[ansel12]

With an unloaded, bolt action, single shot 410, I stopped a robbery by 4 black guys one night, but I don’t think a theatrical bluff threat would impress a bear the same way it impressed them.

[marktwain]

That is a problem with animals. They don’t know technology and they don’t speak english.

Bears are well armed, large, and capable of deadly force.

Many people advocate for bears having more rights than a person would have.

[ArtDodger]

The unique sound of the racking of a shotgun will give a mob pause unless they are drug addled.

[Chainmail]

I held a suspect who have just knifed my apartment manager, and all I had was an unloaded M1 rifle - I bluffed the guy into dropping the knife, then got him to lie on the ground until the LAPD arrived (my manager had already been taken to the hospital by the time they got there).

When they had him in cuffs, the cops asked me if the rifle was loaded and I said, "No - but it will be of he comes back".