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• Two-Way Radio Communications

  05-01-2018 23:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mobile Create USA Inc.'s communications product, originally only available in Japan, is now available for the U.S. market. Using the AT&T network for nationwide two-way radio communications, the service also includes GPS Google Mapping. This product is made to ensure a reliable connection almost anywhere a road vehicle can travel. Mobiles are a snap to install and a portable handheld version is also available. 
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• Sublite Cushion Tactical AR670-1 Compliant Boot

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  Warson Brands, official licensee of Reebok for duty and uniform footwear, has introduced the new Reebok Sublite Cushion Tactical RB8808 tactical boot designed for military professionals. The RB8808 builds upon the success of the Reebok Sublite Cushion Tactical series by offering an AR670-1 compliant version in coyote brown for wear with the Army uniform. The Sublite Cushion Tactical uses Sublite foam midsole technology to maximize cushioning while minimizing weight. 
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• .308 Tactical Mag Can

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  MTM's Tactical Mag Can is a stackable, sturdy plastic container that is lockable and includes a foam insert designed specifically for .308 magazines. The heavy-duty Tactical Mag Can will support 10-, 20-, and 25-round magazines for .308 AR platform rifles, along with 10- and 20-round magazines for M1A and M14 rifles. It features a reinforced O-ring seal, making it water-resistant. The Tactical Mag Can will support a total of 14 mags. This made in U.S.A. product measures 17.2 x 10.7 x 9.2 inches
  
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• Men’s Long Sleeve CCW Snap Front Tactical Shirt

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  Dickies Men’s Long Sleeve CCW Snap Front Tactical shirt is designed to stand up to the toughest of work environments. It features flexible fabric and ventilated side panels and back yoke to keep you cool and comfortable. A hidden snap front for easy access to CCW means you can safely carry while out in the field. With a performance stretch and wrinkle resistance, the Dickies Men’s Long Sleeve CCW Snap Front Tactical shirt offers a separate bag for a camera tab, badge holder, and epau
  
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• FATS 100P Portable Virtual Training System

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  Meggitt Training Systems' FATS 100P delivers weapon handling and shot analytics in an immersive training platform. Portable and light, the FATS 100P rugged hand-carry case allows easy transport, set-up, and operation. Judgmental training and marksmanship courses feature video authoring, enhanced UUI, automatic coaching, and 360-degree sound board—all on an easily transportable laptop. 
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• Elite Tactical XRS II Riflescope

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  Bushnell's new XRS II riflescope is the newest addition to the company's Elite Tactical line of precision optics. It's designed to deliver extreme long-range precision, as well as edge-to-edge clarity in any condition with ED Prime glass, plus a 4.5-30x zoom and wide 50mm objective lens. The XRS II comes with a removable Throw Lever for quick magnification changes and features a locking diopter. Available in grey, black, and flat dark earth with the Bushnell exclusive G3 reticle, the XRS II is a
  
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• FN Introduces the FDE & BLK Series

  05-01-2018 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FN America LLC has announced the release of the limited-edition FN FDE & BLK Series, featuring a collection of five pistols and three long guns, all in flat dark earth (FDE) and black configurations. The collection will be available in stores in early 2018.The FN FDE & BLK Series will include the FN 509, FNS-9 Compact, FNX-45 and FNX-45 Tactical, FN Five-seveN, FN 15 Tactical Carbine II, FN M249S, and FN M249S PARA. All features and benefits remain the same as the standard product line o
  
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• Video: MN Officers Rescue Couple from Burning Home

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  VIDEO: MN Officers Rescue Couple from Burning HomeA Breezy Point, MN, couple lived to see the new year thanks to the heroics of three law enforcement officers, who rescued them from their burning home.Around 2 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, Breezy Point Officer and paramedic Jason Rieber was about to go home at the end of his shift when he smelled fire in the air, Fox 9 reports.Acting on instinct, Rieber raced in his patrol car and found a home ablaze with flames through the roof next to the
  
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• Video: LAPD Officer Recovering from Ambush Shooting, Suspect Facing Attempted Murder Charge

  05-01-2018 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: LAPD Officer Recovering from Ambush Shooting, Suspect Facing Attempted Murder ChargeLAPD Officer Joy Park is in the hospital recovering from injuries she sustained after being ambushed and shot while on the job in the Westlake District nearly one week ago.“Officers on patrol, they never know what’s coming to them,” the 35-year-old officer said to CBS2 while recounting the shooting. “I felt tremendous pain in my thigh. I immediately realized I got shot.”Alongs
  
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• NJ Lieutenant Killed in Turnpike Accident

  05-01-2018 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Jersey City, NJ, police lieutenant on the job for 23 years was killed on the New Jersey Turnpike early this morning.Christopher Robateau, 49, of Carteret, exited his car to help a motorist on his way to work this morning and was struck by a vehicle, according to Mayor Steve Fulop."We consider him on duty being that Lt. Robateau got out of his car to help someone else which is what we want all our officers to be doing all the time regardless of their location or time of day," Fulop said on Face
  
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• MO Officer Shot in Head Last Month, Breathing on His Own

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  After a nearly monthlong battle for his life since being shot in the back of the head by a handcuffed suspect, Officer Ryan O’Connor has opened his eyes and is breathing on his own, the Arnold (MO) Police Department said Thursday night.O’Connor, 44, was shot by a burglary suspect riding in the back of his police SUV on Dec. 5. Police say Chad Klahs, 29, of Arnold shot O’Connor before fatally shooting himself, all while handcuffed.O’Connor survived the five-hour surge
  
