Two Alabama men are in custody and one of them is recovering from surgery to his groin region after threatening a homeowner while prowling his property. According to police, Paul Reed and Aaron Lawson were trying to steal scrap metal from a property (not shown) in Marshall County, Alabama. They didn’t take any steel or copper, but Lawson did manage to flee with a small quantity of lead. Unfortunately it was in the form of a rifle bullet shot into his groin, and he won’t even be able to recycle it because it will almost certainly be held as evidence in his upcoming trial . . .
According to WSMV-TV, an unnamed homeowner confronted the pair on December 20th, trespassing on his property in northeast Alabama. The homeowner was carrying a rifle, which turned out to be a good choice because Lawson didn’t take kindly to being asked to leave. He approached the homeowner and threatened to kill him, and that’s when he took a bullet in the crotch.
Lawson and Reed fled, but the police rounded them up quickly; Lawson was found a a hospital in Huntsville and was arrested when he came out of surgery. Reed and Lawson are 25 and 23 years old, respectively, but they look strangely aged in these booking photos. Is that a neck tat on Lawson? I hear that legitimate employers really love prison tats also.
Did you have anyone in a ridiculously under-powered handgun step out from behind cover and shoot a few well placed shots at your helicopter to bring it down while you sprayed bullets at him?
Happy ending. But of course, it is racist to show their pictures. 🙂
LCP w/ viridian laser. LC9 was too big, heavy and unreliable for EDC.
Kahr P380
If Bloomberg had sons…
S&W Model 36 Chief’s Special. 50 years ago…
Heavy steel frame, original bluing, and a giant hammer to catch on my pocket. Perfect.
Give them another 5-6 years on meth and they’ll look 70, have no teeth, more tats, less hair, more scabs, and a way better arrest record.
Good grief.
Let’s not give too much credit to the psychiatric community. A hundred years ago the standard treatment for a woman with difficulties (“Hysterical”, from the Greek word for uterus) was to manually masturbate her. After a while this became tiring, so doctors invented machines that could take over this onerous chore. This is the origin of the vibrator.
In recent times they have been taken over by the pharmaceutical industry, which manipulates data to include as many patients as possible. Under their “guidance” the entire population would be on pychoactive drugs if they had their way.
The recent edition of the US Psychiatric guide is one of the largest books available. Every reissue has multiple new “conditions” dreamed up to provide an ever expanding patient base, and therefore income for practitioners.
All it would take is for “Hoplophilia” to become a new registered disorder, and anyone afflicted would be forced to spend a little time out in a padded cell.
At a stroke the President’s dreams would come true.
So much for the freedom our ancestors fought and died for.
MAC on The Bang Switch compared the specs with some other .380 pocket pistols and even a Khar 9mm and those were smaller and lighter than this thing.
“Potency” and “handguns” are words nominally not in the same sentence, and for good reason.Science and real life are in stunning agreement-pistols are a gamble, no matter what number is engraved on the slide.
Since we now have established that .380 and .45 ACP and all other handgun rounds not labelled “Magnum” are equally weak, we can now focus on what does matter-shot placement.
And here we come to the G42’s advantage.A handgun which is painful to shoot will soon find it’s way into The Land Before Time-AKA, the Back Of The Safe.A 9mm full size gun can get tiring to shoot when it’s loaded with +P and +p+ ammo, stuff marginally less likely to suck when the Ultimate S##t Sandwich has your name on it.
A compact the size of a G42 loaded as such would be taxing to shoot even for the pros, and unrepentantly punishing for an ordinary Joe with kids to feed and other things to do then “man up” at 1000 rounds a session at the range.
For people who shoot to build proficiency, a low recoiling gun is vital.And this .380 will be easy enough to shoot to encourage that kind of practice.Which, in my estimation, will win fights a lot more often then sticking an overpowered barrel onto a tiny, hard to shoot frame so as to impress the YouTube jockeys.
Well, the solved the GCA ’68 import point issue just as I thought they would: Squirt the cheez-whiz into molds here in the US.
“It’s built because you guys wanted it.”
hmmm.
I never asked for this.
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Wake me when they start selling the G29S, until then, I’m happy with my Shield.
Glock doesn’t much care what the “other guys” are doing. “We are Glock, gun buyers want .380’s, here is our gun in that caliber”. And, at decision time while leaning against the gun shop glass counter, many of these will be chosen. In no instance will it be a horrible decision.
