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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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".
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....
The gun needs to spend some time on the shooting range.
There i s no buttstock. What you see is the recoil buffer.
I’m sure this apartment was just picked at random.
lol
It would be easy. Look for the stupidest one, the one with blood running out of his butt cheek.
***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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But in close quarters? A short barreled 12 ga pump shotgun would be a show stopper.
I think that is what my next build will be.
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.
Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. Have a nice Thanksgiving. Hope the turkey is good.
Thanks. I am a shot gunner and do not know the world an pistols and this variant.
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