Posted on 09/21/2012 10:15:35 AM PDT by marktwain
From the February 2012 issue of GunNews
(Guns Save Life) - At the January meeting, GSL President John Boch brought up the story from New Year’s Eve of Sarah McKinley from Blanchard, OK. This 18-year-old mother lost her husband to cancer on Christmas Day 2011 and less than a week later, two opportunistic, armed thugs try to break into her home, probably to rape her. She barricaded her front door with her couch, then got her shotgun, her baby and her phone and retreated to the back of the residence.
For twenty-one minutes she waited for police to arrive as the two men tried to force their way in through both doors. Bad guy #1 was on the verge of breaching the front door when the 911 operator told Sarah not to shoot unless the intruder made it inside the house. The bad man got in far enough to begin climbing over the couch when young Sarah McKinley perforated him with her boom-stick. Amorous bad guy #2 suddenly sobered up and decided he had to be somewhere else and later turned himself in.
Boch spoke with the Blanchard police and they have nothing but praise for how McKinley handled the unfortunate situation. “It doesn’t get much more righteous than this one,” a detective told Boch.
McKinley’s primary home defense gun, the shotgun, was taken for evidence. “We’ll probably have it for at least a couple of months,” the detective said.
Mr. Boch and some friends decided to make a difference and make sure Sarah McKinley has a replacement home-defense shotgun. Antonio Luna, a part-time adjunct staff instructor with Fortress Defense Consultants, made some contacts and lined up a gun. The Blanchard police chief referred Mr. Boch to a trusted, nearby gun dealer, Nathan Morrison of KAIROS Services, LLC., and offered to send a squad to give Sarah a ride to pick up the shotgun once it arrived.
Everyone at Blanchard PD, from the chief down to the front desk clerk, expressed profound and sincere appreciation for any help we or others could provide. “Anything you can do to help with be very much appreciated as that young woman is having a very difficult time right now,” the desk clerk told Mr. Boch.
Mr. Luna secured most of the money needed for a bare-bones Remington 870. A day later, at the Tuesday evening GSL meeting, Mr. Boch asked GSL members to help come up with a $100 to $150 in order to trick out the shotgun with a side-saddle, sling and to take care of any incidental costs. After Boch started a hat around with $10, a few minutes later, GSL members came through with not one, but two hats, stuffed with $487.
Sarah McKinley’s gun arrived on Martin Luther King’s birthday. It’s a tricked-out Remington 870 Express 12ga with a Hogue fore-end and 13” youth stock, a Mesa Tactical 8 round side saddle, Trijicon ghost-ring tritium sights, an Advanced Technologies mag clamp swivel mount and a Vickers Tactical Blue Force two-point sling. Also included are a few boxes of Federal Personal Defense 00 buck, which the gun loves.
The gun was test fired before shipping. Ryan Stoy, of ZX Gun in Goshen, IN told Boch, ”I test fired the gun this afternoon. It’s a good gun. I built it up myself and it’s what I would want someone I care about to have.”
We (Boch, Luna, etc.) are weighing options for either giving McKinley a check for the remaining cash, or making arrangements to (legally) get her a personal defense caliber revolver.
There is a trust account set up to help Sarah McKinley. If you missed the meeting and would like to contribute to help this girl have a better year in the Year 2012, here is the contact information.
Sarah McKinley Trust Fund Chickasa Bank & Trust 405 485-2300 Ask for Leah.
Nice story
Did you see this? ...some GOOD news! :-)
Is someone lending her another “boom stick” till the cops release hers? She is now a “soft target”, and easily located by the predator types.
Maye she has a girlfriend to loan her other scattergun to when she gets it back. Sounds like the new one is first rate.
Didn’t read the article, huh.
Maye = Maybe
Shop smart...
Only the “tactical” parts...then realized my error too later. Hate it when I do that!
Ah, but does it have a compass in the stock?
LOL
“Nice story.”
Yeah. In New York City she’d still be locked up in Rikers.
This is why you always want to own more guns than you might use in a single self-defense instance. After the police take the guns used, you don’t want to be unarmed when the perp’s grieving relatives show up the next night.
That should be “Chickasha” rather than “Chickasa”
Yep.... Excellent news. Weird the help came from Indiana vs native Oklahoma ?
Or did I read that wrong....?
A wonderful gesture. There are a lot of good people in the world.
I only wish something could be done to ease the grief she must feel as a young widow who just lost her husband and must raise her baby alone. Poor girl.
I am sure that there are many men who are trying to console the young widow. It doesn’t hurt that she has demonstrated grace under pressure.
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