Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
by mjfl on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:22PM
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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
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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-...
Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
by rascul on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:12PM
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I've never seen a cop in the US without a semi auto handgun.
Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
by bgorman on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:05PM
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Literally every modern pistol, including Glocks are semi-automatic.
Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
by mjfl on Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:31PM
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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.
Re:Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police
by Ancapistani on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:47PM
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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.