Police chief laments criminals’ access to military-style guns

 
BY BRYAN DEAN
Published: January 16, 2011

In Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty’s 33 years on the force, he can’t remember an officer being as outgunned as Katie Lawson was Aug. 29.

Lawson was aiding a county sheriff’s deputy on a drunken driving call when she was ambushed and shot multiple times by a suspect wielding an AR-15 rifle — a civilian version of the M-16 military assault rifle. She survived in part by pulling her police-issue .45-caliber ...


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