MRAPs for Mayberry is go again.

Jeff Sessions should be happy down to his wrinkly little drug warrior toes today with the announcement he gets to make at the FOP conference in Nashville:

President Donald Trump will sign a new executive order Monday morning rescinding Obama's directive and Attorney General Jeff Sessions will address the policy change during a speech at the annual conference of the Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday.

The new executive order was first reported by USA Today.

Congress originally launched the so-called "1033 program" in 1990 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which allowed the Defense Department to transfer surplus hardware and equipment to state and local law enforcement for use in "counter-drug activities."

Personally, I have no real beef with the po-po having armored trucks. There are plenty of legit uses for those.

For most departments, though, MRAPs are kind of a mess because of their unique servicing requirements. A Lenco BearCat, built on a heavy-duty Ford chassis, can be serviced at the county road maintenance yard, but Uncle Sam isn't handing those out on a free indefinite loan basis.

From what I can tell, a serious number of MRAPs loaned out to the constabulary wind up deadlined for lack of maintenance, and are therefore unavailable on a moments notice should we suddenly decide we need them back to go change a regime someplace.
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