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Forty years ago, body armor wasn’t ubiquitous and most cops still carried .38 revolvers. Today, vests and semi autos are by far the norm.
by Ancapistani 6y ago
Forty years ago, body armor wasn’t ubiquitous and most cops still carried .38 revolvers.
Today, vests and semi autos are by far the norm.
- mjfl 6y agoI've never seen a cop walk around with a semi auto.
- bgorman 6y agoLiterally every modern pistol, including Glocks are semi-automatic.
- mjfl 6y agoa Glock is militarization? A glock is not militarization. By semi auto I understood they meant a military style semi automatic rifle because of the context of the conversation. Police may carry these in their trunk, but I've never seen them carrying one around.
- Ancapistani 6y agoI never said a Glock is militarization - I was directly refuting your assertion that (among other things) that officers’ uniforms and the guns they carry hadn’t changed in forty years.
- mjfl 6y agoawfully pedantic to see going from a revolver to a glock as a slam dunk.
- pnw_hazor 6y agoPolice rarely use revolvers these days for numerous reasons (e.g., safety, training difficulty, efficacy, and so on). "NBC 5 checked with more than 114 police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Out of 79 responses, it was discovered only one Plano officer still carried a revolver." https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/last-revolvers-retired-as-dallas-police-service-weapons/2274241/ https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/last-revolvers-retired-as-...
- rascul 6y agoI've never seen a cop in the US without a semi auto handgun.