Friday, August 13, 2021

You are not the cops...

An entirely preventable negative outcome is documented at the Tactical Professor blog.

A Coast Guard Servicemember heard her car being burglarized. She called 911 and then, grabbing her handgun, ran outside to interrupt the thief.  She took him at gunpoint, verbally ordered him to stop and wait for police...

...whereupon he drew his own pistol, shot her, and fled. When he was apprehended, it turned out he'd stolen the murder weapon from another vehicle in the neighborhood just days before because some idjit had yet again confused his car with a gun safe. USCG AMT3 Schollaert died of her wounds.
Your toter's permit is not a Junior G-Man badge. Arresting people ain't your job. If they want to run, you should probably let them.

Your car is neither a holster nor a gun safe.

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