Stoner Weapon System replacement?

[kato13]

Originally Posted by mmartin798

There would be no weapons purchases. Just lots of steel bar stock and rolled steel that would be trivial to explain.

In the event there is an unforeseen truck jackknife or train derailment (and the associated local/federal investigations) there better be some type of cover story that holds up until you can cover your tracks.

If a box car with hundreds of military grade weapons/ordinance with no documentation whatsoever is found, the ATF, DOD, and FBI would be swarming all over wherever it came from.

This makes me think you need to have at least one legit purchase of everything you need. Then you can say you are just moving it around.



Edit. I have been thinking about this a little more and I could see the Project deal with a corrupt Military Quartermaster at some point so they could have a fall guy. You buy stuff from him on the black market and then when you produce new product, you give then the same serial numbers as the stolen material. That way if anything gets intercepted the military, atf and fbi will start looking in the wrong place.

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by kato13

In the event there is an unforeseen truck jackknife or train derailment (and the associated local/federal investigations) there better be some type of cover story that holds up until you can cover your tracks.

If a box car with hundreds of military grade weapons/ordinance with no documentation whatsoever is found, the ATF, DOD, and FBI would be swarming all over wherever it came from.

This makes me think you need to have at least one legit purchase of everything you need. Then you can say you are just moving it around.



Edit. I have been thinking about this a little more and I could see the Project deal with a corrupt Military Quartermaster at some point so they could have a fall guy. You buy stuff from him on the black market and then when you produce new product, you give then the same serial numbers as the stolen material. That way if anything gets intercepted the military, atf and fbi will start looking in the wrong place.

Also the Council of Tomorrow were defense industry types who could get and move such items easily.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by .45cultist

Also the Council of Tomorrow were defense industry types who could get and move such items easily.

Well they can move them without question if they produce them in the public eye.

If they are producing unlicensed copies of something (The COT cant own everything) you might want to cover your tracks by legally purchasing some items for use in destructive testing of vehicles.

If for example you publicly don't produce 25mm ammo, you buy some to test different armor configurations and cover the stuff you produce with legally documented lot numbers.

[RandyT0001]

Maybe the COT brought in some "cleaners" to take care of such accidents. That might be a whole different lot of MP personnel. Want to roleplay that?

[ArmySGT.]

Can you imagine the Machiavellian scheme for a coverup if the truck delivering the V-150 and all the equipment for a Recon or MARS bolthole overturned on the way to the secret bolthole location for burial?

[kato13]

My cover story has always been a mobile sales unit for selling military equipment to local police forces.

IIRC the LA Police got their first armored car in the early 80's and you can follow up on that by going to every city with over 100k population showing them what an APC can do for their force. At that point you have quite a few local forces making a windfall from captured drug money/assets and making extravagant purchases, so a couple of actual sales are not out of the question.

Heck while interacting with all those police forces, you can even do some stage 1 reviews of possible recruits and local on the ground intelligence gathering.