Forget your eye. You'll get gut shot by a real gun, kid.
Posted on 12/24/2016 10:56:50 AM PST by grundle
Will be fired.
Most, if not all, pneumatic BB and pellet weapons DONT have orange identifiers on the ends because they are not toys.
Like having a defensive lineman jump offsides... Free Play. Fire At Will!
If I had been that couple, that would have been my story to the police also. Which I believe about as much as the story that I will be elected President next week. The couple's private thoughts were:" The dumb shit has done and gone got himself shot. There goes our half of the money. We better come up with a good lie."
A bb gun can be lethal. You can put someone’s eye out with it and, if you shoot them in the right place, kill them. I believe that it is considered a deadly weapon.
Or, you could get a real gun and paint the tip orange. Then, if the guy laughs at you, you could shoot him and claim you thought it was a toy gun.
Or, it could have been one of those "a half inch in either direction and the doofus would have been dead" stories.
9MM did the job???
No it did not. When you pull a trigger three times making three solid body hits and the threat is not neutralized the caliber ammo combination did not do the job.
If the bad guy had a real gun he still had the physical ability to turn and engage the good guy. If he could run away he could have shot back...
Neutralize means make it so the bad guy can no longer be a threat to you or others. This shooter and the other employees got lucky.
OK guys, I guess I forgot the /S tag.
I can’t believe anyone would be stupid enough to attempt a holdup with a realistic looking replica of a gun, whether it shot BB’s or was completely inert and didn’t shoot at all. But, it happens all the time.
With all the “He was just turning his life around, why did they shoot him?” rhetoric, I figured BB guns could be fit in, too. “It was just a BB gun—why didn’t the (Cop, victim, shooter) look at the bore of the gun to determine it wasn’t real before deciding to shoot?”
They were probably pissed off at him for getting shot. By him getting shot, he was not able to rob the store. Him not being able to rob the store caused them to miss out on half of the robbery loot. Plus not they have to come up with a lie that the police will believe.
“All this talk about the caliber misses the point. 9mm did the job.”
Only reason it did anything is the dumbass didn’t have a real gun. 9mm is way better than nothing but you can fully unload on some perps and they’ll still come at you. Some of these street animals are huge, drugged and crazy.
Have a friend that was shot many times with a 9mm in the back at very close range (attempted carjacking) and he drove himself to the ER. And he is a small guy that wasnt on any drugs.
9mm handgun is only for the weak or to save space. If you can handle a bigger caliber, you should carry it.
Saw a bumper sticker the other day: .45 ACP — Like 9mm, except for grownups.
Haha. I think it’s outrageous insurance companies can say some ERs are “out of network” and not cover anything.
If you had a serious emergency and EMTs hauled you in, it’s not like you had a choice.
Too bad, so sad....
Good for the employee
Ping. I love a story with a happy ending.
Forget your eye. You'll get gut shot by a real gun, kid.
The important data is what loading?
A bit more caliber is why I carry a .45 ACP XDS.
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