Reply #65: My brother's dept....

[hydrashok75]

issues them Remington 870s loaded with 00Buck. Nasty! I'm a Mossberg man myself...but hey any shotgun with buckshot is the best combat weapon to have in a shootout. Call me up and tell me we're going to have a gun fight, and I'm bringing my shotgun every time. Handguns are for last ditch defense against unexpected attack. Once you're in a gunfight, shotguns are what you want...

And most depts let you have them.

Dan's dept. actually let's you have an AR15 in the vehicle as well if you supply it yourself and pass a cert course.

So let's can the BS about cops being outgunned. They are NOT.

That's a myth that stemmed from the LAPD North Hollywood shoot out, when the cops had to go to a gun store to commandeer some AR15s.

The irony there--if their had been an AWB that banned them totally, the cops wouldn't have been able to commandeer them! The reality is PD's everywhere are aware of that, and patrollmen have lots of 00Buckshot and rifles with them nowadays.