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Category: Guns

  • Mounties confiscate guns in evacuated homes

    ROS sends us a link from the Calgary Herald which tells of the Royal Mounted Canadian Police who, in the town of High River, Alberta, have been confiscating weapons they find in homes which have been evacuated after the town flooded;

    “We just want to make sure that all of those things are in a spot that we control, simply because of what they are,” said Sgt. Brian Topham.

    “People have a significant amount of money invested in firearms … so we put them in a place that we control and that they’re safe.”

    That news didn’t sit well with a crowd of frustrated residents who had planned to breach a police checkpoint northwest of the town as an evacuation order stretched into its eighth day.

    “I find that absolutely incredible that they have the right to go into a person’s belongings out of their home,” said resident Brenda Lackey, after learning Mounties have been taking residents’ guns. “When people find out about this there’s going to be untold hell to pay.”

    “This is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms,” said Charles Timpano, pointing to the group of Mounties.

    I’ve heard that Alberta is more conservative than those frog-huggers on the east end of Canada and much less tolerant of a gun-grabbing government. I hope everything works out for them. And soon.

  • Friday feel good video

    Jim sends us a video that really needs no explanation, except to say the subject of this video was clearly turning his life around when his quest was abruptly stopped by a good guy with a gun. WARNING: This video may be disturbing to some viewers, blah, blah, blah;

  • Friday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us the feel good story for the day from Florida. A woman awoke in her bedroom to find a burglar trying to turn his life around with her stuff;

    When Jane Rainboth was awaken from her sleep by a masked man peering into her bedroom, she reached for the black, semi-automatic pistol on her nightstand.

    “I got a gun! I got a gun!” she hollered. But it was a trick — Rainboth’s gun was a plastic toy.

    The would-be burglar turned heels and ran out the patio door, with Rainboth in hot pursuit down the hallway of her Deerfield Beach apartment.

    “I guess if somebody tells you they’ve got a gun, you don’t want to stick around to find out if it’s real or not,” Rainboth said of the episode, which unfolded around 10 Monday night at an apartment complex in the 500 block of Trace Circle.

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  • Thursday feel good story (sorta)

    What day would be complete without a story about a youth who turned his life. this one,sent to us by Chief Tango, happens in Villa Rica, Georgia and reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

    Channel 2 Action News reported that the clerk was about to close the store when a man wearing a ski mask and hoodie ran in.

    The 19-year-old robbery suspect pointed a gun at the clerk, then went to the cash register, according to Channel 2.

    As the suspect, whose name has not been released, began taking money from the register, he took his eyes off the clerk and lowered his gun, investigators said.

    “At that time, the clerk sees that opportunity, pulled his own handgun out and shot the suspect,” Villa Rica police Capt. Keith Shaddix told Channel 2.

    Yeah, there won’t be any rehab time for this one, the store own killed him. Another Villa Rica store employee didn’t come out so well, when his jewelry store was robbed and the four men killed one of the two employees in the store.

  • Wednesday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of an East Dallas man who stopped a man from turning his life around with the homeowner’s weed eaters;

    According to police, around 5:30 am on June 24, [Emilio] Paez awoke to a security alarm at his home in the 2700 block of Blyth Drive. He grabbed his .45-caliber handgun and headed outside with four witnesses in tow.

    That’s when Paez spotted a man leaving his storage shed with two weed eaters. Police say Paez fired at the suspect six times, hitting him at least twice.

    The suspect dropped the stolen lawn equipment and fled the scene. Police found Festus Johnson, a 35-year-old man matching the description of the burglar, bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds a few blocks from the scene of the crime. Johnson was transported to Baylor Hospital and treated for his injuries.

    Paez is not being charged and he was brilliant to to take four witnesses with him.

  • Tuesday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s good news in Forth Worth. In a home invasion, things went bad for the young men who trying to turn their lives around when the home owner engaged in a gun fight with them;

    According to homicide Sgt. Cheryl Johnson, officers dispatched to a shooting in the 6700 block of Glenbrook Lane about 3:40 a.m. Sunday arrived to find a 29-year-old man shot in the head. The victim, identified in a police report as Anjoria Atchison, remained hospitalized Monday.

    Within minutes of the shooting, officers were notified that Donald Davis and another man, 19-year-old Drayon Demond Perkins, had arrived by private vehicle at Texas Health Southwest Fort Worth hospital with gunshot wounds.

    Davis was transferred to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital near downtown for surgery but was pronounced dead at 10:15 a.m. Sunday.

    Perkins was arrested on a murder warrant and remained hospitalized Monday.

    The homeowner was wounded, but not before he shot one of the young men dead and wounded another. All in good night’s work.

  • Monday morning feel good story

    Chief Tango sends a link to the story of the final chapter of Marlow Dwayne Wilson Jr.’s life. He had just turned his life around and became a burglar when his new career came to a screeching halt in someone else’s home in Edmond, Oklahoma;

    Police said 20-year-old Marlow Dwayne Wilson Jr. broke into a home on Cobblestone Court, near Danforth Road and Boulevard Street, about 3:30 a.m. and was shot by the owner. Wilson was pronounced dead on the scene.

    The homeowner told police he was only protecting his life and the lives of his wife and two children.

    “You are well within your rights to use lethal force if you feel your life is being threatened,” said Edmond police spokeswoman Jenny Monroe.

    I guess Wilson had no criminal record, and still doesn’t.

  • Sunday feel good story

    Chief Tango and BubbleHead Ray send us a link to a story about a young man who was turning his life around tried to rob a bunch of folks who were in line to buy the new Lebron James sneakers. I guess he figured that all of the customers had $180 for the footwear, but h never figured that one of them would have their own gun;

    According to witnesses, an armed man tried to rob a group of customers in line about 5:30 a.m. But one of the customers who was armed with his on own handgun shot and killed the suspect.

    The suspect ran just a few yards away before he collapsed and died, police said. Witnesses told Channel 2 Action News the suspect had been pick-pocketing people all week long.

    “(The suspect) wanted to pick-pocket everybody. But people out here, they weren’t going for none of that,” said customer Taylor White.