Well folks check this story out. Here in Calif. the police get a special exemption for possesion of assualt weapons & Sat. Nite Spls. I think that the politicians include these exemptions to the gun laws to get endorsements from some of the law-enforcement community.
===============================================================
LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010624/t000052321.html
Sunday, June 24, 2001
LAPD Officer Kills Boyfriend of Former Lover, Self
From Times Staff Writers
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer fatally shot his
ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in front of the man's Simi Valley home
Saturday and then took his own life, authorities said.
Geno Patrick Colello, a 35-year-old Rampart Division officer who also
lived in Simi Valley, and Keith Thomas Ewing, a 34-year-old computer
technician, both died at the scene, authorities said.
"I heard something that sounded like fireworks, like five, six or
seven bangs, and then I saw my neighbor dead in his driveway and another
man dead in a truck," said Jeff Thompson, who lives across the street.
Colello, a seven-year LAPD veteran, had been angry that the woman was
dating Ewing, said Simi Valley Police Sgt. Bob Gardner.
Police rushed to the neighborhood near Rancho Simi Community Park
about 3 p.m. after several residents called 911 and reported hearing shots
in the 1800 block of Sutter Avenue, Gardner said.
Witnesses said Colello pulled in front of Ewing's house in a pickup
truck, fired at least five shots at Ewing, who was outside washing his own
pickup truck, and then turned the gun on himself.
Officers found Ewing lying face-down in the driveway, bleeding so
profusely that a trail of blood flowed to the street. Colello was slumped
in the front seat of his truck, parked on the street.
Officers couldn't immediately tell if Colello was dead, so they used
hand-held bulletproof shields to slowly advance toward his truck,
authorities said.
Half a dozen residents were evacuated from their homes and an
ambulance was ordered to wait a block away until officers secured the
scene.
Inside the truck, police found Colello dead from a gunshot wound to
the head and a large-caliber semiautomatic pistol at his side, Gardner
said.