The LA Unified School District will return the three grenade launchers it "acquired" for free from a government program that gives away military equipment to local police forces, according to the LA Times.
The move follows scrutiny over the Department of Defense's program, begun in 1991, which gives unused equipment to police forces across the U.S., including ones that serve school districts.
They School District will, however, keep the 61 rifles and bomb-resistant armored "vehicle."
A police sergeant who declined to be named confirmed the department had the equipment and said it is needed "for the safety of staff, students, and personnel" but could not confirm what if anything the department was relinquishing.
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, and the grenade launchers, would only have been used in "very specific circumstances," he added, without elaborating.
The Pentagon has given away more than $4B in equipment to police forces, "including armored vehicles, tents, rifles and night- vision goggles to local and state agencies since 2006."
