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Back in the day here, when we could ALL own handguns, and the LGS was a great place to go visit with some of them, a would-be thief wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet walked in with a badly sawn-off shotgun, right up to the clerk and shoved the rough-edged barrels up under his chin all the while demanding a choice selection of the stock.
He, wearing a full-face etc, somehow missed the OTHER clerk, who had been cleaning stock, who quietly loaded up a nice little .38 revolver, snuck up behind the baddie and loosed a 158gr FMJ smack through the side of the said helmet.
Needless to say, it was an instant lights-out.
He was, of course, arrested nigh-on instantly for murder, but walked, as the judge quite sensibly took the view than anybody walking into a gun-store to steal guns, using a weapon that was already going to get you ten years simply for possession, was likely more inclined to use it than one who walked in with a spud-gun.
The shooter walked, but with an admonition not to make a habit of it.
The guy who had the barrels up his chin had a deal of plastic surgery to repair the pretty substantial damage to his lower jaw.
He, wearing a full-face etc, somehow missed the OTHER clerk, who had been cleaning stock, who quietly loaded up a nice little .38 revolver, snuck up behind the baddie and loosed a 158gr FMJ smack through the side of the said helmet.
Needless to say, it was an instant lights-out.
He was, of course, arrested nigh-on instantly for murder, but walked, as the judge quite sensibly took the view than anybody walking into a gun-store to steal guns, using a weapon that was already going to get you ten years simply for possession, was likely more inclined to use it than one who walked in with a spud-gun.
The shooter walked, but with an admonition not to make a habit of it.
The guy who had the barrels up his chin had a deal of plastic surgery to repair the pretty substantial damage to his lower jaw.
