knew they were pricey, but not this pricey – late yesterday, the Baltimore Police disclosed to The Brew some basic information about the sniper rifle contract they had presented to the city.

The order was for 12 Remington AT308 sniper rifles for $114,895.80.

That figure makes each gun’s cost $9,574.65.

And that’s more than double the “$4,000 and up” estimate by this website, based on gun sales by online dealers, when we broke the story on Monday that the contract was up for Board of Estimates’ approval.

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