Pete Eliadis: “It’s Not Time to Arm Students and Teachers”
Pete Eliadis is officer.com's Mass Violence Incidents Contributor. Imagine handing that business card to your daughter's prospective private school headmaster. Still, someone's got to tackle the issues raised by spree killings and other large-scale...
The Other Side of the New Orleans Gun Confiscation Issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5PC7z79-8
When the New Orleans Police and Louisiana National Guard disarmed New Orleans citizens at the point of a gun (or a hundred), the news of the event reverberated throughout America's firearm fraternity like the...
New Orleans Cops’ Statement Describes Post-Katrina Massacre
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL HUNTER
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FACTUAL BASIS
If this matter were to go to trial, the Government would prove beyond a reasonable doubt, through the introduction of competent testimony and ...
Ottowa RCMP Hopes Heckler & Koch MP5s Are Better Than Before
Unlike most of the mainstream media goldfish, the montrealgazette.com has a long memory. Or excellent archives. Or a writer who can Google. The paper notes that the Ottowa RCMP's decision to deploy Heckler &...
Portland Cop Chooses Bullets Over Taser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhkE3VTuPhk
A grand jury found "no criminal wrongdoing" in the case of a Portland police officer who shot a homeless man named Jack Dale Collins. According to the police report, Collins was approaching officer Walters...
Omaha Hearts Entrapment. White Supremacist Skinheads Need Apply
Greed motivated these skinheads the Omaha.com headline informs. Specifically, "What motivated the group was much simpler than the race-based ideology of some of its members, said Mickey Leadingham, the resident agent...
“You don’t put it down, we’re going to kill you”
Forget about trigger-happy cops for a moment. Let's talk about law enforcement's reluctance to use deadly force (a.k.a. restraint). And poor marksmanship. And stopping power, or lack thereof. A debate brought to you by...
Taser Statement on Indiana Police Tasering 10-Year-Old
At our request, Steve Tuttle of Taser International sent us this statement about the Tasering of a 10-year-old by a Morgan County, Indiana police officer:
While there are considerable safety margins for use of...
New Ammo Promises to Render Targets Unconscious, Not Kill
German ammunition manufacturer Scheiße AG has announced the availability of a "revolutionary" cartridge designed to wound - but not fatally injure - a human target. Designated the Scheiße Ich Lüge, the bullet itself is designed to break the skin, but not penetrate through muscle tissue, organs, or bone, dissipating the kinetic energy throughout the body to render the target unconscious.
Florida: M4 Carbine Swiped from SWAT
Officer John Foshee would have been our Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day. But I've already awarded that dubious distinction to a mother whose firearms tolerance proved fatal. So let's just say that...
Department of Education: Here’s Why We Need Shotguns (Pt. 2)
Earlier this month, infowars.com commentator Mossberg500 (no bias there) was not happy to hear that the U.S. Department of Education was buying 27 shotguns. "Their first mistake was purchasing Remington shotguns when they could...
Tennessee Police Packs Heat, Then Sells It
You may remember that investigators traced one of the guns used by Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell to the Memphis police. The cops sold the 9mm Taurus to a still-unnamed gun dealer in 2008....