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Surface-to-air missile tube turns up at Seattle gun buyback

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    Trace Gallagher reports from Los Angeles

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US army now trying to determine the origin -- -- surface to air missile launcher.

That turned up not on -- battlefield.

But a gun buyback program in Seattle the mayor says police -- recovered more than 700 guns along with.

The stinger missile launch tube detectives say somebody already used his -- it cannot be used again but.

-- in working order they're capable of shooting down a passenger jet in fact this is a photo.

Of Taliban militants -- stinger missile launchers in front of a plane they hijacked in Afghanistan back in the 1990s.

Trace Gallagher is live now -- our West Coast newsroom tonight with more on this any theories on where this missile launch -- came from parents.

You know bill this could be nothing more than military waste which is why you said the military is now involved trying to Trace the serial numbers to come up with the origin now.

The bigger concern here is that these might have been smuggled in.

And experts point out that -- tube with a missile can be smuggled as easily as a -- with out of missile.

As we know thousands of these things are missing in Libya.

And Afghanistan and even empty tubes may not be harmless listen.

They're radically these things are shooting forget and one -- use weapons that is save you aim at a target you fire it.

That that the actual component to -- that the -- becomes inoperable.

Well it's not quite so true you could actually have someone who understands the technology who could find a way to actually.

Re basically re engineer or re use one of these two.

-- use it all over again the military has inspected the launcher but the serial numbers may take awhile for them to Trace we just mention of these missiles.

If capable could take out a passenger jet.

How accurate -- entrance.

Well they're very accurate because these are heat seeking missiles which means they actually lock onto the exhaust the heat from the exhaust that comes from the aircraft.

Which makes them very accurate to.

Anything below 111000 feet add to that the fact that these things are very like they weigh about.

35 pounds which makes them as you see right -- very portable.

Military aircraft have ways to divert.

These types of missiles unfortunately civilian aircraft like passenger jets.

Do not have a way to avoid them at all bill -- thank you Trace Gallagher from LA tonight.

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