*Thanks* ....to all the bad-guys for footing the bill.
Connecticut's state police are criminals in their own right, with their padded pensions This fits.
Posted on 10/25/2012 10:57:02 AM PDT by Daffynition
HARTFORD — Connecticut state police have criminals to thank for footing the $280,000 bill for replacing their 16-year-old pistols with new, more powerful handguns.
The entire cost of the 1,250 new .45-caliber Sig Sauer P220 pistols is being paid for with money and other assets seized during federal and state investigations of drug dealers and other criminals, under the federal asset forfeiture program, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
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*Thanks* ....to all the bad-guys for footing the bill.
Connecticut's state police are criminals in their own right, with their padded pensions This fits.
The great return to the .45. It just does not have a replacement.
Why didn’t they get those Colt Rail Guns like the ones the Marines are buying? For what, maybe $100 more they could have a pistol made in CT. Don’t get me wrong, I like SIG. My PDW is a P226, but when a .45 is appropriate I’ll only roll with a 1911.
“The great return to the .45. It just does not have a replacement.”
Most LEO’s are opting for the Sig Sauer P229 in .40 S&W. About the same firepower but you get a mag that holds twelve instead of seven.
.45 ACP. When you care enough to send the very best.
Unfortunately a lot of the “drug seizures” are not anything of the sort. Most is just money stolen from people that happened to be carrying too much cash when stopped and searched by the cops. It cost at least $5,000 to go to court to prove that the money was not the result of criminal activity so most people don’t bother unless it’s over that amount. This is a good example of why the seizure laws encourage cops to go out and seize even more, the more they take the more toys they can buy.
any idea what ammo they’ll be issued?
So let me make sure I understand.
Gubment employees directly, personally benefiting from assets siezed from private citizens. I know that it is very difficult if not impossible to fight the gubment in these cases. Especially with the relatively small amount of money involved. It can be easier and safer to simply move on with life rather than go to court in asset seizure cases.
As a small government conservative I think you have lost your mind to cheer on gubment union thugs who steal assets from private citizens and directly personally benefit. What are we The Mexican Republic now? I like my gubment weak and polite. I like my cops the same way.
So do you care to expand on your high opinion of gubment asset seizure? How can you possibly rectify your view with a small government conservative view of what government is? Care to explain?
SIG 220 .45, a top-of-the-line item. Well, at least the CT police won’t be able to blame a poor performace on their sidearms.
Excellent firearm. should serve them well
The police are selling the public their fake story about how they done good and now are being rewarded with new toys.
The truth is a good many of these “assets seizures” are not contested by good citizens who found themselves in the sights of criminal LEO, whose avarice leads them to concoct probable cause and then seizing other peoples property for the sole purpose of getting new bling.
I don’t like the asset forfeiture for its abuse alone.
According to more than a few “conservatives” big, oppressive, overbearing government is just fine when it is aimed at “those people” who do things the authoritarians don’t approve of. They themselves, of course, are very high and mighty and big government would never dare turn its sights on them.
Think of the reliability of your P226 (mine has over 50,000rnds through it) with the power of the .45ACP cartridge. The M1911 just doesn’t come close in reliability and many, many 1911 enthusiests admit this.
The P220 is the best of both worlds if you’re a .45ACP guy.
In brief, the pistols are being paid for with money stolen by the police.
Manual of arms is much simpler on the SIG composted to the 1911. That’s important for police, many of whom are not big shooting enthusiasts.
Manual of arms is much simpler on the SIG composted to the 1911. That’s important for police, many of whom are not big shooting enthusiasts.
I’ve carried both, I never was completely comfortable with cocked and locked.
Haha, doubt you will get a good answer to that.
It’s isn’t possible to beat a 45 although I think I would rather have the 1911.
Carrying a 45 requires a large holster or I would carry one concealed but concealed is difficult and I think uncomfortable with the 45. I carry instead a tiny 9mm. It is a small gun with a small bullet but it is easy to have ALL the time. A personal carry gun is only good if you carry it and I know too many people who have relegated their 45’s to the night stand.
Why is it that the confiscation of assets of criminals goes to the police department, why doesn’t it go to the general fund?
We need to get rid of the incentive of cops to bust somebody in the hope of making the dept money.
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