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Kev,
Sorry for the slow response. Been really busy with work and family.
I'm located in Florida.
We tend to gravitate towards a lot of unrealistic scenarios based out of some wild dream that our trainers or admin staff have. Raging gun battles where we are throwing each other magazines simply don't happen in domestic law enforcement. Can it happen? Absolutely. Has it happened? Absolutely but to ME, it's absolutely not a major consideration when assessing efficacy of a particular weapon system versus another.
We are currently experiencing a massive drought of individuals who want rifles. I believe this year so far we've had something like ninety rifles turned in from people who didn't want to qualify, couldn't qualify or simply didn't want to be hassled. To me, this is alarming and a massive problem given our jurisdiction. The aforementioned number may be inaccurate as that is second hand information but anything more than ONE or TWO rifles being GIVEN up is TOO much for my blood.
Handing out PCC's wont solve the problem. It will only make it worse when we fail to stop an armored threat.
It's been a bit since i've posted this. I haven't heard anything new regarding this. I'll have to ask some of my buddies in training if there's been any movement on this horrible idea.