Local law enforcement agencies have obtained nearly half a billion dollars of surplus military equipment under the so-called 1033 Program since August 2017, when President Donald Trump lifted ...

President Donald Trump plans to resume the transfer of surplus weapons, vehicles and other equipment from the nation’s military to its state and local law enforcement agencies, reviving a ...

Equipment also goes to public auction through a contracted company. The program has been in place in some form or another since World War II, DeLong added. Because of the surplus in military ...

A growing number of law enforcement agencies are taking advantage of a program that gives them free surplus military equipment left over from U.S. military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and ...

Law enforcement officials say the equipment helps small cash-strapped agencies. Two independent studies have drawn the same conclusions: billions of dollars in surplus military equipment ...

Congress first created the military surplus program in 1990, authorizing the Department of Defense to send "excess" equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies for counter-narcotics efforts.

Military surplus equipment acquired by New Jersey law enforcement agencies, such as these Humvees delivered to the Middletown Police Department, would come under added oversight under legislation ...

Law enforcement agencies in the state have accumulated more than 47,000 pieces of used military gear and weaponry since 2006 under a Pentagon program that gives surplus equipment to local police.

State and local police departments obtain some of their military-style equipment through a free Defense Department program created in the early 1990s. While the portion of their gear that comes ...

Outdoor gear is an ever-evolving business ... These days, brick-and-mortar military surplus stores are a dying breed; Henry Schaloum recalls that there used to be four or five in Seattle, but ...