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By ANDREA ALEXANDER
North Jersey Media Group

A submachine gun is missing from the Wayne Police Department.
It's been gone for at least a week, but Deputy Police Chief John Reardon said he highly doubts that the rapid-fire weapon is out in the public. He added that an intensive in-house investigation is under way and is considering everything.
The weapon's absence from the department's arsenal was noticed last week by a firearms instructor, Reardon said. That triggered an inventory of weapons, including a check to see if someone had taken it during recent weapons-qualifications testing. But the gun was not accounted for, Reardon said.
Capt. Paul Ireland identified the missing weapon as an MP5 submachine gun. The weapon can hold clips of 15 and 30 bullets and fire at rates of 700 and 900 rounds per minute. It is generally used by SWAT teams and in forced entries if there is a concern that a suspect is armed, said Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano.
"These weapons are not dispersed generally, what has disappeared here," Avigliano said. "These you keep a very close account of."
The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office was notified that the weapon was missing and is conducting its own investigation. The weapon also was reported as missing or stolen in a database accessible to all police departments, Reardon said.
Avigliano said he was not aware of another Passaic County department that had ever misplaced a weapon.
"We are doing what we have to do to investigate where this gun is, and what has happened to it," Avigliano said.
Reardon said the missing weapon is among three of its kind owned by the department.
The department does weekly inspections of weapons kept in the police cars, Reardon said. But the missing gun is usually locked up in the department arsenal on Valley Road and stored unloaded, he said.
Ireland said the missing gun "normally doesn't get used too often."
He said township police hope to find the gun somewhere in the department.
Reardon said he could not answer questions about the last time the weapon was used, because of the investigation. But he said the department keeps track of its weapons through log books that require signing out of weapons and through the weekly inspections.
During the inventory last week, authorities checked to see if the gun had been left in a police car, but it did not turn up, Reardon said. Police officers recently took their bi-annual qualifications exam and authorities were looking into whether it had been taken out for the exam, Reardon said.
The type of weapon that is missing is not sold to civilians in New Jersey, said Mike Assadourian, owner of Mike's Gun Shop in Fairview.
The 9mm submachine gun can fire from 700 to 900 rounds per minute depending on its barrel size, according to the manufacturer's Web site.
"You are not going to find this on the street," Assadourian said. "It's mostly a military gun."
However it is not the most powerful weapon that police departments use, he said.
"There is stuff on the street you can buy that is more powerful than this," he said.
Fast facts
The Wayne Police Department has 119 officers. Each officer owns a duty weapon. The department also has various weapons including shotguns, semiautomatic weapons and submachine guns.
Source: Wayne Deputy Police Chief John Reardon

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Posted by: Sniper

someones ass is gonna FRY if they dont find that thing...............

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Posted by: NFAfan

A missing nuke wouldn't get that many paragraphs, oh thats right, its in No Joysey.

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Posted by: Killjoy

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The weapon can hold clips of 15 and 30 bullets

Clips? How about magazines you uneducated boob.

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"You are not going to find this on the street," Assadourian said. "It's mostly a military gun." However it is not the most powerful weapon that police departments use, he said. "There is stuff on the street you can buy that is more powerful than this," he said.

Your average lever-action rifle is far more "powerful" then a submachine gun.

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Posted by: JoninNH

It's the media. I'm suprised they called it a submachine gun and not "oh-my-God fully-automatic, rapid fire, auto-cannon bullet thrower"

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Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano. "These weapons are not dispersed generally, what has disappeared here," Avigliano said. "These you keep a very close account of."

Aparently not...

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Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

.....ooops

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