[reagan_fanatic]

The company I work for sells Streamlight flashlights. We used to sell a model SL-35, which was a large, hard alumimum-cased unit that, with the ni-cad battery pack, made quite a nice billy club when needed.

Unfortunately, the Police departments here did the same thing and went with the smaller, lighter flashlights.

[Stoat]

The company I work for sells Streamlight flashlights. We used to sell a model SL-35, which was a large, hard alumimum-cased unit that, with the ni-cad battery pack, made quite a nice billy club when needed.

Unfortunately, the Police departments here did the same thing and went with the smaller, lighter flashlights.

It's very troubling, this business of our police being gradually disarmed.  These changes are brought about by liberal Chiefs of Police who aren't policemen anymore, they are politicians.  And they bend to the will of local city councils which, all too often, are filled with liberal elitists who live in gated communities with impenetrable security, and so they don't have to think about crime in their own lives anyway.