FL: Robber Fails to Watch Hands..and Survives

Gun Watch ^ | 31 December, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Once started, it is hard to break the crime habit.

[null and void]

The store clerk needs more range time.

And claymores.

[headstamp 2]

Coming back into the store after being shot at. Points to a drug habit to support.

He’s lucky it wasn’t a 12 with some buck shot in it.

[rockrr]

As illustrated in this story, it is very hard to hit your target when you cannot see the firearm.

There are ways around this.

[PAR35]

Or at least a shotgun.

[Moonman62]

The robber was protected by the Shroud of Trayvon.

[Flick Lives]

LOL!

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Lucky Seven Food Mart Clerk, take thee to the gun range and perfect your technique!

[deoetdoctrinae]

Neither is the Lucky 7 Food Mart.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Or at least a shotgun.

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Depending on the choke installed the pellets could hit a bystander.

[Rodamala]

He was aiming the weapon under the counter initially. When the hoodie came BACK IN, though... Blammo... he shoulda been Gentle Gianted between the eyes.

If I had a convenience store, I would rig the counter with some sort of anti-kneecap device that could be triggered during a holdup. Something to knock 'em down so you can casually walk around the counter and do what needs to be done.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In the Army, machine gun nests are often set up with “overlapping fields of fire”, so there are no gaps for the enemy. But at the same time, each machine gun has a stake in the ground on each side of it, to *limit* their field of fire to just their own ‘V’. This is to insure that they cover just their own field of fire.

A modified version of a limited field of fire would be very useful with a handgun or shotgun under a counter or table.

To start with, the gun should rest in a pivoting open holder, so it may be put in or removed easily. Then instead of using blocks against the movement of the gun, there would be three areas that the forearm would touch while holding the gun.

If your forearm is touching the one on the right, before the fact, you can judge your field of fire on the left, etc. Thus with minimal time or effort you can tell where you are shooting. And when necessary, pick the gun out of its pivot, for “free styling”.

[Bobalu]

There was a convenience store in I believe the Philippines that had barred windows and door and the owner was being robbed and electronically locked the door as he ducked out the back.

The cops came and collected the fool stuck inside the store :-)

[dinodino]

The clerk needs a 12 ga. coach gun.

[going hot]

I would disagree with Dean on this one regards indexing.

With practice, it is indeed easy to hit a target center of mass, and actually smaller targets, holding the weapon in a variety of positions off the body axis.

One simply needs to be as familiar with the weapon as their...

[G Larry]

So, Where is the link really?

[jaydee770]

A shining opportunity wasted by poor aim...

[Squantos]

Serbu 12 gauge and a paradigm duck bill adapter loaded with number 4 buck would have made a nicer hole in that counter.......:o)

Punk is lucky he was skinny.....

[Huntress]

Nice turn of phrase.

[Oatka]

The robber was protected by the Shroud of Trayvon.

(Wipes spewed coffee from monitor.)