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Posted on 11/21/2008 8:58:25 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
CHICAGO — Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters Thursday night to protest the department''s plans to equip officers with semi-automatic rifles, saying the weapons could make the streets more dangerous.
Carrying signs like "Stop the War on Youth," teens said they didn''t trust police with the high-powered weapons and worried gangs would be encouraged to bolster their own arsenals.
"The only people who need these guns are in Iraq," said Arthur McGraw, 19, an organizer with the nonprofit Southwest Youth Collaborative, which organized the rally. "It''ll shoot through brick, car doors. Say your family is in the house eating and there''s some gang violence. When they shoot these [the bullets] can come into your house and shoot your kids."
Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Thursday that though police have ordered and received some of the guns, police are not yet using them. Their use will be phased in over the next three years.
In April police Supt. Jody Weis said he wanted to equip all of the department''s officers with the high-powered weapons as part of an overall crime-fighting strategy, arguing that officers are outgunned on the streets. Officers currently carry pistols, and only SWAT officers carry rifles, M4 carbines.
Mayor Richard Daley publicly backed Weis'' plan, saying the rifles would put officers on equal footing with armed gangs and criminals.
You can see the outline of the feedlips on the bottom.
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I blew up the photo and enhanced it, and that looks like a rubber baseplate bumper on the bottom to me. I also think I may be able to see the magazine's inspection punchout (on the wrong side of the mag) below the mag well line. And, I see no sign of another magazine or a clip or tape.
IOW, I'm going to reverse my analysis and say that she, indeed, went into a combat situation with her mag in backward and a risky stance -- but with good trigger-finger discipline <LOL!!> (and an empty rifle)...
I hope her training officer had her practicing loading and unloading so long and frequently that she developed blisters. Or, better yet, that they put her stupid @$$ on permanent, unarmed desk duty...
Let’s use some liberal logis. If the reason for the purchase of these dangerous assault weapons is to keep pace with gangs, why not step down. Have the police disarm, making the reasons for the gang’s firepower unnecessary.
People’s ignorance towards firearms would be amusing if it weren’t so dangerous to our freedom.
And if it were sidesaddled, you would see the bend of the properly inserted mag going the other way.
Correct...
hopefully you didn’t leave your cigarettes with them.. SUV, pit bull, bullets and cigarettes.. that’s enough evil to annihilate a small country!
see post #68.
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