GIVE YOUR POLICE THE <strong>GUNS</strong>, AMMUNITION, AND TRAINING ' NEEDED AND THEY'LLDO THE JOB FOR WHICH YOU HIRE THEM.
AJOR CRIMES in the United States hit a new high in M 1956Ñpartl because the average policeman is not good enough with guns and the average law enforcement agency is not well enough trained or well enough equipped to use guns and gun sciences to prevent crime or stop criminals. This is not the fault of the policeman. It is the fault of officials who refuse to provide money and facilities for police firearms training, and of the citizen like yourself who lets these conditions continue to exist. You depend on the police officer and his gun to protect you, yet you elect officials who refuse to provide that officer with the training he needs to do the job. In more cases than not, you don't even give the cop a gun. He has to buy it out of his own Pay. It has become "smart" in recent years for shooters, people "in the know" about guns and shooting, to chant wherever police use of guns - is mentioned, "Cops are lousy shooters! Cops don't know one end of a gun from the rtunately for all us, they are right in all too many cases. A few years ago, a lieutenant on a big city police force appeared at a gun repair shop with his service pistol wrapped carefully in a hotel dinner napkin. Trouble? The Wearing fatigues, Florida Highway Patrol recruits give rapt attention to instructor's gun was cocked-the officer had cocked it in anticipation 1 * 7 , A * . < ,,. + . % . I j :., . . 1 ' , . -;'^ tips. Like Massachusetts State Police (at left) they must qualify annually with firearms. \ ' . ;--. '.^ ,~,,~in~,,A~~ ;7 %+\ " :?' ., ,# 6 2 ,,< . ,,-' ^w":^,, I,,.^,, ',"'-ir-3,i," ;u 6 , : 5. ' : t-.:;;,;'" ,^ , , . , . 'l-:.t':,.ii\ -f^"'ft ', f, ,'-: :" . , y ,."."ill ^ ..,-,; '$'*^! 1 *'- 1 ' à ,. o'.'.A?, &,7 L , Many police lives are saved by gun training such as is given on Hershey, Pa., range where Pennsylvania State Troopers fire handguns, rifles, and submachine guns.
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