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...outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have yet to get uniforms or the Glock pistols promised by the U.S. The bluff policeman, 46, claims the spiraling risk to men like him only "makes me stronger." But he's not sure his salary of about $100 a month--three times his former pay--is enough to justify putting his life on the line...
Volokh defended the legislation, drawing a parallel between making gun-manufacturer Glock liable when its gun is used in a murder and making Ford and Absolut vodka liable when its products are involved with drunk-driving deaths...
Pete’s good at wrangling free stuff for the magazine—a free afternoon shooting a Glock at a local firing range, a free “herbal vaporizer,” free strippers if ever the need should arise. He also freely dispenses his wit, his charm and his philosophy on men’s fashion. Pete came to FM relatively late in life. But it’s “the only thing on campus” that he reads, so he figured it would be the perfect place to contribute. The FM staff...
Today the inspectors wear radiation detectors so sensitive that they go off near anybody who has had a medical test using radioisotopes. They carry Glock semiautomatic pistols and are trained to deal with chemical and biological weapons. But there is no end to the number of hiding places in the trucks, vans and cars snaking across the bridge, each waiting for an inspector to play a 25-second game of Spot the Liar...
...that’s before she dons a bullet-proof vest and the uniform of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), and straps on her gun belt, filled with a baton, two-way radio, pepper spray, handcuffs and a nine millimeter Glock 22 handgun...