[DGU] The 'Defensive Gun Use' Thread

[dudley0]

I wasn't aware that OH had a duty to retreat.

I also do not necessarily agree with the author that the victim should have carried and used pepper spray.

 

[Alamo]

Homeowner shoots intruder outside West Side home

That being the West Side of Chicago, IL.

Homeowner has CCL, found intruder in backyard at 5am, shoots him in the thigh. Intruder hospitalized, no charges for anyone yet, police investigating.

 

[Alamo]

TEXAS!

This is a Defensive Rope Use rather than a Defensive Gun Use, but it's too good to pass up:
Stickup ends when cowboy store clerk lassos robber
That's pretty much the whole story, except the cops had to use a knife to free the robber he was tied up so tightly.

 

[Dead Duck]

TEXAS!

This is a Defensive Rope Use rather than a Defensive Gun Use, but it's too good to pass up:
Stickup ends when cowboy store clerk lassos robber
That's pretty much the whole story, except the cops had to use a knife to free the robber he was tied up so tightly.

I wonder what his time was.

 

[d.kaufman]

Nice story out of Florida

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/r...abuser-neighbor-unleashes-placed-return-fire/

 

[actaeon277]

Nice story out of Florida

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/r...abuser-neighbor-unleashes-placed-return-fire/

The alleged abuser did not survive

 

[d.kaufman]

The alleged abuser did not survive

Thats what makes it a nice story

 

[actaeon277]

yup

 

[Dead Duck]

Nice story out of Florida

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/r...abuser-neighbor-unleashes-placed-return-fire/

That is nice but you just wait.....
The abused wife will sue the neighbor for shooting her husband and the state will claim he just escalated the situation by interfering in other people's affairs and for bringing a deadly weapon in the vicinity of children.



Sorry...I just can't see anything good coming out of Florida.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Grandpa with a Sig!

[h=1]Ohio grandfather with gun stops intruder: 'They picked the wrong house'[/h]https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-grandfather-gun-intruder

 

[Alamo]

I wonder what his time was.

I just caught up with this. lol!

 

[actaeon277]

This is an oldie, but I always liked one line
[url]https://gunsnfreedom.com/chicago-thugs-attempt-robbery-at-senior-citizens-club-in-indiana-65-year-old-shoots-back/2207[/URL]
Chicago Thugs Attempt Robbery at Senior Citizens Club in Indiana, 65-Year-Old Shoots Back

Sturgis said he hopes the shooting will send a message to the younger people who want to cause trouble from Chicago.
“We’re in Indiana, they [are] from Illinois, they don’t know people got permits to carry guns, so bang bang, that is what happened,” Sturgis said.

 

[Alamo]

This sounds familiar -- it happened back in May -- but I don't see it in this forum, so here goes:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/pastor-wife-shoot-kill-alleged-burglar-houston-home/story?id=62847146
Per HPD:

"A preliminary investigation revealed the residents were asleep in their bed when they were awakened by a loud noise. While investigating the cause of the noise, they noticed their backyard gate was opened and saw a male (suspect) in their back yard," police said in a statement released on Monday.

"The suspect then forced his way and gained entry into the residence. The residents, in fear for their lives, discharged their firearms several times, striking the suspect," the statement read.

Couple called 911. Suspect died on scene.
As usual cops said will be presented to grand jury, have seen no news accounts about that, but I suspect they did not have anything to worry about.

 

[actaeon277]

Not a DGU.
But I thought, what the heck.

[video=youtube;z_E7pHISpQo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_E7pHISpQo[/video]

 

[Alamo]

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...-into-store?__vfz=rtw_top_pages=4765900019402

Houston, Texas.

Robbers used a pickup truck to back into a gas station convenience store, trying to loosen the ATM so they could steal it. When then first attempt didn't work the pickup smashed into the store again. Then...

At this point, four other people waiting outside the store rushed inside to try and take the ATM, so the store clerk grabbed a pistol in each hand and opened fire on the group, authorities said.

The robbers fled. A couple customers in the store were not injured, but police noted they were lucky they were not run over.

 

[dudley0]

Not a DGU.
But I thought, what the heck.

Wow what a set that dude has on him.... or he was really drunk.

Oh and props to the bad guy for having a High Point carbine. There were almost more patrons then bullets.

 

[Alamo]

Virginia: https://www.13newsnow.com/mobile/ar...each/291-84948b2d-7b29-4092-9902-65b8409e3f3d

Legally armed citizen walks into 7-11 in midst of a robbery. One dead robber, one hospitalized robber, one jailed robber. No innocent citizens were harmed in the making of this incident.

An update on the good guy, and well worth clicking the link:
https://www.pilotonline.com/news/cr...0190829-ufii37kspbd63oymnqbdgpcqga-story.html

RTWT.

 

[Dead Duck]

An update on the good guy, and well worth clicking the link:
https://www.pilotonline.com/news/cr...0190829-ufii37kspbd63oymnqbdgpcqga-story.html

RTWT.

OK, that was a great read.

Still holding his drink in one hand, he fired first at the robber behind the counter.

That incident gave me a training idea. I will call it "Multi-Task Training" or "MTT".
Draw and shoot while sipping on a Big Gulp. When I master that, I'll step it up by eating a donut.



What's funny is you guys will think I'm kidding.

 

[jwamplerusa]

The very first Action Pistol stage I shot started with a cup in one hand and a cell phone case in the other. It was amazing how quickly your body decided what needed to be done when the beeper went off...

 

[Alamo]

I suspect that the urge to hang onto things that are valuable to you is stronger than the urge to hang onto a couple props at a stage, especially when you are not really surprised by the buzzer going off.

Some years back on another gun a fellow (coincidentally from Indiana) recounted how when he came home from shopping at the grocery store he surprised two burgers, and himself, in his apartment.

He later realized that he automatically shifted the bag of groceries from his right arm to his left arm, THEN drew his pistol. He didn’t even think about putting down the groceries until the burglars had hightailed it out if there.

One of my NCOs injured his knee trying to save a computer monitor he was carrying when he stumbled walking up some steps. Although intellectually he knew that the monitor was old and simply going to DRMO (to be sold as surplus), his ingrained response was To not damage the monitor while trying to recapture his balance.