LAPD loses 21 MP-5s and 12 handguns

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Once again it seems that the authorities are supplying more high fire rate weapons to criminals than the public ever could.

So how's that safe storage law working for all of you Californians? Now you know why the authorities are exempted from that law.

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Submachine guns, handguns stolen from LAPD SWAT-training site
Police officials confirm that more than 30 firearms, stored overnight at a building considered secure, were stolen. 'It's embarrassing.... It's a lesson learned,' Deputy Chief Michael Downing says.

By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times

October 17, 2011
A cache of Los Angeles Police Department submachine guns and handguns was stolen last week from a secured building used by the department's SWAT unit, raising fears that the weapons, which police had altered to fire only blanks, could be converted back to lethal use, police officials confirmed.

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According to the LAPD those guns will not fire live ammo. They would require extensive retrofit before being capable of firing live ammo.
 
They would require extensive retrofit before being capable of firing live ammo.
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Which, as the article mentions, is not true.

The company that manufactures the conversion kits used by the LAPD has an instructional video on its website that walks a viewer through the steps of returning an MP-5 to its original form in about five minutes.

The parts required to change the MP-5 back to live firing were for sale on a gun supply website. It was unclear, however, what documentation or background checks would be required to purchase them.
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How hard would it honestly be for a cartel to bribe a supply officer to get the necessary parts? All the parts required are readily available as spares to repair guns in service. The receiver is the same.
 
Or have one guy's clean record uncle order a handful of parts?

this is so sad its funny and so funny its sad. glad i dont live on those streets.
 
erm, and if the thieves didn't know how to convert them back they have a good starting place on the info they need now thanks to the article.
 
erm, and if the thieves didn't know how to convert them back they have a good starting place on the info they need now thanks to the article.
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Yea right. I Googled the information needed to convert a blank adapted MP5 back to live ammo before I even got to that part of the article.
 
That's not to bad. The NRA Law Enforcement Officer of the year, Paul Babeau Sheriff of Pinal County AZ, lost 200 firearms out of his Evidence Vault.

Two similiar weapons were seen in the possessions of one of his Sgts. They did not check serial numbers to insure that the sgt did not "borrow" the weapons.
 
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