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Based on the study, it seems like the answer is "yes" for violent police departments and "no" for everyone else.

• numpad0 6y ago
  There’s not much technical difference in “military rifles” from civilian AR15 other than military version has an extra pin and the finger groove
  • jakelazaroff 6y ago
    On the other hand, there's presumably a significant technical difference between police cars and mine-resistant vehicles created for military operations in the Middle East.
    • fastball 6y ago
      Not very intuitive that a mine-resistant vehicle would encourage anyone to kill more civilians tho.
    • numpad0 6y ago
      True. It’s sad that they hastily sourced tons of MRAPs that turned out useless, but they probably belong to museums and scrapyards.
• yeetawayhn 6y ago
  Not exactly, surplus weapons are really popular among civilians.
  • jakelazaroff 6y ago
    We are talking about police.