The Los Angeles Unified School District – the nation’s second largest school district covering 710 square miles and with more than 900,000 students – said it would remove three grenade launchers it had acquired because they “are not essential life-saving items within the scope, duties and mission” of the district’s police force.
But the district plans to keep the 60 M16s and a military vehicle – known as an MRAP – used in Iraq and Afghanistan that was built to withstand mine blasts.