Recent content by furetto7

The county hospital here in Lubbock is University Medical Center and is co-located with the Texas Tech Medical School, the Director of Security is a retired LPD officer and when Administration didn't want to arm the inhouse security staff he hired off duty LPD and DPS officers to work in the...

All nine of our vehicles carry shotguns, all of the crown vics with the exception of the K9 unit have transport cells, the shotguns are carried in electric locks mounted to the top front of the partition, the K9 unit carries his in an electric lock mounted muzzle down on the passenger side of...

Normally a Glock 21 in a pancake holster at 9:00 (I'm a lefty), occassionally I carry a Colt Cobra in a horizontal shoulder holster.

We have two interview rooms, both rooms have two video cameras with overlapping coverage, both are hooked two VCR's, one is time lapse and part of the overall video security system, the other is a standard VCR that is used to tape all interviews, the tape is started before the officers enter the...

Back in the thirties the local sheriff seized a Thompson 1928A1 from some traveling bad guys, the gun sat in the vault of the sheriffs department until 1990 when the current sheriff decieded that it would make a nice exhibit at the local museum, so he pulled most of the internals and loaned it...

My wife and I are owned by a number of ferrets and one of my hobbies is restoring a FIAT sports car, in Italian ferret is furetto, and we had seven ferrets when I first started using the name.

.221 Elmo, a .50 BMG case necked down to .221, fired from a single shot, bolt action rifle. Muzzle velocity of 4.5 miles per second designed to kill prairie dogs around the curature of the earth.

I get delayed every time I get run, some years ago a bad guy used my SSAN during a booking and now when you run my SSAN it hits on more than one name. I get kicked over to a checker every time.

By definition all crime has a victim, even if the victim is an abstract rather than an idividual. Battery is a crime against a person, burglary of an unoccupied structure is a non-person offense but the victim is the owner of the property, speeding is a crime against society( the whole of the...

Lets see if I can cloud the issue even further. A LEO/Peace Officer/Cop/whatever else is sworn to uphold(enforce) the laws of the city, county, state and nation and to preserve the peace. While there is no legal obligation to protect the individual citizen, the vast majority of officers will...

I've been a cop for over thirty years, I've worked in a "May-Issue" state, a "Shall-Issue" state and unfortunantly now in one of the rapidly dwindling number "No-Issue" states, In all that time I have never had any problems with CCW holders, I have found all of the ones I have had both personal...

Sitting in my evidence locker right now is a S&W 686 that I siezed as evidence two years ago in an Aggravated Assault case, ran the serial number and it turns out the gun was stolen from a camper parked at a fireworks stand in Sterling Alaska in 1984, the guy I took the gun from had bought it...

The flag can be dipped in salute to the flag of another country. U.S. warships may dip the flag in salute to a warship of a friendly power, but only if the other ship dips their national flag first.