On Monday night, Moorestown Township Manager Scott Carew told resident Paul Conlow that if the police department used a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle so often that maintenance became an issue, people who live in Moorestown might want to move.

He followed that up by saying "In all seriousness, the only time I can think of that we would've had to use it since I've been here was two weeks ago." He was referring to an incident in which an employee at Shields Business Solutions shot a co-worker four times before turning the gun on himself.

But police say there have been other times in the Township's history where an MRAP would've been useful. Police have cited Lockheed Martin and the Moorestown Mall as possible attractive targets in the Township.

According to an FBI study, there were six shootings at malls nationwide in which 17 people were killed and 18 were injured, between 2000 and 2013. There were also five shootings at military bases, 27 shootings at schools and 23 shootings at businesses during that time span. Joint base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is located in Burlington County.

"We're a quiet town, but we're in a highly developed area. It's not like nothing ever happens here," Lt. Lee Lieber said. " … This is an important piece of equipment that can help us match whatever we come up against."

Lieber says the police department has needed a piece of equipment like this since the 1990s, when a bank robber armed with an M-16 robbed a TD Bank in Moorestown.