Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.
It doesn’t just happen to us civilians, it seems.
A stash of high-powered submachine guns and handguns was stolen in a brazen overnight heist from a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT unit training facility, police said.
An officer discovered the weapons missing from a locked box on the first floor of the downtown L.A. facility on Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The thieves cut through locks on three doors and smashed through a metal roll gate to get to the weapons, which were modified to fire only blanks and set to be used in SWAT team training exercises, the newspaper said.
If there’s a common thread here between this and the last post, it’s that obscurity is no substitute for security, and vice versa.
ETA: Rhetorical question: if theyre firing blanks, how are they ‘high powered’?
