Another borked media article...

[Regolith]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...s1807aug18,0,354258.story?coll=orl_home_promo

Orlando emptied its bureau drawers and closets Friday of more than 300 unwanted guns -- and one surface-to-air missile launcher.

The shoulder-fired weapon showed about 6 p.m. when an Ocoee man drove to the Florida Citrus Bowl to trade the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter.

"I didn't know what to do with it, so I brought it here," explained the man, who said he found the missile in a shed he tore down last week. "I took it to three dumps to try to get rid of it, and they told me to get lost."

After hefting the weapon designed to blow jets out of the sky, police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones commented, "I tell you, you never know what you're going to get."

The problem? The "weapon" being shown isn't a SAM at all. Its a USED (i.e. non functional) TOW (anti-tank) missile tube. It poses absolutely no threat, as used TOW missile tubes cannot be re-used.

And people wonder why we have no faith in our media...

 

[MarkDido]

I live in Orlando.....

I can't WAIT for them to start an "Ammo for Cash" program to get those evil bullets off the street.

I have BOXES of spent brass that I'll sell to them!

 

[Monkeybear]

Duplicate thread.

Its a used, one time use, freakin launcher. Bunch of ignorant antis "ohhing" and "ahhing" over the one thing they bought thats not actually a weapon.