Santa Claus travels under the cover of a 50-caliber machine gun after passing out gifts to several hundred U.S. (Cheney’s battle tank, for instance, holds a “D” code, mandating total destruction). In the years since, investigative journalists and government watchdogs have periodically uncovered instances of government officials granting demilitarization waivers or inputting inaccurate “ demil codes,” which determine the level of disassembly required before a piece of equipment can be transferred to non-military hands. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) first designated the military’s demilitarization programs as “high risk” in 1990. (The disposition office is also responsible for the management and disposal of hazardous DoD material, a mission it badly botched during the Iraq War). The office today transfers equipment between military branches and beyond – to police departments, foreign militaries, and the general public. This uproar led the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to create what’s today called the Office of Disposition Services in an effort to partially centralize and standardize the work. There, officials testified that automatic weapons, missiles, and other sensitive military technology were being improperly sold off to the public. Possible solutions were first floated during a July 1972 Senate hearing. The process of demilitarizing equipment and selling it off has been plagued by poor communication, confusing policies, and underfunding, leading to potentially dangerous items slipping through the cracks. And yet since the earliest days of this operation, the government has often bungled its responsibilities. They view figures like Cheney as vital to preserving American history and securing the right to self-defense.Ī series of dense federal codes explain exactly how all types of equipment are to be treated, sold, and, if necessary, demilitarized.
On the other end of the debate are gearheads, amateur military historians, and strident defenders of the Second Amendment.
The activist art collective Indecline took responsibility for putting the words “SCHOOL KID” over the words “.50 CALIBER” on the sign. 50 caliber only $29” to “Shoot a School Kid only $29.” A billboard poster for the Battlefield Vegas shooting range is shown after it was vandalized on Main Las Vegas, Nevada.
Shortly after the Las Vegas and Parkland shootings, a progressive artist collective called Indecline, defaced a Battlefield Vegas billboard that originally read “Shoot a. Yet in this age of frequent gun violence and rising domestic extremism, the fact that a private citizen like Cheney can accrue so much military power strikes some as worrisome – and raises questions about how such weapons can legally land in civilian hands.
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