Denver PD stockpiling "non-lethal" rifles prior to DNC

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Denver PD stockpiling "non-lethal" rifles prior to DNC
Police stocking up on 'non-lethal' rifles before DNC
By ERIN ROSA 06/19/2008

The Denver Police Department has bought high-powered pepper ball rifles just in time for the Democratic National Convention in August, according to a weapons firm that will provide the guns.

Security With Advanced Technology, a company based in Louisville, Colo., and self-billed as investing in the manufacturing of "non-lethal solutions," announced this week that it had sold Denver police 88 Mark IV rifle models, guns that can fire up to 15 pepper balls filled with a super irritant powder at an approximate target range of 100 meters.

Along with shooting pepper irritant, the MK-IV can also shoot "glass breaking" projectiles and high-impact rounds made of rubber, according to the company. The ammo will come in .60-caliber plastic balls, about the size of the average paint ball.

...In April the Colorado Independent reported that the Denver Police Department refused to disclose what weapons the city was purchasing in preparation for the convention. At the time department officials maintained that such information was not in the “public interest.”

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/view/police-stocking-up

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1. and what is being stockpiled for the RNC?

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3. For the RNC? Booze and hookers.

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2. With Limbaugh "dreaming" of riots, isn't it a good thing ...

... the cops are preparing for the possibility?

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4. Right on cue

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5. Bump