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Canton,Ma.Police Department wants a mobile firing range, more vehicles, ballistic shields
Bostonherald.com ^ | 12/08/2024 | Lance Reynolds

Posted on 12/08/2024 11:36:38 AM PST by massmike

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To: glorgau

Mobile firing range.

I have shot in them.

As a police training instructor for several decades. I found them cramped and of limited training value.

That is of course unless one has no place else to shoot.


21 posted on 12/08/2024 1:15:01 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: gundog

A indoor fit site not to hard.

A outdoor site more difficult.


22 posted on 12/08/2024 1:18:03 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: gundog

Just use silencers./s


23 posted on 12/08/2024 2:14:53 PM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: riverrunner

Yeah...we’re talking MA. I remember when that asshat McDermott shot up his office with a shotgun. Someone had previously called him in because they saw him out shooting. Around here, there are plenty of places where shooting would go unnoticed, unless it was unsafe, or the reporting party was an uber-Karen. I can’t imagine that they have an open-air, outdoor shooting range in a populated area of MA.


24 posted on 12/08/2024 2:17:33 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: sasquatch
Yeah...it’d be cheaper. But...practice/qualify with your as-is service pistol. I can’t believe that Boston wouldn’t have an indoor range the cops could use for such things.

Just did a quick search. Looks like lots of places would work. Maybe the cops don’t want to associate with the smelly Walmart people.

25 posted on 12/08/2024 2:26:13 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: caver

“I want a mobile firing range too.”
Isn’t that what a cop car is?


27 posted on 12/08/2024 2:40:58 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: massmike

Canton and Stoughton cops are dirty, dirty, dirty, right?


28 posted on 12/08/2024 2:45:10 PM PST by x
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To: coloradan
After MA has largely disarmed its citizens, the police want more weapons.

And $9K ballistic shields. I guess with enough of them you could form a phalanx, and the whole force could hide behind them.

29 posted on 12/08/2024 3:02:53 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: massmike

After a cursory performance review, Chief, we’re authorizing an additional 2 walkie talkies, 3 electric scooters and a Hopalong Cassidy cap gun set with authentic imitation leather holsters.


30 posted on 12/08/2024 3:12:28 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: x

A case could be made that they are satanic.


31 posted on 12/08/2024 4:17:57 PM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: mewzilla
These folks don’t look like they’re made of money to me...

Wikipedia says the median household income in Canton in 2010 was 109,260, for the U.S. the same year is was $50,046. Not made of money, but hardly a poor place. I worked in Canton around 1980. It's a very pleasant place.

32 posted on 12/08/2024 5:04:58 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: massmike

“”a mobile firing range to lessen quality-of-life disturbances””

What in the dickens does that mean - “lessen quality of life disturbances”? Where is the firing range now - in people’s backyards?


33 posted on 12/08/2024 5:41:38 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: gundog

Ballistic Shields at $9,355.56 EACH ?!?!?!

WTF ARE THEY MADE OUT OF ?!?!?!?

Gold plated Titanium ?


34 posted on 12/09/2024 2:00:35 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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