>These are off duty police officers working as an officially sanctioned part of the local government [...] Are armed off-duty police officers working a second

>These are off duty police officers working as an officially sanctioned part of the local government [...] Are armed off-duty police officers working a second job allowed to use their own municipally-provided sidearms, or must they purchase and use their own? I assume the latter, unless all police officers might be asked to purchase and register their own sidearms for use on- and off-duty.