PA Bill Number: SB1198
Title: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and ...
Description: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and .. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Last Action Date: May 17, 2024
Should these agents even have guns? :: 11/27/2015
Another murder committed with another gun stolen from someone in law enforcement. The latest victim, we learn, is muralist Antonio Ramos, who was shot in September — gunned down in Oakland while working on a mural dedicated to nonviolence. The worst part is: This is nothing new.
This blog is not about the guilt or innocence of anyone charged in these crimes, but the role played by irresponsible officials. It’s about gun theft.
On July 1, Kate Steinle was shot as she walked Pier 14 with her father and a family friend. Forensics experts determined the gun used in the shootings was stolen from the car of a Bureau of Land Management ranger.
In August, a gun belonging to UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennett was stolen after she left her gun in her car as she went jogging.
Days later, thieves stole a Hayward police officer’s SIG Sauer P239 handgun from his car in Oakland.
Here’s a story from October of a California Highway Patrol officer’s gun being stolen from a car in San Francisco.
Now this time, and the gun was stolen from an ICE agent’s rental car.
The Steinle family is suing the Bureau of Land Management, among others. Supervisor David Campos has introduced a measure that would make it a misdemeanor to leave an unlocked gun in a car. I want to learn more about the pros and cons of how the law would work. Meanwhile I sure endorse the sentiment.
I want to add one more thought. Let’s say that maybe five years ago it wasn’t a totally bonehead move for cops to leave unlocked guns in cars. It is now. Read a newspaper, people. In San Francisco, car boosting is up 47 percent. Anyone in law enforcement foolish enough to leave a gun in a car probably doesn’t have enough common sense to carry a loaded weapon.
This rash of bad gun stewardship should prompt everyone in law enforcement — and every federal agency that arms some of its staff — to think about who needs to carry guns and who is not up to that responsibility.
http://blog.sfgate.com/djsaunders/2015/11/26/should-these-agents-have-guns/ Keeping guns off London's streets in the wake of terrorism The Metropolitan Police has said "we will do all we can to stop terrorists getting hold of guns" in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Most guns in London are held by criminal gangs, but there are concerns extremists are looking to arm themselves with the most powerful of weapons.
BBC London's Home Affairs Correspondent Nick Beake spoke to Det Ch Supt Jo Chilton, head of the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu from the UK Counter-Terrorism Policing Network and Martin Parker from the National Ballistics Intelligence Service.
