Please Return; Reward Offered

[Silent_Bob]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/please-return-reward-offered_766462.html

The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the return of 2 rifles that were, as O'Ryan Johnson of the Boston Herald reports, "stolen from an FBI SWAT emergency response vehicle."

The weapons were an M-16 and a "sniper rifle" in .308 caliber.  The kind of scary looking guns that we are told must be kept out of the hands of irresponsible civilians and entrusted only to wise, trained professionals.

The FBI's "SWAT emergency response vehicle," was in Andover, Massachusetts when the guns were pinched.  The town is known, chiefly, as the site of an expensive and prestigious prep school and one does wonder why the FBI needed that kind of firepower to go in there. 

One also wonders if you will be read your Miranda rights before or after you get the twenty grand.

[KBCraig]

Standard practice in Mass. is that someone who has a gun stolen is prosecuted for "improper storage", and loses their right to own or carry a firearm, forever.

I'm sure they're pursing that against the responsible FBI agents, right?

[Jim Johnson]

Felony charges for everybody.