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Q: DENVER (AP) — A suburban Denver school district is arming its security staff with military-style semiautomatic rifles to protect students in case of a school shooting or other violent attack. 
  
 The guards, who are not law enforcement officers, already carry handguns. 
  
 Douglas County School District security director Richard Payne told The Denver Post (http://dpo.st/1rdWMvc) that he decided to spend more than $12,000 on the Bushmaster brand rifles for the district's eight armed officers to give them the same tools as law enforcement, including the sheriff's deputies they train with. He said they will be kept locked in patrol cars. 
  
 "They will not be in the schools," he said. 
  
 Payne said he made the decision to buy the rifles himself and said the school board has not discussed it. 
  
 The Bushmaster rifle is a semi-automatic descendant of the original M-16 automatic rifle used by the military in Vietnam. 
  
 Versions of it are made by different manufacturers but a Bushmaster rifle was used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Victims' families are suing the company, claiming it is a military weapon that should not have been sold to civilians. 
  
 Douglas County security officers will have to complete a 20-hour training course before the rifles are handed out. The first few guns will be deployed by next month and the rest will be distributed in August, Payne said. 
  
 Other Denver-area school districts either only provide their security guards with handguns or no firearms at all. Police officers who work as school resource officers carry police-issued weapons. 
  
 Ken Trump, a national security consultant in Cleveland, said he had not heard of school security guards elsewhere being equipped with such high-powered weapons. 
  
 "It's not something to do lightly. It better be well thought out," he said. 
  
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 Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com ||||| The Douglas County School District plans to arm its security staff with 10 semiautomatic rifles designed to provide a high-powered defense in the event of a shooting or other violent incident. 
  
 Richard Payne, director of security, said he made the decision to spend more than $12,000 on the Bushmaster “long guns” in January after noting his security officers, equipped only with handguns, were training “hand to hand” with the sheriff’s office, which used the larger weapons. 
  
 “We want to make sure they have the same tools as law enforcement,” Payne said Monday of his eight armed officers. 
  
 The first few rifles should be ready for use within a month’s time once officers have gone through a 20-hour training course, the same one that commissioned police officers take. The rest of the guns will be deployed in August, he said. 
  
 Payne said all his security workers are former law enforcement officers who would keep the long guns locked in patrol cars. 
  
 “They will not be in the schools,” he said of the weapons. 
  
 Ken Trump, a national school security consultant in Cleveland, said he hadn’t heard of school security workers equipped with such high-powered weaponry. 
  
 Calls to the other large school districts in the Denver area indicate that Douglas County’s move is unique. Security workers in Denver, Aurora and Jefferson County school districts carry handguns, and security staffers in Cherry Creek are unarmed. The districts have school resource officers who are active members of law enforcement and carry police-issued weapons. 
  
 Trump said staff training should meet the same standard as law enforcement before having access to semiautomatic rifles. “Does the training rise to that of a fully certified police officer?” he asked. “It’s not something to do lightly. It better be well-thought-out.” 
  
 Dan Montgomery, a police and safety consultant and former police chief of Westminster, said the decision is “unusual.” 
  
 He also listed proper training and secure storage as major concerns when talking about military-style rifles. 
  
 “One accident in close quarters with these things could be devastating, not only to predators but to the students themselves,” Montgomery said. “I would make sure the decision is supported politically and socially.” 
  
 Payne said the decision to buy the rifles was his and the Douglas County school board had not discussed it or voted on it. 
  
 The Douglas County School District has 67,000 students. |||||
A:
A suburban Denver school district is arming its security staff with military-style semiautomatic rifles to protect students in case of a school shooting or other violent attack, the AP reports. The guards, who are not law enforcement officers, already carry handguns. Douglas County School District security director Richard Payne told the Denver Post that he decided to spend more than $12,000 on the Bushmaster brand rifles for the district's eight armed officers to give them the same tools as law enforcement, including the sheriff's deputies they train with. He said they will be kept locked in patrol cars. Payne said he made the decision to buy the rifles himself and said the school board has not discussed it. The Bushmaster rifle is a semi-automatic descendant of the original M-16 automatic rifle used by the military in Vietnam. A Bushmaster rifle was used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Victims' families are suing the company, claiming it is a military weapon that should not have been sold to civilians. Douglas County security officers will have to complete a 20-hour training course before the rifles are handed out. The first few guns will be deployed by next month and the rest will be distributed in August, Payne said. "It's not something to do lightly," a national security consultant said about the plan. "It better be well thought out."