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SemperFiGuy:
jthhapkido's posting on Third Rule of Concealed Carry got me to thinking about this story.   But........I didn't want to break the train of discussion on his post.

So Here We Go:
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Yoostabee, on Tuesday nites we would shoot IDPA/USPSA on alternate sessions at the Bullet Hole in Omaha.

Great Fun.   Lotta really Good Shooters.   Interesting guns.   Great Stuff.

There wuz this Guy.   He came a little later but always wanted to shoot first.   Early.   Wanted to move up in the line, maybe trade off with with somebody who had signed up earlier.   Finally, we asked him, "Just why do you always want so much to shoot early?"

And he said, "I run a grocery store in North Omaha.   I have to be there very early to open up every morning.   I need to get some sleep because every day is a long day."   Well, Very Early meant...like....0-Dark-Thirty.   Maybe 4AM or something like that.   Made sense to shoot early and then leave.   So I swapped with him and I think other guys did, too.   So he could open his store and not be totally grogged out all day.

He told me this story.   Let's see if I can get it right:

He said that he was opening the store early one morning, as usual.   30th Street is usually empty, but he could see a pickup truck coming on down the street, which then angled toward his store, meanwhile slowing down.

It looked liked a robbery about to begin.

Because..............he could see three Perps:   Two inside the pickup cab  and one in the truck bed, hanging over the cab.   The two guys in the pickup displayed handguns; the guy in the truck bed had a shotgun.

Three Perps.   The Honest Citizen was outnumbered and outgunned, Three-to-One.    No LEOs in sight, anywhere.

So....the Honest Citizen did the righteous, proper thing and drew his own handgun.

By doing so, did he get blown away in a hail of bullets?

Not at all.

The Shotgun Perp hanging over the cab began yelling, "Go!   Go!   Go!   He's got a gun!!   He's got a gun!!!!"

So......The pickup truck driver hit the gas and off went the pickup truck into the morning mist, taking with it the Perps.   And totally defusing what was shaping up to be a very ugly situation.

It ended in the almost-best possible manner:   Not a shot was fired.   No one was hurt.    [Best situation woulda been if the cops had come along just then.   But this is a real story, not a fairy tale.]

Interestingly enough, the Perps did not ask, "What kind of gun????"   They didn't ask for make, model, caliber, capacity, muzzle energy, condition.... none of that.   Just the presence of the gun was sufficient.

Wish they all ended this way.

Anyhow, I've always really liked this story.

Hope you do, too.

FWIW

sfg

shooter:
 From different people ive talked to,, this happens way more than you would think,,   glad that he was ok,, good move.

Les:
I see what you did there. Glad it worked out. And it does happen frequently. 

JTH:
...and that's exactly why the Rules are in the order that they are. 

Rule One above all.  :)

Kendahl:
In the late 1970s, my wife and I belonged to a now defunct organization called the 360 Club. (They had a 50 yard range next to Girl Scout Camp Maha at the end of 60th Street just north of the Platte River. The range can still be seen on Google Maps but I don't know if it is in use.) By chance, my wife, who is a musician, already knew one of the other members because he worked at the concert hall where she played. He told us about an incident of his own from the days when he got off work in the middle of the night. A car forced him to the side of the street and two guys got out and came toward him. He got out of his own car, .45 ACP Colt in hand. As soon as they saw the gun, the would be carjackers turned tail. It was another situation in which the mere sight of a gun in the hands of the intended victim was sufficient to deter the criminals.

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