Here’s the list of military weapons Trump will now allow police departments to receive, virtually free of charge.
Recommendations Pursuant toEXECUTIVE ORDER 13688
Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition
Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group
▻https://www.bja.gov/publications/LEEWG_Report_Final.pdf
Trump is ending restrictions that limit the military from giving surplus gear to police
▻http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-military-gear-20170828-story.html
President Trump moved Monday to again allow the Pentagon to distribute surplus armored vehicles, grenade launchers and large-caliber weapons to local police, his latest reversal of an Obama-era policy intended to stop militarization of law enforcement.
Trump signed an executive order reversing the limits that President Obama had imposed after heavily armed police had used military equipment to quell street protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, who has sought to restore tough-on-crime policies and remove what he sees as shackles on law enforcement, told a police union Monday that Obama’s restrictions “went too far.”
Trump’s order, he told the group, "will ensure that you can get the lifesaving gear that you need to do your job and send a strong message that we will not allow criminal activity, violence, and lawlessness to become the new normal.”