Video Shows Armed Robber Make Fatal Mistakes in Philly Shooting

Ammoland ^ | 2 September, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[NFHale]

“...If he doesn’t do something, next thing you know it’ll be open season on armed robbers....”

Yeah, wow... gee, that would be like, awful... We can’t have normal, taxpaying, decent, ARMED Citizens who are able to protect themselves, after all...

Bad for “The Dem Agenda” and all.

[marktwain]

Great video and story. Too bad we can’t see the next 30 seconds of video.

The article was written before the full video was released.

Sort of a latency thing.

[barbarianbabs]

babydaddy of 6
aspiring rapper

[HotHunt]

Metro PCS Store Shooting

[ThunderSleeps]

Absolutely, you can’t argue with the results. I am just curious about the technique - always looking to improve. I like coming up on target - I can keep the target in sight and adjust weapon to target. However I do know I personally have a tendency to leave the muzzle slightly down and end up obscuring the front sight sometimes when practicing medium-fast.

[RandallFlagg]

https://youtu.be/At1V1GsFaBQ?t=125

[RandallFlagg]

Ping to video link at #46.

[moovova]

You left out the "expiring aspiring rapper" part.

[Dick Vomer]

cross the road and keep eyes on him. I’d never walk “by” him where he was within 10 feet of me.

Had a scuzzy guy in the Best Buy parking lot try to come up to my wife and my son just got between him and her and said, “Get the f#$k away now”. I had already had my hand inside the belt..... visual cues and direct confrontation. Might be embarrassing, but so what? He said all he wanted was money for gas.....yeah... whatever, just go.... now. One step closer grabbing my wife or her purse and that would have gotten ugly.

I would have crossed the road if possible and avoided that dude. 90 degree heat and an hoodie is a NO. Nothing happened now but you never know.

[old-ager]

> You never know in a liberal city like Philly but the DA said no charges being filed against employee.

How liberal that prosecutor is!

[Blood of Tyrants]

And it shows the importance of carrying with one in the chamber.

[poconopundit]

"Cell phone trafficking” is what this crime is called in the mobile industry.  Trafficking is organized crime where the objective is to haul away dozens, hundreds, or thousands of devices so those phones can be unlocked, reflashed and used on some other wireless network around the world.

In the U.S., mobile phones are often heavily subsidized so the retail price the buyer pays for a phone does not reflect its true cost.  The provider buries the phone’s cost in its monthly or yearly “phone service” or pre-paid top-up fees, recovering its phone investments over time.

So the criminals are raking in huge profits by the outright theft of these subsidies.  In turn, wireless providers are forced to raise prices for legitimate consumers to recover their losses.  Here are some facts posted on the StopCellPhoneTrafficking.com site:

1. The U.S. wireless industry has lost more than $1 billion to cellphone trafficking.

2. Traffickers use armed robbery, burglary, identity theft, and fraudulent schemes to get their hands on cell phones.  In fact, an increase in violent street crime associated with theft of cell phones by traffickers is being reported by Law Enforcement agencies worldwide.

3. Organized crime and terrorist groups are often profiting from cellphone trafficking.

4. When unsuspecting customers buy trafficked “new” cell phones (often resold in counterfeit packaging) the phones often don’t work as intended anyway.

[1Old Pro]

And it shows the importance of carrying with one in the chamber.

Good point.

[Deaf Smith]

The first week of school in my area of Texas was 100 degrees all week

The black kids and the kids pretending to be black were wearing hooded sweatshirts to school, hoods on.

[Pollster1]

He puts his hand on his firearm before the thug even opens the door. Either there’s an unnatural hesitation in opening the door that he recognizes, the look of a hoodie in the outline, or that’s how he greets everyone. In any case, the outcome is justice. Attempting to rob someone on that high an alert is a very bad idea.

Note: In many jurisdictions, he might be in trouble over the last five or so shots (and certainly in the People’s Republic of Maryland), but in my view he was just making sure an armed criminal didn’t shoot back.

[1Old Pro]

He puts his hand on his firearm before the thug even opens the door.

Glass door, perhaps he's watching the guy put his mask on prior to entry.

[MNlurker]

Saw it to.

He did exactly what he should of but I could see a sympathetic civil suit jury cringing at the multiple shots he put into him after on the ground.

[T-Bird45]

I did the same thing in a restaurant parking lot as my wife and I were headed to the car. The wife said she was upset but I didn’t care - too many scumbags are out to do exactly what you said. The guy I confronted was definitely taken aback and got all verbal about it all the way into the next restaurant’s parking lot in search of a patsy.

I’ve decided I’m in the zone - too young to die just yet and too old to go hands-on.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks! Nice mag dump.

[poconopundit]

I recently needed to physically return my WiFi pizzabox to a Spectrum store, which also sells cellphones.

They had an interesting strategy to ward off potential thugs.

As soon as I entered the store, two clerks in the back told me to sign in electronically at a terminal in the front of the store. That little precaution enabled them to see that I was indeed a customer who had recenty cancelled by high-speed internet service.

The clerks were located at a desk 75 feet away from the front door. They were close enough to an exit door to bail if I looked like a criminal.

Such is life in the Wild West.