From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>ARV crews are volunteers. They have to perform normal duties alongside
>their
>armed role and switch from one to the other at the drop of a hat.
Agreed, though some do relish their gun handling rights.
>
>There is so much antagonism between police and shooters that everyone tends
>to forget that there are many officers who are private shooters and have
>suffered in the same way as everyone else.
Also true, the best ARV guys I've met have all been shooters off-duty,
though in hampshire previous shooting experience always counted against
becoming an AFO in the past.
Steve
>And if
>we are going to have coppers riding around in Range Rovers, enough
>of this idiotic policy of having the guns locked in a box. I
>remember something on the TV showing two Nottingham officers having
>to unlock a box and take out their revolvers.
>
>If they are supposedly trained in the use of a firearm, surely they
>are capable of carrying one without accidentally shooting
>themselves?
>
Wiltshire seemed to be able to have their smiths strapped on without a
problem, though why I could never understand (its quite a rural county,
though the army and the farmers have LOTs of guns).
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Perception, thats the problem from both sides, law abiding people don't
expect harassment, nor should those in power preach the same 1918-1919
doctrine about guns in private hands. Its very much a case of the police
being piggy in the middle (no pun intended) between the people and the
government (especially those unelected whitehall types who really do fear
the people).
niel
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