My personal favorite!
Posted on 09/10/2006 11:09:01 PM PDT by TexasDontPlay
When Arthur Winters saw two armed robbers terrorizing his neighborhood, he did the only thing he could think of: He asked his wife to bring him his AK-47. "I had to get it to protect my family and the neighbors and all that," Winters said.
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It was part of a series of events, including a fistfight, rock-throwing and haphazard gunshots, that hammered the plans of two robbery suspects Saturday afternoon, leaving one shot and the other stuck in the mud.
Both men faced aggravated robbery charges.
A police report told the tale:
The suspects pulled up in a Ford F-150 and approached Cesar Arellano, busy installing a roof on a home under construction near Barton Court and Hughes Avenue.
Formalities were brief. One of the suspects suddenly put Arellano in a chokehold, and the other pulled out a gun. They demanded money and his rings.
Arellano grabbed the gun. The struggle began.
Arellano's brother, also on site, saw the robbery. He charged and punched one of the intruders.
Amid the mayhem, the handgun went off, and a stray bullet struck one of the suspects.
The brothers managed to break free and run to Winters' house for help.
The wounded suspect bolted for Arellano's vehicle. The other ran for his own pickup.
Neither got too far.
Police later traced the wounded suspect to a location a little more than 2 miles away. He was taken to Wilford Hall Medical Center.
The other suspect's getaway pickup had become stuck in a ditch and then between a curb and a log.
Then it got worse for him. Arellano and his brother started to hurl rocks at the pickup and broke a window. The suspect bailed out, briefly pointed a gun at the brothers and then ran through an open field.
Enter Winters.
He followed through the field, toting the military weapon at his side. When he fired a few rounds at the ground and the suspect kept going, Winters fired some more.
"Then he stopped, completely stopped," Winters said. "I ran up to him, and he just told me not to kill him."
Winters, along with Arellano and his brother, held the suspect until police arrived. The neighborhood was again safe.
"It was a robbery that just went wrong," Winters said.
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Don't take a punk pistol to a real gun fight ping!
On one side a Saturday night special, on the other an assault rifle. It's one more klashnokov of cultures.
BUMP for good old American bravery! (Nice gun work, guy!)
I hope he had all his background checks, licenses, fingerpring cards, etc. etc in order because we are a society dominated by laws, this is not the wild wild west where everybody who wants to pack a six-shooter, yada yada yada......and what about the real victim who was nearly assaulted by a madman defendin his neighbors and family ina pre-emptive manner. the evil of gun wielding members of society.
I said it here first
I forgot my /sarc tag.....sorry
My personal favorite!
More like a robbery that went right. Lucky for the samaritan that the police didn't ventilate him when they showed up on scene and saw a guy holding an AK
Its the higher and modern version though...
This was in Texas, San Antonio area.
Here in Texas, when the cops show up and see one man holding another at gunpoint on the ground, they usually draw the correct conclusions.
This is Texas. What permits?
In fact, the only thing he might get in trouble over (and that would only be with his friends) is that he *didn't* hit his target - but he'll probably get away with explaining that he had an AK, which is about as accurate as a Nerf gun. His friends might still razz him about it, though.
As Carl the "assistant Greenskeeper would say"... drop back, with superior firepower.... and that's all she wrote".
No - this was a robbery that went correct. It failed - like robberies should.
Just a small point but one I feel compelled to make ,, this mans weapon was most likely a SKS-47 not an AK-47 , AK = automatic Kalishnikov , SKS = semi-automatic Kalishnikov ,,, I doubt he has a class 3 license for a fully automatic weapon... The weapon model is almost always inaccurately reported in the media..
Absolutely gorgeous. Manufacturer; price?
""It was a robbery that just went wrong,"
What? How does a robbery got RIGHT?
You don't know what you are talking about. The SKS is not a Kalashnikov of any sort. It is the Simonov Self Loading Carbine. SKS is short for Samozaryadnyi Karabin Simonova.
What is guy had was likely a semi-auto,non-NFA Kalashnikov rifle. These are widely available on the market and are basically a rifle consisting of parts from a real imported AK with a new receiver which cannot accept the selective fire components. What he had was probably a Kalashnikov just not an Avtomat Kalashnikov.
IBTP
There are lots of ex-military men in San Antonio...and lots of AK-47s. It makes the neighborhood much safer, as anyone with a brain knows.
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