Posted on 11/13/2015 8:09:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Oslo (AFP) - Norway's police, who have been authorised to carry firearms for the past year due to a heightened threat of Islamist attacks, will be unarmed again now that the threat level has been lowered, police said Friday.
National police chief Odd Reidar Humlegard told reporters the measure would take effect on November 17.
The country's 6,000 uniformed police officers will "have to keep their weapons locked in their patrol cars like they did previously," he said.
Norwegian police were authorised to carry their service weapons on their belts in November 2014 after the country's intelligence service PST raised the threat level because of the risk of an attack.
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Meanwhile, ISIS casts greedy eyes and hatches its plans.
Idiots.
I have a neighbor who emigrated from Norway to the US 50 years ago as a teenager. Went to college here, stayed.
I asked him why he emigrated. He basically said that the stupid was strong even then. Too socialist for him, too controlling.
One irony in his life: He has daughters, and they're liberals. The stupid is strong everywhere.
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