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Close to Home DGU; .45 Revolver and Dog
Gun Watch ^ | 20 July, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 07/26/2016 4:37:06 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: marktwain

So why didnt he just buy a Model 22? Sounds like he likes to make things difficult.


21 posted on 07/26/2016 7:24:28 AM PDT by 03A3 (The reset is gonna be epic.)
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To: marktwain

I was involved in a similar unreported DGU several years ago. There were three of them and I had a 5 shot S&W snubbie .357 magnum. The guy doing the talking even had tats up the neck too. One dude was posted beside the passenger door of the truck. The other perp was posted in the middle of the highway as a lookout. The third guy was checking out the closed gas station we were at to make sure there was just the two of us and there was just two of us. It was immefiately clear to me what was going on so I told the wife to lock her door and pulled the gun out of the drivers side door compartment and stuck it behind my back and then continued to pump the gas while maintaining a special kind of eye contact with the third guy that let him know that I knew what was going on and that their plan was going to go south quickly. He realized that I was holding “something” behind my back I guess because he looked at the dude posted next to my wife and shook his head “no” and they all slipped back into the shadows. The whole incident transpired not far from Roswell, New Mexico and lasted less than a minute.

That little 5 shot snubbie is sitting on the end table right beside me presently but there’s a full size Glock 10mm right beside it because I learned that day that a 5 shot snubbie really isn’t enough gun to fight with, especially when there’s three of them and one of you. It’s better than nothing but still, generally insufficient.


22 posted on 07/26/2016 7:40:50 AM PDT by RC one
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To: 03A3

I suspect it’s a Model 25 converted to use moon clips for 45 ACP. A 28 would required a cylinder, barrel and allot of timing mod’s.


23 posted on 07/26/2016 7:49:51 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: wrench

A definite yes on that. We love our guns in the South. I’d be willing to bet that there are at least 5000 within a five mile radius of my house. I don’t even know how many we have. It’s sounds like a war zone when it’s a nice weekend day and everyone is out getting some practice in. I can still out shoot all the guys.


24 posted on 07/26/2016 7:53:09 AM PDT by Himyar (Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
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To: Dusty Road

My FRiend, I love hearing about incidents like yours. It’s more firepower against the anti gunners.
Thank you for your service as well. It takes hard men (and women) who don’t take sh_t from no one.


25 posted on 07/26/2016 7:59:37 AM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: Afterguard

Do you lock your front door when you go to bed?

Where I live there is almost no crime yet I have a steel-mesh security door because I leave my inner door open at night during the summer. This allows air flow throughout the house during the night.

The other reason I like it is because when the light is brighter outside than inside you cannot see that I am in a wheel chair when I answer the door. You also cannot see that I have a handgun beside my leg.

The steel-mesh security door provide me with the assurance that a stranger knocking on my door is not going to overpower my wife or myself. That’s the kind of things you think about as you get older.

Don’t be afraid of growing older. You’ll still do stupid things... only slower.


26 posted on 07/26/2016 8:17:40 AM PDT by B4Ranch ("The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.")
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To: Haiku Guy

Interesting. My Amazon packages have always been delivered by UPS—brown trucks and uniformed drivers.


27 posted on 07/26/2016 8:38:32 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: marktwain
Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010).

That sure puts lie to the claim that 98% of the people are sheep.

28 posted on 07/26/2016 8:43:34 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Afterguard

“If I lived in a neighborhood where I needed a steel-mesh security door instead of a screen-door, I’d think about moving.”

Yeah, me too. But, I live in the country, so I don’t worry about this sort of thing much... And I have a lot of dogs (German Shepherd Dogs).


29 posted on 07/26/2016 8:44:38 AM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: riverrunner
"Defensive display in a lot of cases is all that is needed to stop the criminal or potential criminal act from taking place."

AND/or the obvious sound af a round being chambered.

30 posted on 07/26/2016 9:01:47 AM PDT by egfowler3
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To: mumblypeg
Interesting. My Amazon packages have always been delivered by UPS—brown trucks and uniformed drivers.

It might depend on where you are.

In my area, they have been using independent deliverymen for the past six months or so. At most they might have a magnetic Amazon sign on their car, but usually not.

I don't even know they have been there until I get an email that says my package is on my front porch.

31 posted on 07/26/2016 9:02:13 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (The 2nd Amendment immediately follows the 1st because some people are hard of hearing...)
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To: Ken H

We have to understand that most of the time when a person has to actually display a weapon it goes unreported. I gave them a description of the the vehicle only and what he looked like.


32 posted on 07/26/2016 3:27:21 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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