Thursday FGS
Nashville restaurant patrons, owners tackle and pin down armed man; two stabbed
Mariah Timms and Natalie Neysa Alund
Customers rushed to subdue a convicted robber who stabbed the owner of La Hacienda restaurant on Tuesday night, according to Metro Nashville police.Keenan Ty Cook, 34, was charged Tuesday with especially aggravated robbery after police say he brandished a knife and demanded the money in the cash register before injuring the owner and his wife.
According to an arrest affidavit, the suspect entered the restaurant in the 3600 block of Bell Road and ordered a taco from the owner’s wife behind the cash register. As she rang him up and opened the cash drawer, the man pulled out a knife which she thought was a gun, police said.
Fearing for the safety of the patrons in the restaurant, she began to “tussle” with the suspect to get the weapon out of his hands, still believing it was a firearm, police reported.
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Read the rest here: The Tennessean
Thanks to our own Gun Bunny for the link.
Security Guard Shoots Man Dead at Florida Gambling Den
Devin O’Connor
An unidentified man was shot and killed early Saturday morning by a security guard at a Florida gambling den. The incident took place at the Q-Time 777 in Lake City, Florida.Police said a security guard initially responded to a dispute between the man and another individual. After telling the man he needed to exit the premises, he later returned brandishing a handgun.
Following shots fired, the security guard shot and killed the man.
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Read the entire article here: Casino.org
To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals … is none the less robbery because it is … called taxation.
– United States Supreme Court, Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)
“At the beginning of each episode of the TV program “Gunsmoke” which ran from 1955-1975, Marshall Matt Dillon is seen quick-drawing his Colt SAA Cavalry model against an unseen opponent.” -On the way to looking up something else
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Yay 1st. Nice blued Colt
Love me a SAA.
Lotta fun to shoot.
Nickel plated cylinder.
One of the few guns to time travel…tons of TV shows and movies show 1873 Colts used as early as 1835! Bunch of later model Winchester lever actions, too. Hell, my guns must be lazy. They haven’t time traveled, shot anyone spontaneously…
…. but who would pimp a Colt SAA with a nickel plated cylinder???
I have a 4-3/4″ Colt SAA with ivory grips. Chambered in .357 I save lots of money by plinking with .38 specials.
Or is the cylinder blued and the reflection makes it look nickle plated?
Do a search for ‘Colt with nickel cylinder’ and click ‘images’. Same gun shows up.
Owch!! That cylinder would pair nicely with pearl handles …. and we all know what Patton thought about those!!
BZ to the Nashville Business Owners AND customers fighting back against the knife wielding dirtbag. You can always try one more move to fight back. As 11B has told us…”Head butt the hangman.”
Dirtbag brandishing a weapon…”I’ll shoot blah blah blah…”
Security Guard with weapon…BAM! “I shot!”
Took Colonel Colt’s factories awhile to get beyond the politics and patents to bring out the ’73 SAA (notice it says ARMY in the title), but when it was there, it did the job…Just as (GO) Army does against (BEAT) Navy in December.
A little pickin’ of the nits on the Gunsmoke opening. When it FIRST came on, and for about 10 years, you could not see Matt Dillon’s opponent. The other guy also got his shot off FIRST. Matt also had different grips on his SSA. After around 1965, you can see the opponent step out into the streets and Matthew is not only a little quicker on the draw, Matt fires FIRST. The last few years the opening changed to Matthew riding hell bent for leather across the plains because it was thought removing the opening gun fight scene would make it less violent. Welp that just gave PETA a reason to bitch about the “abuse” his horse took. You can generally find this Gun Bunny perched in front of the boob tube at 1300 hrs each day (‘cept Sunday when it’s not on) watching the local MeTV broadcast of Gunsmoke. I’m telling you, between that and Palladin’s custom made, drop dead gorgeous SSA, FAPFAPFAPFAP well…you get the idea!
Glad to see people fighting back and standing up for their safety. Too often that is not the case.
It used to be that people acted on the (mis)attributed quote of Edmund Burke of “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Now the idea is more “evil triumphs and we want to film it for YouTube, Twitter, etc.”
Regarding the TN story, here’s a quote from the linked article (Cook was the perp in the recent robbery attempt):
(sigh) Looks like “catch and release” is the norm for violent criminals in Nashville these days.
The TN patrons missed a golden opportunity to rid themselves of a tax-sucking douche, “I picked up the knife to attempt to subdue the perp, and it slipped. Again and again. Now he’s dead. Oops. Sorry. My bad.”
That guy he shot was Arvo Ojala, a self-taught quick-draw artist.
My mind might be playing tricks on me, but I seem to recall reading that Matt shot first in the first few episodes, but then the opening was changed and sound effects inserted so that the baddie shot first? After all, the good guy never shoots first!
Just read KoB’s post. Thanks for setting the story right.
It’s real hard to tell on some of them rgr1480. I didn’t see too many growing older and the whole ’71-’74 I missed by being over yonder. I did watch an episode on German and another on Greek/Crete Tv. Funny as all hell watching the unsynced lips speaking the dubbed over narratives. My Baby Sister gave me the DVD version and I’ve tried to tell who fires FIRST from those. In the original 30 minute versions, it’s pretty obvious the bad guy gets his round off before Matthew. The ones I’m watching daily now are mid 60s, on some, Matt’s report comes just a fraction before the other shot. Matt’s pistol was an original, made in 1895, NOT a Hollywood repro. The pistol and holster sold to a collector a few years back for somewhere around 15K$.
Lubs me some old school Cowboy Picture Shows. MeTV gives me Gunsmoke, Paladin, Bonanza (too clean to be real cowboy show), Josh Randall (Daddy loved that one (and Mama too) that my baby brother was named after him. A laundry list of others and then the GRIT TV has another non-stop Old Westerns. Saw one the other day, 1950 model, with a very young Barbara Hale as the Cow Girl. Honey HUSH she shorely filled out them ridin’ breeches. DAYYYYUUM
Ojala invented the modern fast-draw holster and the cock-in-holster technique.
Well documented he could draw and fire a full power .45 colt load into a target in one sixth of a second.
He taught many, and outfitted many more.
I watched Bill Munden draw fire two shots and re-holster in about .3 of a second. The two shots were fired so fast you could not hear two separate reports.