Saturday FGS
TN Walgreens employee says he shot suspected shoplifter in ‘self-defense’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Walgreens employee who shot and wounded a pregnant woman he suspected of shoplifting said he acted in self-defense after being pepper-sprayed, Nashville police said Thursday.
A Walgreens team leader followed two women to a vehicle in the parking lot Wednesday evening after watching them leave the store without paying for items, police said in a statement. He said he was recording the women on his cellphone and that he made his way to the rear side of a vehicle where they were placing the items in the trunk. One of the women then sprayed him with pepper spray, he told police.
The man said he then fired a semi-automatic pistol because he was “in fear and didn’t know if they were armed,” the statement said.
The women fled in the car, and the employee went back into the store and called 911.
The pregnant woman suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was dropped off at a hospital, where an emergency cesarean section was performed. The child was not injured by gunfire, and both the newborn and the mother were listed in critical but stable condition, police said.
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WBBJ TV
Escalation of force? Never heard of it.
1 dead following shooting in west Las Vegas Valley, police say
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide near Buffalo Drive and Alta Drive in the west Las Vegas Valley Wednesday night.
According to Lt. Jason Johansson with LVMPD, around 6:45 p.m. police received reports of a shooting when a woman called saying her boyfriend shot another man at their house.
Officers arrived and found the woman along with two kids standing near the driveway.
Johannson said prior to the shooting, the woman was involved in an altercation in front of the house.
During the argument, the man grabbed a bat from a vehicle and started smashing several other vehicles parked in the driveway.
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Fox 5 Vegas
Dissatisfied with the results in the driveway, the fellow then took the bat to a gun fight. With entirely predictable results. Thanks again for the links, Gun Bunny. The gun pR0n not so much.
“Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.”
~ Craig Reucassel
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Ms Shoplifter Thang got peppered with some lead and Batman struck out and is now off the roster.
Sorry, not sorry, I fail to see much beauty or elegance in that bad idea of today’s gun pr0n. I stole that from (?) Cedreq over at Bustedknuckles and sent it to our Beloved AW1Ed, more as a joke/poke for fugly gunz. Figured if he saw it his mind would get off of other fugly abominations (read Glocks). Alas, he not only flew into that danger zone, putting my plan on ice, man, posting the pr0n and then blaming me…er…er giving me credit for it. I will point out that our Beloved AW1Ed DID go to the trouble to research that fugly monstrosity and post the article. My original submission was just the picture with the Scandinavian language.
OK, I got to go dark and take care of some business for awhile. Y’all behave!
Need a box of grid squares? Get some aiming stakes to grill? You doggies do the oddest things.
Jus’ wonderin’
Could Mama Shoplifter get charged with child endangerment?
Does she even know who the Baby Daddy is?
At the least CPS ought to take the baby out of that environment.
It’s be a pity of the doctor’s knife ‘slipped’ during the C-section and removed the ovaries. /s
Fugly as that piece of machined metal is, one has to admire the ingenuity and consider the times of its creation.
The year was 1899. There was no semi-auto auto-loading pistol as we know of to be used as a prior example of what to do, and (just as important) what NOT to do.
SO just stand back and applaud the inventor’s creativity.
Please research ” Mauser 96C”. One of the greats. The 96 is for 1896.
Borchardt C93 too, 1893
Here is Carl Peters in 1895 with a C93 on his hip. A little ungainly…
Im quite certain the long gun is a Lee-Speed
That Landstad auto reminds me of a gatling gun by the way the rounds are loaded into the chamber. Land sakes alive, I wonder how many are still arund.
This guy gets an A+.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/connecticut-man-fights-off-4-men-attempted-carjacking-suspects-flee
Here ya go! 1950s version of the above concept: the Dardick
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/the-dardick-revolver/358541