{"id":1533856,"date":"2022-06-30T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533856"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:19:54","slug":"texas-military-investigating-loaded-m4-carbine-found-in-unguarded-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-military-investigating-loaded-m4-carbine-found-in-unguarded-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Military Investigating Loaded M4 Carbine Found in Unguarded Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-military-investigating-loaded-m4-carbine-found-in-unguarded-truck%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A loaded semi-automatic M4 carbine was found unattended in a vehicle this week and is thought to belong to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> Military Department (TMD) soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>But an attended weapon is the least of border security activist Kelly Perry\u2019s worries.<\/p>\n<p>Perry lives in Kinney County where the southwest Mexico-Texas border spans 13 miles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m more concerned about the drugs, and the kids, and the humans, and the state of Texas just being destroyed here where I am,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can only catch so many [illegal] migrants. All the rest of them are coming through. Border patrol is outnumbered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  An unsecured M4 carbine was left unattended in a truck and was taken by Kelly Perry to a secure location. (Courtesy of Kelly Perry) <\/p>\n<p>Perry made the comments in response to reports that Marianna Wright, director of the National Butterfly Center, recovered an unsecured firearm from an unlocked vehicle on the side of a road near Mission, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should have never been left,\u201d Perry told The Epoch Times. \u201cI see it\u2019s not a safe thing, but so many of the illegals have guns anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TMD confirmed Wright\u2019s report in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA weapon was left unsecured in a vehicle during the apprehension of illegal migrants,\u201d TMD public affairs staff told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident remains under investigation. The Texas Military Department remains committed to providing safety and security along our southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she posted critical comments and photos of the weapon on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtwrighter\/status\/1541562540773326850\">Twitter on June 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the name of public safety, I removed the weapon from the abandoned, unlocked vehicle on the side of the road and secured it where Texas National Guard was able to reclaim it,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She said they \u201cdidn\u2019t even realize it was missing when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loaded semi-automatic M4 carbine was found unattended in a vehicle this week and is thought to belong to Texas Military Department (TMD) soldiers. But an attended weapon is the least of border security activist Kelly Perry\u2019s worries. Perry lives in Kinney County where the southwest Mexico-Texas border spans 13 miles. \u201cI\u2019m more concerned about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}