Texas Officer Dies After No-Knock Raid Shooting
"Authorities went to a four-plex apartment on the 1100-block of circle 'm' drive to serve a search warrant," kxxv.com reports. "When Dinwiddie and another officer tried to enter the apartment 50 year-old Marvin Louis Guy and...
Question of the Day: Does America Have Too Many [Armed] Police?
Last Thursday at 2:30am, someone triggered my house alarm. Given the tactical challenges involved, I decided to let the police respond. After five minutes, I switched off the alarm. I waited, armed, sleeping schnauzer...
Gun Happy San Francisco Police Strike Again. Well, Not Quite . . .
Back in March, a brace of San Fran patrol folk responding to a "malicious mischief" call drew their guns and fired at a vehicle backing-up towards them. Allegedly. As sfgate.com reported, "the suspect at the center of a...
Just When You Thought the “Logic” Behind Gun Buybacks Couldn’t Get Any More Stupid...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftk24JdGb4k
TTAG's been highlighting the abject, indeed inescapable stupidity of gun buybacks since this website went live. Gun buybacks do sweet FA to reduce firearms-related crime, destroy valuable evidence of firearms-related crimes and encourage firearms-related crime (by...
BREAKING: Video of Controversial Long Beach Police Shooting Emerges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7VZ6IiInI
"Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Compton division reported seeing security officers involved in a physical altercation with a suspect outside a Target store in the 1600 block of South Alameda Street...
Plainclothes Police Perforate Philly Pizza Guy
"Investigators say the two officers, announcing they were police, approached 20-year-old Phil Holland near 50th and Willows Avenue to question him after receiving a report of gunshots in the area," philadelphia.cbslocal.com reports. "Police...
The Worst Cop-Shoots-Dog Story in the History of the World Ever
Don't say we didn't warn you. "Cole Middleton was doing some repairs at his family’s dairy farm while his wife Jayna was shopping. He got home around 11 a.m. and discovered his house had...
Disgruntled Gamer SWATs Rival
"Long Island police dispatched helicopters, emergency vehicles and an army of cops to a home where someone called in a bloody rampage on Tuesday," nypost.com reports. "They arrived with guns drawn and ready for...
Quote of the Day: Tooling Up Edition
"I do feel some pressure in carrying a gun...It's obviously of great help for our daily work. And we will strictly follow the rules and laws when using it." - Officer Wang Haiyi quoted in...
Utah Sheriffs Missing M-16 Misegos
One week ago, TTAG named the Davis County Sheriff’s Office our Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day for losing a M16. (D'oh!) We were particularly captivated by this comment: "Davis County Sheriff Todd Richardson said...
NJ Homeowner [Barely] Avoids Jail for Racking Shotgun at Intruders
"At about 2 a.m., McGraw said he looked outside his home in the Deepwater section of the township and saw flashlights moving around outside near his truck," nj.com reports. "He said he was...
Incendiary Image of the Day: Another Day, Another MRAP Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzM-QaPPcE
First of all, sorry for getting the town wrong in an earlier version of this post. Second, huh? What does ANY police force need with an MRAP? I mean, if it gets to the...