Posted on 09/04/2012 11:28:50 AM PDT by Altariel
To use gamer's parlance, such weapons ignore most soft body armor, especially when supplied with M2 AP bullets. There are exceptions, but they are heavy, expensive and uncommon.
I must respectfully disagree about shotgun slugs penetrating body armor. Common class IIIA armor will resist 12 GA shotgun slugs.
That and bayonets also ignore soft body armor.
But how easily can you hide the rifle?
Amen, Impy!!!
What is it with cops now? This is becoming more common.
In the country firearms are just part of the decor. Certain things can hide in plain sight. For other things, houses have plenty of places to hide. Better still, they offer infinite possibilities if you know a bit of carpentry.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he with his adrenaline going during the chase saw a mean looking dog and got scared. Natural reaction but not acceptable. People allowed to be peace officers empowered with deadly force need to be cool under pressure or find a new job. I wonder if his trigger finger would have been so itchy if it was a 12 year old kid with a BB gun.
If he is as you describe he belongs on the other side of the bars.
This doesn’t sound like a fear based reaction.
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“He wasn’t running, he wasn’t growling, he wasn’t barking. He was not lunging,” says a witness who saw the shooting.
But neighbors and family say the dog didn’t threaten anyone–didn’t even leave the front yard.
“He just saw that dog, didn’t even look twice, went boom,” says the witness who didn’t want to be identified.
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That’s a cold, calculated decision, not a fear based response.
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