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Cops Are Outraged That New York's New Magazine Limit Could Apply to Them
Reason ^ | Jan. 18, 2013 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 01/21/2013 2:56:23 PM PST by neverdem

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To: neverdem

Cops can have magazines. They just can’t take them out of the station house and in the station house they have to be kept 50 yards away from any gun it fits in.


81 posted on 01/21/2013 4:49:35 PM PST by DManA
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To: neverdem

Criminals need not take off their shoes now.


82 posted on 01/21/2013 4:51:51 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: neverdem
I thought someone had posted on here about the excuse being that cops are more often in dangerous situations. At least when it comes to the chances of being murdered, my quick research doesn't bear that out (assuming I didn't miss something that someone will hopefully point out).

In 2009 of a population of approximately 700,000 LEO's in the US there were 38 felonious murders, or 0.0054%. In 2009 with a population of 307,006,550, there were 15,399 murders with a 0.0050% chance of being murdered (when you minus out the LEO numbers). That is a four ten-thousandths of a percent more chance to be murdered than the rest of the citizens in the U.S. When you figure every one of those LEO's were armed, trained and have available backup, the citizens are less protected and even more so now if the gun grabbers get their way.

83 posted on 01/21/2013 4:51:59 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: neverdem

“Gun reform must prevent criminals and the deranged from getting illegal weapons—not restrict law-abiding retired cops ...”

What about law abiding citizens? I guess we don’t count. Cops are more likely to be wife beaters, commit suicide, suffer from depression and PTSD than average citizens.


84 posted on 01/21/2013 4:56:14 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

And the fun fact that everyone forgets about that shootout. Despite 650+ rounds fired by the bad guys through dreaded assault rifles, they wounded something like 18, and non of them died.

So much for the most lethal weapon imaginable.


85 posted on 01/21/2013 4:58:25 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
the first matches i shot were before 2-round clips(i have never seen one) so you had to "X" two rounds in the first eight rounder to get it to load properly then use a full eight rounder for the rest of your string...
86 posted on 01/21/2013 5:02:42 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Meanwhile, Senior Airman Andrew P. Brown, age 25, with the 92nd Air Force Security Police Squadron, was patrolling the base’s housing areas on a bicycle when he received an emergency call on his two-way radio. He pedaled a quarter-mile to the scene and, while still some 70 yards away, spotted Mellberg shooting at scores of panic-stricken people in the parking lot.

He ditched his bicycle and ordered the gunman to drop his weapon. When Mellberg turned and shot at him, Brown dropped into a combat crouch and returned fire with his 9mm Beretta M9 semiautomatic pistol. He fired four rounds at Mellberg; two missed, one hit him in the shoulder and one struck him between the eyes, instantly ending his homicidal rampage. The drum magazine in Mellberg’s MAK-90 still held 19 rounds of ammunition.”

http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mellberg-dean.htm

LAPD didn’t have a weapon overmatch problem, they had a settle down and aim at the head problem.


87 posted on 01/21/2013 5:05:45 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Mears
Oh goody,another FR cop bashing thread.

You're no better than anyone else.

88 posted on 01/21/2013 5:07:14 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Me? When the smoke clears, I want to have a full 30 rd magazine still in reserve! Just in case.

In my old days as a tank gunner, I had 63 rounds available for my primary weapon, which was essentially a single-shot semiautomatic. The secondary weapon was the coaxial .30 caliber or 7.62mm machinegun mounted coaxially with the main gun, and known thereby as the co-ax. For which we had 6000 rounds in the turret tray and an extra 4000 rounds in ammo cans for a reload.

Those old habits die hard. And in my case, haven't died out yet.


89 posted on 01/21/2013 5:08:56 PM PST by archy
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To: neverdem

Another case proving unions are bands of useful idiots. If the ban of anything over 7 shots remains, then it should not have exceptions - it’s either a good idea or a bad one. Period.


90 posted on 01/21/2013 5:15:43 PM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: archy

4000 rounds - is that five cases?


91 posted on 01/21/2013 5:22:39 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Travis McGee

Maybe cops just need more bullets to fire as they are lousy shots, contrary to popular and ignorant belief that cops are super hero gun slingers.


92 posted on 01/21/2013 5:23:41 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: neverdem
"We are still working out some details of the law, and the exemption will be included."

I always believed the time for reasoned debate and thoughtful consideration was before passing legislation. Unbelievable. What country is this, again?

Yeah, I know, we have to pass it to find out what's in it. This makes me sick.

93 posted on 01/21/2013 5:28:18 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

NY cops used to walk a beat, alone, no radio, no call boxes, post Civil War with only a night stick. Such was the respect they had. Now, a hundred years of political ENFORCEMENT, they need armor and military weapons. From Peace officers to law( really ‘legalism’ ) en-FORCE-ment upon the sheeple. But, hey, you take the king’s coin, you do his bidding.


94 posted on 01/21/2013 5:30:51 PM PST by Leisler (A trillion+ dollars a year printing fiat script=2% GDP. What happens when it stops. Or doesn't?)
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To: DesertRhino
LAPD didn’t have a weapon overmatch problem, they had a settle down and aim at the head problem.

Spray 'n' Pray.

95 posted on 01/21/2013 5:33:12 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: FoxInSocks

They had to pass the bill to see what was in it.

Ask Nancy, she’ll tell you all about those types of bills.


96 posted on 01/21/2013 5:38:15 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: Mears

I’ll assume you aren’t one of those ‘regular civilians’ addressed in the article.


97 posted on 01/21/2013 5:53:38 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Based on a letter from an 8 year old…school is now illegal…”cuz it’s yuckey and dumb".)
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To: neverdem

The cops don’t need them. There is absolutely no reason a cop needs any more armament than the average citizen. None at all.

Exemptions for LE in gun laws are Unconstitutional, immoral, and unjust.


98 posted on 01/21/2013 5:55:24 PM PST by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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