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To: MCF
So what ever happened to selling surplus?

I mean, you wouldn't have to worry so much what neighborhood you drove through with one of those...

34 posted on 03/02/2014 1:45:40 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
“...you wouldn't have to worry so much what neighborhood you drove through with one of those...”

Current FedGov policy will not allow armored vehicle sales to non-governmental agencies without demilitarization. If Joe Jones wanted to buy a surplus MRAP, he'd be required to de-mil it (although I don't know to what extent). A county sheriff's office or city police department could get one for a very low price or maybe even donated to them. In any event, the typical MRAP is nothing but a wheeled armored personnel carrier — an armored truck. They get stuck easily, they're very top heavy, blind as a bat when closed up, clumsy vehicles, and very expensive to maintain. They are vulnerable to improvised weapons as primitive as a Molotov Cocktail.

35 posted on 03/02/2014 4:25:23 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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