DC.

We have a similar Form, but not so invasive of the applicants as yours are, ie, they, (Police do not take a test round from an applicants gun, re the rifling, for future reference) having said that, I think it would be a good idea for our Police to adopt.
Lincoln .7

If one cleans up a pistols chamber, or simply modifies it for better feeding, much less change the barrel, which on many pistols is very easy, the sample rifling item becomes useless as the pattern will change.

Back when I was studying gunsmith, now this is almost ten years ago, our one instructor who was a former FBI arnorer, said the best thing about Glocks were if your gun breaks and you send it in, they do not fix it, they send you a new gun.

He did not have much else good to say about them though.

Rick, The interviewer, states, (and I have seen that on the side of Police Cars,) the words, “To protect and serve”. yet the chap being interviewed states the Police are not there to protect “You”, what the hell is their prime mandate then?.

In the 2nd Link, I think it was just a rabble of the public, not giving the speaker any chance of putting his points forwards, he was just shouted down. And you wonder why we over here don’t understand, I think, it’s beyond their mentality, that the majority just can’t live without a gun under their pillow, as an addict who can’t go without his “Fix”.
Just my opinion.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I am posting this without having yet read what is below it but it was at least twenty years ago and the protect and serve bit came up during a then guns, police and responsibility type brew-ha-ha going on now.

Well a police higher up came out and said the ONLY thing a policeman HAS to do is enforce the law.
That is the only reason they exist.
There were more items on the agenda then but the person speaking said, “if you do not like the laws we are enforcing, change the law.”

I disagree strongly, as all but a few two seaters look like a hot chick who is pregnant.

There is a magazine, American Handgunner in which a former Police Officer, Massad Ayoob would have an article on Police incidents with handguns, the police officers or at least all of them involved did not always survive.

I do not regularly read it so I do not know if they still have that section, but if you ever get a chance it should be read, as it will open up your eyes as to how complicated this actually is and why only having armed police is not only a bad idea, but at time dangerous, do to police incompetence.

One incident I do remember from several decades back, involved police in a shoot-out with an man who had a ,44 Magnum Revolver.

To cut to the chase, the police went through multiple magazines of rounds and the offender shot four times.
The offender was finally killed as were two police officers.

Ayoob at the time used this as an example of how asinine the current policy of spray and pray is.
He stated the offender fired four aimed shots two missed, two did not.

US News
Iraq vet charged in fatal shooting of ex-SEAL
By JAMIE STENGLE and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press The Associated Press
Sunday, February 3, 2013 5:02 PM EST

A 25-year-old Iraq war veteran charged with murdering former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and his friend turned a gun onto the pair while they were at a Texas shooting range, authorities said Sunday.

Eddie Ray Routh of Lancaster was arraigned early Sunday in the deaths of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at a shooting range at Rough Creek Lodge, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth. He was being held on one charge of capital murder and two charges of murder….After the shootings, Routh left the shooting range in Kyle’s black pickup truck, Bryant said, first going to his sister’s home in Midlothian, where he told her and her husband what he had done. Routh left, Bryant said, and the couple called local police….

…Routh arrived at his home in Lancaster, about 17 miles southeast of Dallas, at about 8 p.m. Police arrested him after a brief pursuit.

Travis Cox, the director of a nonprofit Kyle helped found, told the Associated Press on Sunday that Kyle and Littlefield had taken Routh to the range. Littlefield was Kyle’s neighbor and “workout buddy,” Cox said

“What I know is Chris and a gentleman great guy, I knew him well, Chad Littlefield took a veteran out shooting who was struggling with PTSD to try to assist him, try to help him, try to, you know, give him a helping hand and he turned the gun on both of them, killing them,” Cox said.

A knock on the door at Routh’s last known address went unanswered Sunday. A for-sale sign was in front of the small, wood-framed home.

Kyle’s nonprofit, FITCO Cares, provides at-home fitness equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans….

ALL legally-held handguns were confiscated in around 1997 in the United Kingdom without any problems whatsoever.

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You have no concept of how U.S. citizens, loath government and cling to their Constitutional, both State and Federal, legal rights.
President Obama does but he used the terms guns and Bible that people are clinging to.

The government would have to have to already implemented some sort of shoot first and ask questions later marshal law before they would even think of trying such a move.

Of course that would just cause the armed citizens to deal with the government in a similar manner.
The country would fracture.

Gary Kasparov said in the Wall Street Journal back when Bush was president: “My country is slowly adapting the best of yours; but your country is rapidly adapting the worst of mine.”

I saw on the National News yesterday, Obama, firing what appeared to be a 12Guage shotgun. Can anyone explain the point he was trying to make?.other than he knows how to pull the trigger, he didn’t even have the butt of the gun placed up in his shoulder in the correct position, when he was firing the weapon.Was it just the usual publicity stunt?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

He is heading up to Minnesota to give an teleprompter speech on trying to get new gun laws.

It is similar but not as moronic as when Kerry was running for president and to show he was not anti-gun had a picture taken of him with a camouflage jacket, a gun and I believe said: “I got me a gun and I am going huntin” or something on that order.