Subj : Re: Anyone out there have any?
To   : Lizard King
From : Derision
Date : Wed Oct 24 2018 13:44:23

  Re: Re: Anyone out there have any?
  By: Lizard King to Derision on Tue Oct 23 2018 18:32:16

 > The trouble with this is that these incidents are not generally reported, so
 > no one tracks them.  I can tell you that it IS generally understood by
 > police, particularly in rural areas, that citizens use firearms to protect
 > themselves and it's even encouraged.
 >
 > I also know a guy who was approached by two men in a dark parking lot,
 > unholstered his pistol and chambered a round.  The two men, without saying a
 > word, turned around and left.
 >
 > I suspect these things happen all the time in places it's legal for regular
 > people to own guns.

Good point. My first job, years ago, was actually as a safe driller. I'd go to
banks and break into their safes or safe deposit boxes when someone lost a
combination or a key, or if someone hadn't paid up on their safe deposit box. I
was NOT a safe cracker or manipulator... in other words, if I got the thing
open, you probably weren't going to be able to use the same lock (unless it was
a Mosler, those were easy).

EITHER WAY... because of this, I had pretty much every tool that you'd need to
brute-force your way into a bank. Because we often had to work in, er,
unfortunate parts of town, and outside a lot (night drops, that sort of thing),
a lot of the guys I worked with carried. I didn't -- I DID have (and still do
have) an old replica M-1911A pistol, which isn't real but is metal and is
entirely convincing (and which would probably get me shot if I kept it in the
car today), though I never actually had to show it. Generally, I was a fair bit
bigger than people that'd start approaching, and they'd turn around as soon as
I'd stand up and make eye contact. I can see how it'd be useful in certain
situations, though.

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