Posted on 06/16/2021 10:56:59 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Authorities in California’s agricultural heartland weren’t looking for a military assault rifle when they went to investigate the domestic assault case, but they found one.
It was in the garage of a Spanish-tiled home in Fresno that police stumbled upon the AK-74. Its distinctively banana-shaped magazine -- loaded with 20 rounds -- was in a nearby storage container.
AK-74s are similar to their more famous cousin, the AK-47. As a fully automatic weapon, the gun recovered by chance in 2019 is federally regulated, and difficult to obtain legally as a civilian in the United States.
This one was stolen eight years before from Fort Irwin, a base in California’s Mojave Desert where many soldiers trained before tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The three thieves had base access because they were military police -- the soldiers who’d get the call when there was a break-in. To get into the supply warehouse known as Building 934 they cut through a fence, forced open one door and cut through another to enter the arms storage room.
One of them was affiliated with the Fresno Bulldogs street gang. Sgt. John Rodriguez said in an internal interview that he had joined the gang as a fifth grader but was no longer active. That was March 2011 -- four months before the heist of 26 AK-74s and a sniper rifle.
After the theft, Rodriguez and Pfc. Harvey DelValle II took off nearly 300 miles to Fresno to unload their haul. At the home of an associate, the two soldiers began calling potential buyers.
This was how the weapons of war made their way onto the streets of Fresno. The guns were among at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms that an Associated Press investigation found were lost or stolen over the last decade.
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This is the same military that some here think is going to save us.........
Apparently stolen military weapons is new emerging pseudo-crisis. I have seen stories about it two days in a row.
Since when do we use AK-74s?
The secret from the Battle of Athens, TN is that one only needs to have enough weapons to get into the Armory.
Save us? I thought that too, once upon a time. Now I don’t trust the military, especially since they’re weeding out the actual patriots from the service, leaving only the woke leftists.
Now I don’t trust the military, especially since they’re weeding out the actual patriots from the service, leaving only the woke leftists.
Texas State Guardsman: Leadership Is Trying To Indoctrinate Us To Far-Left Ideology
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3968355/posts
Military war games.
Pre deployment training to familiarize troops with the enemy’s weapons.
NEED stricter gun laws STAT.
Save us?
HA!!!
I didn’t think they would save us but I use to think they would be on our
side.
No more.
Even the military doesn’t have effective gun control. Perhaps more laws will help!
You mean like all the weapons stolen or lost by FBI, and other Federal Agents that have later been used to kill American citizens? I wonder what that number actually is.
Why can’t we have common sense gun laws that say that it’s wrong to steal military rifles and ship them to California? I’d think Pelosi would be all over this.
So soldiers know what to replace their M4’s with in battle. More knock down power against drug induced Mooslims.
The AK-74 fires a 5.45x39mm round. Not more “knock down power” than a M4 5.56x45mm round...
Sorry was thinking AK-47
Might be to recognize the differing sound as well.
But remember, only the police and the military should have guns. /s
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