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New Cop Killer Handgun
Deputy Chief Brian Jordan, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, holds the small, easily concealable Five-SeveN handgun manufactured by FN Herstal of Belgium during a press conference in Washington, D.C., Thurs., Jan. 27, 2005, urging Congress to take appropriate action to help deal with the threat of this handgun, which can penetrate soft body armor, calling the gun an immediate threat to law enforcement officers. The groups, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and the International Brotherhood of Police Officers (IBPO), announced their alert at a district headquarters of the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Police Department. They were joined by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and Congressman Elliott Engel of New York.
(Robin Weiner/U.S. Newswire)
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