Sgt. Ron King Tells His Side of the Trayvon Martin Target Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oonckYOhhy4
Sgt. Ron King was fired last week from the Port Canaveral, Florida police force for bringing two Trayvon Martin-style hoodie targets to a department training session. As Port Canaveral interim CEO John Walsh told...
Ban Umbrellas!
"A man carrying an umbrella at N.C. A&T on Friday morning may have triggered a nearly three-hour lockdown at the campus and eight nearby public schools," news-record.com reports. "Campus police made that determination...
Pittsburgh Cops: .40 Caliber Ammo Doesn’t Have Enough Stopping Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01yg4-S8kEQ
"Pittsburgh police are reviewing the ammunition used by the department because officers raised fears that the bullets do not have enough stopping power," the Pittsburgh Tribune reports. "The officers say that twice in recent weeks...
UPDATE: NY Police Claim Gun Grab A Case of Mistaken Identity
You may recall that TTAG took a circumspect view of the incident involving New York pistol permit holder David Lewis. Mr. Lewis' lawyer claimed the Empire State Police had trolled his client's HIPAA-protected medical...
DHS Developing Gun Detecting Drones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2w0yGYbVw&list=UUSwnc9zoWWrpYFPh4-PV_fw&index=4
Is it me or is life imitating InfoWars a lot recently? In other words, just because Alex Jones is crazy paranoid doesn't mean the government isn't really out to take your guns. And if...
Cops: Gun Control Won’t Work
We've asked policeone.com for permission to republish their survey of cops on gun control. While we await their reply, here's the NRA's press release on the eye-opening stats. With a bit of luck, this...
Question of the Day: Should Cops Who Shoot Innocents Lose their Guns?
Cops have a problem. Sure, they get their fair share -- OK, maybe a little more than that -- of criticism around here for a lot of conspicuously bad marksmanship. But bitching about it...
CBP Email to Agents: Qual Ammo Only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8nvVRc2q68
Here's an email that's surfaced from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to its agents:
Enforcement Personnel,
Due to budget concerns and ammunition availability, we will not be getting issued any proficiency ammunition for next quarter. In...
Hoquiam Camo Cops
A member of our Armed Intelligentsia sent a link to kxro.com's report of a stand-off in Washington (Hoquiam Officer Shot. Suspect Barricaded in Home). As the eagle-eyed TTAG reader pointed out, it's a little unsettling that a town of...
OMG! A Monopod! OMG! [Based on a True Story]
"A student with a bloody nose left his Talbot East classroom around 8:30 p.m. on Monday night and saw a monopod that he mistook for a gun in a bathroom ," chimes.biola.edu reports. "He...
NY Cops Training for “The Collection”?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has climbed down on the SAFE Act's uber-unconstitutional seven-round magazine limit. Hizzoner claims he didn't know that no one makes seven-round ammunition magazines. Be that as it isn't, read the...
Defending Your Castle in Bloombergia
Let's say you're the Linen King of New York. And having a palatial east side apartment that can draw the wrong kind of attention from the peasants, you're confronted one night by a burglar...