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scottmeador wrote:Are there valid reasons for non-SWAT officers to have ARs for on duty use? Is giving ARs to these same officers further militarization of the police forces?

If the BGs got 'em then by all means I say yes, but would like to read some differing opinions.

One never knows when they are going to run into the next Michael Platt.

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I have a first cousin who is a Cambridge, MA police officer. When he visited Houston last fall for the Houston to Austin charity bike ride, I was shocked to find out he is not allowed to have a long gun -- AR or shotgun -- in his patrol car.

Didn't feel like arguing with him, but internally I was rolling my eyes at more Massachusetts nonsense.