Question

[CB3]

I was the first one of our group of 7 aware of the shotgun fired in our direction by a drunk in a lawn chair 30' away. I was unarmed. I jumped out of the back of the pickup while the driver retrieved a loaded .22 magnum revolver from the glove box. I beat feet 90 degrees away from the paths of fire and headed toward a phone in the barn to call deputies.

More shots were fired. The two shooters each hit the other nonfataly. Three other truck riders who didn't move were hit with bird shot because they stayed with the truck.

Sheriff's deputy pulled up immediately when the guns were empty, almost as if he had been waiting down the road for this to happen. Two minutes later the shooters were enjoying beer in the back of the Sheriff's cruiser and giving their stories as new acquaintances. Quite civil. Headed off to the local clinic in Indiantown Florida, 1973.

So I was in a gunfight without a gun, but it was not my fight. If I did have one, I think my actions would have been the same. It was Memorial Day. No need for more killings.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Once....... broke up a guy trying to drag his "girlfriend" out of her car..... gun in one hand and cell phone with an open line to 911 in the other...... oh ya a 12' chain link fence between us.... told him cops are on the way ..... he bolted I re-holstered my 640.

 

[The Big D]

Every single instance...

...I reported my use of a gun to police. 'Use' means display, too, of course.

That includes on duty use. But that was simply noted via radio call. 'Code 32, Display Only.'

Cannot comprehend why others would not. One should own one's actions, IMHO.

Be safe.

So all you guys pulling guns on people, you report this to Police? Imo. If it is that bad a report needs to be made. Should that potential bad guy just be a goof that has an attitude, he calls it in as brandishing or threating with a weapon.

 

[Wise_A]

Mind you, he looked scared witless, and his body english showed total submission and prior encounters with cops, even though he did not know I had been one.

He might've been "unconsciously suspicious". Have a lot of contact with cops, you get to being able to spot them in regular clothes, after they're retired.

Probably a good five or six retired guys at my place of employment. They stuck out to me like sore thumbs--cop hair, cop clothes, cop glasses, cop walks, etc. I visited a work-buddy in the hospital and we started talking about one particular guy and how she couldn't believe he used to be a cop. She was shocked when I mentioned that there were many more.

Hell, I gave my boss a good laugh when, in passing, I made a reference to a "wood shampoo".

 

[skipnsb]

Mere look down .44 Bulldog bore stopped a tire iron.

 

[fatcat3]

not a ccw. being some place that i shouldn't have been doing something that i shouldn't have been doing, no shot fired but a m1 carbine on the front seat seemed to have a remarkable change of attitude. i was young a stupid back then now im just middle aged and foolish.