http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJl_TJvGwk
A California homeowner was alerted by her dog barking in the middle of the night. ‘Carla’ didn’t want to give her last name to reporters, but she grabbed her shotgun and noticed a strange man in her backyard, with another stranger waiting by a car. She charged outside, fired off a Biden blast and the two men fled. So what’s the big deal? . . .
Carla’s account to FOX-11 reporters is a little bit different from the version presented in the chuckling TV love-fest in this video.
From FOX-11:
Carla told us her dog woke her up when he started barking. She looked outside and saw a man in her backyard, another waiting by a car.
Carla wasted no time. Wearing her nightgown, she went outside and fired once toward the ground. Carla says, it was just to scare them off. It worked. The two suspects ran back to a white sedan and drove off.
Carla says she heard one of them screaming, “Crazy b**ch has a gun!!”
Carla ran outside and fired a 12-gauge warning shot into the ground. The problem is that warning shots are almost always illegal in California. If an aggressor imminently threatens death or grave bodily harm, you’re justified in shooting him, but if he’s that much of a threat, you really need to shoot him!
If he doesn’t pose an imminent threat of death or grave bodily harm, the law doesn’t allow you to use deadly force against him. This won’t be news to any of our Armed Intelligentsia, but firing a shotgun is always considered ‘deadly force.’
Carla didn’t know that these two men had probably just burgled her neighbor’s house. If she were on trial for aggravated assault, the jury wouldn’t be told this fact either because it wasn’t part of her calculation at the time. But if what she told reporters is correct, the man in her backyard wasn’t directly threatening her. And Carla used deadly force against a person committing simple trespass on her property.
This usually leads to aggravated assault charges, but Carla is lucky to be a sympathetic, eccentric figure and a bit of a folk hero by now. She’s lucky she’s not a middle aged guy.
The moral of this story? Don’t fire warning shots. And don’t do anything Joe Biden tells you to do.
“What trespassers, Officer? I was shooting at a rabid possum that was snarling at me! I guess I must have missed…”
More “krav maga” overhype and blind fellowship….
Then we have others bashing him because he is European, Italian, or because of his Instructor call sign.
The ignorance and arrogance of people know no bounds. Particularly americans and israelis.
So the 2nd Amendment would only apply for me if I moved to the country…which in my neck of the woods would mean I’m going to have to scrounge up six or seven figures because of all the high-fenced Dallasite interlopers screwing up the market.
Guess that makes voting for Abbot all the easier.
Given that it’s California I’m surprised she hasn’t already been charged with something. I know here in Mass she’d already be facing charges.
“Does this vest make me look like a stereotypical donut pounding lardass?”
all firearms training should include a heavy dose of risk assesment and conflict resolution
An old gun is a good friend indeed. Which is why my two carry guns are a Sig P226 stamped “Made in W. Germany” and a S&W Model 36 Chief’s Special so old the parts list in the original box is dated 1961.
OK, the real reason is that those are the guns my dad gave me…still, I stand by them.
FPSRussia’s producer was murdered while he had a gun in his hip. Does that mean guns don’t protect us? No. Joe Biden is still wrong.
I usually carry mine crossdraw with a versacarry holster. I’ve carry with a few other holsters and it’s easily concealable but it totally disappears with the versacarry, no matter what I’m wearing. This is my go to carry when I want something reliable, decently powerful and very concealable.
I see a market for a rubber barrel cap to allow that rifle to double as a walking stick. A small market.
Hey the early glocks went full auto sometimes that alone makes it worth it.
Didn’t gregory also have verbal authorization? For us plebs thats worth the paper its not printed on, Randy
How about libaturds on parade.Of course, nobody who knows anything about guns or the The 2A are going to be there.Just a bunch of idiots with the wrong approach to gun crime trying to circumvent the 2A.
FYI, there is an after-market (third party) pinky extension available for the 5-round mag and it makes a huge difference in the ergonomics.
