PA Bill Number: HB887
Title: In firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for limitation on the regulation of firearms and ammunition; and, in general provisions ...
Description: In firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for limitation on the regulation of firearms and ammunition; and, in general provision ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: Mar 13, 2025
Why are municipal police officers gearing up with military equipment? :: 06/09/2014
NEENAH, Wis. — Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.
The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield.
And what 'battlefield' does the Neenah, WI Police Department face? Neenah is one of hundreds of small town and large town PD's that are gearing up for Armageddon. Why? Note that this story comes to us not from some fringe group, but from the New York Times. When mainstream press questions the motive, one might think hard about the militarization of law enforcement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html?hp&_r=1
