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Man uses AR15 to Defend Self, Girlfriend against Masked Home Invader
AmmoLand ^ | 22 November, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/27/2019 3:30:55 AM PST by marktwain

At about 4 p.m., on 31 March 2019, a suspected gang member broke into an apartment at Blackhawk Apartments in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Blackhawk apartments are a large, two-story apartment complex in a decent neighborhood. A couple was inside the apartment, in the bedroom.  From journalgazette.net:

The man grabbed his Tactical AR-15 pistol after hearing what he thought were multiple people entering his apartment and took a position on one knee, pointing his firearm toward his bedroom doorway, documents said.

The accused armed home invader, Edwin D. Calligan, 23, was wearing a mask and was armed with a semi-automatic, 9mm handgun.

Calligan broke down the front door. The boyfriend was inside the bedroom of the apartment with his girlfriend when they heard the door being broke. The man grabbed his AR-15 pistol and took up a defensive position covering the bedroom door. He thought, from the noise, there were multiple home invaders.

As Calligan appeared in the doorway, masked, dressed all in black, with a two-tone semi-automatic handgun in his hand, the resident fired. He is not sure if Calligan fired simultaneously or not.

The gunfight continued into the living room, where they exchanged more shots. The invader, Calligan, ducked into the kitchen for cover, while the resident with the AR15 pistol and Calligan continued to exchange fire.

The resident retreated to the bedroom and Calligan, wounded, ran out the front door, bleeding heavily.

When the police investigated they found numerous empty 9mm and .223 casings on the floor of the apartment. The home defender estimated he fired between 14 and 17 rounds out of a 40 round magazine in his AR15 type pistol.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: ar15; armedcitizen; banglist; cartels; defense; drugs; ecstasy; in; mexican; rkba
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To: grobdriver
Michael Bloomberg is an idiot, that goes without saying. Deer don't shoot back.

Michael Bloomberg doesn't believe in self defense for the little people.

He doesn't even believe in self defense for himself. That is why he hires a squad of highly trained operatives to defend him.

He certainly qualifies as a "little people".

41 posted on 11/27/2019 5:53:33 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Shane

Choices, choices... be at the gun range or be in the bedroom with the girlfriend... we really need photos of the girlfriend to better determine if he made the right choice....


42 posted on 11/27/2019 5:56:52 AM PST by OKC Patriot ("Never Forget"!)
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To: Shane
The guy needs to spend some time on the shooting range.

The gun needs to spend some time on the shooting range.

43 posted on 11/27/2019 5:59:23 AM PST by Iscool
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To: nonsporting

There i s no buttstock. What you see is the recoil buffer.


44 posted on 11/27/2019 6:14:17 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: marktwain

I’m sure this apartment was just picked at random.


45 posted on 11/27/2019 6:15:07 AM PST by circlecity
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To: GCFADG

lol


46 posted on 11/27/2019 6:25:45 AM PST by windcliff
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To: Hot Tabasco

It would be easy. Look for the stupidest one, the one with blood running out of his butt cheek.


47 posted on 11/27/2019 6:32:39 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: marktwain

***Sufficient magazine capacity is one. ***

The very reason the 18 shot Henry rifle (1860) became very popular in the last days of the muzzle loaders. It even had a “speed loader” function before the King’s Patent Loading gate was designed.

No such thing as “too many” rounds in a magazine.


48 posted on 11/27/2019 6:47:19 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: marktwain

If this were in CA, the guy and his girlfriend would have been required to lay quietly on the floor to be executed by the masked home invader.


49 posted on 11/27/2019 6:59:39 AM PST by bgill
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To: csvset
He dint do nuffin. 😆
50 posted on 11/27/2019 7:08:56 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: marktwain

So true. How many instances do you read where the cops fire 40 rounds and nobody gets hit.

I think it was Dr Ignatius Piazza that once said when the shooting starts you will perform at no better than about 70% of a regular traing day.


51 posted on 11/27/2019 7:15:40 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Afterguard
There is no buttstock. What you see is the recoil buffer.

The photo posted chops off the end of the "recoil buffer" making it impossible to see that this is only a recoil buffer.

I can see why he fired 14 shots.

52 posted on 11/27/2019 7:52:41 AM PST by nonsporting (MAGA -- Make America Godly Again)
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To: marktwain; All

The perp was standing in the doorway and the good guy had to fire 14-17 rounds? As for the mag, all mine are 30 rounders, didn’t know there was a greate capacity mag other than a drum mag.


53 posted on 11/27/2019 8:23:33 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: FreedomPoster
Still, he gets a passing grade on the 1st Rule of a Gunfight: Have a Gun.
Also good he waited and didn't go chicken-walking out and get shot, but there seems to have been an awful lot of shots exchanged. If he was armed with a 12 gage shotgun loaded with BB or BBB (instead of a jacketed .223 short-barrel rifle ), one shot would have done it, and the neighbors would have been safer.
54 posted on 11/27/2019 8:55:03 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: marktwain
Maybe not the best choice, but it’s nice to have a gun, any gun, in a life or death situation like that was.

But in close quarters? A short barreled 12 ga pump shotgun would be a show stopper.

55 posted on 11/27/2019 9:28:22 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream)
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To: El Laton Caliente

I think that is what my next build will be.


56 posted on 11/27/2019 10:02:56 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: Iscool

I disagree, it’s not the gun, it’s the man behind the gun. You have got to master your weapon. To many people believe that you can just point and pull the trigger.


57 posted on 11/27/2019 12:48:41 PM PST by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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To: marktwain
Look who's coming right into small towns and nice suburbs to do business now. Yes, an AR-15 is now a good home defense weapon. Don't be outgunned by these animals or the local dealers supplied by them. They'll assassinate a whole family of a young person who refuses their drugs or other propositions. Get trained, insured and armed.

A Mexican drug kingpin you’ve never heard of is infiltrating small-town America
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-drug-kingpin-infiltrating-small-town-america

A ruthless Mexican drug lord’s empire is devastating families with its grip on small-town USA
With unparalleled speed, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, or CJNG, has set up shop in cities, towns and unsuspecting communities across America.
Beth Warren, Louisville Courier Journal
November 24, 2019
https://www.courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/crime/2019/11/24/el-menchos-mexican-drug-cartel-cjng-empire-devastating-small-towns/4181733002/

We have probably only seen a few of many successful self-defense cases involving AR-15s.

Pregnant Florida mom uses AR-15 to kill home intruder
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3791291/posts

"Assault Rifle" Saves Teenagers from Home Invasion Burglars (AR-15 with "High Capacity" Magazine)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2976872/posts

58 posted on 11/27/2019 1:42:33 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: El Laton Caliente

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. Have a nice Thanksgiving. Hope the turkey is good.


59 posted on 11/27/2019 1:43:07 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Spacetrucker

Thanks. I am a shot gunner and do not know the world an pistols and this variant.


60 posted on 11/27/2019 1:44:26 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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