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Old 05-15-2008, 04:00 AM   #1
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Last Australian State Under Pressure to Arm Police with Semi-auto Pistols

An expert committee has recommended that police be rearmed with new multiple-shot semi-automatic pistols -- despite Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon's public reluctance to authorise the weapons upgrade. The controversy over police firearms resurfaced yesterday after the Police Association claimed the policeman injured during a fatal gun battle in South Melbourne was trying to reload his... [Age (Melbourne), via gunpolicy.org ]

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Old 05-15-2008, 05:55 AM   #2
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Why would Australian police need semi-autos?!?!? i thought the public was disarmed and it was a safe society?
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Because only the bad guys have guns then....DUH!
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OOOOOOH! Right Right...

thanks Milton.
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When will people learn.
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Ms Nixon remains concerned about rearming police with more powerful weapons.
She said last week: "What we've been looking at is, what's the evidence? Why would you need a gun that fires 18 shots? Do we have any evidence we really do need that kind of firepower?
Any evidence that you need modern weapons? Um, how about the cop with the bullet holes in him? He might want to discuss evidence when he recovers.
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