LA Times Story

Sorry if this is a repost.

"Improperly checked out and forgot to return the shotgun"!

Sounds like a nice and polite way to describe stealing.

Not too bad of a shink rate for not having bought any new shotguns for 20 years.

Quoted: ETA: IIRC, Turner's had some 870 police trade-ins a few years ago.

Now that if funny!!

Meh, I just don't understand why this should even be considered a story.  Missing blocks of C4, now maybe there's a story, a missing shotgun?  So freaking what?  So a few more pheasants will die...bfd.  It's not as if a ballistics lab could trace a shotgun to a crime anyway.

Owens said the department does not keep a formal inventory of those weapons...

They just want to keep track of our weapons..

I wonder how many cops are theives?

If they are indeed stealing firearms, and are indeed a fraternity, should they be prosecuted under

the RICO act?  

This does not surpise me.  My agency has not bought new shotguns in decades. The shotguns are not checked out by the officers, they are simply left in the patrol cars, with a few spares in the armory.  If one is damaged in a car crash or shooting its sent to the armory for destruction. If its used in a shooting its sent to the crime lab.  If the range staff needs some for training they pull them from various cars and armories as needed.  After the class they wont necessarily go back ot the same armories or cars.