At about 11:30 today, the police commissioner of Philadelphia {Charles Ramsey] gave a press conference regarding a missing AR-16, [a fully automatic assault rifle] These weapons were given to Philly by the U S army, they are Viet Nam era rifles. They were in the vault awaiting conversion to semi-automatic so they can be used by the Phila. police. They are kept in a gun vault at the Phila. police academy in northeast Phila. According to Ramsey, only a limited number of people have the combination and access to this vault. For some reason there is no video surveillance of this vault room.
What struck me about this press conference was that he gave some statistics about crime in Philadelphia, stating that assault weapons are only 2% of the shootings in philly.and trust me , there are a lot of shootings .
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Yeah, one of the officers probably "liberated" that gun for later, when things really get exciting. May not be a bad thing, if his sympathies are with the people.
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