Posted on 04/07/2017 12:18:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
More than 10 years ago, my friend Mark Seiden called me in on a murder case in Miami that Janet Reno, then State’s Attorney for the county in question, had ordered prosecuted. A woman named Mary Hopkin had killed her common law husband, a man named James Yarolem.
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The cops arrived. When Jim came back Metro-Dade officers were there. They arrested him. When they dragged him away, the cops testified later, he was screaming “Mary, you f—in’ bitch, I’ll kill you for this!”
(Excerpt) Read more at backwoodshome.com ...
I’m too lazy to click through and read the rest.
I like mid-priced guns. Rugers, Brownings, Smith & Wesson.
No Hi Points for me.
Good article! and I agree with the author. I shot a lot of partridge, grouse, pheasants, ducks and geese as a teen with my Westernfield 410 and Mossberg 12 gauge shotguns. Deer hunted with my neighbors old 8mm mauser and my own Model 94 30-30.
Lord help me, I’m glad that Janet Reno is dead. What an evil evil woman.
Not to worry about the short post - a scan of the article will tell the story. It boils down to this: having a gun close by when you need it is infinitely better than not having one. A corollary would be this: if one is confronted with a situation, it is better to have any kind of gun on your hip than no gun. Caliber is not important unless the perp is carrying a Desert Eagle. Usually just showing that you are armed is enough to end things safely.
There was a time in my life I had to borrow a cheap .22 pistol for protection from an imminent threat.
I was glad to have it.
Now I’m stocked with anything I could possibly need.
Buy what you can afford at your stage in life. Having something is better than nothing if that is your only choice.
1. The prosecutor was a dick.
2. Any gun will do in the right hands.
I only prefer my Kimbers because of bragging rights.
“Now I’m stocked with anything I could possibly need.”
The only Freeper to never suffer a boating accident and he goes by Mariner. Somethings not right here.
I’m happy with my Ruger autoloaders 12th. They are accurate and feed anything I put in them reliably. Can’t say that about my brother’s uber expensive modded 1911.
Dont know where that 12th came from.
No question!
Janet Reno was appointed to Florida's 11th Circuit Court by Governor Bob Graham. Reno jumped right in, and wanted cops put in jail. She promptly hired a lot of female attorneys as her Assistants (and kept one gay male Assistant).
Her first police-homicide case was based at the Round Table Restaurant in Coral Gables. It was promptly thrown out by the Grand Jury—the investigation in which I was involved.
Mark Seiden worked with Attorney Roy Black. I didn't know he had a case with Reno. I knew Mark when he was in the MDPD arson squad, and on weekends, we raced SCCA sports cars.
Sadly, his wife—also an MDPD officer—was shot and killed not far from the MDPD office they shared.
Lastly, as you can see, Ayoob is a great study in self-promotion.
I advised my young adult son.
Most things you buy, you end up throwing away or selling it for a loss later in life. Don’t buy an new car, don’t buy a flagship phone, it is just throwing away money. But every gun I have purchased in my life is worth more now than when I bought it. Guns are an investment.
If you can buy a new cell you should already own a quality firearm.
I have a Hi Point 9MM. I wish they sold their .40 and .45 her in CA, but they don’t bother with all the hoops they would have to jump through to do so.
My Hi Point was cheap to purchase, it has a Lifetime Warranty, it’s heavy, it ain’t pretty but it has never failed to go Bang when I pull the Trigger.
It’s sits in my Gun Safe right next to my Smith and Wesson Model 29 which was expensive, is heavy (being a .44) and has also never failed to go Bang when I pull the Trigger.
Of course being a Revolver insures it always goes Bang, LOL.
I always work up the energy to read Massad Ayoob.
How does one define “need”?
I have never shot one.
Guess I shouldn’t have taken a poke at them.
They are ugly.
I have a S&W 28, .357 version of your .44
My daily carry is a S&W 649
Too cheap isn’t reliable. Too expensive and if you use it, it ends up in an evidence room somewhere. So you’re faced with one of two strategies: purchase moderately, or purchase so many guns that it doesn’t matter. I’m opting for the latter.
Just yesterday a neighbor brought an RG 14S (cheep German import. 22LR) needing a cylinder pin to me to see if I could find a pin for it. I gave him the info about “Saturday Night Specials” being a cheep gun and did he want to spend $29. for a pin. He said it was left to him by his father and he wanted it to fire. I ordered him one.
A “1976” date and his father’s name had been etched on the side. That was probably the year his father had bought it.
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