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Boston FBI Chief Pushes Assault Rifles for Police

BOSTON -- An FBI official says Boston police officers should be armed with assault rifles to make the city more prepared for a terrorist attack. Warren Bamford, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Boston, said Tuesday that he is baffled by opposition to a proposal to give some neighborhood police officers the semiautomatic weapons. In May, Boston Mayor Tom Menino criticized a proposal to arm up to 200 officers with M-16s that the police department had ordered from the U.S. military. Menino said only specially trained units should have the guns.
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Posted by Editor at August 20, 2009 01:08 AM