Why Capital Hill Plainclothes Police Have Striped Reflective Tape On Their Glock Pistols
Warzone/The Drive: Why Plainclothes Police Had Striped Reflective Tape On Their Glocks During The Capitol Siege
Pictures of officers behind a barricade during yesterday's siege show some had interesting red-and-white striped tape on the sides of their guns.
The storming of the U.S. Capitol yesterday by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump, which you can read more about in The War Zone's rolling coverage during that event, almost immediately produced a flurry of already iconic images. These include photographs of plainclothes police officers barricading the door to the floor of the House of Representatives with their Glock pistols drawn.
On closer inspection, a number of those pistols have reflective red-and-white striped tape on the sides of their slides. There is an established practice of marking guns in similar ways to help members of security forces quickly identify each other and prevent friendly fire incidents in a chaotic situation, especially when there might be one or more active shooters present brandishing their own weapons.
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WNU Editor: Makes sense. But I would put the striped reflective tape on both sides of the pistols instead of one.
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Why Capital Hill Plainclothes Police Have Striped Reflective Tape On Their Glock Pistols
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