[Lessismore]

Why don't US police carry those nice little machine pistols or short carbines favored by European police? More fire power, longer sighting plane, stocks for stability?

[2nd_Ammendment_Defender]

I have recently become involved in a petition and I have been gathering signatures to petition John Ashcroft to nationally enforce the 2nd Amendment with Constitution burner states like California. Go to this internet site and look at the petition:

http://AshcroftPetition@KeepAndBearArms.com

Here's is your chance to do something besides complain about our system. Download this, print it out, and get anyone over 18, who is a U.S.A. citizen, to sign and mail it off to the listed address. Exercise your 1st Amendment rights to support the 2nd Amendment.

[donozark]

Much of police use of weapons in America is "domestic disturbances." Or as some say,"phone booth fights." Tough to use even a pistol in such encounters. One officer gets attacked by drunken, wife-beating husband and suddenly the wife gets man at the cop for man-handling hubby and attacks him with butcher knife. Only escalates from there.

On the other hand would be nice to have a weapon such as you mentioned in the trunk. Many "sector supervisor cars" have increased firepower available.