Look at his story...
I grabbed the gun and fumbled for the ammunition in the half-light, spilling most on the ground, but finally found one cartridge I was able to slide into the chamber. I worked the action furiously, once, twice, and again, realizing dimly as I did that in doing so I was actually ejecting the shells, unspent, and basically unloading the weapon. But the unmistakable sound of the pump carried to the backyard, and, in a flash, the prowler was gone
He manages to load a single shell and then ejects it? He'd have to hold down the bolt release to do that. Then he says "shells" after saying he only was able to find one. Finally, he makes the claim that the bad guy was scared off by the sound of the gun being pumped. How many times have we heard that one? I think this guy is as much a gun owner as the self-cutting lesbian chick was the victim of a "hate crime".
Yep. This one stinks like week-old garbage. This PhD candidate in comparative literature can’t even write a decent lie.
“the emphatic, mechanical bursts of shouldering an assault rifle on full auto”
Yep, calling BS here, myself....
Yeah, I hadn’t caught the release thing, and never believed the racking story because the suspect was already out of the place and disposed to leave.