1,000 rounds of ammunition disappear on way to Police Dept.

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Allegheny Township, Pa, police Chief Duane Fisher didn’t have to open the box delivered to his station Monday to know there was something wrong with the delivery of ammunition for his department. “As soon as I saw the (United Parcel Service) driver get out of the truck carrying the box rather gingerly with one hand, I knew something was up,” Fisher said. “The box should have weighed about 50 pounds. When we checked, there was no ammunition inside.”

The ammunition they use is purchased through a state bulk purchasing contract with OfficerStore in Wharton, Fayette County, at a cost that is nearly half the retail price, but it’s shipped from a supplier in Minnesota, the chief said. It can take between eight months and two years for an order for ammunition to be filled, he said. “The biggest issue for us now is not that we’ll have to pay more for ammo. It’s whether we can even find it,” he said. “Everybody is facing the same issues with the supply.”

Fisher said he refused delivery of the box when it was delivered from United Parcel Service, which is conducting an internal investigation into what happened to the ammunition between Minnesota and the police station on Community Building Road. All ammunition shipments in the United States must be done via a private company, such as UPS or FedEx, because federal law prohibits the shipment of ammunition through the U.S. Postal Service.

The box, which is slightly larger than a shoe box, had safety stickers attached indicating it contained live ammunition. “I guess there’s a possibility that during the automated packing process something went wrong and the ammo fell out,” Fisher said. “But all the paperwork was still folded neatly in the box, and
it appeared that a poor attempt to tape it shut was made.” OfficerStore also was contacted to look into what might have happened with the delivery.

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1. I thought most COPs used the 9MM today, there are plenty of those in the

stores now but not so many 45s. This time last year there was no ammo anywhere.