The Mountaineer is telling criminals to stay away from Canton. In one story, it tells of the sale of a collector’s item Tommy gun to fund the purchase of Glock sidearms, shotguns, and tasers. The department still owns two Tommy guns, but they work. At least in this instance, the town did not accept federal funds to buy expensive, state-of-the-art Homeland Security Wizmo-Gizmos to partially protect the countryside from one possible Armageddon scenario.