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A buddy bought a PU a dozenish years ago for $25K, put 200,000 KM on it and sold it for $20K. Replacement was $90K. One option he doesn't like is a $300 gas tank fill up.
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Red on blue fire. Fire chief is rightly ripping into commission and police for throwing up a blue wall to protect themselves which will ensure that no improvements can happen.
RCMP 'wouldn't change a thing' testimony has Onslow fireman questioning value of inquiry | SaltWire
The deputy fire chief who was in the Onslow fire hall when RCMP members outside unleashed five rifle shots says the public inquiry is not fulfilling its ...
poor training, or poor recruitment process....
So far all voices in blue have been unified. They did everything right as per procedure and training and would do nothing different. The entire tree is so rotten they cant even see it. I'd love to see he training manual that says to open fire with rifles on a fire hall without identifying yourself and then speed away without checking who got shot (because you missed your target with every bullet).
I was talking to a cop recently that had to do his yearly firearm qual. They shoot three magazines a year on qual day. The rest of the time the gun lives in the holster. It's a bleeping dangerous policy. He knows he is woefully low on skill and would prefer not to carry but that's not an option. Policing in north america really needs a huge rethink. I highly suspect everyone would be much safer if only ~10% of the cops were armed but they fired hundreds of rounds a month to stay useful. It works in the UK.
If any government screw up was documented and used as a precedent to set realistic standards it would bankrupt the government. Oops that's us, the taxpayer.
I can confirm that many many LE officers are also members of gun clubs where they use high powered pistols, not rifles.
I'm sure there are quite a few cops that shoot often either for fun or out of a feeling of duty. I am sure there are more that shoot the mandatory 40 rounds a year and nothing more. Then a bunch in the middle. I still think that if department doesnt want to pay and equip them to be shooting in the order of 100 rounds a month with each of their service firearms, it is negligent to have them carrying in public. That is a policy/financial problem not an individual officer problem.
Poor firearm discipline? You've seen the videos of the crap that happens when they pull their guns. Sweeping each other, people downrange of their target, etc. It's a complete crapshow. Again, not the fault of individual officers, their firearms training is entirely inadequate for the role they are told to fulfill.
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