Connecticut Considers Gun Offender Registry
We've already flagged Connecticut's push to ban high-capacity firearms magazines from civilians (not law enforcement officers, manufacturers or gunsmiths). And now "Connecticut is considering legislation that could make it the first state to require...
Armed Encounter: Inconvenience Store [Not Shown]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGUVtfKrOoo
Once again, reddit.com has published a first-person description of an armed encounter. This time we've got a cop's eye view of a late-night confrontation between a cashier and a couple of potential perps. Here's...
ARs for Personal Protection? Police Si! Taxpayers No!
Sorry I only got to this story today, whilst cleaning out my email accounts. But it's worth the wait---if you suffer from low blood pressure. "Officers armed with M4 Rifles stood guard outside a...
Domestic Abuse: “Police Officers Are Humans Too”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvztEp6NBRw
I respect the police. You've got to respect anyone willing to lay their life on the line for total strangers, which includes me and my family. I've give the po-po props despite my firmly-held...
IN Man Jailed for Shooting Cops with His Finger
The LaPorte Medical School was founded in 1842. The mid-west's first teaching hospital opened its doors the same year that Dr. Crawford Long invented gas anesthesia---which took years (and another champion) to become accepted...
Hoplophobics Unite! Post-911 Paranoia is at Hand!
"A journalist smuggled a replica handgun into the European Parliament in Brussels as Prince Charles walked past him," mirror.co.uk reports. "Yann-Antony Noghes, reporting for French TV, slipped through an unguarded side door with the...
Paul Markel: A ‘Warrior’ is Not A Thug
In a recent post, I interviewed Paul Markel. The Marine gun guru decried the woeful state of police gunfighting skills, berating the majority of forces for failing to embody the warrior spirit. Some commentators took Mr....
Iowa Police Chief: We Won’t Stop and Search CCW Holders. Unless We Do.
Every now and then, with great but no longer alarming regularity, the British Nanny State gently presses down on the jackboot lying across their subjects' throats. Individual freedoms within The Land of Hope and Glory have...
“Cops Win Gunfights Because They Show Up With Lots of Cops”
This morning, I read Paul Markel's column for officer.com: Firearms Training Sanity Check; Why do we train the way we do? The answer: "Rather than examine or address any deficiencies in the curriculum or...
Australian Police Defend Taser Deployment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqGtbPzayzs
The Ozzies are not big fans of guns. Not for their largely disarmed populace and now, not for the police either. While I'm not shocked by the numbers of Taser deployments, I wonder if...
“Before the proliferation of such less-lethal techniques as CEDs, pepper spray and bean bag...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by5_8SpGX-E
So Taser sends me a Tweet linking to Dr. Keith Wesley's study on Excited Delirium. That's the name given to the tendency of Tased perps to up and die on their police handlers. Unlike...