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Report: SWAT team shouldn’t have been used in fatal shooting Scott McCabe, The Examiner Jan 12, 2007 3:00 AM (8 hrs ago) Fairfax (Virginia) - A Fairfax County police SWAT unit should not have been deployed the night an officer accidentally shot and killed a Fair Oaks man, according to a...

Greetings, all, Hope someone can help with this "friend-of-a-friend" scenario. Fellow pawned a rifle to pay off a pressing debt. When he returned two weeks later to repay the loan, he learned the pawnbroker had in the interim been raided by the ATF. That much loved agency had, naturally...

Just a tale of deliverance from near-folly! I have recently been giving serious consideration to buying a Springfield Armory XD-45. Or, at least I was, until our own rellascout enticed me away with a purdy little CZ75B Compact and, like a sailor on liberty, I went slinking after it! (Great...

The second officer wounded in the homicide-suicide attack on a Fairfax County Police station in Chantilly, Virginia has succumbed to his multiple wounds. Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, quia pius es. Requiem aeterna dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis...

Grounds for impeachment? Revolution? Or just finely honed jurisprudential philosophy? "A decent Respect to the Opinions of [Human]kind": The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication Constitutional Court of South Africa February 7, 2006 Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

Whiskey Tango Hotel, over? Why did he clear leather?? Fairfax Police Say Shooting Was Accident Officer Kills Optometrist Suspected of Gambling By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 26, 2006; A01 Fairfax County's police chief said yesterday that one of his...

Yeah, I know, we're all Tookied out - :barf: - but this is a sad commentary. Not sure if Tremoglie's conclusion is correct; any alternative explanations are welcomed . . . A Tale of Two Executions by Michael P. Tremoglie 15 December 2005 The many groups that coalesced to protest the...

Blair defeated over terror laws Prime Minister Tony Blair has lost the key House of Commons vote on plans to allow police to hold terror suspects without charge for up to 90 days. MPs rejected the plans by 322 votes to 291 - a majority of 31. It is the government's first defeat since...

Not quite sure what to make of this one... Charles Krauthammer August 12, 2005 WASHINGTON -- In 1977, when a bunch of neo-Nazis decided to march through Skokie, a suburb of Chicago heavily populated with Holocaust survivors, there was controversy as to whether they should be allowed...

Greetings, all, Am interested in a concealed carry rig that permits a tucked shirt - I simply am not the vest- or big-Hawaiian-shirt type. I've investigated a host of holster options, from Milt Spark's Versa-Max II, to comp-tac's C.T.A.C., to High Noon Leather, to Smartcarry's, er, unique...

This just came over WRC-4 news: the taxicab commissioner, a woman I reviled some months ago for suggesting mandatory video cameras, GPS systems and other "security" measures (read: allow police to witness the cabbie's murder in slow motion, at the cabbie's expense) stepped forward and suggested...