‘Vegas Strong’ guns part of Metro auction

The Metropolitan Police Department’s honor guard on Saturday raffled a custom semiautomatic rifle with the Strip skyline and the words “Vegas Strong” engraved on the gun’s handguard.

The Ar-15-style rifle was among seven firearms that were raffled after the honor guard’s fifth annual Scoot and Shoot fundraiser. One of the pistols advertised as a prize showed Metro’s badge along with the hashtag #Vegasstrong and a picture of the Strip skyline. Another Ar-15-style rifle offered as a grand prize showed the hashtag within an outline of Nevada.

The raffle came about five months after a gunman used semiautomatic rifles equipped with bump stocks to spray a country music festival with bullets, killing 58 and injuring more than 700 others. Off-duty Metro officer Charleston Hartfield was among those killed in the attack.

The honor guard performs military-style honors at the funerals of fallen officers.

The fundraiser, which began at Red Rock Harley-davidson, was geared toward gun enthusiasts. Participants used firearms and other weapons to shoot cards at various locations to build a poker hand. At the end of the event, participants turned in their

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create 36 full-time and 17 part-time positions.

University Medical Center would continue to receive its $31 million allocation under the proposed budget.

Commissioners also plan to deliberate how to spend $4.7 million to add county jobs. They have received requests to add 234 positions, totaling $20.1 million.

Public Defender Phil Kohn told commissioners Wednesday that his office needs more attorneys.

“As we add more police officers, you know we’re adding more arrests,” he said. “I have to have those lawyers to defend those people.”

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