Surplus military equipment brings police security, misunderstanding, headaches. Police departments say military gear banned by Obama hard to get rid of. By Mark Brunswick.

I live in an Army town where my choice for outdoor gear is fairly limited to military surplus products. Relatively cheap ALICE packs and woodland co Gore-Tex abound here.

Surplus US military gear, including MRAPs, going to local police. By Jonathan Serrie , Fox News. Published June 14, 2014 5:00am EDT | Updated December 20, 2015 7:52pm EST. Facebook ...

In a pole barn in Franklin, sharing space with a motorcycle and a boat, sat an imposing military vehicle designed for battlefields in Iraq or Afghanistan, not the streets of Johnson County. It is ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again ...

Military surplus equipment given to Hampton Roads law enforcement agencies since 1997. 3 MRAP light tactical vehicles, total value $2.2 million. 5 utility trucks, $426,814.

That was more than a third of the $33 million in surplus gear obtained since the program started in the mid-1990s. On top of that, Ohio police have received more than 6,000 firearms valued at $2 ...

The U.S. has offered Brazil an extensive list of military surplus equipment, including tanks, helicopters, and naval vessels, through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. While these options come ...

Military surplus can save departments a lot of money. In Johnson County's case, Cox estimated, it paid about $5,000 for its MRAP. The government paid $733,000 when it was new.