Mere weeks after a New Jersey woman found an AT-4 on her lawn, another rocket launcher turned up in a Orlando Gun buy back program. From the Orlando Sentinel:
Orlando emptied its bureau drawers and closets Friday of more than 300 unwanted guns — and one surface-to-air missile launcher.
The shoulder-fired weapon showed about 6 p.m. when an Ocoee man drove to the Florida Citrus Bowl to trade the 4-foot-long launcher for size-3 Reebok sneakers for his daughter.
“I didn’t know what to do with it, so I brought it here,” explained the man, who said he found the missile in a shed he tore down last week. “I took it to three dumps to try to get rid of it, and they told me to get lost.”
About a decade ago I worked for a real estate company supervising a Maintenance department in a project in one of the worse parts of the Bronx. There was a guy from El Salvador working there who claimed to have fought the Sandinistas before fleeing here. I didn’t believe him until he showed me his unfired LAW rocket and a working Galil he had stashed in the maintenance shop.
Point is that while this is scary stuff today, rocket launchers have been on the black market here for years. Hopefully people with these weapons are getting rid of them for fear of a DHS crack down. Hopefully.
That is a lot of rocket launchers though.