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Elderly Woman Grabs Gun, Holds Would-Be Burglar At Bay [orders him to call 911]
WPXI ^
| August 18, 2008
| staff reporter
Posted on 08/18/2008 4:19:48 PM PDT by Daffynition
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To: goldstategop
Bet she could back down Putin!
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:00:46 PM PDT
by
WellyP
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
That’s good. I thought the cops always took the weapon when investigating a crime.
To: valkyry1
The fast-stepping .22 centerfires like the.22-250 and .220 Swift do tend to erode the chamber throat pretty quickly, even given careful cleaning and moderate powder loads. That’s just a lot of propellant pushing through a narrow bore.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:05:08 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: CindyDawg
If shots had been fired, they would have collected the weapon as evidence.
What most anti-gunners (not you!!) claim is that there is no need for private citizens to own guns to protect themselves. Call the cops. Simple. The facts are that there are many more crimes stopped by an armed citizen with a gun with no shots fired, than the Brady scenerio of the “wild-west shootout with everybody within 20 square miles dying because some citizen with a gun “went nuts”.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I see that Taurus has a new revolver chambered in the recently-resurrected Remington 5mm Magnum Rimfire. I have an old rifle that has awaiting a new source of that ammo for decades.
Like the .22WMR, the 5mm has a projectile with an actual copper jacket, not a copper "wash" like the Long Rifle. As such, those bullets would penetrate better and deform less than a .22LR. Still not a "man-stopper" in the sense of knock-down power, but you might produce a gusher of an exit wound if you hit 'em in the right place.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:12:22 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Snurple
Here's mine. A Walther P22 with an SWR Omega suppressor. Nice and quiet, specially with sub-sonic rounds. I often use the same suppressor on my 10/22, and all you hear is the action cycling.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:13:37 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: Charles Martel
LOL, yeah, my father burned up a .22 swift barrel or two, and once loaded the rounds a bit to hot (he loved reloading, was very much his hobby) and they were nothing but a gray streak going down range, burned up, never made it to the target.
To: Daffynition
Heh, and then she made him go out back and bring her the stick that she would use to beat his @$$ with - PWN3D!!!!!
(Well, I made that up - but it sounded good, huh?)
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:18:22 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Vigilantism will arise where the justice system is viewed as overly lenient and/or ineffective.)
To: P8riot
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:21:45 PM PDT
by
Snurple
To: Charles Martel
Thank you for the heads-up, Charles!!
To: Morgana
LMAO! Too cool, granny aint playin no games, up against the wall sucka!
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:24:49 PM PDT
by
Snurple
To: P8riot
Those have to be registered, right? I’ve heard you have to sign away a lot of rights when you obtain one. Can you fill us in on the process?
To: Daffynition
I would just love to be a fly on the wall when he tells his cell mate "Bubba" that an 85 year old
grandmother got the drop on him. ;)
- Traveler
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:28:16 PM PDT
by
Traveler59
(Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
To: P8riot
Also, if you happen to live where you can own a suppressor, a .22 makes a dandy weapon. Personally my main home defense weapon is a 12GA, but I have a .45ACP 1911 and a suppressed .22 on tap. Everything else is in the vault. Hard to tell in the video, but it appears like she used this:
It looks like a Webley Mark VI 22 LR training revolver. It opens by unlocking and swinging the barrel and revolver down, automatically ejecting the spent cartridges.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:28:25 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: P8riot; Snurple; All; nobama08; Bobkk47
Okay Gang, time for recommendations. What would be a nice reliable 22 semi that I could get the woman formerly known as "the boss lady" who now goes by "the Ole Mizris".
YES! Jan and Dean! PasaDEna!
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:29:25 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: Daffynition
A .22 wouldn't be my weapon of choice but if that 's what she had ... YOU GO GRANNY!You shoot the burglar with the weapon you havenot the weapon you might want or wish to have at a later time.
With apologies to Donald Rumsfeld.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:34:19 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(A politician who thinks he is above the law is actually beneath contempt.)
To: P8riot
The body looks like a hockey stick.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:34:23 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
To: Mad Dawg
Beretta's new Pink Neos .22 Long Rifle auto pistol.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:35:23 PM PDT
by
Snurple
To: Charles Martel
//The fast-stepping .22 centerfires like the.22-250 and .220 Swift do tend to erode the chamber throat pretty quickly//
I never owned one, but I shot a few. I liked them.
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:40:04 PM PDT
by
valkyry1
To: Paul Heinzman
It has a reputation of being the gun of choice for hit men. Penetrates the skull and then acts like that little ball inside an aerosol paint can.I have heard that story for years and believed it, but now in the era of mythbusters...I wonder if it is true. How would you test something like that?
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posted on
08/18/2008 5:45:47 PM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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