Police rifles
Police in Madison want rifles. The city won’t fund them so they’re looking at letting officers buy their own.
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October 11th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
There are several departments in Southeastern Michigan doing the same thing. The cities get lots more good-guy guns on the streets with virtually no cost, and the cops get decent deals on rifles.
It has been very popular with the officers, with like a 50% to 60% participation rate.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
So long as they’re only AR-15s, not select-fire M-16s.
What’s Wisconsin’s rule on civilian ownership of EBRs? Individual cops shouldn’t have access to weapons other civilians can’t have as the police are themselves civilians (despite the tone I hear from the cops I come in contact with).
October 12th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Why would the police need bullet hoses designed to spray fire from the hip? Is the function of the Police in Madison to kill many people in a short period of time? Because everyone knows that’s all those frightful weapons of war are good for. Right?
October 12th, 2009 at 3:51 am
What is up with that? Big 5 has Mosin-Nagant 91/30’s on sale for under $100 again.
Oh, right: Wisconsin doesn’t have Big 5…
October 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I’ve seen Madison cops use their AR-15s. I’m not terribly impressed.
Probably July of ’98, something went down. Rumor was somebody went nuts and had his girlfriend held hostage in the laundry room of an apartment building. I never got a “real” story, the local paper had zero coverage of the event. But the cops locked down a three block by three block area for about 8 hours. Or, mostly.
First the area was crawling with cops in blue with shotguns, then they got replaced with cops in OD with ARs. I was ordered off my porch, so I watched out the window. (brick porch, brick building so I had some shelter watching this. I also had popcorn.) About dusk they decide the streetlight was exposing their position, so they took the AR, and granted the cop stood so the bullets would land somewhere in the lake (or past it, he was firing up at about a 40 degree angle) and took 8 shots to take out the streetlight. Next morning, the plexi face on the lamp had three holes in it, so five shots missed the light fixture entirely. Stationary target, less than 30 feet, and it wasn’t dark enough that you could say the streetlight was blinding you.
Oh, and they missed a major, pedestrian only, back way into the neighborhood; a housemate was coming home at 2 AM only to be ordered “come here!” by people who never identified themselves as cops, never indicated she might be in the line of fire, and as far as she knew were just people standing in the bushes in the dark at 2 AM. Yeah, I wouldn’t have “come here” either.
Like I said, at least they aimed away from the campus or downtown.