Posted on 10/08/2005 7:47:26 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
Situation: Two particularly brutal and heavily armed criminals hit an upscale jewelry store--and meet a firestorm of armed citizen resistance.
Lesson: Sound planning beats seasoned perpetrators. Sometimes, the more firepower you have, the better. The best cops in the world can't help you if they aren't right there, right now.
December 2, 1994. William "Pappy" Head, 71, and Thomas Jefferson Salter, 56, are what today's young predators would call "OGs"--"Old Gangsters." Pappy is a known hit man, on parole after serving only a year of a five year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder, and both have a long history of robbing banks and jewelry stores. Salter has told his son he does it for the adrenaline rush. Both are members of a loose-knit gang of all-white robbers, killers and dope-runners known in the deep South as the Dixie Mafia.
Their target is Beverly Hills Jewelers, an upscale shop within sight of the Henrico County Police Department and the local FBI office on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia. The store has already been cased for them the previous September by crooked carnival workers tied to the Dixie Mafia, when they were in town for a fair. It looks fat and easy. Pappy unlimbers his double-barrel, 12 gauge sawed-off shotgun and Tom draws one of the two handguns tucked in his belt, a 1911 .45 auto. They roll ski masks down over their faces and burst through the door.
They don't know that when they emerge, they'll be wearing body bags instead of ski masks.
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Wow! What a firefight and what a good example of armed citizens protecting themselves when no police are available (most of the time).
Thanks for posting this!
What a wonderful story. I love happy endings.
Taking on a sawed off with handguns in close quarters was pretty ballsy stuff.
You won't see this in the MSM. They don't want people knowing that Armed Citizens are a good thing!
Don't screw around in Chesterfield County either. A safe place to raise a family.
Well, duh!!!
The "Dixie Mafia" may be redneck dumb@$$es, but news travels fast in their 'network'...
Dixie Mafia ping.
"There have been no further attempted robberies at Beverly Hills Jewelers."
LOL - I wonder why.
Appreciate it.
Wow thanks for posting this. Everyone should click the link and read the whole story. Gripping stuff.
Those criminals chose poorly
"....great story, huh?"
Absolutely. It would make a great movie, but Hollyweird would change the ending, don't ya know. Too bad it would probably be used as anti-gun propaganda. They would glorify the bad guys and make the good guys look like incompetent crazy gun-loving nuts.
Good read....Thanks!
The irony is, the anti-gun governor who put through the "one gun per month" law, Doug Wilder, was Virginia's first black governor and is now mayor of the city of Richmond. The even bigger irony is, the crime rate in Richmond is falling now that he's in charge. I don't know if he's changed his position on handguns or not (probably not) but he has gotten tougher on criminals in the past ten years.
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A most excellent line from an excellent story.
Thanks for the post.
I would support a business tax refund for any business which permanently eliminated this type of scum, and thusly saved the taxpayers the cost of dealing with them through the liberal court system.
Good question. I don't post an entire article at FR unless the author is aware of it and has granted permission to do so. Had no idea you already posted it. Did a search by title, too. Maybe yours was archived by that time.
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