SEATTLE - Seattle police worked with Army officials Monday to track down the history of a nonfunctional missile launcher that showed up at a weapons buyback program and determine whether it was legal or possibly stolen from the military.

A man standing outside the event Saturday bought the military weapon for $100 from another person there, according to Detective Mark Jamieson.

The single-use device is a launch tube assembly for a Stinger portable surface-to-air missile and already had been used. As a controlled military item, it is not available to civilians through any surplus or disposal program offered by the government, according to Jamieson.

Seattle police have contacted Army officials at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma deputy chief Nick Metz said Monday.


and by the way in many states you find these same things in war surplus stores as they are harmless once they have been spent...POlice make a big deal out of them to show how great they are doing getting things off the street and oh they make such great headlines thou!
Until the real truth comes out and they look like fools.


The real sucker story was that people were dealing with the people parked around these buybacks. (which is legal there) and getting most of the good guns, paying cash for them instead of gift cards. But the police story says that the good people turned them in because they wanted them off the street...yeah these were the ones that other people did not want to buy because they were old, crap or DIDN"T WORK or were parts of a full firearm.

It so nice to read the real story from people that were really there, making post on blogs instead of media stories made up for a reason.