2,523 South African police guns were stolen and lost, including a grenade launcher

2,523 South African police guns were stolen and lost, including a grenade launcher

Acting Minister of Police, Firoz Cachalia, revealed that 2,346 South African Police Service firearms were stolen and 177 were lost over the last 4 years.

 

[dualmeister]

including a grenade launcher

It looks good over my fire place.

 

[My_King]

""Stolen""

 

[gregmcc]

HTF do you lose a grenade launcher?!

 

[SykomantiS]

HTF do you lose a grenade launcher?!

Very deliberately.

 

[dualmeister]

Second raid on Centurion informal settlement sees stolen military grenade launcher recovered, one more arrest - DefenceWeb

Following arrests and recovery of two stolen military weapons earlier in June, military police struck again with another grenade launcher recovered and a

defenceweb.co.za

 

[Hemi300c]

Arming criminals through expropriation without compensation.

Then they and everyone else gets attacked and possibly shot with those firearms.

 

[lkswan747]

Ah well, I suppose I must be an upstanding citizen and go and renew my gun license1

 

[Bad Ballie]

Proving again that the vast majority of weapons lost or stolen each year are in reality lost or stolen from the government itself. One can assume that most were rented out to criminals and never returned.