[angkor]

I stand corrected, I misread this paragraph from The Plain Dealer story linked above:

“Resendez said four deputies conducted the search over three or four hours - not the nine claimed on some sites. There was no SWAT team and no semiautomatic weapons. “We don’t even have semiautomatic weapons,” he said.

So apparently they seem to have a SWAT team, but the Sheriff says it was not used and it doesn’t have automatic weapons.

[Inappropriate Laughter]

"So apparently they seem to have a SWAT team, but the Sheriff says it was not used and it doesn’t have automatic weapons. "

Government agencies have been known to spin, and even lie. And if it is the same staff, and they act like a SWAT team, people might be forgiven for the "confusion."

And the sheriff did NOT say that they didn't have "automatic weapons," he said that they didn't have "semiautomatic" weapons. If they have a SWAT team, of course their rifles, like M16s, are automatic.

[WayneS]

Their sheriff’s department still uses revolvers? I find that VERY difficult to believe.