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Literally every modern pistol, including Glocks are semi-automatic.

a Glock is militarization? A glock is not militarization. By semi auto I understood they meant a military style semi automatic rifle because of the context of the conversation. Police may carry these in their trunk, but I've never seen them carrying one around.

I never said a Glock is militarization - I was directly refuting your assertion that (among other things) that officers’ uniforms and the guns they carry hadn’t changed in forty years.

awfully pedantic to see going from a revolver to a glock as a slam dunk.

Police rarely use revolvers these days for numerous reasons (e.g., safety, training difficulty, efficacy, and so on).

"NBC 5 checked with more than 114 police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Out of 79 responses, it was discovered only one Plano officer still carried a revolver."

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/last-revolvers-retired-as-...

I've never seen a cop in the US without a semi auto handgun.