Sunday, December 30, 2012

LAPD get rocket launchers in gun buyback?

Rocket launchers turned in to LAPD apparently were from military
By RICHARD WINTON
The Los Angeles Times
Published: December 29, 2012

LOS ANGELES — Two rocket launchers turned into the Los Angeles Police Department as part of the city's gun buyback event appear to be antitank weapons from the military, experts said.

Police said the people turning them in at the buyback told officers they had family members who were at one time in the military and "they no longer wanted the launchers in their homes."

Several military experts said one of the weapons was probably a version of the AT4, an unguided antitank weapon. It's a single-shot weapon that a soldier fires and then discards the tubing.
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