What military equipment did your local government get from the Feds? Find out at:

[friendly_iconoclast]

Kudos to the Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/article/20140817/NEWS06/140726001/

...Nationally, more than $4.3 billion worth of property has been transferred to law enforcement since the program’s inception in fiscal year 1997, according to Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which oversees the Law Enforcement Support Office (or 1033) program out of its office in Battle Creek. More than 8,000 agencies participate nationwide.

Use this database to see where the military equipment is going by state and county and the type of items being received, The listed value of the items is what it would cost to buy them if they had not been donated.

Massachusetts counties got two of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP



..and one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M106_mortar_carrier

http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1064.htm

[BaggersRDumb]

1. Insanity, i just looked at my home town, INSANITY! WHY do WE put UP with IT

[LiberalElite]

2. THIS IS COMPLETELY DISENGAGED FROM REALITY -I live in NYC,- we got:

in NY County albeit which is one out of five counties and encompasses Manhattan, the one-time location of the World Trade Center:
one 1.07 millimeter mortar carrier worth $205,400.00
one armored truck worth $65,070.00

On the other hand, St. Louis County, MO, which includes Ferguson, got (brace yourselves):
http://www.freep.com/article/20140817/NEWS06/140726001/?appSession=654119009850893

[Warpy]

3. All searches lead to Michigan

Can't find a thing on my own area.

[wandy]

4. Had no problem with my CO. county.

[Warpy]

6. It worked when I backed into the site from elsewhere

and it only gives the statewide purchases, but holy shit! Where the HELL are they getting all this money to squander? I know Susana la Tejana Teabagger is doing it all, before she got in it was mostly thermal vision and night vision goggles, things that were completely appropriate.

This is an incredibly poor state. Seeing five pages of ever escalating military purchases is damning beyond belief.

No tanks, mortars, or rocket launchers. I suppose Susana will have to play catch up now.

[wandy]

9. I was able to get to my county, and I must say I was rather disappointed..........

we are in no way ready for WW3, an invasion from mars or even a good sized nomadic hoard.
They did secure enough automatic rifles that I bet I know what every policeman and county official is getting for christmas.

[NV Whino]

5. Well, if any of you guys need parts for those monstrosities

Just come to Napa. We seem to have gotten all the parts for them. But you can't have our 10 pairs of doggie goggles.

[whistler162]

7. Looks like Onondaga County used

some common sense. Most of it looks useful and not over the top. The Explosive Ordinance tool kit could be useful if someone brings another rocket to Hancock airbase for disposal - http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=634469 Mine resistant vehicle could be over the top.

[zonkers]

8. A mine resistant vehicle for Bryant, Oklahoma for 160 grand??? I'll take two. ... I can't believe

the gear some of these middle of nowhere places have stocked up on. All kind of high tech gear and vehicles and weapons. This is mind numbing. Are they planning gulags across the country and this is the advance team??? Sort of feels like it.

[JEB]

10. Where are the fiscal conservatives. What a fucking waste.

If this shit is so good, why doesn't the military keep and maintain it? Rural counties here in Oregon do not need armored trucks and shitloads of firearms. Bullshit, bullshit,bullshit.

[JEB]

11. What kind of trouble exactly are they expecting?

Or will we get to bid on this crap at the next surplus auction?