local National Guard detachments. (let the police keep a copy of the keys, but have to clear use with the NG, of if the SHTF and the NG ends up on the wrong side, at least there will be a chance to get a few of them.

I know of no instances where local police have used armored vehicles in a raid.

[SandRat]

it will boost the business of “RED JACKET ARMORY” and the like.

[familyop]

[Needed to correct the numbers in the following as per the OpenSecrets page. Had 'em backwards and needed to post them as accessed today. As mentioned before, looks like a domestic dispute.]

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[King Moonracer]

He’s arming the STU.

[Daffynition]

My town must have 4 of those post-9/11 Ford SUVs.

Waste of resources.

[Lazamataz]

What you wanna bet when Obama federalizes the police, these items — and MUCH, MUCH more — mysteriously reappear?

[bgill]

Guessing the Terrorist in Chief decided whitey would use them against the #BLM aka his civilian army and potentially against the terrorist invaders he’s bringing in.

[Albion Wilde]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.