Barbarians at the Gate WI: Owner Defends Store and Self with AR 15 clone (Video)

Gun Watch ^ | 26 July, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

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On July 3rd, 2015, Ronnie Murrar grabbed a sport utility rifle when it counted.  It was a good choice.   Three robbers smashed through a concrete barrier and into the gates of his store with a stolen mini-van.  Ronnie accessed an AR 15 pattern rifle and fired at the invaders as they attempted to squeeze through the damaged gates.  At seconds 54-57, he fires about 7 shots.

Link to video
 

Deishun L. Byrd-McWay has been charged in the incident.  He showed up at the hospital with three gunshot wounds.  Three hits in three seconds out of seven shots at about 20 yards is pretty good.   In the video, Ronnie does not appear to be using the sights, but does have the rifle at his shoulder, using a variation of a point shooting technique.

The video illustrates many of the virtues of the AR 15 type rifle for defense of self and others. It is easy to use, points naturally, is easy to control with mild recoil, and has sufficient magazine capacity that you do not have to worry about a reload or attempt to count your shots in a tense, life and death situation.

After the perpetrators flee, Ronnie puts down the rifle and grabs his pistol to investigate the damage to the door.   A pistol allows a person to be armed without having a gun in their hand when the police arrive.


 From wisn.com on 23 July:

The owner of the store found out Wednesday he won't be charged in the shooting.

The attorney for Bouchard's owner told WISN 12 News reporter Christina Palladino his client had every right to defend himself after three men with guns broke into his store.


"The persons who tried to break into his store that night not only intended to steal but intended to kill him,” attorney John Schiro said.He said the video clearly illustrates how the men rammed the back of a stolen minivan into concrete posts blocking the entrance. Then, the men jumped out and tried to squeeze through the opening of the gate.

I wonder if my good friend, Jim Blair, of Blair's hardware, sold Ronnie the rifle.  Jim gained momentary national attention during the run up to the Clinton "Assault Weapon" ban when he defended the Second Amendment on TV in the Milwaukee area.  He sold dozens of rifles and cases of ammunition out of the Blair Hardware family store in Butler, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee.

It is activism such as Jim's that has helped to educate citizens to the virtues of sport utility rifles for defense of self and others.

Jim is a superb shot with rifle and pistol, competing in high power rifle events at Camp Perry.

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[Terry L Smith]

dear archy,

Thanx. :)

Would you believe that the summer of ‘68, I spent my time reading the Berlitz book, before i started Russian 101 in my junior year of high school??

My counselor asked me, when i was choosing classes for the next school year, ‘Why did i want to learn the Russian language?’ I told him, since i was in the ‘business curriculum’, and wanting to go to the New Hampshire College of Accounting and Finance, (now snhu on tv), because one day in the future, we will be doing business with them. That was 1968.

[archy]

Would you believe that the summer of ‘68, I spent my time reading the Berlitz book, before i started Russian 101 in my junior year of high school??

My counselor asked me, when i was choosing classes for the next school year, ‘Why did i want to learn the Russian language?’ I told him, since i was in the ‘business curriculum’, and wanting to go to the New Hampshire College of Accounting and Finance, (now snhu on tv), because one day in the future, we will be doing business with them. That was 1968.

I believe it, and would observe that as pretty good reasoning for a high schooler back then.

Around 2000, the University of Memphis decided to shut down its Russian language program, leaving the non-tenured grad students and teaching assistants to fend for themselves. This, though there are more Russian language speakers in the world than French and German- speakers combined.

Not to worry: several of the Russian and Ukrainian girls from the former department chipped in and bought a house, and set up cubicles on the downstairs with apartments upstairs, and began offering tutoring, some for beginners but other classes tailored for specialty business idiom. And the Fed-Ex corporate headquarters and shipping hub is in Memphis; shortly after FedEx CEO Fred Smith took a couple of their offerings, so too did many of the down-the-food-chain senior execs who took their cues from The Boss.

And too, the Navy Office of Personnell is at the Memphis Air Station at nearby Millington; once a couple of the senior officers there found out that one course directed toward military language use was being taught by the daughter of a former Soviet three-star general of the Stavka it got more crowded. And then aviators from Little Rock and Biloxi air force bases and elsewhere.

The girls at the Russia House are doing okay, I hear....

Back around the time you were making those language and education decisions, I was on the 5-kilometer border zone more generally known as the Iron Curtain. Ya know how you could tell an East German who was a pessimist? He learned Russian. An optimist? He was the guy taking English lessons....

[Terry L Smith]

dear archy,

FWIW, Class of South Vietnam, campus of U-Tapao Royal Thai Naval Air Station, Rayong Province, Thailand ... home of the ONLY stationed B-52’s on the Asian mainland, 1971-1974.