The Falmouth Police Department wants to trade in $4,100 worth of surplus shotguns to help pay for new shotguns. But the Falmouth Gun Safety Coalition wants the 33 surplus guns destroyed. A financial ...

A debate about what to do with 33 surplus police shotguns is ongoing in Falmouth. Now, a decision to either destroy or trade in 100 surplus police handguns will also need to be made before July 1, ...

Government agencies across the United States periodically auction firearms, offering licensed gun dealers an opportunity to purchase surplus and seized weapons. GovDeals, a government surplus auction ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Doug Wortham used a Defense Department giveaway program for law enforcement to stock his office with an assault rifle, a handgun and a Humvee -- even though the people in his ...

Police departments throughout Ohio are stockpiling millions of dollars worth of military gear — from army boots to mini-tanks — through a Defense Department program that provides law enforcement ...

A surplus mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle provided to local law enforcement by U.S. military department Defense Logistics Agency’s Law Enforcement Support Office similar to one ...

TEMPE — Police departments at Arizona State University and community colleges in Tucson and Yuma have acquired 79 fully automatic M-16 assault rifles and nine older M-14 rifles under a Department of ...

While World War II is well-known as the beginning of the age of atomic weapons, World War I is lesser-known as dawn of the age of chemical weapons. The 1914-1918 conflict saw development and ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Federal authorities are trying to figure out how at least a dozen fully-automatic M16s ended up among military surplus equipment sold to a Texas couple. The Bureau of Alcohol, ...