Posted on 04/29/2019 10:13:16 AM PDT by rktman
The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him, yelling so loud the priest at a neighboring church could hear.
Stewart, 51, told The Daily Caller on Sunday he doesn’t remember any conscious thought from the moment he heard the gun shots until it was all over — he just acted on instinct to stop the shooter and prevent him from leaving so he couldn’t hurt more people somewhere else. The Iraq combat veteran said his military training kicked in.
“I knew I had to be within five feet of this guy so his rifle couldn’t get to me,” Stewart said. “So I ran immediately toward him, and I yelled as loud as I could. And he was scared. I scared the hell out of him.”
Stewart served in the Navy in explosive ordnance disposal from 1990 to 1994, then enlisted in the Army in 2001 because of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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Probably!
“Semi-autos do not jam?”
The “piece-o-crap” M16 they issued me, jammed in no less than 2 firefights when I was in Vietnam. Talk about a helpless feeling.
“Semi-automatic weapons do not jam.”
Ones with basically straight walled casings do.
Ever wonder why AK’s seldom (read never) jam? Ever wonder why the magazines are curved like a banana?
Tapered casings gentlemen, tapered casings.
The early M16 had additional problems due to a late change in powder, effecting timing, but that long straight walled case is still problematic to this day.
That is my favorite non-crew Star Trek character.
The BP Agent.
I read several accounts of his actions which certainly evidenced his courage scared off the shooter......chased him to his car and tried to get to the shooter., then someone handed a gun to the Border agent who told the vet to duck - that he had a gun ...and it was then the Border Agent fired several shots into the vehicle.
Neither the Vet nor the Border agent ‘were armed’ initially...it would be interesting to know who handed the gun to the agent.
Neither....the Agent was handed a gun by someone.
Hey they’re cute !
Good Job,
But Wrong information.
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I can’t think of Any
Firearm that Can’t Jam.
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