Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
An unidentified Prince George’s County, MD police officer lost an AR-15 rifle when he failed to put the weapon back into his cruiser when retrieving a spare tire he lent to a colleague. Apparently the incident occurred on the side of the road, not at the police garage. Detectives believe that someone may have picked up the weapon after the
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Decorated senior Navy intelligence official Col. David W. Landersman, USMC (Ret.) and two others have been indicted on charges of theft and conspiracy as part of a long-running federal investigation into a secretive military operation featuring the Navy SEALs and untraceable weapons parts. NJ police chaplain/priest Father Kevin Carter has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and
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Since 2012, 36 firearms belonging to the Texas DPS have been stolen and 7 have either been missing for two years or missing with employee negligence. 22-year veteran ATF Special Agent Marc Delpit is facing an aggravated assault charge for allegedly beating a man and threatening a Houston, Texas high school football crowd at gunpoint. NYPD officer Brendan Cronin has
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Thomas Macri, the ranking police officer for the Borough of Bessemer, PA, reportedly accidentally killed himself last week while “cleaning his service pistol” at home. Police say he was home alone at the time, but was discovered a short while later by his girlfriend, and that foul play was not suspected. An autopsy revealed that Macri suffered a gunshot wound
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An unidentified veteran 51-year-old Massachusetts state trooper sergeant shot himself in the leg with a shotgun loaded with buckshot this week while carrying a shotgun into his new cruiser, State Police said. He is expected to survive, and hopefully be wiser. You hear a lot of reports of “cop leg,” but not too many with a shotgun. “Fearing for their
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A note about this section: A lot of people, including a lot of police brass, say that sworn police officers are “the only ones” who should be allowed certain rights, such as carrying guns or protecting themselves. We report stories here about cops’ irresponsible use of guns or force that illustrate that cops are people too, and that being one
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An unidentified undercover NYPD officer shooting a fleeing suspect during an undercover gun buy that went wrong also killed a 61-year-old bystander standing behind the suspect in the NYC suburb of Mount Vernon. Apparently lots of shots were fired. (NYPD’s “hit rate” is 18%.) Three other suspects were arrested. The injured suspect had not been charged as of this writing
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Firefighters who responded to a hotel fire at the George Washington Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA stumbled upon a blood-spattered hotel room littered with bottles of alcohol and even a piece of a scalp. Police were called. Police Chief J.R. Blyth described the discovery as “the most grisly murder scene in his 35 years in law enforcement.” Detectives spent eight hours