“I yelled to the guy, `Police, put the gun down!’ ” Niebur said. “Simultaneously with putting the kid down, he raises the gun and squeezes the trigger. “I shot at him,” Niebur said.

His uniform allegedly included a tactical vest, pepper spray, a badge and a gun. But in reality, Hemet police say, the man was a convicted felon impersonating local law enforcement.

The NYPD didn’t make his day. A man sleeping on a Brooklyn subway train with a “Dirty Harry”-sized .357 Magnum Colt Python tucked in his waistband was arrested, police said. A str… ...

A far-right French mayor has stoked a new row thanks to his new poster campaign which tells the locals that police in his town of Beziers have a new “friend” – namely their 7.65 calibre pistols.

A California man who had a .41-caliber Smith & Wesson gun so big police thought it was fake was sentenced to three years in the Plymouth House of Corrections on drug-possession and firearm charges.