Our dept allows personally owned ARs. They take it one step further, and will even buy a Colt LE6920 for you if you don't have a rifle, and then deduct the cost across your 26 biweekly checks for the following year. They call this the buy-back program, and it has gotten many more long guns on the streets.
Two years ago, they expanded the rifle buy-back funds to offer the following optics choices with the same deduction offer:
Aimpoint PRO
Eotech (forgot which)
Leupold CQT
ACOG (TA44 I think...)
We are also allowed to carry personally owned optics of our choosing as long as they are less than 3x mag'd. This deals with optics > 3x being considered precision weapons per TCLEOSE.
The GOs state that personally owned rifles must be of same specs as the dept issued/owned guns (Older LE6920s), but I got an LMT MRP Piston approved, and two of my buddies got SCAR 16s through. It is up to the head armorer in Training/Recruiting, but he has been good about approving quality weapons.
I'm currently shopping for a lightweight mid length platform for less weight to replace the LMT, considering the DDM4v7, and I don't expect any issues getting it approved.


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