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Re:NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub by crazypyro on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @05:08PM (#8199834)
There's 84 total grenade launchers in the data set, if you are curious. Florida took twice as many as CA (36 to 18) and the rest of the states with them are under 10. Why Florida needs so many is another question...

Also interestingly, Montgomery got all 9 of AL's grenade launchers, more than Sacramento or LA took.

edit: actually, this data is wrong because I only used the first page, didn't even see the other 3....

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Re:NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub by comrh on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @05:10PM (#8199848)
There was a big thing made about it in Bergen County, NJ when it was first reported that they had received one. The police basically said they had no use for it and couldn't even image a reason to use it.
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Re:NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub by giarc on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @05:36PM (#8199954)
Why does any police force need a grenade launcher? Unless these are used for tear gas or something.
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Re:NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub by ajackfox on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @06:41PM (#8200224)
The grenade launchers are M79's, and can be used for tear gas and other non-lethal rounds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M79_grenade_launcher#Ammunition

Now about the quantity some PD's ordered... that's a different story.

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