My current carry ammo is some old IMI/Samson 185 JHP. It feeds fine through my XDm, and works well with my XDs when using the 5-round mags. When using my 3 extended mags (fully loaded), the first round will invariably fail to feed. For now, I top off the extended mags with one round of 230 gr FMJ (which feeds off the top of a fully loaded extended mag just fine). When I get a chance (as in a “job” and some “money”), I will experiment with various modern defensive rounds and see if any will feed properly off the top of the extended magazine. If not, the gun or the mags may need some work. (FYI, my XDs has been to SA for upgrading and returned. Had this problem before sending, and it still has the problem after testing since it was returned.)
And here many people in ‘Merica thought the Republicans had all the dumb bleach-blondes in their camp.
But when will we have the 115 grain 300 BLK from Remington again?
That’s the important stuff.
“She’s lucky she’s not a middle aged guy.”
Gotta love TTAG. In one post, they trumpet the need to be leaders in promoting diversity and inclusion of all demographic categories in the 2A rights movement. In the next, they make underhanded, unnecessary asides that totally discredit their faux concern about diversity/inclusion.
changeable folks change, in either direction, back and forth.
“Only fools… demand that people’s views and positions on issues stay stubbornly and ignorantly fixed throughout their entire lifetimes.”
Well, consider me a fool then. My view on gun ownership and the 2A (I support) has remained fixed for 62 years so far. I anticipate that it will remain so fixed for my remaining years.
I do have to say I also think I’m beginning to see some prices going down. I have picked up non-corrisive 7.62 x 39 recently for right at around .20 cents a round recently.
But I too would ask: where’s the .22LR?
The reason it doesn’t have a grooved trigger is that it’s made in the USA, so said grooves didn’t need to be added to meet BATFE’s stupid points requirements for imports.
Yep, this is pretty much dead on. The G42 will not give maximum firepower per cubic inch and it has some trouble cycling ammo that’s at the extreme ends of the 380 bell curve. I think that the second is a worse problem than the first, but will likely be fixed, and is easy enough to work around in the meantime. Glock fans are, of course, snapping them up right now, but in the long term this gun will do very well being sold to new shooters, especially those who have trouble handling more powerful loads.
I don’t think Michael and Fi are having issues.
The hell you say Robert, lol. I made no secret of my past voting mistakes too. Now this pernicious pontificating poster is all in, Randy
Well, if we are making confessions here I want to say I was anti-gun too. I can’t really blame my family, escaping from war, my dad getting shot (he survived) etc. made them anti-gun. At least now my parents tolerate firearms (they don’t like them but they tolerate them) while my brothers remain staunchly anti-gun. They try to call me out as being a wannabe “hero” just because I once said that I don’t believe the police are useful in preventing a crime (and because I was involved in a DKU).
Check this out, looks to be a good shooter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBeSJYBYzVE
My mother was vehemently anti-gun for a very long time (the reasons for which coalesce into a long and convoluted story which I won’t get into here).
After living a hard life as a struggling single mother of four (and a few dead-beat marriages along the way), she’s come to terms with the fact that she and she alone is responsible for her personal safety.
She recently went and got her pistol purchase permit and is saving up for her first handgun.. which will likely be a S&W Bodyguard .380 ’cause she’s got crazy tiny hands and isn’t much for recoil thanks to carpel tunnel. She also plans to eventually get her CCW, though I’ll try like Hell to convince her that purse carry is definitely not the way to go.
Interesting editing on wikipedia if you look up “Filer, ID”…
Photograph of “Hooch”…
That MDA interview Dirk posted is making me queasy. It’s not so much the piece itself – Shannon bending facts in exciting new ways, as usual – it’s the “reporter” on the piece trying to moderate the comments, which are dominated by the 2A crowd. I could puke, I really could.
It seems they never resumed production, I would be curious to hear if those that bought one go their money back since the compensation originally was going to be new gun and mags and case.