Sunday, January 27, 2013

Wow! An RPG?

Not exactly.

“A device that police described as a used military surface-to-air missile launcher was brought to the Seattle gun buyback event Saturday morning.
“The single-use device, which Mayor Mike McGinn later described as a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, had already been used and could not function, according to a department bomb squad member. A man who was at the event bought the launcher for $100, but that man then had it confiscated by Seattle police.


“In the six months after Seattle’s 1992 gun buyback – the city’s only other gun buyback effort – the average number of firearms-related homicides increased. The mean number of firearms-related assaults in Seattle also increased, as did the mean number of robberies with guns. Even the mean number of accidental shooting deaths more than doubled, according to data in a government journal.”

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/2013/01/26/cops-used-missile-launcher-turned-in-a-seattle-gun-buyback/

(First found at www.thisainthell.us but my computer locked when I went to the link there. Maybe somebody will tell Mayor McGinn that not every tube is an RPG launcher.)

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.