By The Tribune-Review
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday tentatively authorized spending $85,800 to equip specially trained police with high-powered rifles.
If it passes a final vote next week, police will purchase 46 Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifles and batches of ammunition, gun sights and noise suppressors.
The weapons will be kept in police zone stations. Trained officers will be permitted to sign them out. When they do, the rifles will be locked into patrol car gun racks.
The new weapons are a response to the April 4 shooting deaths of three city police officers who were responding to a domestic incident in Stanton Heights.
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