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This is also from TB2000 and may well tie in to planning for law and order after a megahit:

http://www.tennessean.com/local/arc...ent_ID=50418788

State troopers to be issued assault rifles

Associated Press
CHATTANOOGA — Tennessee state troopers will soon carry Bushmaster semiautomatic AR-15-type assault rifles on patrol, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said.

The THP is buying 1,000 of the weapons to give troopers ''the ability, if they have to, to resort to deadly means of force that is also an accurate means of force,'' Lt. Rex Prince, supervisor of the patrol's ordnance division, said Friday.

The weapons were purchased with proceeds of property and money that troopers seized as ill-gotten gains from criminal activity. THP spokeswoman Beth Denton said she did not know how much they cost, but weapons similar to those bought retail at $1,080 each, according to the Bushmaster Web site.

THP officers are issued Glock .357-caliber Magnum handguns. They also carry a ''backup'' handgun and a Remington 870 12-gauge shotgun in each patrol car, officials said.

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This is from Sean's site. The authorities have been notified.

26 April 2004 - Analyst Laura Mansfield discovered a posting on an Arabic language forum frequently used by known terrorists this morning that contained a very specific threat against US military forces in Iraq. The posting began with the following ominous quote: "The Mujahedeen Poisons Handbook: For poisoning the supplies to the American soldiers surrounding Al-Faloga".

It included links to an encyclopedia with step-by-step directions on how to produce and deliver various toxins and poison, including Ricin, various formulations of cyanide, and even Botulinum toxin. The document discusses the minimum effective dosages and also discusses means of delivery, including how to deliver them via transdermal means - through the skin - so that an act as innocuous as touching a doorknob could deliver a lethal dose.

I just heard a transmission from one CHP office to send .223 ammunition from one location to another in an "urgent manner" CHP started carrying AR15s after the N Hollywood shootout, but I think it is on a case by case basis, because whereas I used to see more of them in the gun racks, I hardly ever see them now.

Give me a call, Chippies, I just received my box of 500 from ammoman.com (and saved about $60 in taxes)