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Colorado School District Arms Security Guards With Rifles

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday April 24 2016, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the ounce-of-prevention dept.

n1 writes:

Associated Press via NBC reports:

A suburban Denver school district is arming its security staff with military-style semiautomatic rifles in case of a school shooting or other violent attack, a move that appears unprecedented even as more schools arm employees in response to mass violence elsewhere.

The guards, who are not law enforcement officers, already carry handguns.

Douglas County School District security director Richard Payne said he decided to spend more than $12,000 on the Bushmaster brand rifles for the district's eight armed officers to give them the same tools as law enforcement, including the sheriff's deputies they train with. Payne said the rifles will be kept locked in patrol cars, not in the schools.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Squidious on Sunday April 24 2016, @03:09PM

    by Squidious (4327) on Sunday April 24 2016, @03:09PM (#336565)

    The Ruger Mini-30 is the same gun but in the same caliber as an AK-47. Nearly identical capability to an AK-47 but with a wood stock it looks more like gun you might carry in the back of your pickup while you check the fences on your ranch. It kinda makes this term "military-style assault guns" silly.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2016, @11:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24 2016, @11:04PM (#336735)
    An AK-47 has a wooden stock.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @02:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @02:16AM (#336800)

      Original AK-47, true. However, in subsequent years, to save cost (among other reasons) a move was made away from wooden stocks, and on the AK-74 it's rare.