Article – Cache of high-powered weapons stolen from LA SWAT team training site

Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

It doesn’t just happen to us civilians, it seems.

A stash of high-powered submachine guns and handguns was stolen in a brazen overnight heist from a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT unit training facility, police said.

An officer discovered the weapons missing from a locked box on the first floor of the downtown L.A. facility on Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The thieves cut through locks on three doors and smashed through a metal roll gate to get to the weapons, which were modified to fire only blanks and set to be used in SWAT team training exercises, the newspaper said.

If there’s a common thread here between this and the last post, it’s that obscurity is no substitute for security, and vice versa.

ETA: Rhetorical question: if theyre firing blanks, how are they ‘high powered’?