Just pay shipping or avoid those costs by picking up the items in person
"The LESO program is intended to support local law enforcement agencies by supplying them with excess military hardware. This is how many agencies afford rifles, armor, vehicles and other equipment. And also, as it turns out, anyone who claims to be a police officer or agency."
"Essentially, they are able to apply and if they’re approved, they’re given a unique code in which they’re allowed to go online, view the items, and “bid” on them,” said Merritt. “If they win the items, what they do is they’re allowed to actually go to the warehouses where they’re located, and pick up the items either physically or they can have the items shipped to them. However, all the items are free; the only cost that they may incur is with transportation costs if they actually have them shipped to them.”
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