Ever been shot at?

[MrGutsy]

Howdy All! Please forgive me if there's already a thread like this on here, I just joined the other day. I'm kind of curious; out of all the gun owners and CCW'ers on here, how many of us have actually been shot at? I was always interested in firearms, but it was one incident in 2004 that finally got me to drop the $500 and become a gun owner.

I was working as an EMT in Richmond, VA back then. About 2hrs into the shift we got called over to an apartment complex for an asthma patient. Kind of a run of the mill call, not really expecting trouble. We got the lady stabilized after a couple breathing treatments and convinced her to go to the ER. Once we get her into the ambulance, this random dude comes around the corner of the apartment building and unloads 3 shots at us with a .38 snubbie. I just stood there for a second with a dumb look on my face. The my partner was like "Holy s**t, he just shot at us!" Then the shooter just took of running back around the side of the building. At that point, we hightailed it out of there and radioed for LEO. We checked the rig over at the hospital and didn't see any holes. Like many "urban dwellers", this tool couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. The thing that I really took personally about the whole thing wasn't getting shot at. It was the fact that our patient started panicking and having another attack after we had already gotten her feeling better. Messing with me is one thing. Messing with someone whose care I'm responsible for really gets me ticked. Fortunately, she did get better over at the ER and the situation ended without any injuries. The cops never did find the guy though. A couple days later, I went and bought a used Glock 17, started shooting, and haven't looked back since

 

[CoRoMo]

I've been peppered on bird hunts and shot with a bb gun, rubber band gun, and water pistol, but that's about it.

 

[ol' scratch]

I was once shot at by someone with a .22 rifle. Someone asked me if I would like to come over and see his pet skunk. It was in a neighborhood. I was about 7 at the time. While we were looking at his pet, older brother took a pot shot at us from an upstairs window. He came very close too.

 

[MrGutsy]

Isn't it amusing how some people seem to think that .22's are souped-up BB guns?:banghead:

 

[Turbobuddha]

In JR High, mom and I were heading to the car wash. We were sitting at a light when all of sudden we heard this incredibly loud noise. Our ears were ringing like crazy. We figured the pharmacy was being robbed or something. We got to the car wash and checked the truck over and didn't find anything. A couple days later, while being picked up from school, I noticed a weird spot on the back of hate truck. Bullet hole. 22. Hit about 2 inched directly below the glass. Almost went through. Looks like someone was aiming for my head.

We found out later from police that a kid who lived close to the intersection was arrested and linked to shootings involving a couple more cars and a school bus. He was caught after shooting a neighbor through their window. I think they died if I recall correctly. So basically, this kid was trying to kill someone. For days. Lucky for me he wasn't a very familiar with gravity and/or not a very good shot.

Funny really to think how close I came to actually being shot in the back of the head that day. Two inches. Crazy stuff.

 

[eldiabloe1]

I've been shot at but it takes something bigger than 7.62X39 to hurt my old M88.

 

[smince]

I was shot at once by an NAA mini-revolver-across a crowded parking lot

Didn't even know about it until a few years later when an accomplice told me about it.

 

[Slamfire]

I was deer hunting on a Military Reservation.

The National Guard were practicing, on the KD range, must have been a whole bunch of people firing full auto.

I was about half a mile away and 90 degrees to the right of the firing line.

Around me, bullets were slapping the trees. Zing, Zing, Zing.

I had fun telling my friends to run for their lives whenever the National Guard shows up at the range.

They later shut down that range for Civilian use when US Army Reservists showed up with M60's on top of their HMMWV's. These guys could not hit a 30 foot tall earth embankment from 200 yards. Their 308 bullets went miles down range and were splashing into the Tennesse River. I suspect a boater called it in.

So the solution was to ban the range for civilian use.

 

[JShirley]

These threads degenerate. Sorry.