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Questions raised over pistol shaped lighter in police press release
Morning Report
English - November 09, 2023 17:45 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In a rare moment of agreement, both sides of the country's gun debate are questioning why the police included the picture of what appears to be a pistol shaped cigarette lighter in a press release on weapons confiscated during a drug bust last month.
They say describing the novelty trinket as a weapon suggests the police have a lax approach to firearms and that it is muddying the waters on the state of gun violence.
Bill Hickman has more.