Michigan State Police Choose M1A1

[painter777]

Found this posted on another forum by a fellow resident here in the "Murder Mitten".
I live about 8 miles from the old Police Training Bureau that was located in East Lansing, MI.

This article was published in 1957 in a Michigan State Police monthly publication entitled, "POST-ER".
The MSP adopted the rifle after a bank robbery in Jackson, MI and a long interstate pursuit of the felons. The end result being One MSP Trooper killed and another wounded in a gunfight. The felons fled to the State of Indiana where an Indiana State Trooper was killed in another gunfight and a second Trooper was wounded before the felons were apprehended. At the time, the MSP had nothing to penetrate the skin of a vehicle except for a 30.06 bolt action which wasn't practical for the confined space in a vehicle.

Note in the article, "It is the first semi automatic weapon the Department has ever used"

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