Posted on 08/18/2008 4:19:48 PM PDT by Daffynition
LAKE LYNN, Pa. -- An 85-year-old great-grandmother from Lake Lynn, Fayette County kept an alleged burglar at bay using a .22-caliber pistol.
According to police, a 17-year-old suspect was attempting to burglarize Leda Smith overnight.
That's when Smith grabbed her gun and told the teen that she would shoot him if he moved, police said.
"I had the gun on him before he turned around and said, 'you've had it,' " Smith told Channel 11-News.
According to police, Smith ordered the boy to dial 911 and then gave him some advice.
"Dial 911 and don't attempt to throw the phone at me, or do anything bad or i'll just shoot you," Smith said.
When police arrived, they took the teen into custody.
Charges have been filed against the boy and an alleged accomplice.
Bet she could back down Putin!
That’s good. I thought the cops always took the weapon when investigating a crime.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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?)
Sweet!
Thank you for the heads-up, Charles!!
LMAO! Too cool, granny aint playin no games, up against the wall sucka!
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?
- Traveler
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.
YES! Jan and Dean! PasaDEna!
You shoot the burglar with the weapon you have—not the weapon you might want or wish to have at a later time.
With apologies to Donald Rumsfeld.
The body looks like a hockey stick.
//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.
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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