This is Things Policie, First Anna Counts, with your host Steve Gold.

Welcome to the podcast that interviews active and retired police officers about to most

intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job I am of course old ginger face

coming at you again guys thank you for thank you for listening thank you for finding

the podcast thank you for all the everybody's listening to the bat catalog and sending

me a message I truly appreciate it yeah it's been it's been a heck of a two weeks here

in Massachusetts there's there's something going around every every family we know is

very sick and I was sick last week then I got better for two days and now I'm getting

a little sick again so I don't I don't know what it is actually a thing like it's all

over social media like what is this in Massachusetts that's that's happening to us but

besides that I got to do something very cool in relation to my in relation to my job

today and you coppers out there and will know what I mean and probably people just with

other jobs will know too like there's a lot of training you're required to do in service

updates legal law firearms defensive tactics like it's a it's a yearly thing you have to

get the hours and usually like it's not like it's good information it's good to do it but

you're just like not into it you don't care but for me the class I took today I loved it

was all about guns and red dot optics I love guns I've always loved guns I just do I don't

care if it's wrong I love him I was a kid when my dad would come home on duty he'd be sitting

at the table he'd come home every night on duty when he worked evenings and I would ask

him to see his gun every single time and almost every time he said no but maybe one out of 50

he'd be like all right after supper we'll go in the other room I'll unload it and you can hold

the gun so I've always loved guns so this was a class at a bigger nearby city one of larger cities

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