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...Smith & Wesson was negotiating its safer-handguns deal with the Clinton Administration, the largest U.S. gunmaker was also secretly negotiating with a former Alexandria, Ohio, police sergeant who had discovered a potentially deadly design flaw in its semiautomatic pistols. Jeff Perry said he contacted the gunmaker after his 9-mm unexpectedly went off during a firearms-training session. The company's safety manuals for the gun say that if the user removes the magazine from the gun, it cannot fire even if a round is left in the chamber. However, Perry found that if slight pressure...
...especially if a civil suit against the police department succeeds. It will be the Diallo family's chance to make the city accountable for the acts of the SCU, which one TV commentator called an "unindicted co-conspirator." Even some cops expect a day of reckoning. Says a Brooklyn sergeant: "If there is anyone who should have been on trial, it is the department. Those guys went out for numbers--they didn't go out to kill anyone--but the department wants guns and numbers...
...proximity of the crimes, the similarity in descriptions of age and clothing and the timing make it very unlikely for these to be different groups of perpetrators," said HUPD Sergeant Robert A. Cooper...
This is not to imply that the values of society at large map neatly onto those of the armed services. Just try telling your drill sergeant you intend to uphold Jeffersonian principles of individualism throughout Hell Week. There is a tension here--a mutual tugging at the boundaries between civil right and military imperative. But the latter is definitely constrained by the former...
...competitions. Judges score teams based on the sharpness of their moves, their appearances and form. Sometimes they escape military confines to march for football games or the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year parade. The drill team competes as a larger platoon or a squad at MECs. A drill sergeant inspects the midshipmen to test if their uniforms are well groomed, how attentive they are--as in no slouching--and their overall appearance. They must also execute such moves as a left face, right face or march column left. And as for artillery, the rifle pistol team also competes...