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The Miami police handed over 101 units of confiscated firearms to Ukraine (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] Rhodin@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These guns apparently came from a buyback program. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/city-of-miami-to-send-guns-to-ukraine-city/2809291/

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad they're going to good use, but man do buybacks sting when you see cool shit being turned over to pigs.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, they get old military hardware plus also millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to buy whatever they want.