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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by Ancapistani on Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:06PM (#24746730)
Forty years ago, body armor wasn’t ubiquitous and most cops still carried .38 revolvers.

Today, vests and semi autos are by far the norm.

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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by mjfl on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:22PM (#24747409)
I've never seen a cop walk around with a semi auto.
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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by pnw_hazor on Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:13PM (#24748233)
Police rarely use revolvers these days for numerous reasons (e.g., safety, training difficulty, efficacy, and so on).

"NBC 5 checked with more than 114 police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Out of 79 responses, it was discovered only one Plano officer still carried a revolver."

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/last-revolvers-retired-as-...

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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by rascul on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:12PM (#24749542)
I've never seen a cop in the US without a semi auto handgun.
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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by bgorman on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:05PM (#24747731)
Literally every modern pistol, including Glocks are semi-automatic.
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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by mjfl on Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:31PM (#24748368)
a Glock is militarization? A glock is not militarization. By semi auto I understood they meant a military style semi automatic rifle because of the context of the conversation. Police may carry these in their trunk, but I've never seen them carrying one around.
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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by Ancapistani on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:47PM (#24748965)
I never said a Glock is militarization - I was directly refuting your assertion that (among other things) that officers’ uniforms and the guns they carry hadn’t changed in forty years.
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Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police by mjfl on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:38PM (#24749314)
awfully pedantic to see going from a revolver to a glock as a slam dunk.
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