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10mm Auto. The 10mm Auto (also known as the 10×25mm, official C.I.P. nomenclature: 10 mm Auto, [ 7] official SAAMI nomenclature: 10mm Automatic) [ 8] is a powerful and versatile semi-automatic pistol cartridge introduced in 1983. Its design was adopted and later produced by ammunition manufacturer FFV Norma AB of Åmotfors, Sweden.
The federal government of the United States empowers a wide range of federal law enforcement agencies (informally known as the "Feds") to maintain law and public order related to matters affecting the country as a whole. [ 1][ 2] While the majority of federal law enforcement employees work for the Department of Justice and Homeland Security ...
The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division[ 1][ 2] ( CID ), previously known as the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command ( USACIDC) is the primary federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Army. Its primary function is to investigate felony crimes and serious violations of military law ...
Federal Reserve System Law Enforcement Officers derive their authority the USA Patriot Act, which modified Section 11 (q) of the Federal Reserve Act, codified at 12 U.S.C. § 248 (q) to include a uniform law enforcement division. Similar to other federal agencies, Federal Reserve police officers are able to arrest without warrant for any ...
The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act ( LEOSA) is a United States federal law, enacted in 2004, that allows two classes of persons—the "qualified law enforcement officer " and the "qualified retired or separated law enforcement officer"—to carry a concealed firearm in any jurisdiction in the United States, regardless of state or local ...
The .40 S&W (10.2×22mm) is a rimless pistol cartridge developed jointly by American firearms manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Winchester in 1990. [3] The .40 S&W was developed as a law enforcement cartridge designed to duplicate performance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) reduced-velocity 10mm Auto cartridge which could be retrofitted into medium-frame (9 mm size) semi ...
The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 was enacted on June 26, 1934, and currently codified and amended as I.R.C. ch. 53.The law is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes an excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those firearms.
The AR-15 was given to law enforcement because more and more frequently police officers were encountering these types of weapons on the street and finding that they were outgunned.