Another LEO M-16 Goes Missing
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 6 months ago
News from Melbourne, Florida.
… the Melbourne Police Department has been forced to file its own missing property report after an M-16 rifle
went missing.The rifle was given to the department under a federal program, but now it’s nowhere to be found. Police said they realized the M-16 was gone during their annual inventory check in February.
“I know people will wonder, how do you misplace an M-16?” said Sgt. Sheridan Shelley. “Well, our inventory system, since this incident, is being reviewed and changed.”
That could mean more than annual inventory checks of equipment at the department
, officials said.Melbourne police are also taking a closer look at who is allowed into secure areas.
The missing M-16 was last seen in a SWAT locker.
“The unfortunate thing is narrowing down an exact time or location when this firearm may have gone missing,” said Sheridan. “It’s very difficult.”
Yep. People will wonder how a SWAT team “loses” or “misplaces” an M-16. You betcha. Us common civilians who aren’t allowed to own fully automatic weapons wouldn’t misplace ours if we had one. In fact, I’ve never misplaced any weapon at all, ever.
Perhaps this situation is analogous to the one in Utah where a Sheriff’s deputy “forgot” that he took their fully automatic M-16 home and put it in his gun safe.
That’s it. It’s “misplaced,” or “missing,” or someone “forgot.”
On May 26, 2014 at 2:52 pm, Fed lost eqpmnt investigator said:
Law enforcement all over the US has been intentionally targeted for theft of their equipment for over ten years now! And for over ten years, sociopathic LE management have specifically ordered Firearms and Tactics instructors NOT to brief, or train their personnel to be aware of, and counter the threat. The number one rank level of lost and stolen weapons is mid to upper level management. And the number one level of those making weapons disappear is upper level LE management. The number one rank level of those who attempt to cover up “disappeared” weapons and equipment is upper level management.