Good News: The L.A. Unified School District Is Giving Up Its Grenade Launchers

Rejoice, L.A. schoolchildren—your school police force no longer has access to grenade launchers. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest, announced Wednesday that it would relinquish the three launchers it obtained through a Pentagon program that gives surplus military equipment to police departments, including those that protect school districts.

The Associated Press reports that at least 26 school districts have participated in the program, which has distributed more than $5 billion in surplus military equipment since 1997. The program received widespread attention following last month’s unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Federal records show that schools in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Texas and Utah have also received surplus military materials.