I am just so sorry that I traded mine away, As it was a really good 9mm. Plus it fit into my coat pocket w/o any problems. When I went out to some of the bad parts of time while working my way thru college.
Maybe someday I will find it or another!
The Austin Police Department is warning it won’t be responding to non-life threatening 911 calls.
Starting Friday, Austin’s sworn police officers will no longer be responding in person to non-emergency calls because of severe staffing shortages, APD announced.
The announcement comes after the Harris County Sheriff’s Deputies Organization in Houston warned residents that if they were “robbed, raped or shot” to “hold their breath and pray” because they might not have the personnel to respond.
The Austin no-response announcement includes vehicle collisions with no injuries and burglaries no longer in progress or where the suspect has fled the scene. Instead of calling 911, residents are being told to call 311 to file a non-emergency police report.
An APD spokesperson told Fox News that while a sworn police officer might not respond in person, a civilian officer, like a crime scene technician, might.
The department “regularly reviews response policies and procedures to ensure APD prioritizes calls with an immediate threat to life or property over non-emergency calls for service,” she said.
The staffing shortages and inability to respond to non-life threatening 911 calls is a direct result of the Austin City Council’s defunding of the APD last year, cutting $150 million of its budget, and other changes that were implemented affecting how the department operates.
“As a result of a recent review of APD’s patrol COVID mitigation protocols initiated in May 2020, recent staffing challenges and aligning with the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force patrol response recommendations, APD will change call routing and response for non-emergency calls for service effective October 1, 2021,” she said.
Austin Police Association President Ken Casaday told Fox News that APD hasn’t been able to hire new officers because it hasn’t been able to have a police academy for nearly two years. As a result, there aren’t enough patrol officers to respond to non-emergency calls.
“Probably about 95% of the time our shifts don’t meet minimum staffing … and that is the reason they’ve started cutting back on what types of calls are answered,” Casaday said. “It’s not optimal. It’s not providing a quality service to the community. But the community also needs to understand that we’re under a dire staffing crisis.”
After the City Council cut funding last year, by July, response times to 911 calls were 20-30 minutes longer on average, and the homicide rate is at a level that “we’ve never really seen here before,” interim chief Joseph Chacon said at the time. Cutting APD funds by $150 million resulted in canceling multiple cadet classes and disbanding multiple units responsible for responding to DWIs, domestic violence calls, stalking, and criminal interdiction.
The APD has been losing 15 to 20 officers a month, with many quitting and retiring and not enough new recruits to replace them. The department has projected 235 vacancies by May 2022, and 340 vacancies by May 2023.
while the APD has recently begun to resume cadet classes, it will take a while to get new officers on the streets. The city is paying more than $10,000 per day, with a maximum of $580,000 per year, to Joyce James Consulting to provide an “anti-racism” Critical Race Theory-based curriculum for a “reimagining public safety campaign.”
While the Houston sheriff’s organization sued Harris County over a lack of funding and noncompliance with regulations, a bipartisan activist group, Save Austin Now, took another approach. It initiated its second successful ballot initiative this year to allow voters to restore police funding.
“Austin doesn’t feel as safe recently. Because it isn’t,” the group argued as part of its campaign. “We’ve seen a series of city policy decisions over the last two years that have led to a surge in both violent crime and property crime against Austinites. A 300% increase in murders this year. A double-digit increase in property crimes such as burglaries and car jackings.”
“As Austin’s crime rate has soared, the federal government has taken note of it and sent in resources to help stabilize the chaos,” it adds. “But we cannot rely on the federal government’s Operation Undaunted to provide us with the local resources we’ll need to fight this trend: We’ll have to do it ourselves.”
Their petition received the required number of votes and its proposed public safety law will be on the November ballot. Among other things, it includes adding officers to APD according to the nationally recognized “Safe City Standard,” which stipulates two police officers hired for every 1,000 citizens.
