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MS: Child with AK47 Defends Home against Armed Invader
Gun Watch ^ | 8 June, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 06/14/2016 4:23:00 AM PDT by marktwain

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The home defense shooter has been reported to be a 17 year old boy.
1 posted on 06/14/2016 4:23:00 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Good shooting, son. Civilization thanks you.

L


2 posted on 06/14/2016 4:26:32 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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more of a man than 99% of the RATS!!!
3 posted on 06/14/2016 4:37:28 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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Samuel Parker Reed, 18, is charged with capital murder in the shooting. The identity of the victim, a young black male, has not yet been released pending notification of the next of kin.

So...someone breaks into your home, you shoot him in the hand but the bullet travels up his arm and into his chest cavity and the intruder dies, and you get charged with capital murder? This sounds like something out of the 9th Circuit.

4 posted on 06/14/2016 4:46:03 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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And the perp was killed.

“Why didn’t the victim just shoot him in the hand or something?”

/S


5 posted on 06/14/2016 4:48:38 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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Reed is not the one who did the shooting. He is charged with capital murder because someone died during a felony in which Reed participated.


6 posted on 06/14/2016 4:50:13 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: econjack

Poorly written account/excerpt. Reed was one of the intruders so he is being charged under a felony murder law.


7 posted on 06/14/2016 4:51:08 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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“So...someone breaks into your home, you shoot him in the hand but the bullet travels up his arm and into his chest cavity and the intruder dies, and you get charged with capital murder? This sounds like something out of the 9th Circuit.”

No. Samuel Parker Reed was an accomplice to the burglar, the 18 year old black male.

The unidentified AK47 shooter is the home defender.


8 posted on 06/14/2016 4:52:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

As a Mississippi expatriate, my guess is this kid has known his way around that AR since he was a pup. he probably got his first deer before he got his front teeth.

Good shooting young man.


9 posted on 06/14/2016 5:03:53 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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To: marktwain

Samuel L. Jackson on the AK-47.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2ucmARq-k


10 posted on 06/14/2016 5:06:52 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Sounds like the 7.62x39 has a lot more power than I thought it did.


11 posted on 06/14/2016 5:10:45 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: econjack

No you have misread the article. The 18 year old who was charged also lived there, he conspired with the dead guy to rob the house. In some states if one of the preps dies as a result of a crime by being shot the other perp is charged with murder.


12 posted on 06/14/2016 5:15:17 AM PDT by stockpirate (Make America Mexico Again - MAMA end sarcasm)
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To: Farmer Dean

Always did. Doesn’t hit like 7.62x51 NATO, but it does hit harder than 5.56x45 NATO. Issue ammo for the classic Russian spec cartridges is between 1550 and 1600 ft-lbs muzzle energy. The 5.56 is between 1230 and 1300. Not to mention that a lot of Russian loads have nice solid steel cores.


13 posted on 06/14/2016 6:00:33 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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The 18 year old who was charged also lived there, he conspired with the dead guy to rob the house.

No, he didn't live there. Both were intruders.

14 posted on 06/14/2016 6:04:45 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Veni accipe eam.)
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To: Spktyr

The 7.62x51 remains my preferred caliber,but I’ve been shooting 7.62x39 weapons for 20 plus years.Always thought the Russian cartridge was adequate but I didn’t know it would penetrate like that.I’ve pulled the steel core bullets and reloaded them in 7.65x53 Argentine,They penetrate like crazy at those velocities.


15 posted on 06/14/2016 6:19:16 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Definitely not an expert, but hunting experience with the .243 always made me wonder if the military ever considered it.


16 posted on 06/14/2016 6:22:55 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Samuel L. Jackson on the AK-47.

I'm sure the video is interesting...however, I refuse to watch anything with Samuel L. Jackson involved.

He is a foul-mouthed, virulently racist, Hillary/obama-loving limousine liberal, whose only claim to an acting talent is an ability to NOT stutter by using the word "Mother F***er" at the beginning and end of every thing he says.

And a thoroughly worthless scrap of human excrement, who, if he saw a personal gain to it, would travel to MS and uphold the low-life perpetrator of this crime and condemn the shooter as a racist slave-master.

To hell with him.

17 posted on 06/14/2016 6:27:34 AM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: marktwain

Sounds like he had quite the magic bullet there.


18 posted on 06/14/2016 6:56:33 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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Feel sorry for the kid.
Hope he gets help with dealing with having to kill another person.
But he did the world a favor. That guy won’t rob or harm anyone else.


19 posted on 06/14/2016 7:15:08 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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“Sounds like he had quite the magic bullet there.”

Pretty typical performance for a rifle round, especially one that is full metal jacketed. They are meant to penetrate barriers. They can go through a lot of flesh. Most rifle rounds and high powered pistol rounds can penetrate 18 inches of flesh easily.

Much depends on the bullet construction. Bullets meant to expand and use their energy quickly do not penetrate as much, but they do more damage in the distance they do penetrate.


20 posted on 06/14/2016 7:30:20 AM PDT by marktwain
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