Trickle UP Economics & 'Power Games' - Glock Police Sales:

Here's a recent fact: In USA  - in the last ten years - the top US 100 land owners have acquired 25% MORE LAND (going from 30 million acres to 40 million).

That means that the super wealthy have grabbed another 10 M acres of dirt that used to be owned by other folk .. wealth is not being 'Re-Distributed'  .. but is being further concentrated into a tight elitist gang. - More for them - means less for us.

In nature - what goes up comes down again - unless the rules are so corrupted that what goes up never comes down again.

- Here in New Zealand a parallel sort of power-game shift is in progress with guns ..

Semi-auto rifles are being prohibited from trained & licensed civilian sporting ownership ... at the exact same time that our poorly trained police are planning themselves to move towards much more regularly "carrying" assault rifles.

It's a power & status thing. THEY want to be armed and they don't want us to be anywhere near their status.

First Generation Glock 17 

(- This Model Didn't Have Any Serial Numbers On the Frame):

I clearly recall that when I was presenting Glocks to the police here back in the 1990's - the factory Glock Ges Distribution Manager advised me that one issue would be having to overcome the objections from senior police officers at their lower ranks getting 9 mm autos the same as themselves.

 .. and the fix was to recognize these men's superior status & recommend that the Ranking Officers and specialist teams be offered bigger caliber Glocks as in .40" S&W or "forty-fives".

It's interesting to observe that currently there is some attention on the BULLYING of female and lower ranks in the NZ Police Service. - Nothing new there then - as back in the day - there was a top ranked Firearms Officer "Taffy" who I had to negotiate with .. who insisted that "HIS police force would never buy plastic guns" - and even more unreasonably, - that I should be excluded from membership of the Shooting Range that I was developing in Christchurch - because I lived outside the city !

I guess we might suggest that the police use full-automatic machine guns and leave us our "semis" - but they've already got those in their armories anyway .. but there has to be a working idea for them somewhere out there  ..

Marty K.