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What scum Della-Vedova is. His ‘brain fade’ story is complete bollocks too. Who realises they’ve accidentally failed to destroy the full set of rockets and then because they’re scared of being demoted doesn’t turn them in and instead sells them to someone in a bike gang.

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Who forgets they have a boot full of rocket launchers? Heads should have rolled in the army for this lapse, but makes you wonder if weapons go missing all the time.

I'm pretty sure weapons go missing all the time.

When your job means handling weapons all day, forgetting about a set is no more difficult than a tech worker forgetting about a pile of blade servers. It happens. Militaries implement systems for dealing with such things. For instance, red amnesty boxes are common at canadian bases. A rocket launcher may seem scary and horribly dangerous, but sleep beside them for a few months and they become very normal.

Headlines in Norway today: a high ranking police officer "forgetting" or forgetting to hand in some weapons he was supposed to turn in for a friend or something.

Seems like he might get away without a charge since he delivered them during an amnesty which - as far as I understand - means he legally cannot be punished for possession prior to handing them in.

Weapons do go missing all the time. Or at least weapons with the same serial/registration numbers of destroyed weapons show up all the time, be it at crime scenes, terrorist orgs, or weapons collectors.

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