When I was in grade school there was a convience store ran by an ex-marine named Pops. The neighborhood was changing and Pops was robbed several times. We knew he kept a .45 behind the counter. Usually, he would just open up the ancient 2 drawer cash register and hand over the money.
One day a fellow came in and put a .38 on the counter and demanded money. Pops would later say he knew the guy was going to kill him. What the robber didn’t notice was that the old cash register was made of very heavy metal that had very long drawers. Pops opened both drawers and stepped behind them. At that point the robbers .38 was pointed at the drawers. The bad guy grabbed the cash with one hand and fired once with the other, hitting the beefy steel drawers but not Pops.
Pops grabbed his .45 and shot the bad guy between the eyes almost point blank. The robbers robbing days were over.
This was in Houston in the 70’s on Belford street. The Houston police showed up and during their investigation the officers asked Pops for a bag. He gave them a bag and they dumped hands full of .45 rounds in yo it and gave the ammo to Pops.
Kind of makes you wonder how many people are alive today that wouldn’t have been if he’d been able to carry on after that day in 1970.
Years ago, my buddy and I kept getting stuff stolen out of his cabin. Fishing gear, lanterns etc. The neighbor across the road was having the same issue and one day, he and his buddy were out at their cabin and went back into town to get a few items. When the came back an hour or two later, their cabin had been broken into again.
They figured it was someone living on or near so they started searching the property and came across a lean too. Homeless guy popped out with a gun and told them to drop to their knees. One of the guys had a .38 in the small of his back and unloaded on the homeless guy. He told my buddy later that after he emptied the gun, he was still pulling the trigger.