Sentence examples for issued with firearms from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, on television, senior police officers were blaming the violence on terrorist elements, saying that government forces had not been issued with firearms.

In all, the Union issued at least 4m small arms to its soldiers in five years perhaps eight times as much as the total stock of guns at the beginning of the war.The men were not only issued with firearms but also taught how to use them.

The length of Waldron's suspension matters because it suggests a culture where fatal shootings are not thoroughly investigated and where dangerous officers can be re-issued with firearms.

Guernsey Police's policy on using Tasers is similar to its counterparts in the UK but in the island only authorised firearms officers are issued with the weapons.

Gardner also updated Bond's firearm: under Gardner, Bond is initially issued with the Browning 9mm before changing to a Heckler & Koch VP70 and then a Heckler & Koch P7.

"My dad, having been issued with a revolver during WW2, had been trained as a firearms officer – very rare in those days.

For decades there have been incidents that have led to calls for issuing all officers with firearms.

The N.B.A. is confronting a number of serious issues in the Gilbert Arenas saga, with firearms possession the most grave concern.

The subject this time is the American love affair with firearms, an issue Mr. Moore traces from the first colonists to the teenage boys who went on a murderous rampage in a Colorado high school.

Posting in a Facebook called Farmers with Firearms, a man named Mark Perkins wrote, "it's not a racist issue.

With the Senate vote on new gun restrictions approaching next week, former Representative Asa Hutchinson, a Republican from Arkansas, issued a 225-page report and eight recommendations that also called for more federal funds to train and equip school personnel with firearms.