What is this used for?

Any idea? Pretty cool, just don't know what it is.

It would make a great quail hunting rig.

Tactical response vehicle....they use if for whenever it's needed to protect themselves. Think SWAT and disaster relief situations.

Overkill

Side mirrors up top confused me.

Donut delivery?

Looks cool...bet it cost half a mil

Surplus military equipment was a big thing a few years back, a lot of people were scared that the local LEO's were being militarized. Now they use these things in hostage situations, active shooter sits and I believe I saw one case where it was used in a family dispute situation.

Gun mount

I've also seen them used that way.

MRAP

Mirrors allow the gunner to see behind him.

We have one of those in Hays county also.

Are you there yet?

This will show up when you don't pay your parking tickets after showing up for jury duty at the courthouse and being 15 minutes late returning to your truck.

$$$$$$$

Not that much, they were distributed through grants as military surplus equipment.

That's a BETO AR-15 recovery vehicle.

Branch Dividian extermination vehicle.

You wouldn't think that if you were in it and some maniac was trying to kill you and everyone else with a 50 BMG rifle.

So, it cost us tax payers 3 million and Comal only has to pay the fuel?

They are decommissioned by the military due to not being usable for use in military operations, but are still functional for active shooter, barricaded suspect situations, so they are sold at discount for domestic use by police departments. Would you rather they just sit idle and rot away?

It's so it can be Driven like a Center Console Boat from the upper deck.

And how many police departments have faced that senerio?

So we wasted tax dollars on something that is unusable, I am not surprised

Happens all the time, man.

They could have scrapped them for pennies per pound. At the time they were the best the military had, and they had served their use until converted to surplus.

If you consider a massively discounted purchase of a vehicle that doesn't meet current military standards, but is fully functional to be used to keep police officers from being exposed to gunfire that can kill them, as a waste of money...that's your prerogative.

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

Forgive me, I’m having an Oxner moment

In one of the Longmire books, the county next to his gets one and it’s explained how and why.

Won't be long you'll see them on the street slammed to the ground, with those big bling wheels and thumping stereos blasting out rap music.

Grayson county just got one!

Looks like a military-grade AR... and they don't need it! Assault Rig.

I love these threads. I always learn where people really stand.

Its used to increase our gigantic debt

A Fire Engine can cost $500,000 to $750,000
A Fire Truck can cost $1,250,000
Most of us don't get them "surplus".

I don't see anyone bitching about that.

Bet you Midland wouldn’t mind having one. I agree with LEO having everything they need just in case some jacka$$ decides he’s going to be in control of other people’s lives.

Always the ones talking trash are the first ones to need their services

What the public doesn’t know, won’t hurt them. Take a poll and I guarantee the public’s perception of cost would be 1/4 to half what it reality is. They just don’t know. But they still have gargantuan expectations.

For the record, I sure wasn’t implying we don’t need them...I have family in law enforcement and if it saves just one life, it’s worth every penny. I was just stating it was a neat machine with a huge price tag. Probably not too many companies out there making them, so the prices get ridiculous and they can pretty much charge what they want. Same thing with fire trucks and fighter jets.

Midland Sheriffs office has a tank. At least they did when Gary Painter was sheriff.

I’ll admit I have 0 clue what Midland has. Just saying if they could have used something like this and saved lives, worth every penny. I know the situation(s) recently probably went down before they could be deployed but still.

Midland was the last shooting I remembered.

Dallas PD Headquarters last year, he was shooting from an armored truck.

Why does the Police Department need a .50 BMG? That's why.

Let those of us in pubic safety handle our business.

Get a grip dude.

Grayson county got a grant through some agency of the state. They said it covered the cost of the vehicle that was $500,000.

I've got one.

I bet in White Settlement your Police and Fire have a sub 5 minute response time. Want to spend way less in taxes? You can join me in Fannin county, not inside Bonham. You'll see at best a 30 minute response time from Fannin county Sheriff's Department, and who knows how long your FD takes to get there with 2 people instead of 20. Qualified, and fast public safety departments cost a bunch of money.

There is the grip YOU DO NOT have.

I'm thankful you do not live here.

Good, me too. There's a good reason my future nearest neighbor will be a mile away. I'll leave everyone alone, and they should leave me alone.

BigBob, c’mon now big fella!

So I'm not supposed to have an opinion? F that. I earned that right.

Awrite then

hug it out

What have you done for a living, every day for 20 years, or more? Serious question, what is your field of expertise?

US citizen, veteran, and tax payer. I'm qualified to have and opinion. You seem to have a god complex. At any rate, bite me. Good day.

I think “bite me” is trademarked sir. 😂

So, checker player afraid of playing chess.

That's check mate in one move, you lose. Good bye.

What is this used for?

Apparently there's a secondary use for them, to smoke out secret cop haters on the THF, who think law enforcement shouldn't have them for some strange reason.

Thinking something is unnecessary equates to hating a group of people?

Let’s try this another way. If banning guns saved just one life, it would be worth it. Agree?

I would rather the cops have it and not need it, opposed to need it and not have it.

GD right.

You should make a post about “no knock warrants” and see what people really think

You did. Doesn't mean I have to agree with you though... And I do not.

Amazing isn't it?

Unapproved use of an Oxnerism.

Hell of a SWAT truck, or fine pizza delivery truck in some neighborhoods.

As far as the "$", I'm all for getting every penny out of what was overpaid for to begin with, "hand me downs" where common before it became a throw away lifestyle.


I'd bet if the guvment said "free to any hunter that needs a lease vehicle", the line would be long..

Next time you guys go serve a felony warrant on a criminal gang member who has stated he won’t go back to prison or deal with a barricaded subject with a weapon by all means, stroll up to the front door with your revolver. Wonder how necessary you’d think It was then.
Wait, there won’t be a next time for the haters. Or a first time.

It's for storming Branch Dividians.

Ibtl.

speaking of vehicles, check this bad boy out.

I will say it’s interesting to see many of the same people who will post about the dire need to be prepared to protect ourselves from an overreaching government on the one hand being just fine and dandy with local police departments being militarized to the hilt on the other.

This sure did go sideways. That wasn't my intent.

I have no problem with law enforcement doing whatever they have to do to stay safe. I remember the shootout in California when they were outgunned, and had to go to a gun store to match the firepower the bad guys had.

Combat veteran? How many times has someone tried to murder you while you were going about your daily job? I'm a U.S. citizen and a taxpayer too.

it happens. passions run deep. I remember that incident. it was crazy af. I think they shot those dudes many times and it didn't stop them.

Leave ole hose team 6 alone.

this place would not be the same without him.

Yeah, I think that's what caused them to form the first swat team.

They had swat teams way before the north ridge bank robbery

Stated for the record.

I contributed nothing to this thread.

lol, that would certainly get folks fired up. Freaking PD's cant even get the addresses correct in some cases.

Beefing up when the time to confiscate AR’s happens.

Yes Sir