Campus Cops with taste

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I found out, while talking to an officer, that Northern Michigan University (my school) Public Safety officers carry Sig P220s in .45ACP.

I see our campus cops have taste. (And a big budget, apparently.) (NMUPS are certified MI police officers, not security guards.)
 
U of Ga carry S&W brand .40's of some type. I loaned an officer some tools at the local range as he was attempting to fix a few of them among the handful he was testing that had just come back from S&W service (they apparently don't have an armorer on campus). He jokingly offered to trade the lot of them for my SIG 229. I declined.
 
Yep. It happens, probably happens to a lot of po-pos though so I can't say PU is noted for it.

I saw it in person May of `99 when I was still a LEO. Couple times a year each department would invite us to the county's range. I went out with PUPD.

They had us warm up on bowling pins. Shoot for "score" then go through the house. (I forgot to tac load before going through final door--did not live that down).

Anywho, PUPD shooting next to me on the pins. I clean my pins and look over to see how my partner did. No pins down?

He got off one shot in his P226. He loaded it with .380s.:o I thought only I could do something like that.

Things happen. Good reason to carry a bug!!!:)
 
The college I work at does not allow their security guards to carry firearms. Making it a policy driven killing zone. There is a half-way house adjouning the campus! The neighborhood is shakey at best. And we have femail students using the parking lots at night!
Getting very uncomfortable at times. I carry in my car (MO does not have CCW...yet!). But that means I have to make it to my car. One student was sexually assaulted last year. It is only a matter of time until it happens again...or worse.
 
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When instructing at my former PD, I observed recruits (and seasoned officers) occasionally load 9mm ammo in their 40S&W Glocks. Gun goes bang, but accuracy sucks, and the gun fails to cycle. They do a tap-rack- and fire with the same results. Those 9mm cases really expand out in the 40 cal chamber. Officers with Sigs and Berettas didn't seem to make that mistake. Maybe the mental state between shooting personally owned(Sigs and Berettas) and Dept. furnished (Glocks) is higher when it's your own gun.
 
This is somewhat aside, but The University of Texas at Austin campus police department used to have a page on its website called "Guns of the UTPD," which illustrated the sidearms the officers carried and the criteria for issuing them. The guns were all S&W semiautos. IIRC, the chief got a Model 6906, uniformed officers were issued 5906's, etc.

I've looked for that page recently and can't find it, which is too bad, because I thought it was interesting. Maybe it's still there somewhere.
 
Even better is when you accidentally load a .45 with 9mm. I haven't tried this with my 1911, but the trick works perfectly well with a *&* 4506. You load the magazine, seat it, and drop the slide...the whole cartridge goes flying out the end of the barrel.

You see, in firearms training we have 3 bins from which you can draw practice ammo: .45 ACP, 9mm and .38spl. Try as my coworkers might, you cannot screw it up in any way other than putting 9mm in the .45 ...

Mike :D
 
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