Campus Police Won’t Carry Military Rifles
From Times Wire Reports
Kent State University has dropped plans to buy eight M-16 rifles for its police force because of student objections on the campus where National Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine during a protest against the Vietnam War in 1970.
Kent State police planned to buy the M-16s from the Pentagon to replace the aging Marlin Camp 9-millimeter rifles that are kept in locked compartments in their cars.
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