He’s lucky he’s alive. Forget your dick, there’s something down there called the femoral artery that’s even more important.
Neck tats mean “the cost if my incarceration will exceed the value of taxes I will pay in my lifetime”.
Wait until the Brits get tired of being used as mobile ATMs and realize that with less cash than the last robber took, they could import (at night from the bloke on the dark, unmonitored corner) an AK and ammo from North Africa, where 5 year olds have them to spare. Plenty of lovely containers go back and forth daily, and no snitches…
Id be more interested in a Shield in 9mm that didnt have a thumb safety…
Am I the only one bothered by the shredded flag graphic in the backround of every “young turks” video? what are they trying to say?
It it compatible with my bullet button?
Right after this event occurred I sent the MSM reporting of this video in to TTAG. That was about two weeks ago.
Belated H/T to myself I guess.
When a person takes that step to attack you( for money,sex,and/or items) can you really trust thrm NOT to harm you???
I have a long list of entire families that complied with an attacker.In the end they were all murdered while tied up.Imagine watching your kids being killed,and you will wish you had taken the chance and fought back.
Yeah,sometimes an attacker might let you live,but why take that chance.Fight like your life was on the line.
How many people are going to seek mental health treatment if they have to worry about losing their 2nd amendment rights? This is pretty ass backwards thinking because this will just result in crazy people with guns NOT seeking treatment for fear of having their guns taken. It will probably result in more mass shootings but that’s probably what the left wants.
Robert, please elaborate on the Geneva Convention as it relate to mandatory minimum firearms training to get a license/permit in some jurisdictions in the states. I’m not clear on what you mean.
Also, someone noted earlier that “violent felons” should permanently lose their rights upon release from incarceration. I disagree. With rare exceptions (say, Anders Breivik, whom I think should have been summarily executed upon conviction), once you’ve done your time and have been deemed “rehabilitated”, you should once again regain and enjoy the full rights of citizenship. As David Codrea famously said; “if you can’t trust someone with a gun, you can’t trust them without some form of custodianship”. If someone is deemed too dangerous to exercise the full measure of their human rights and their citizenship, then they are too dangerous to be out among decent people.
The problem with “violent felons” or felons in general is that our prisons do absolutely “zero” to “rehabilitate” anyone. When they come out, they have no job, no home and the only friends they have are other felons. Nothing is done to break the cycle — so they become criminals again because it is all they know or that is their only choice — how many businesses small, medium or large will hire a felon? There was at one time only one place where “some” of them could be hired — USPS — because USPS was considered the job of last resort.
Since we do no rehabilitation, no job training, no real drug counseling and give them no new path to follow, their only path is eventually back to prison. Because the state knows this, their only option is not to give them their gun rights back and in many states, not even their voting rights.
There are a whole host social, economic and government issues that would need to be solved first — government cannot even get a damn website to run correctly for healthcare sign-up you believe they can solve a large social issue? The easy solution as always is to use the color of the law to deny someone than to actually address the hard problem — it is a typical government pattern, whenever something is to hard they deny, ban or forbid it.
I am not new to firearms, my parents, grandparents, uncles, etc, schooled me on safety, when to shoot, when not too. That was back when people used a firearm primarily to put meat on the table with the vegetables they raised themselves. Everybody had at least a .22 rifle or pistol. The pistol was for varmints. Then there was military service, different firearms, different training for a different purpose. Does buying a firearm make you and others safe? Only if you know and understand how to use it, and when not to. You have a Right to own a firearm, you also have a responsibility to know how to use one. It’s not a toy, it is not to use as a substitute for fireworks on holidays, it is not to impress your friends and scare your enemies. Not everybody is born a firearms expert. I certainly was not, and I would not claim to be one even now. Training is essential, requiring training as a road block to owning a firearm is something entirely different. Stuff happens, it happens less if you know what you are doing. Do not get “training” for the state, for the government, get it for you, and those you might one day have to protect. How you do it is up to you.
I’d recommend checking out the HDMR by Vortex (sold under a Bushnell name).
Lot less money, great scope.
Well, this should give his low post game that extra edge.
Why can’t the gov just make the crap the druggies are trying to get, and dole it out to them on some kind of prison farm system, where they can make little Chinese trinkets, cheap tools, etc, for their dope, instead of USA buying it from overseas.