Questions For Newtown Police Department
BY Herschel Smith
11 years, 10 months ago
From NBC News:
But as a veteran law enforcement officer, what was most striking to Kehoe was that the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, had heavier firepower than Kehoe and his officers. The police had Glock pistols with 14-round magazines; Lanza had a Bushmaster assault-style rifle, two handguns and multiple 30-round magazines that allowed him to squeeze off an estimated 150 shots.
Although it’s still not clear if Lanza ever fired at responding officers — Kehoe thinks he took his own life when he heard the police sirens — the disproportionate balance in firepower bothers him.
“We never like to think we’re going to be outgunned in any situation we’re dealing with,” he said. “We do a good job of securing dynamite in our society. … (Assault rifles) are another form of dynamite. … I think they should ban them.”
I think you’re not getting the full story, so I have posed the following questions to the Newtown Police Department:
(1) Do your officers have tactical shotguns (e.g., Mossberg 930,
Benelli, etc.) in their units? If not, do they have any kind of
shotguns in their units?
(2) Do your officers have AR-15s in their armory?
(3) If so, do they carry them in their units?
(4) Are their AR-15s the equivalent of assault rifles, i.e., do they
have selective fire capability, or are they only semi-autos like
civilians arms?
(5) Did any of your officers carry any firearms other than their side
arm in response to the Sandy Hook disaster?
(6) If not, could your officers have made the choice to have carried
any firearms other than their side arm in response to the Sandy Hook
disaster?
(7) Finally, it has been reported that the response time to the Sandy
Hook disaster was 20 minutes. Is this accurate?Thank you so much for your attention to these questions.
What you want to bet that I never get answers to these or any other questions?
On January 14, 2013 at 4:19 pm, JeffC said:
20 minutes to travel 1.6 miles … they could have walked faster …
On January 14, 2013 at 5:40 pm, N1K2 "George" said:
Inaccuracy in media, all the time. There are no 14-round Glock Magazines. Unless the Policy of Newtown Police Department is to only load that many.
On January 14, 2013 at 5:49 pm, N1K2 "George" said:
For that matter, we don’t know if the 30-round magazines Adam Lanza used were loaded to full capacity either. Usually USGI mags are suggested to be loaded to 28 rounds.
On July 7, 2014 at 10:16 pm, Zephyr said:
Their response time was 3 minutes.