a-gun.jpgJoe Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriff (where we’re building our new home), has instituted a program of matching or even trumping the types of arms being used by criminal alien gangs.

The machine gun in the clickable image to the right, appears to be a Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun, one of the more famous designs of Saint John Moses Browning, designed towards the end of WW1. It can project lead accurately up to a distance of over a mile. Arpaio conducted a sweep of a drug cartel infested area last Thursday aimed at putting down the operations in the Vekol Valley.

“I want to send a message to these criminal traffickers that we will not be intimidated by reports claiming that traffickers are better equipped than our law enforcement officers […] we have the machine guns too and we will not hesitate to use them if the situation calls for it.”

“If anyone shoots at our deputies, they are going to have a problem,” said Arpaio in a news conference in the minutes prior to the sweep.

The Better Half and I like our Sheriff’s attitude - and his arsenal.