Deputy Uses AR-15 To End Home Invasion

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I remember there being a thread about if normal patrol officers have ever used there patrol rifles in the line of duty before. This is a good example to use when others (including some officers :rolleyes:) scoff at the idea of police having patrol rifles in their squad cars, with them.

http://my.att.net/scripts/editorial.dll?eeid=7291369&eetype=Article&print=printarticle&_sitecat=1522

5 shot, 2 dead, when gunman invades LA area home

HAWAIIAN GARDENS, Calif. (AP) - A gunman with an assault rifle stormed his ex-girlfriend’s California home early Thursday and shot four people, killing two of them, before a sheriff’s deputy confronted and shot the attacker.

Los Angeles County Undersheriff Larry Waldie says a deputy on patrol heard automatic weapons fire, grabbed his AR-15 rifle and confronted the gunman outside the home. The gunman then pointed his AR-47 at the deputy, who fired twice and wounded the man.

The deputy wasn’t hurt.

The deputy went inside the home in Hawaiian Gardens, south of Los Angeles, and found the bodies of the man’s ex-girlfriend and her 14-year-old brother. Her father and mother are hospitalized in critical condition with gunshot wounds.

Waldie said the gunman was distraught over the breakup.

"He made kind of a dying declaration, saying ‘I was upset with the family because of the relationship,’ " Waldie told KTLA-TV.

No names were released.

Another six people inside the home at the time escaped, Waldie said.

The undersheriff said lives were saved because of the deputy’s reaction, noting the gunman was carrying a gasoline can and apparently planned to shoot others and burn down the home.

“With those running out and the amount of shooting going on, he could have killed all 10 people,” he said.

Waldie said the gunman first “shot his way into a side door” and shot the woman’s father at the door. He then went through the house, shooting the mother, and then headed upstairs, where he killed his ex-girlfriend and her brother.

Good job on the deputy’s part. Especially while looking down the barrel of a rifle.

Not sure about the AR-47 reference.

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Too bad that a normal citizen would probably caught all hell for using an “assault” rifle in the same scenario in CA.

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i’d really like to see what this asshole’s rifle looks like

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From who???

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80% of the population.

Statist politicians.

The police.

Prosecutors.

Pick somebody. It’s California.

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A left wing prosecutor can ruin your life, even if you do a good deed. I agree that an ordinary citizen doing the same in CA stands a good chance of going to the slammer. It’s not right but it is reality.

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funny guy

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There are multiple news outlets that all list the same “AR-47” in their articles as well. Good job on the Deputy’s part.

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I think Buck might be able to provide some actual insight into a person getting charged or not as opposed to reciting the same old lines everyone seems to throw it when this topic comes up.

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most people think “AR” is simply abbreviation for “assault rifle,” therefor all “assault rifles” are ARs.

even my own wife thought this, apparently, until about a year ago… i took a shit right there in the middle of the living room floor.

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I call bullstuff, the gun laws in CA prevent those things.

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Good judgement on the deputy’s part. Bring an intermediate to a fist fight, bring a handgun to an intermediate fight, and bring a long gun to a gun fight.

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I was not only referring to potential legal problems but mainly media hype over an assault weapon in CA.

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let me guess, cops can never do right by you eh?

anytime we shoot someone we are second guessed no matter how justified. Oh the bad guy was changing his life, we should have used a taser blah blah blah, a citizen would catch all hell for doing this…

I get it, you and your family don’t need us because you’re the definition of warrior and can do it yourself but in this instance there is probably 6 people pretty damn grateful that a man with no connection to them ran towards the sound of automatic gun fire.

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Kindly take your job and publicity complaints elsewhere. I’m referring to the ability of the LEO to use that weapon in defense of his home but more than likely a private CA citizen would catch hell over it one way or another.

I never see the cops unless I’m hanging out with my friends that are LEOs (going camping and shooting with one next weekend). Spotless record but nice try.

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On a scale of 1 to 10, your reading comprehension is a -4. It’d be mildly amusing if adult illiteracy weren’t so tragic.

Go back and try again.

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Or an AR15 + AK47 = AR47 ? The secret Stoner-Kalashnikov collaboration rifle.

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Haha, so true.

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What the heck is an AR-47? :confused:

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On what basis do you have to back this up? Who is going to arrest, charge and convict a guy who stopped/shot/killed a “Bad-guy” who just slaughtered an entire family with an AK47?

Buck has a valid question…

The media? Who cares?

Politicians? Who cares, Fuck’em.

The shithead’s family? Yep, they’ll probably sue you, but fuck them too.

Prosecutors? While there are certainly incidents of citizens rightfully defending themselves or the lives of others and getting a raw deal across the country, in this situation NO prosecutor is going to push for charges to be filed against a citizen who stopped a murderous thug who just wiped out an entire family with an AK47.