Ban No-Knock Raids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDr0yilHTA&list=UUQKgBZFuqIfUHlvroG24XSg&index=1&feature=plcp
"Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank has issued an apology after narcotics detectives raided the wrong home and pointed a gun at its 76-year-old female resident," sfgate.com reports. "Burbank said the woman was not injured when...
NYPD Issues “Tactical Awareness Bulletin”
"After several fatal police shootings this year, a new memo sent out to police is asking that officers work on their firearm skills." Ah. We were wondering how many unarmed civilians had to eat...
OR’s Armed Posses Displace Police
"In a rural community like this, we all know each other, and we're all related." I'm hoping that doesn't mean what it seems to mean. 'Cause Carol Dickson's comment about the efficacy of her...
FBI Tactical Team Patrols Brookfield After WI Spree Killing
According to the photo caption on this Reuters image at dailymail.co.uk., "Federal investigation- An FBI tactical team patrols outside the Brookfield Square mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin, after the shooting at the Azana Spa." Who...
RoboCop Is Coming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ZuZuB4tfM&list=UUedHRYUKMiE4xMYwvVAhIAQ&index=10&feature=plcp
I haven't been able to find a video of a Boston Dynamics robot shooting a gun. I suspect they've been there, done that but don't want to scare the public. I'm not sure this...
What Sauce for a Hi-Point?
When two doods strolled into the Diamante Restaurant in Lost Wages Sunday night, they were met there by Obdulio Gudiel. Seems Gudiel had sold three cars to one of the two, Victor Larios, who's...
The Secret Joys of Police Militarization
Behold! The Johnston, Rhode Island SWAT team and their gear. According to providencejournal.com, taxpayer largesse has equipped Johnston's paramilitary-style police with two Freightliner tractor-trailers, twelve Humvees; 30 M-16 rifles and conversion parts to transform them into...
HSLD Post of the Day: FBI 1947 Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSeUBB90tuA
Ah the good old days. When an FBI Agent could shoot a machine gun from the hip without ear protection. My how times have changed. Unless your name is FPS Russia.
New York City’s Finest Not So Finest Now, Eh Mr. Bond?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAxswiw8Ks
As my range date heads out to the new James Bond movie I'd bet dollars to donuts (and lots of 'em) that Daniel Craig got more firearms training time for Skyfall than your average...
Quote of the Day: Act in Haste Edition
"The results (of the Firearms Act of 1998) have not been what proponents of the act wanted. Within a decade of the handgun ban and the confiscation of handguns from registered owners, crime with...
BREAKING: Obama Administration Planning to Put Police in Schools?
Right from the start I wondered why the Obama Administration wouldn't want to put cops in every school in America---other than the fact the idea was proposed by NRA Veep Wayne LaPierre after the...