Wednesday Feel Good Stories
Yes, it is. And no, I don’t want to fire it.
17-year-old shoots two males breaking into his mobile home
by Jennevieve Fong
MEDFORD, Ore. — West Medford residents are sharing their concerns for safety, after a double shooting happened at a mobile home early Monday morning.Medford Police Department report the incident happened along the 1500 block of S. Peach St. at about 1:50 A.M. When officers arrived at the scene, they found two males suffering from gunshot wounds.
Police said the 17-year-old shooter came home from a dispute with a 15-year-old acquaintance. After the 15-year-old and his 22-year-old brother forced entry into the subject’s mobile home, officers said he shot both of them with a 30-30 rifle.
With recent shootings around the region and across the country, those in the area said they were not surprised to hear about this latest incident.
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Read the rest of the article here: KTVL
Video Shows Armed Robber Make Fatal Mistakes in Philly Shooting
by Dean Weingarten
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- At about 4:10 p.m., 26 August 2019, a suspect wearing a hoodie enters a MetroPCS cell phone store in Philadelphia, PA. The store and employees have been the victim of several robberies. On the alert, the employee watches the suspect intently as he enters the store, carrying a handgun in his left hand. The suspect throws a bag to the employee and tells him to fill it with cell phones. The employee sees his chance.The employee makes the decision to draw and engage the robber. He brought his sights on target, and the robber realized his peril. The video is stopped by CBS3 at that point.
As seen in the video, it only takes a second of inattention from the robber for a defender to take decisive action. The robber telegraphed his intentions by wearing a hoodie on a 75-degree day in late August. He came in with a handgun in his left hand, and a bag in his right hand. The employee was watching him intently, with his left hand near his holstered handgun.
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City of Brotherly Love. View the article and video here: Ammoland
Police investigating homicide in northeast Oklahoma City
Dillon Richards
Transcript:
DILLON: WHERE CONTINUING — WE ARE CONTINUING TO LEARN INFORMATION. POLICE STILL UNSEEN INVESTIGATING, CAUTIONS — CAUTION TAPE STILL UP. OFFICERS AND AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO MOVE AROUND THE HOUSE. ONE OF THE HOMEOWNERS CALLED 911 TO SAY THAT ONE OF THEM HAD SHOT AN INTRUDER. POLICE SAY INSIDE THE HOUSE MULTIPLE FAMILY MEMBERS INCLUDING CHILDREN. UNSEEN WORRIED THEY MAY KNOW WHO WAS SHOT BUT MANY HERE — ARE HEARING CONFLICTING RUMORS. WHAT WAS REPORTED THIS SOMEONE THE HOMEOWNERS DID NOT KNOW TRIED TO GET IN THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR. THIS PERSON HAD A GUN ON THEM. POLICE UNSEEN COLLECTING EVIDENCE. >> THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE IN THERE THAT OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT AND THEY WANT THEIR FAMILY BUT WE HAVE TO INTERVIEW THEM FIRST. ONCE THE INTERVIEW IS DONE WE WILL LET THE FAMILY REUNITE. DILLON: I MAY BE TOUGH TO SEE IN THE DARK BUT THIS DOES CONTINUE TO BE A VERY ACTIVE SCENE. POLICE STILL UNSEEN. OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS NOT ALLOWED TO GO UP TO THE HOUSE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THERE STILL IS THE CAUTION TAPE UP AND AN INVESTIGATION CONTINUES. WE’RE WAITING TO HEAR MORE INFORMATION FROM POLICE LIKELY TOMORROW INVOLVING THE IDENTITIES OF THOSE INVOLVED THAT MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND POLICE IN THE E
Early stages of the investigations?
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Read and view the article and video here: KOCO.com
Two pairs, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes, with two each attaining ambient temperature, two ventilated and/or incarcerated, and once again none in the wind. They’ll be back, count on it.
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775].
Category: Feel Good Stories
The video for #2 was a great magdump video.
2 pair can still be a winning hand. ‘specially if the other players are no longer “in the game.”
The KOKO.com linky in story 3; check out the next video with Erin Beu…”a black haired beauty with deep dark eyes.” You that know how to just take them old records off the shelf understand what I am referring to.
I “Like” your Baby Thumper. All God’s chil’ren needs them some hide away Artillery.
Kinda wish we could see the entire video of the MetroPCS shootout. It could be informative.
As to the monstrosity heading today’s Feel Good, that ranks as a “Oh Hell no” piece.
Saw video from the store security camera above and behind Philadelphia MetroPCS employee couple days ago. That video has since disappeared.
Hoodie walks in holding bag in right hand and gun in left hand. Throws bag on counter and switches gun from left hand to right as he starts to walk around counter. Makes it to end of counter just as he starts to turn toward employee. All this without keeping eyes on employee.
At 6 seconds after hoodie guy walks in is when the employee fires first shot and the guy falls and curls up against wall to left of door. Employee stands up and maintaining eye contact with threat. At 20 seconds the employee’s magazine is empty. Justice served.
Ironic that the only thing that left that Metro PCS store in a bag was the (alleged) robber.
Wasn’t much of a bag he tossed.
Looked like a velvet Crown Royal sack.
Then he swaps hands and looks away. Nice!
Yes it is- WHAT?… no really who makes that?
IT’s AIRSOFT.
Ed, I’ve fired the M-79 and although it looked like it might have a tremendous kick to it, the recoil was similar to an M-16. The reason was that the 40mm round it used was designed for lofted indirect fire that could fill a range between a hand grenade and a mortar. This was different from the high-velocity flat trajectory used by a typical rifle.
When you fired an HE round in the M-79, it was moving so slow coming out of the muzzle that you could follow it visually out to about 100 yards or so. Almost like a thrown baseball.
