I had to burn 40,000 .50 cal rounds in 6 hours at Ft Stewart once. Had a Battalion go on alert when they were supposed to be at a range we jointly set up. Army will not take back unspent ammo.
It is criminal but I can knock the nuts off a fly at 500 meters with an M2 now. Probably one of the most accurate firearms in the Army arsenal.
Alaw passed last year in Washington state restricting vehicle pursuits appears to be having an unintended side effect: drivers refusing to stop when police attempt to pull them over.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/washington-police-grapple-effects-restrictive-vehicle-pursuit-law
The Washington State Patrol reports nearly a thousand drivers essentially ignored troopers’ lights and sirens during the first five months of this year.
Between January 1 and May 17, 934 people on the state’s highways kept going when troopers tried to pull them over for a traffic stop.
In 2021, the state Legislature passed House Bill 1054 that, among other things, limits police to engaging in a pursuit if there is “probable cause” to arrest a person in the vehicle for committing a specific violent crime or sex offense such as murder, kidnapping, drive-by shooting, and rape.
Sgt. Darren Wright, WSP spokesman, had no comment on the Legislature’s passage of HB 1054 or what troopers thought of the law.
“The agency will continue to comply with the law,” he said.
Others spoke out against what they perceive as a law that handcuffs law enforcement officers’ ability to do their jobs.