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I hope, for the artist’s sake, that he has an FFL.  And ran a NICS on his buyers.  And observed CA’s 10 day waiting period before transferring his blinged up rifles.

When someone invades your home, shoot to kill stop.  I don’t care what they say - the sons of bitches should have knocked and announced.  There ought to be a registry where you can list your home as a knock and announce home. F^(ker got off easy.

Murderous cops go unpunished as a matter of course in Chicago. Best excuse:”Come on. This is Chicago.”
On the street, when a shooting is inappropriate, autopsies can help reveal the contradictions in a police officer’s version of how it occurred. But it’s up to police and OPS investigators to make that connection and follow up.
Edmund [...]

It’s National Ammo Day and the FBI, not wanting to be left out, gives Winchester Ammunition the largest ammunition contract ever in the history of federal law enforcement - worth up to $54 million.

The headline tells it all. Or does it?
[Besides guns,] Deputies also bought stolen boats, trailers, trucks, electronics and drugs. All told, close to $2-million worth of stolen property was recovered.
A storefront sting netted a bunch of stolen goods including guns.  But one boat or one truck is more valuable than a pile of the [...]

Las Vegas police add video cameras to their Tasers.  I’m all in favor of videotaping the police but I do not think cameras on guns are appropriate.  If an officer wants to document someones behavior that’s great, but he shouldn’t have to point a weapon to do it.
And I predict that these videos will be [...]

Speaking of machine guns.
An article at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Law change drives the high price of machine guns.” We knew that already but it’s good to see it treated without any PSH.

I don’t know the whole deal here (but that’s never stopped me from commenting). The guy has 350 guns, I say, “nice start.” The government says, “aha! ASSAULT WEAPONS!” What got my attention was this:
Middletown police and federal agents were studying three additional assault weapons to see whether they were manufactured after [...]

Even their dogs are better than you.
“A police dog is a police officer. There is no difference under the law,” [the judge] tells KDKA. “They are not pets and they are trained in the purposes of law enforcement and anyone who would taunt a police officer can be considered a threat to the community.”
Via Balko.

Barricaded in an apartment with a television, a couch, a toaster, an end table, a lamp, a bag of flour, a broom, a toothbrush and a Ruger Mini-14.
Cote Arraigned Following Assault Rifle Standoff
BY JAMES JARDINE, Staff Writer
Tuesday October 9, 2007
ST. JOHNSBURY — Robert Cote, who held off police by barricading himself in his apartment with [...]

If M16s are outlawed then only criminals will have M16s.
After dinner at an Osage Beach restaurant Tuesday evening, officers returned to a department vehicle to find a broken window and the theft of a M16M4 high-velocity assault rifle.
“High-velocity assault rifle.”  How fast was it going? And note that (if described correctly)  this is an actual, [...]

During the aftermath of Katrina, we’ll call that period “the outrage”, not only were there gun confiscations, evacuations forced at gunpoint, there was, a suit now alleges, sport killings of the domestic animals forcibly separated from their owners. “[T]hey overheard one deputy claim that ‘once everybody’s gone, we’re going to have target practice tonight.’”
Say [...]

Not just picking on Gallatin cops.
Memphis police Officer Jeremy Kyle got more than he bargained for when he kicked in his ex-girlfriend’s door and barged into her bedroom, he got shot dead. The ex-girlfriend, also a Memphis police Officer, Teresita Watson was shot in the stomach and after treatment, released from the hospital. [...]

My local Gallatin Police Department is in the news again. This time officer Brandon Gooch resigned after punching his wife in the mouth and apparently knocking out one of her teeth.
Investigators said Gooch and his girlfriend were driving on Interstate 40 to a softball game in Mt. Juliet when they began to argue.
Police said [...]

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In an impossible event, 29 32 people have been shot dead in a GUN FREE ZONE!
VIA ABC Newsradio.

The Gallatin Police Department has lately been on a roll, on a roll as in heads rolling.   With this rate of attrition the Red Light Cameras Tisdale had installed around town start to make some kind of sense.
The sixth police officer resignation since late October occurred Wednesday.
Negrin, 35, faced three departmental violations for [...]

In December October, three Gallatin Police Department officers resigned in a statutory rape scandal. This time it’s not so lurid.
Two employees at the Gallatin Police Department are off the job amid separate internal investigations.
Susan Morrow asked to retire Wednesday after an investigation into allegations she compromised an active criminal investigation. The department would not [...]

An officer lied to a magistrate to get the “no knock warrant” that lead to the death of Kathryn Johnston.
In an affidavit to get a search warrant at the home Nov. 21, narcotics officer Jason R. Smith told a magistrate he and Officer Arthur Tesler had a confidential informant buy $50 worth of crack at [...]

In Canada.
Police officer Jeff Resler was found not guilty of assault by Judge Robert Philp. Resler was up for two counts of assault and two counts of assault with a weapon for using his Taser to wake two sleeping men.
In November 2003, Resler and three other officers were investigating an armed robbery at Edmonton’s [...]