Self-Defense Tip: Defend AND Attack

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  "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...

What’s Wrong With This Picture: The Buddy System Edition

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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...

Thirty-Three Pistols, Machine Guns Stolen From LA SWAT

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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...

NJ Finally Approves TASERs—For the Police

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  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...

Bethlehem Cop Blames Negligent Discharge on Incontinence

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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...

NYPD Busts Itself In Gun-Smuggling Case

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Should any of us be surprised that five NYPD officers have been arrested for illegally schlepping stolen guns into the city from New Jersey?  East Coast, big-city police enjoy a unique and toxic combination...

Milwaukee Hires Cops with Criminal Records. And They’re Just Fine with That.

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After a group of off-duty Milwaukee cops kicked the crap out of Frank Jude, Jr. in 2004, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal stumbled on the fact that one of the cops involved - the one the...

West Covina Officials Furious at Police Harassment Video

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KTLA.com reports that West Covina CA City Councilman Mike Touhey and Councilwoman Shelley Sanderson are none too happy about a video satirizing police harassment that clearly shows their town's cops and cars. Touehy and Sanderson...

This incident from Greene County in my beloved home state of Missouri . ....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1DOzy9ILs "Tammy Robinette made several huge errors in judgment while driving in Greene County on the night of October 4," riverfronttimes.com reports. "Drinking and driving was a big one. That caused a sheriff's deputy to pull her over. But...

Portland Cop Indicted In Mistaken Live Ammo Shooting

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Dane Reister, the Portland cop who accidentally shot a fleeing suspect with live ammo instead of beanbags last June, has been indicted by a grand jury. It's the first time a Portland police officer's...

What’s Wrong With this Police Smith & Wesson M&P Requisition?

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I heart the Smith & Wesson M&P .45. That said, if you buy the handgun in the Bay State it's hamstrung by the dreaded Massachusetts trigger---an action so heavy the Granby Charter Days Tractor...

Annals of Open Carry: Death Wish Edition

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What are the odds that someone could walk into a Chicago police station holding a loaded AR, declare martial law and not be either repeatedly ventilated, billy-clubbed to a bloody pulp or even charged...