1. Someone jiggles the knob & then knocks on my front door.
2. I go draw my pistol from its holster & answer the door with gun behind my back.
3. Some stranger asks for a neighbor of ours (the neighbor is black, no confusing him & I).
4. I tell stranger where to find who he is looking for & start to close the door.
5. As I am closing the door the stranger throws his weight against it & attempts to force his way inside.
6. I am unable to physically prevent the intruders entry into our home.
7. Intruder turns to close door behind him, (I can only assume to prevent us from escaping) I step back out of intruders arm reach & take up a two handed combat stance activating the laser sight & disable the safety with my thumb.
8. Intruder turns back around to see .45 pointed at him with red dot in center of his chest.
9. Intruders entry is halted, his hostile actions cease.
10. My wife frantically calls 911 while clutching our two year old child in terror.
11. I order the intruder to leave our home.
12. Intruder slowly re-opens our front door & then runs outside.
13. Police arrive & take report.
With some of the other "home invasion threads" I thought sharing what happened to us last week might help keep a few fellow THR members & their families from harm.
This sort of activity appears to be becoming more & more common, and had I not heard the door handle jiggling before the knock I might not had been prepared to control the situation in a favorable way.
That crack-head was just extremely lucky that I did not want my daughters first memory to be that of her father killing an intruder right in front of her.
Be aware, be safe,
-Richard.
2. I go draw my pistol from its holster & answer the door with gun behind my back.
3. Some stranger asks for a neighbor of ours (the neighbor is black, no confusing him & I).
4. I tell stranger where to find who he is looking for & start to close the door.
5. As I am closing the door the stranger throws his weight against it & attempts to force his way inside.
6. I am unable to physically prevent the intruders entry into our home.
7. Intruder turns to close door behind him, (I can only assume to prevent us from escaping) I step back out of intruders arm reach & take up a two handed combat stance activating the laser sight & disable the safety with my thumb.
8. Intruder turns back around to see .45 pointed at him with red dot in center of his chest.
9. Intruders entry is halted, his hostile actions cease.
10. My wife frantically calls 911 while clutching our two year old child in terror.
11. I order the intruder to leave our home.
12. Intruder slowly re-opens our front door & then runs outside.
13. Police arrive & take report.
With some of the other "home invasion threads" I thought sharing what happened to us last week might help keep a few fellow THR members & their families from harm.
This sort of activity appears to be becoming more & more common, and had I not heard the door handle jiggling before the knock I might not had been prepared to control the situation in a favorable way.
That crack-head was just extremely lucky that I did not want my daughters first memory to be that of her father killing an intruder right in front of her.
Be aware, be safe,
-Richard.
