I've written a lot about this badly-named and irresponsibily-marketed weapon, the FN Herstal 303, and I learned from the Boston Herald this morning that Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis has banished them from his police department. Good. It's about time. It should have been done before. I called for it (and you know what influence I hold over the BPD) in October 2004, when I wrote of Deputy Superintendent Robert O'Toole, "[I]t's time for him to go. And he should take the FN303 with him."
As I've explained, they can call it what they want, but it's a deadly force weapon in the end. It shouldn't be used for crowd control -or anything else- unless deadly force is justified. Shame on the police department for not banning it earlier. Praise to Commissioner Davis for doing what should have been done by his predecessors.
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