Chicago Gun Buy-Back Program a Total Failure
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the "Don't Kill a Dream, Save a Life Gun Turn-In" program collected more than 4,000 weapons yesterday. "Police say they gathered 55 assault weapons, 660 replica weapons, more than...
Winnipeg Police Can Now Carry Off-Duty in Civvies
The Winnipeg police have been busy defending the Long Gun Registry---against the wishes of both retired cops and Canadian gun owners. Both of whom see the Registry as intrusive, ineffective, onerous and expensive. Even...
Meggitt Training Systems Part I – SHOTT House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATKF-0whQ1w
Commenting on a previous TTAG piece about confronting intruders in your home, reader MikeD shed some light on the immensely dangerous activity of clearing a building:
I work out with a large portion of my...
Victoria (AU) Police Switch from S&W .38 Revolvers to .40 M&Ps
I fired a .40 Caliber Smith & Wesson M&P last night. Alex, an EMT from Russia, carries one. He like very much the gun because is incredibly light, bullets aren't cheap, they rip terrific...
TASER XREP Is NOT A Shotgun Round. Per Se.
According to wbay.com, the Green Bay (WI) police are adopting the TASER XREP round. I didn't see anything wrong with their story. But then I don't work for TASER's PR department. Steve Tuttle does. What's...
Aussies Develop Segway Robots for Sniper Practice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khoLEzWUtVA&feature=player_embedded
This story practically writes itself, in that "a YouTube video is worth a thousand words but not one thin dime to the poster" sort of way. Here's something we didn't see coming. "The Segways...
New Mexico Concealed Carry Course (w/Gubernatorial Candidate Doug Turner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMauTASbzkw
"It's almost too easy," Doug Turner's instructor says, after New Mexico's republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner squeezes off a round with the Remington 700. "Almost," Turner replies. Ah, but the question is: are out...
Lexington Police Help Raise Home Invaders’ Chances of Success
While lowering the odds that children will accidentally kill, wound and/or maim themselves and others with unsupervised firearms. You pays your money . . . or not. "The Lexington police and the Fayette County...
“ATF Canine Handlers Train Mexican Law Enforcement”
The quote marks indicate that I didn't write that headline. Because that would be insulting to . . . someone. At the risk of racial profiling, I am aware that Mexicans have got that...
Off-duty Officer [not] Carjacked
As I stood up to get off the light rail this morning, I noticed this article over someone's shoulder:
DC officer carjacked - more to the story
A District of Columbia police officer whose service weapon...
Off-duty Officer Carjacked
I encountered this in the crime section of today's Baltimore Sun: Off-duty D.C. police officer carjacked. "The 44-year-old officer told police he was driving home on Harford Road and East 25th Street at about...