Comments On: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher? by Eli Sanders http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/28/how-did-someone-in-seattle-come-to-own-a-stinger-surface-to-air-missile-launcher Comments On: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher? by Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
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Posted by incoherent13]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:36:11 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
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Posted by incoherent13]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:22:01 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
If someone at SPD is not smart enough to know that this was a used, totally harmless (unless you used it to bludgeon someone) item, I fear them carrying a weapon on their person.

Back a year or so after the WTO convention, or convocation, in Seattle in 1999, an SPD deputy chief wrote in to the Seattle Weekly, complementing and gushing on about the wonderfulness of the WTO --- need anything more be said about the morons and halfwits they have there?


Posted by sgt_doom]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:14:51 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>

Posted by DevNull]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:18:11 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>

Posted by DevNull]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:09:44 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by delirian]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:22:06 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> He said detectives will notify Army Criminal Investigation on Monday.

Idiots. Idiots. Idiots.

Congratulations SPD, you've just destroyed your gun buyback program. Nobody who has an illegal weapon will ever even consider turning it in now. Idiots. This detective needs to be fired for complete and utter abject stupidity (and I'm being nice with my phrasing).
Posted by delirian]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:12:40 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Cascadian Bacon]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:52:07 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Jaymz]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:36:40 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Matt Hickey]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:48:58 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Here's my question: Only $100 for a Stinger launcher??? Not too long ago, the CIA was paying $70,000 a Stinger to buy them back from Afghan fighters.

Geez, Sanders, were you that guy in math class, after everyone else finally got the solution, raised his hand to ask the teach to repeat the problem?????

The CIA never paid anyone $70,000 for a Stinger, doofus, they claimed payment, pocketed the $69,000 for themselves, and paid ONLY $1,000 per item.

Are you by any chance related to William Proxmire? I remember when we explained to that doofus how the Pentagon wasn't really paying thousands of dollars for a single hammer, they were embezzling money by recording the payments as such.

Do you EVER read the frigging news, Sanders?????

Just asking......

(They might want to see if it's possible to deduce when it was last fired . . . oh, about the same time Flight 800 went down on the East Coast?)
Posted by sgt_doom]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:48:49 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
Yeah, neither do the crazy gun nuts.
Posted by GermanSausage]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:44:27 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Geraldo Riviera]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:36:52 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
Yes! It's a trap. Tell all your creepy gun buddies to stay in the basement.
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:20:55 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:12:42 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Josh Bis]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:54:24 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by doceb]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:33:10 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
I think they just want to make sure this is an isolated breakdown of the system for the accountability of weapons and not a indicator of a larger pipeline.
Posted by kmq1]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:32:16 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by GermanSausage]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:28:50 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> From the previous SLOG entry on the buy-back program:
...the most striking visual of the day came when police confiscated a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile launcher from a man who had just bought it off the street for $100. These are reportedly single-use weapons, so the empty launcher presents no real danger in itself, but the police say they are obligated to confiscate military equipment and contact the military to see if they want it returned.

Yet the Times article linked in this posting says that SPD is contacting Army Criminal Investigations.
My beef is that this went from "No Questions Asked" to a DoD investigation for something that isn't even lethal.
How many exemptions are there for "No Questions Asked"? The SPD doesn't exactly get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to following procedure (or the law, for that matter).
Posted by Sir Vic]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:25:46 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Phil M]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:24:01 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]>
In fact, if by some chance you owned a stinger missile without a launcher, or made your own, you could probably fire it out of any old piece of pipe. Wouldn't look as cool in your white plastic drainpipe, but it would go as far and make the same "bang." (By the way, if you do try to make your own, please blow yourself up in the process.)

This incident strikes me as some misplaced concern, aided and abetted by a sensationalist press.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:15:37 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Lew Siffer]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:10:22 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> Posted by Orsh]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:48:03 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: How Did Someone in Seattle Come to Own a Stinger Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher?]]> if it was legal to do so.

Sure, maybe some delusional paranoid gun nut will see the fact that this item made the news as proof that the cops made copies of everyone's brain and are sifting them them now looking for past crimes. But anyone who freaks out over the actual specifics of this story is so far gone they weren't about to enter the 2km-wide mind control field around the buyback anyway.
Posted by also]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:41:01 -0800 The Stranger