It reminds me of the 20mm flare guns we used at the NTC to launch CS, smoke, and flares. Hardly any recoil a-tall. I wonder what they’d feel like with flechette rounds or buckshot??
Our deputy (Maj) and I were riding around looking for early man sites when he spots a jackrabbit. He takes aim with his flare gun and “pop” …. hits the jackrabbit in the head with one of those cannisters.
We picked up the jackrabbit and took it to his quarters where he fed it to his Burmese Python (Stargazer resided in the bathtub). This is not a war story … your humble correspondent was there and saw every last bit.
Back when the NTC was the Army’s last frontier post.
Ahhhh …. down thread I see they are 40mm? I forgot; mea maxima culpa. Still, a sweet toy.
Is that a new version of the M79? Looks a little short in the barrel. Anyone get to play with the Army’s new grenade launcher yet?
I would love to get a M203 for my AR, they have some neat little rounds for civilian use, to bad we can’t get the flares or HEDP…much nicer on the arm than training ammo.
Love to get some pop flares. About the size of
a grease tube. Take off one end , stick it on
the other and whack it with the butt of your
hand. They came with cute little parachutes
but the white star clusters were fun to
shoot at each other on night guard.
A rifled blooper requires a Destructive Device paper.
However, the 37mm smoothbores do not. Those are “signaling devices” or “firearms” depending on jurisdiction, and not DD-papered. Ammo is readily available, just not boomstuff.
And at least one firm makes a 37mm “flare gun” smoothbore M203 replica.
Just sayin.
The sad part about the Metro PCS story is that the recently departed must not have been aware that Federal Government has a program to provide cell phones to low income people. If only more people knew of this program, more lives could be saved.
#CallingPlansMatter!
Those Obamaphones are harder to resell than self-serve grab-n-go phones.
In the case of the metro dudette or whatever……
Oops……
The employee acts like he has had training in the scenario we just watched.
Either a former cop or a Veteran…
Good job for him. He now receives the soon to be famous “Happy Taxpayer” award !!!!!
With regard to your concern about firing this cut-down M-79 grenade launcher pictured above, they are not a big deal to fire with standard military 40mm ammo. We used them in the Viet of the Nam in the LRRP and spook units. They only kick about like a .44 mag pistol. The rounds in the photo are likely flare ammo.
I don’t remember the recoil being that much. It seemed to fall somewhere between an M-16 shooting 5.56mm, which was light, and an M-14 with a 7.62mm round.
One of the things I’ve thought was curious was the development of the buckshot round for the M-79. Although it fired up to twenty pellets, the shot was relatively light and low-velocity. It always seemed to me if you regularly needed such specific functionality, you would be better off with a 12-gauge and 00 buck even with less than half the pellet count.
Neither of which, IMHO, was preferable to an M-16 if you had the choice of what to lug around, and why the M-203 made sense.
Well, that would be true with the full length long arm. But we cut off the butt-stock behind the pistol grip and cut the barrel down as depicted in AW1Ed’s photo. When you shoot the cut down one with two hands and no butt-stock it has a bit more recoil. Most of my LRRP teams did not care for the M-203 because of its length and being somewhat unwieldy. The cut-down M-79’s were carried as a back-up weapon. Most team members except the M-60 gunner carried CAR-15’s or AK-47’s, although I had one guy that insisted on carrying a Thompson SMG.
I liked the CAR-15. That was both due to lighter weight, and because it was more handy if you needed to move in and out of a vehicle or LOH. One of its minor drawbacks, at least it seemed to me, was that it was arguably less accurate than an M-16 for those special moments when you might need to reach out and touch someone at 300 yards. Newer optics and such on the M-4 have probably by now eliminated the difference.
Something I always found strange with the M-16 was the choice of making the upper receiver and rear sight in the form of a handle. Somebody carrying one that way tended to remind me of a guy carrying a lunch pail.
I don’t know if you ever saw this, but the M-16 handle was useful in at least one way I remember. Call it GI ingenuity, the deuce-and-a-half trucks of that era didn’t have air conditioning, but did have the ability to tilt the windshield halves out from the bottom for ventilation. As it happened, the windshield adjusters were these big-ass wingnuts on the side which turned out to be a fine hook for a driver to hang his M-16– by the handle. This seemed much better than to have the thing rattle around loose, or needing somebody else to hold it while driving.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Army banned the practice later because reasons…
The 11.5 inch barrel on the CAR-15 made it inherently less accurate. For accuracy, the .223/5.56mm cartridge needs at least a 16 inch barrel. I carried a CAR-15 as a rifle company C.O. It was very handy, but the bore was in poor shape. But if I had to start shooting, I wasn’t doing my job.
I never saw the M-16 hanging from those wing nuts. But I spent very little time riding in trucks. Hueys were my principal mode of transport.
Found this link for the Philly story. The way he folded, I suspect that the first shot did the miscreant in. But I’m good with the full mag dump.
“It pulls the trigger until the noise stops”
https://www.instagram.com/p/B147j_Ph02x/?utm_source=ig_embed
That is satisfying to see justice done.
Here in Florida you have to justify every shot.
You can only shoot to stop the threat.
After the first shot, the perp collapses and is no longer a threat.
You are legally forbidden to then empty your magazine into him.
I hope he has carry insurance, as he could easily be charged for shooting after the threat was neutralized.
It’s hard to tell but I think in the video the robber looks at the clerk just in time to realize he was a goner. I like that. Also I read an article that store had been robbed several times recently, and this was a new manager,who the neighboring businesses reported was quiet and very polite. I’ll bet corporate sent him, he’s probably their roving bad ass.