RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH COPS’ LIVES
Politicizing the safety of our police officers.
www.nationalreview.com
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Michael F. Cannon is a domestic policy analyst at the Senate
Republican Policy Committee. These views are not necessarily
those of the Committee.
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THE CAMPAIGN to destroy Americans’ right to self-defense has
taken some interesting turns recently. But an amendment
being pushed this week by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Cal.)
represents a new low: If successful, she might just get some
policemen killed. Feinstein wants the federal government to
buy Smith & Wesson guns as a reward for that company’s
acquiescence with gun control, even though many
law-enforcement officers prefer other guns.

After years of direct assault on the rights of gun owners
(and non-gun owners, for that matter), gun controllers have
opened fire on gun manufacturers – a group less cohesive and
more responsive to economic pressure. Some 30 municipalities
and New York State have filed lawsuits against the industry,
and HUD secretary Andrew Cuomo has threatened to bring
America’s 3,200 public-housing authorities into the act
(naturally, without consulting them first). Their aim is to
extort “voluntary” compliance with a wish-list of
regulations that gun controllers can’t push through
Congress. Cuomo has threatened non-compliant manufacturers
with “death by a thousand cuts.”

Wouldn’t you know, someone caved. British-owned Smith &
Wesson cut a deal with the most ethical administration in
history. In return, Cuomo promised to make S&W’s legal
problems disappear (he failed) and to steer federal
contracts toward the gun-maker.

Congress is about to break that promise for him. Sen.
Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) has sponsored legislation that
would block the Treasury department from giving preference
to S&W. Feinstein has vowed to strip that language from a
bill soon to hit the Senate floor.

The problem with Feinstein’s position is that the quality of
a service weapon is a life-or-death factor in some
situations, and many law enforcement agencies are moving
away from S&W. All guns may be the same to Feinstein, but
police officers have to rely on the things. The choice
should be theirs.

And they resent the intrusion. The Fraternal Order of Police
put it mildly: “The top concern of any law enforcement
agency purchasing firearms is officer safety, not adherence
to a particular political philosophy.” Southern States
Police Benevolent Association President Jack Roberts says
choosing a service weapon is “a health and safety issue.”
Start introducing other factors, and safety suffers.

Before long, you have dead cops on your hands.
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