Long Island Man Arrested for defending home...

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sort of like how the DEA and Dog the bounty hunter refers the AK 47s they find as fully automatics when they clearly lack the notch for full auto.
 
Worse yet... now his home defense weapon is gone and the gang thugs know it.

It's much more important to keep the neigborhood safe for illegal immigrant gang thugs to rape pillage and plunder than it is for a tax paying home owner to defend his family.

There's likely more to the story.... but that seems to be the running theme of NY [statists].
 
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New Jersey-ites can't own an AK-47?

Most of the rest of the country can. Granted however, to own an automatic costs a ton of money due to the very limited supply since the 1986 ban on citizens owing new ones,

Not a good idea to be shooting the grass however.
 
It probably would have been smarter both tactically and legally if he had stayed inside the house.

I know in our state, there is different legal treatment of self defense cases inside your residence versus outside.
 
I feel for the guy, but he made some errors....once inside, he should not have gone back out, and in the world of defensive firearms use today, there is no place for warning shots. Either you have justification for shooting in defense of yourself or others or you don't.
 
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I read this story in the NY Daily News, and there is a video clip of the incident coverage there. This man apparently is a hard working resident of the community, he legally owns the semi-auto Ak variant. He believed that the trouble makers on his lawn were MS-13 gang members, a very violent gang originating in El-Salvador, with a known history of the most brutal type of attacks on their victims and their victim's families. He did go to the front door with the firearm, and tell the hoodlums to get moving, the commotion brought even more gang members, dozens of them, to his yard. They said in and to the effect, that he would not use his gun on them, and they would kill him AND his family. The home owner had called the police, but he stated he was in fear of his life and the lives of his family, so in order to make the gang leave his property, he fired four rounds into his lawn. Now yes, in hindsight, he most probably should have remained indoors till the police arrived, and not discharged his firearm in the way that he did. He was arrested for reckelss endangerment. He will be cleared by a jury, lets hope. If he has to have a defense fund, I will contribute to it. What IS scary, is now the gang knows he is defenseless and it might attack and hurt him or his family. I don't put my trust in the police to save people as the crime reports indicate that they don't in many cases, they can't be everywhere all the time. I did not read about any of these gang members being arrested, which bothers me.
 
what happened

to get the ball rolling what caused him to get from "going to take cousin home" to go inside call 911 and grab gun thats a fact conspicuously absent in his accounts
 
I'd like to know why the police apparently did NOTHING to the 20 organized gang members. Last I heard it was illegal to make threats of death or violence. Isn't trespassing illegal too? He asked them to leave while they were in his driveway.

It might also be interesting to find out what let up to all this. It seems like the story picked up in the middle.
 
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