And the result was that it's considered a "good shoot."
Nonetheless, that firearm is evidence, and it's now in a bag or otherwise in police possession for the duration. How long? The subject having come up before, and attested to by LEO's around the net, it will be in an evidence locker for months. If a trial is scheduled for some reason, it could be a year, or longer.
You tactically won the battle, but strategically you are now down one gun.
If that firearms incident occurred in your home, and you live in a gun restrictive state ("behind enemy lines" is often said to characterize the climate,) then the police may well search your home completely on the legal construct that other guns may have been used. They will be taken, too, and until it's forensically proven they weren't used in the incident and it covered up, held as evidence. And as evidence, case numbers are often inscribed into the metal on the flat surfaces, along with other annotations. One pistol used in a famous shooting in the sixties was recently "liberated" and returned to next of kin if I have it correct, and there are literally dozens of notations scratched into the bluing. It's not looking real good.
Again, you won the battle, strategically you are now completely disarmed, and your collection being handled roughly at best. Given the number of family, friends, and gang members who might consider you getting away with incarcerating their significant other, or worse, killing them, it's not looking good.
We focus a lot on what gun, what ammo, some on what tactics, very little on preventing the incident with good awareness, almost none on actual Home Defense with a hardened exterior and perimeter security. After the shoot? It's given no thought at all.
It's not about whether your jurisdiction will or won't go to an extreme in seizing your firearms - they do for the gun involved, they do in total in some states. Do you want to win one gun battle just to see your firearms defense completely gutted?
It's the High Road, keep that in mind, what are you planning on doing to prevent it? In the aftermath of a shooting, you may not be able to just go out and buy another gun. And yet, you very well may have more need than ever.
If you really plan on discharging that firearm, then what thought have you given it?
Nonetheless, that firearm is evidence, and it's now in a bag or otherwise in police possession for the duration. How long? The subject having come up before, and attested to by LEO's around the net, it will be in an evidence locker for months. If a trial is scheduled for some reason, it could be a year, or longer.
You tactically won the battle, but strategically you are now down one gun.
If that firearms incident occurred in your home, and you live in a gun restrictive state ("behind enemy lines" is often said to characterize the climate,) then the police may well search your home completely on the legal construct that other guns may have been used. They will be taken, too, and until it's forensically proven they weren't used in the incident and it covered up, held as evidence. And as evidence, case numbers are often inscribed into the metal on the flat surfaces, along with other annotations. One pistol used in a famous shooting in the sixties was recently "liberated" and returned to next of kin if I have it correct, and there are literally dozens of notations scratched into the bluing. It's not looking real good.
Again, you won the battle, strategically you are now completely disarmed, and your collection being handled roughly at best. Given the number of family, friends, and gang members who might consider you getting away with incarcerating their significant other, or worse, killing them, it's not looking good.
We focus a lot on what gun, what ammo, some on what tactics, very little on preventing the incident with good awareness, almost none on actual Home Defense with a hardened exterior and perimeter security. After the shoot? It's given no thought at all.
It's not about whether your jurisdiction will or won't go to an extreme in seizing your firearms - they do for the gun involved, they do in total in some states. Do you want to win one gun battle just to see your firearms defense completely gutted?
It's the High Road, keep that in mind, what are you planning on doing to prevent it? In the aftermath of a shooting, you may not be able to just go out and buy another gun. And yet, you very well may have more need than ever.
If you really plan on discharging that firearm, then what thought have you given it?