<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of today's (August 28, 2017) <i>Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</i></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------</div><div><div><p class="maintitle" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 10px; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Fid_11">President aims to lift limits on military gear for police </span></p></div><div><br></div><div>WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies under a program that had been sharply curtailed amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters.</div><div><br></div><div>Documents obtained by the Associated Press indicate President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing an Obama administration directive that restricted police agencies’ access to the gear that includes grenade launchers, bulletproof vests, riot shields, firearms and ammunition.</div><div><br></div><div>Trump’s order would fully restore the program under which “assets that would otherwise be scrapped can be repurposed to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement better protect public safety and reduce crime,” according to the documents.</div><div><br></div><div>Attorney General Jeff Sessions could outline the changes at a Monday speech to the national conference of the Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Tennessee, a person familiar with the matter said.</div><div><br></div><div>The changes would be another way in which Trump and Sessions are enacting a law-and-order agenda that views federal support of local police as a way to drive down violent crime.</div></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>Coming soon to Moscow (the one in Idaho) . . .</b></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/M1_Abrams_mpd.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/M1_Abrams_mpd.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/Apache_Helicopter_MPD.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/Apache_Helicopter_MPD.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/Bradley_Fighting_Vehicle_MPD.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/Bradley_Fighting_Vehicle_MPD.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/MRLS_MPD.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/MPD/MRLS_MPD.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>