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Documents reveal more about KPD switch in weapons (Knoxville Tn)
Knoxville News Sentinel ^
| March 3, 2013
| Don Jacobs
Posted on 03/03/2013 5:04:49 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae
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To: deoetdoctrinae
To: deoetdoctrinae
The Police Department is obtaining 225 of Sig Sauers .45-caliber P220R pistols, a dozen 1911 Sig Sauer handguns and training for 10 officers as armorers. In exchange, the Police Department is giving $13,500 cash, 630 .40-caliber Glocks, 53 12-gauge shotguns, four .22-caliber rifles, 14 submachine guns, six 37mm launchers, various gun parts and 300,000 rounds of new ammunition. They had 630 Glocks, and are replacing them with 225 Sigs? Something ain't Kosher.
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posted on
03/03/2013 7:05:37 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Arlis
If SIG made a 10mm with 15 round magazines, I’d own one of those, too. That said, my near 20 year old Glock mod 20 runs flawlessly, so I have no objections there. Could use more 10mm brass, though.
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posted on
03/03/2013 7:54:14 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(One individual with courage, determination and a rifle can change the course of history.)
To: Labyrinthos
“I’ll take the Springfield XD/XDm over both of them any day based upon performance, reliability, maintenance, and cost.”
Amen to that FRiend.
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posted on
03/03/2013 8:02:36 AM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
To: Chainmail
I think the Sig is a great gun, but I’m left handed and the controls on the left side of the gun are a bit further aft than most handguns. That makes it more difficult for me.
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posted on
03/03/2013 8:09:08 AM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: deoetdoctrinae
Love my Sig P220 Carry!
I too moved from Glock to Sig.
While I’ve never liked the .40 cal compromise, the .45 cal Glock 36 is nowhere near as accurate as the Sig P220.
Weight, trigger smoothness, manufacturing quality, all mitigate in favor of the Sig accuracy.
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posted on
03/03/2013 8:17:16 AM PST
by
G Larry
To: Tupelo
I would suspect a malfunctioning financial recoil..
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03/03/2013 10:19:31 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
To: Pontiac
The rest of the civilian population doesnt need semi-automatic rifles so why would a civilian police department NEED fully automatic sub-machine guns? Yea it stinks doesn't it. The NG Armory has theirs under tight lock and key in a vault. In my 55 plus years living in this area the City Of Knoxville has not had reasons to need or use such a weapon in the line of duty. The militarization of civilian Law Enforcement Agencies is getting way out of hand.
The Oak Ridge DOE/DOE plants nearby by is a different matter. Actually with recent security issues there the DOD should be the facilities responding security with active duty armed forces.
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03/05/2013 11:31:14 PM PST
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cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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