Speer Ammunition have announced that they have been awarded a new contract to provide ammunition to the New York Police Department. Speer will supply their 9x19mm 124-grain Gold Dot which will be the department’s service and training ammunition for the next five [Read More…]
Just a few days ago, it was announced that the Finnish Defence Forces were buying Sako TRG M10 Precision Rifles. Now Beretta USA, a member of the Beretta Defense Technologies alliance, has announced that the New York Police Department and its Emergency Service Unit [Read More…]
In a recent search warrant executed by the 114th Precinct of the New York Police Department, several weapons, ammunition, and body armor were confiscated and the suspects arrested and charged with criminal possession of weapons. While this may be a frequent occurrence [Read More…]
Back in November 2017, we reported that New York Police Department was set to retire its remaining revolvers. The news of the retirement of the last .38 revolvers came in a departmental memo that informed officers that they would have to switch to a semi-automatic [Read More…]
America’s largest police department is set to finally decommission the last of its service revolvers. The Gun Free Zone blog shared a photograph of a NYPD memo, dated 11/20/17, announcing that all remaining revolvers are to be replaced by department authorised [Read More…]
A lot of people collect firearms. Some people are military collectors that are looking for hard to find surplus guns. Others gravitate toward high-end custom models that have been hand built to their specific requirements. Some shooters like to collect law enforcement [Read More…]
Whenever I travel somewhere, I have a tendency to notice armed police/security. Especially when they are carrying rifles. Just one week after the Chelsea bombing in NYC, my wife and I took our 4 month old to visit NYC. It was a bit of a risk since I could not legally [Read More…]
In May of this year, it was reported that that New York Police Department’s Speed Gold Dot 124-grain +P loads were insufficient to penetrate a Carhartt jacket that a suspect was wearing: Four of the shots that cops fired at a madman waving a knife in Midtown [Read More…]
A suspect in NY was shot by NYPD however four of the nine rounds were defeated by the suspect’s Carthart jacket. NYPD uses Speer Gold Dot 124gr +P JHP. According to an article by the Tribunist, one round grazed a bystander. I know from previous examples, the NYPD [Read More…]
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