Saturday morning feel good stories
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories this morning. The first is from Illinois;
“I wasn’t scared. … I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me. When you work the night shift, a lot of robberies happen’’ said Rahmoun, who was at the counter when two men entered the 7-Eleven at 2900 W. Montrose Ave. about 1:25 a.m. Friday and one said: “Give me your money.”
“I said, ‘Are you joking?’” Rahmoun said.
“I’m not joking!” the robber yelled as he pulled a gun and placed its tip at his head and told him would “blow up’’ his head, Rahmoun said.
He gave the men between $100 and $130 and the two fled. But Rahmoun and his boss looked at store’s surveillance camera and spotted a car parked in the alley.
The supervisor grabbed their gun and they walked outside.
“We went back to see which car and he started shooting at us,” the clerk said.
The boss fired eight times, hitting the back window of the car, which was found later, Rahmoun said. He did not know whether either of the assailants were wounded.
The next story is from Washington state;
Clark County sheriff’s deputies said the homeowner near 216th Avenue and SR 503 noticed his garage was messy and disturbed, so he went back inside his home and found a burglar in the hallway near his living room.
He confronted the burglar and deputies say both men fired. They believe the suspect shot twice while the homeowner, who is a retired federal law enforcement officer, fired three times.
No one was hit by the gunfire.
“Pretty crazy,” said James Bell, who lives nearby. “Nothing like that happens around here.”
Deputies said the thief had stolen items wrapped up in pillow cases, but he didn’t end up taking anything.
Read more: http://www.kptv.com/story/27705077/search-on-for-thief-in-amboy-after-homeowner-interrupts-burglary#ixzz3N273giim
Category: Feel Good Stories
A retired federal LEO that missed with all 3 shots? A shopkeeper who carries, fires 8 times and only kills the rear window of a car?
This illustrates perfectly why I fire both a long gun and a hand gun daily; at moving targets, and hit them.
I tired of aiming at stationary targets and designed and installed low energy, head sized, moving targets.
Nothing trumps proficiency, nothing.
I was on a medium size city Police Dept back in the early 60’s. Myself and another new hire were issued side arms. I got a S&W K38 Combat Master Piece and my body got a Colt Patrolman I think it was both .38 cal. Being a “Gun Nut” I immediately took mine to the range. My buddy never bothered. It was three months before the dept Range Officer took us to the range. I fired fist and qualified, don’t remember how high. My buddy shot next and his gun wouldn’t fire. When the Range Office inspected his piece he found that the hammer mounted firing pin was bent. He had carried this piece on the street for three months.
ALL THOSE ROUNDS FIRED and no goblins got tagged?
I will bet that the “retired federal LEO” was not Border Patrol. From my participation in working their range in Laredo, as a group, they are some of the best shooters I have observed. They are required to qualify quarterly, and their standards were pretty high.
Believe I read somewhere their marksmanship program was set up by Charlie Askins, and that Bill Jordan was one of their instructors. To some of us of a certain age and bent, those names are solid gold.
Ah, West Montrose Avenue. That’s my old neighborhood. There used to be a really good Chinese restaurant at Montrose and Western. Sounds like the place has started to go downhill a bit.
Chooee got the better of the firearms. I bought a S&W Combat Masterpiece a while back because they used to issue them to us. I still prefer to use it to a 9mm when going to the range.
A .45 ACP is still my favorite. If you hit someone in the hand, their hand disappears in a blast of red spray…
You have to be up close and personal with it, but they know when they have been hit…
Always know your target and watch the background.
You .45 caliber Internet warriors are hilarious as shit. Please never change. I love reading such obvious bullshit about the magic caliber that would stop God himself.
Ya, I have to get me some of those rounds, my ball cartridges just make holes.
y’know, the reason a HiPower got its name was because it held 13 rounds of 346 ft-lb 9mm ammo instead of merely 8 rounds of 365 foot-pound .45 ammo. First round one-shot stop percentages for ball ammo in both calibers is pretty much the same at less than 75% each. (To be fair, in HP the .45 is significantly better.) No matter what caliber, the mantra to live by is never one caliber versus another – it’s like real estate’s “location, location, location” – except it is “shot placement, shot placement, shot placement.” A well placed .22 will kill someone a damn sight faster than a .45 poorly placed.