Washington, D.C.

[OiRadio47]

On our recent trip to Washington D.C, we went to several of the Museums.

First thing I noticed was the armed guards. Their patches said "special police". I could not tell if they were real police, or rent a cops.

Second, they all carried revolvers. Looked like Taurus's.

I guess my main question, is why were they carrying revolvers? Just don't see that anymore.

 

[Bunnykid68]

On our recent trip to Washington D.C, we went to several of the Museums.

First thing I noticed was the armed guards. Their patches said "special police". I could not tell if they were real police, or rent a cops.

Second, they all carried revolvers. Looked like Taurus's.

I guess my main question, is why were they carrying revolvers? Just don't see that anymore.

Maybe Bob Munden trained them with the proper use of a cowboy gun

 

[indykid]

Can't trust them with more than 6 rounds?

 

[possum_128]

What's wrong with carrying revolvers? They will kill a person just as dead and have been doing so for over 170 years. Killing a human is no harder today than yesterday.

 

[rugertoter]

Maybe they were an armed force that is paid by the city, just to offer security at the museums?

 

[ParaManAR15]

I'm in Baltimore for work right now and went down to DC yesterday and saw the same thing at the museums. The thing that threw me off was when we were at the Lincoln Memorial they had a ATV that said "United States Police" on it. Since when did the US get a police department? Now correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't that make it a police state?

 

[10mm Snack Pack]

Maybe Obama police?

 

[Mike F]

I asked a guard at a DC office why they all carried revolvers. He said that a DC ordinance prevented them from carrying anything more powerful.

 

[zippy23]

My guess is that they are for keeping their own police in check as to not have "high cap" mags!! who knows, but its definitely scary, the gov't is doing so many things that are beyond suspicion. its gonna be tough to get the police force(outside of major cities where the unions are corrupt) to be on the side of the gov't rather than the people, so my guess is they need a new force, DHS.

 

[netsecurity]

I guess since DC is a federal jurisdiction, they can have a "US Police" force. Don't worry, DHS will take them over soon enough.

 

[jzwhts]

Isn't it funny that everything government seems to contradict itself.

 

[Sfrandolph]

I don't think this is really a tin foil hat issue. Quite a bit of Washington DC is national park area with all the monuments and such. There is such a thing as the Unites States Park Police. Maybe that is what you guys saw.

United States Park Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[SwiftStorm]

Just happen to be in DC this next week. I will ask one tomorrow when we go the Lincoln Memorial.

 

[OiRadio47]

What's wrong with carrying revolvers? They will kill a person just as dead and have been doing so for over 170 years. Killing a human is no harder today than yesterday.

Not saying anything bad about revolvers. I'm a big fan of them myself. I have just never seen dozens of officers from the same department carrying all revolvers(in recent years anyways).

There must be a reasoning. Just wondered what it my be. I thought about asking, but it felt like saying the word "bomb" on a airplane! Being with a middle school class trip, I didn't want to be the guy tackled to the ground. :-)

 

[2tonic]

I asked a guard at a DC office why they all carried revolvers. He said that a DC ordinance prevented them from carrying anything more powerful.

......because there are no powerful revolver chamberings?

Don't let that perp know you shot him in the ass with that .475 Linebaugh or .500 S&W, if he finds out he'll be most agitated!!

 

[possum_128]

I believe that they are all rent-a-cops and I think D.C. only allows armed security to carry revolvers. I could be wrong, but I think I heard it on the internet somewhere.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Why were they carrying handguns at all? Seems to me that all they really need is a double barrel shotgun!

 

[SwiftStorm]

I asked a few officers in DC this week and was giving the same answer. There are many divisions of law enforcement here. Maybe, as many as 50 unique. CRAZY Some are Park Police, uniformed branch of Secret Service, Park Services, Capitol Police, Metro Police, Museum Service (renta cop). The list goes on and on. Special allowances made since DC is not a State.

Each service seemed to carry different side arms. Nothing in the museum.

 

[TheEngineer]

On our recent trip to Washington D.C, we went to several of the Museums.

First thing I noticed was the armed guards. Their patches said "special police". I could not tell if they were real police, or rent a cops.

Second, they all carried revolvers. Looked like Taurus's.

I guess my main question, is why were they carrying revolvers? Just don't see that anymore.

Duh...impending high capacity mag ban