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• Feds Attempt to Purchase Weapons Through Dark Web for New Report

  05-01-2018 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new Government Accounting Office report outlines the results of GAO’s attempts to purchase weapons through the dark web – research prompted by Congressional requesters asking “that GAO assess the extent to which ATF is enforcing existing laws and investigate whether online private sellers sell firearms to people who are not allowed or eligible to possess a firearm.”The project is an unusual one for an agency accustomed to handling more staid subject matter in its report
  
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• FBI Agent Shoots GA Gang Suspect in Vehicle Dragging Incident

  05-01-2018 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  An FBI agent was forced to open fire early Friday after a wanted man ran from a Sandy Springs hotel, hopped in a pickup truck and dragged the agent for a quarter-mile, according to an agency spokesman.The agent and the wounded man were taken to local hospitals, FBI spokesman Kevin Rowson said in an emailed statement.While the agent’s injuries were not life-threatening, the man is in surgery, according to the FBI. His condition is unknown. The incident started shortly after 6 a.m. in t
  
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• Can Keeping Mass Killers' Names Out of the Media Save Lives?

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  When authorities in Texas made a point of not mentioning the name of a man who killed 26 people during Sunday church services in November, saying they did not want to glorify him, their gesture was only the most recent expression of a sentiment that has found growing support in law enforcement and journalism.The notion that rampage killers act, in part, out of a craving for attention—the so-called “contagion effect”—has long found support in psychiatric and scholarly thou
  
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• Boys Donate Their 2018 Allowance Money to Family of Fallen CO Deputy

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  Things don't get much worse around a law enforcement office than they are for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office this week after a shooting that saw one of their officers get killed on Sunday and several others wounded. But in the midst of the heartbreak came a really heartwarming story... Two young boys, who look like they must be ten or younger, walked into the sheriff’s office and donated a year’s worth of their allowance to show their support, The Fox radio reports.A t
  
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• Video: Armed Man Shot by Denver Police at End of Pursuit Claims "Excessive Force"

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  VIDEO: Armed Man Shot by Denver Police at End of Pursuit Claims "Excessive Force"A man shot by Denver Police on June 18 at the end of a vehicle pursuit is claiming excessive force because of the number of shots fired at him. The suspect reportedly waved the muzzle of a rifle out his car's window before the chase.Keith Roberts is charged with leading police on a chase, sometimes reaching speeds in excess of 80 mph.After the suspect lost control of his vehicle and was rammed by a police SUV, two o
  
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• Video: CA Officer Cleared in Fatal OIS of Suspect Who Attacked Him

  05-01-2018 01:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: CA Officer Cleared in Fatal OIS of Suspect Who Attacked HimA Huntington Beach, CA, police officer who fatally shot a 27-year-old man during a scuffle outside a 7-Eleven store in September will not face criminal charges, the Orange County district attorney's office announced Wednesday.According to Assistant District Atty. Ebrahim Baytieh, the office determined that Officer Eric Esparza was legally justified when he shot Dillan Tabares, a homeless Navy veteran who had been paroled from stat
  
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• MI Deputy Hit by Car, Critically Injured While Working Accident

  05-01-2018 01:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Oakland County (MI) Sheriff's Deputy is in critical condition after being hit by a passing car Thursday morning, reports the Detroit Free Press.Deputy David Hack, 50, was hit at 7:40 a.m. in front of Rochester Adams High School in Rochester Hills while policing an accident, according to a statement to media from sheriff's office spokesman Mike McCabe."The Deputy was policing another car accident which had occurred earlier at that location when a second accident occurred," sheriff's office spo
  
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• Video: Baby Born After South Carolina Police Chase

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  VIDEO: Baby Born After South Carolina Police ChaseA South Carolina man watched his baby girl's birth while he was in handcuffs, reports WSOC-TV.WCIV-TV reports Carl Alewine's fiancee's water broke early on New Year's morning and he was racing down Interstate 26 near Charleston to get her to the hospital.The car was traveling at more than 90 miles per hour when several law enforcement officers started chasing Alewine and then eventually forced him to pull over.They had Alewine in handcuffs when h
  
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• Baltimore Judge Rules City Violated Contracts by Cutting Police, Fire Pension Benefits

  05-01-2018 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Baltimore circuit judge has ruled that city officials broke their contract with many police officers, firefighters, and retirees in 2010 by cutting a key pension provision that has cost retirees millions in pension benefits.Judge Julie R. Rubin ruled Tuesday that former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's overhaul of pension benefits "unlawfully withdrew" a variable pension benefit that paid out more money to retirees when the stock market improved, reports the Baltimore Sun."The city breached it
  
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• MA Troopers Use Helicopter to Make Daring Rescue of Man in Icy River

  05-01-2018 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Massachusetts State Police helicopter pilot lowered the skids of his aircraft into the icy waters of the Merrimack River Wednesday night during the “daring” rescue of an emotionally distraught man, a department spokesman said.Lowell police and firefighters responded about 7 p.m. to a report of a person screaming in the river in the area of the Aiken Street Bridge, state police spokesman David Procopio said. There, firefighters located an emotionally distraught man who was sitting i
  
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• AG Sessions Wants to Enforce Federal Marijuana Law in Legal Weed States

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  Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded several Obama-era directives that discouraged enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that had legalized the substance.In a memo sent to U.S. attorneys Thursday, Sessions noted that federal law prohibits the possession and sale of marijuana, and he undid several previous Obama administration memos that advised against bringing weed prosecutions in states where it was legal to use for recreational or medical purposes. Sessions said prosecutors
  
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