An armed citizen responds

[ilikegunspdx]

ABSOLUTELY! NO argument or reason to NOT go outside armed on one's property to investigate anything!

I do it OFTEN. Maybe not necessarily in response to a noise or sounds but hey, I often walk between my shop and house armed - sometimes loaded and sometimes just because I am working on/cleaning guns etc. but such is life.

I believe I once posted a 'semi - funny' story about answering my front door on a Saturday afternoon while armed in a NON threatening manner and the response from those at the door!

I'll get out of my vehicle or house to help someone but I won't to confront someone. If it's a confrontation my mind looks for advantages such as cover, methods to escape, etc.

The tough part is as you are going to help you have to be aware it may be a ruse or some drugged out or crazy person. That's where observation at a distance is such a help. You can assess is this someone you really should help?, what's the actual situation (eg is it a domestic disturbance or is that neighbor shooting people?) etc. most times it's a no brainer. 2 days ago an older lady in a Lexus had a flat near me and was going to jack up her car with tiny jack on big loose cobbles. I stopped her and said please use this floor jack it's much safer. Most situations are like that. Normal person who is not any sort of threat.

 

[Alexx1401]

Amazingly stupid but, glad the good guy and his family were not hurt.

 

[Koda]

maybe hes related to this guy....

 

[salmon creek gary]

Firing "one-handed" is what the air force teaches, or used to teach in 1968 when I had to qualify with a .38 revolver before embarking on a trip to Vietnam.

Can't remember what kind of revolver it was, so let's just call it a BMF with a 6 inch barrel. Oh, as this was about mid-November in Michigan's U.P., the shooting lanes were honest to pete lanes tromped through the snow. Did I mention it was cold? Yeah, it was. And windy.

As we all know, one-handing a BMF revolver is about guaranteed to cause questionable accuracy, right? Um, not that day. Way I figure it now, my natural wobble probably combined with breeze-induced wobble and some pretty severe shivering in a way that sort of cancelled it all out. Bottom line - I fired expert that miserable day and subsequently went off to Vietnam convinced I was bubblegum-hot with a BMF revolver.

 

[Stomper]

I believe I once posted a 'semi - funny' story about answering my front door on a Saturday afternoon while armed in a NON threatening manner and the response from those at the door!

Don't recall that particular story, but lemme guess... you were armed and nekkid from the waist down?

 

[ma96782]

I believe I once posted a 'semi - funny' story about answering my front door on a Saturday afternoon while armed in a NON threatening manner and the response from those at the door!

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Aloha, Mark