{"id":474,"date":"2006-05-17T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2006-05-17T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T21:20:28","slug":"chp-to-buy-new-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/chp-to-buy-new-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP to Buy New Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about $700 each, the <strong>California Highway Patrol<\/strong> will acquire nearly ten thousand new <em>American-made<\/em> <strong>Smith and Wesson<\/strong> semi-automatic weapons to replace aging armament; some of these aging weapons having delivered over one hundred thousand rounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/ca\/story\/14256262p-15071307c.html\">CHP will buy 9,700 new guns &#8211; sacbee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0605\/chpguns.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>The California Highway Patrol is buying 9,700 semi-automatic pistols from gun maker Smith &#038; Wesson Corp. in a deal the CHP says is worth $6.6 million. Delivery of the .40-caliber firearms will start in June and be completed over the next 18 months, Smith &#038; Wesson Vice President Liz Sharp said. The new firearms will replace older Smith &#038; Wesson pistols that CHP officers have carried as their primary service weapon since the 1990s, Sharp said.<\/p>\n<p>Leland Nichols, Smith &#038; Wesson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief operating officer, said the Springfield, Mass.-based company was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153honored\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier law enforcement agency had decided to stick with his company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They are happy with the brand and happy with the reliability and durability,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nichols said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They have some units that have fired over 100,000 rounds.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re happy to see that the CHP is <em>buying American<\/em> and buying much needed replacements for our first responder patrolmen and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about $700 each, the California Highway Patrol will acquire nearly ten thousand new American-made Smith and Wesson semi-automatic weapons to replace aging armament; some of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,45,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-firearms","category-law-and-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}