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I remember reading an article written by Evan Marshall years ago about having enough gun for a fight.
The story went something like this:
He was a Detective at the time, Detroit as I recall.
He gets home from work, changes, places his Browning High Power and Five shot 38 revolver on the closet shelf and plops down in his Lazy Boy.
His wife calls out for him to go to the grocery store on the corner for a gallon of Milk.
He get's dressed, goes to the closet and chooses a gun for the trip.
He looks at the High Power and thinks "I'm just going to the corner" and grabs the five shot 38 and drops it in his pocket.
He gets to the store, grabs the milk and puts it on the belt for the cashier to ring up.
At this point, two masked men with shotguns bust into the store and scream for him and the male clerk to hit the deck.
At this point he makes eye contact with the Clerk and starts to say "Just do what they say" when the clerk blerts out "Your a COP, do something!!"
Everyone goes wide eyed. He draws and fires two rounds at each of the bad guys as he bails for an isle. They fire back at him as they bail for the next isle over.
Bad guys that know where he's at, one round left and no reload. He thinks to hime self he has three options at this point. 1) Shoot himself and get it over with 2) Shoot the Clerk or 3) try to use the one round left to pock the first guy to try to round the corner, take his shotgun and try for the other guy.
Before he could move, the Stakeout Squad that was watching the store bust in and kill both bad guys
I remember reading an article written by Evan Marshall years ago about having enough gun for a fight.
The story went something like this:
He was a Detective at the time, Detroit as I recall.
He gets home from work, changes, places his Browning High Power and Five shot 38 revolver on the closet shelf and plops down in his Lazy Boy.
His wife calls out for him to go to the grocery store on the corner for a gallon of Milk.
He get's dressed, goes to the closet and chooses a gun for the trip.
He looks at the High Power and thinks "I'm just going to the corner" and grabs the five shot 38 and drops it in his pocket.
He gets to the store, grabs the milk and puts it on the belt for the cashier to ring up.
At this point, two masked men with shotguns bust into the store and scream for him and the male clerk to hit the deck.
At this point he makes eye contact with the Clerk and starts to say "Just do what they say" when the clerk blerts out "Your a COP, do something!!"
Everyone goes wide eyed. He draws and fires two rounds at each of the bad guys as he bails for an isle. They fire back at him as they bail for the next isle over.
Bad guys that know where he's at, one round left and no reload. He thinks to hime self he has three options at this point. 1) Shoot himself and get it over with 2) Shoot the Clerk or 3) try to use the one round left to pock the first guy to try to round the corner, take his shotgun and try for the other guy.
Before he could move, the Stakeout Squad that was watching the store bust in and kill both bad guys
I keep waiting for some prison escapee to have the misfortune of wondering into my house.
This would not be the time for a pistol. This would be the time for molotov cocktails or a general-purpose belt-fed machine gun.