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The following is a list of equipment of the United States during World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. World War II was a global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. Following the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941, which led to the United States actively supporting the Allied war effort.
| Name | Image | Type | Origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1905 bayonet |  |
Bayonet |  United States |
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| M1917 bayonet | .jpg) |
Bayonet | United States |
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| Mark 1 trench knife |  |
Knife | United States |
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| M3 fighting knife |  |
Knife | United States |
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| Ka-Bar | .jpg) |
Knife | United States |
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| V-42 stiletto |  |
Dagger | United States |
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| United States Marine Raider stiletto |  |
Dagger | United States |
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| Bolo knife | .jpg) |
Knife |  Philippines |
Used by units in the Philippines. |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless |  |
.32 ACP | Semi-automatic pistol | United States |
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| Colt M1911A1 |  |
.45 ACP | Semi-automatic pistol | United States |
still used today |
| M1917 revolver |  |
.45 ACP | Revolver | United States |
|
| Colt Official Police |  |
Multiple | Revolver | United States |
|
| FP-45 Liberator |  |
.45 ACP | Single shot Pistol | United States |
Dropped into occupied territories for use by insurgency. |
| Smith & Wesson Model 10 |  |
.38 S&W | Revolver | United States |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thompson submachine gun |  |
.45 ACP | Submachine gun | United States |
|
| M3 submachine gun |  |
.45 ACP | Submachine gun | United States |
|
| M50 Reising submachine gun |  |
.45 ACP/.22 LR | Submachine gun | United States |
|
| United Defense M42 |  |
9x19mm Parabellum, .45 ACP (prototype model only) | Submachine gun | United States |
.45 ACP was used only in prototype model |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester Model 1897 |  |
Gauge (firearms) | Shotgun | United States |
|
| Winchester Model 1912 |  |
Gauge (firearms) | Shotgun | United States |
|
| Browning Auto-5 |  |
Gauge (firearms) | Semi-automatic shotgun | United States |
|
| Winchester Model 21 | No image | Gauge (firearms)/.410 bore | Shotgun | United States |
.410 bore was used only in deluxe models. |
| Remington Model 31 | No image | Gauge (firearms) | Shotgun | United States |
|
| Stevens Model 520/620 |  |
Gauge (firearms) | Shotgun | United States |
|
| Ithaca 37 |  |
Gauge (firearms) | Shotgun | United States |
| Name | Image | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mk 2 grenade |  |
Grenade | United States |
|
| M7 grenade launcher |  |
Grenade launcher | United States |
Fired smoke, fragmentation, and anti-armor grenades. |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M18 recoilless rifle |  |
57×303mmR | Recoilless rifle | United States |
Was not developed until the final stages of the war, in 1945. |
| M20 recoilless rifle |  |
75 x 408 mm R HE, HEAT, Smoke | Recoilless rifle | United States |
Was not developed until the final stages of the war, in 1944. |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1A1 flamethrower |  |
Flamethrower | United States |
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| M2 flamethrower |  |
Flamethrower | United States |
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| Ronson flamethrower |  |
Vehicle mounted flamethrower |  United Kingdom |
Developed in the United Kingdom, however, was used exclusively by the United States and Canada. |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1A1 Bangalore torpedo |  |
TNT, C4 | Explosive charge | United States |
| Model | Image | Cartridge | Type | Origin | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infantry and dual-purpose machine guns | |||||
| Lewis gun | .jpg) |
.30-06 Springfield | Light machine gun | United Kingdom United States |
|
| M1917 Browning machine gun |  |
.30-06 Springfield | Heavy machine gun | United States |
|
| M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle |  |
Various | Various | United States |
Was used as an: Automatic rifle, Machine gun, Assault rifle, and Squad automatic weapon. |
| M1919 Browning machine gun |  |
Various | Medium machine gun | United States |
|
| M1941 Johnson machine gun |  |
.30-06 Springfield | Light machine gun | United States |
|
| Browning M2HB (.50 BMG) | .jpg) |
.50 BMG | Heavy machine gun | United States |
|
| Bren light machine gun |  |
.303 British | Light Machine Gun | United Kingdom |
|
| .30 AN/M2 “Stinger” field modification | No image | 7.62 mm caliber | Machine gun | United States |
Used by the USMC Only |
| Vehicle and aircraft machine guns and autocannons | |||||
| M4 cannon |  |
37x145mmR M4 | autocannon | United States |
|
| M2 cannon |  |
20 mm caliber | autocannon | United States |
|
| 50 caliber machine gun (Browning M2) | |
.50 BMG | Heavy machine gun | United States |
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