Teams of police officers equipped with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs have become a part of the landscape of post-Sept. 11 New York, patrolling around Wall Street and such landmarks as the Empire State building.
Similar squads are set to begin daily patrols of the busiest sections of the city subways this month, in what officials describe as a first for a U.S. mass transit system.
So begins this article from the Associated Press.
The creeping tyranny which is swallowing this country is starting to bare its teeth. Ask yourself the simple question, “Why do police officers need automatic weapons?”
Submachine guns and machine guns are weapons designed to throw a lot of bullets in the general direction of the target in question, in hope that a bullet or two will hit the desired target, or that the spray of such a weapon will cause an advancing enemy to take shelter and cease their advance. Automatic fire is not fully controlled and highly inaccurate, which is exactly why such weapons are utterly useless in the role of civilian law enforcement!
There is only one reason for law enforcement to carry fully automatic weapons: intimidation.
Welcome to the new Amerika, where it seems everyday we’re closer to picking up where the Soviet Union left off.
Folks, this is going to continue until the People of this nation stand up and declare that we’re not going to be treated like criminals anymore. We’re showing all the signs of the nation’s various police forces stinking with the attitude of “us vs. them”, where the common populace is the enemy. As these Gestapo tactics continue and the tyrannical beast snaps at more and more ordinary citizens, more ordinary citizens are going to be hurt or killed without the slightest residual taint of reasonable cause.
If we continue on this march toward despotic rule, we the People will be eventually forced into making the decision of whether to submit to the Jack boot stomping on our face, or fight back.
Tags: automatic weapons, jack boots, machine guns, police, police state, submachine guns, thugs, tryanny
You clearly know next to nothing about the sort of weapons that law enforcement actually uses.
Can you explain the difference between an AR-15 (common police weapon) and the M16 (military version)?
Or what exactly an MP-5 or MP-10 submachine gun is? What selective fire rates this weapon has.
Bryan
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic weapon using the .223 or 5.56 NATO round, depending on whether or not you prefer English to metric measure. One pull of the trigger equals one bullet fired.
The M16 is a select fire weapon, using the same round. You can choose from semi-automatic or fully automatic, where one pull of the trigger continues the firing process until the trigger is released or ammunition is expended.
As for the H&K’s, you’ll have to tell me if you’re talking about the four position select fire versions or the original three position versions. The four position versions include a three-round burst mode of fire, where one pull of the trigger fires three rounds and then stops. Each additional pull of the trigger will fire another three round burst in this mode. The MP-5 uses 9mm Parabellum, but I have to admit that I haven’t used an MP-10, so I know nothing about that model.
When I referred to the police in this article using submachine guns, I was quoting the original linked article from the Associated Press and making the assumption that the article was correct in its information. So, if you want to point fingers at erroneous information, you might complain to the original source if you think there is an error.
If I made a mistake in assuming that “submachine gun” meant “submachine gun”, then you’ll have to explain how it is that it does not.