Rocky Mount, NC ShotSpotter: Solution in Search of a Problem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28UMrWGARk
According to neighborhoodscout.com, Rocky Mount, North Carolina is safer than 10 percent of the cities in the United States. I think that's a nice way of saying they have a crime problem. The city of 60k...
Bethlehem Cop Blames Negligent Discharge on Incontinence
The Bethlehem, PA city council deliberated last week over whether to fire officer Jeffrey Rogers. Rogers exhibited all kinds of full-frontal fail last December when he let a .40 cal round fly in the...
TSA: 21 Loaded Firearms Found Last Week
Blogger Bob at the TSA Blog has a rundown of all the firearms confiscated from TSA checkpoints this past week. Thankfully I didn't make the list, and I'll have a full report on my...
NJ Finally Approves TASERs—For the Police
Our friends at TASER International shot us a press release this AM. Big news! The New Jersey police are tooling-up with TASERs. The Garden State was the last in these here United to prohibit...
Thirty-Three Pistols, Machine Guns Stolen From LA SWAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CynvMlFyo
The twenty-one MP5s and twelve .45s had been stored overnight in a "locked box" in a building that was considered, um, secure in downtown LA where the SWATties train. Notice the conspicuous lack of the...
Three Off-Duty LA Deputies in Fraternal Shootout
"Three Los Angeles County deputies were relieved of duty, and two of them were arrested following an off-duty shooting incident near La Mirada Regional Park," latimes.co reports. "Deputy Pete Gomez of the sheriff's media bureau said he could...
Post-Brevik, Most Norway Cops Want to Stay Unarmed
Most police officers in Norway have traditionally been unarmed. And the Anders Brevik massacre doesn't seem to have changed that, at least for a majority of officers responding in a recent survey of the...
What’s Wrong With This Picture: The Buddy System Edition
In the motor racing game they call it "the red mist." It descends upon a driver when he's so enervated by the competition that he loses that final measure of control that keeps the...
DEA Agent Lee Paige Still Won’t Go Away [VIDEO]
https://youtu.be/h-ZZ6pynGLM
Everyone's favorite gun-handling expert, DEA agent Lee Paige of the agency's Orlando office, has provided gunnies with years of YouTube guffaws and keyboard-fouling coffeespits as we've relived the, er, "professional" demonstrating gun safety for...
Self-Defense Tip: Defend AND Attack
"The police sergeant who saved himself from being shot by jamming his finger in a goon's gun said Sunday that he felt lucky to be alive," nydailynews.com reports. Roger that. " Miller and his partner were patting down...
Waite for It . . . Council Votes to Sell Confiscated Guns
"The Waite Park (MN) City Council has voted to sell some guns confiscated by police. By a 4-1 vote, the council decided Monday night to sell any otherwise legal shotguns and rifles. But the guns can...
Why Cops Can’t Shoot Straight
I'm pretty good at spotting cops. I see enough law enforcement types down at the range to ID the serve-and-protect-types in a New York minute, regardless of dress. These guys were different. They were...