OT Darwin winner for 05 Options

[GWN7]

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

The following mind-boggling attempt at a crime spree in Washington USA
appeared to be the robber's first (and last), due to his lack of a
previous record of violence, and his terminally stupid choices:

1. His target was H&J Leather & Firearms, A gun shop specialising in
handguns.

2. The shop was full of customers - firearms customers.

3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked police
patrol car parked at the front door.

4. A uniformed officer was standing at the counter, having coffee before
work. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up,
and fired a few wild shots from a .22 target pistol. The officer and a
clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer with a 9mm Glock 17,
the clerk with a .50 Desert Eagle, assisted by several customers who
also drew their guns, several of whom also fired, The robber was
pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics.

Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the
shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics
identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt in the
exchange of fire.

Here we are at the end of March and we already may have the 2005 winner
of the Darwin Award for stupidity. This guy is going to be hard to beat.

[ArtechnikA]

QUOTE (airsix @ Apr 14 2005, 11:52 AM)

You need a reloading press! ... (you know this already (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) )

i do know that, especially for the .308 - but i have more than enough activities and too little time and money for them. i won't get into the liability issues of handloads in a defensive situation, although in many ways PA is not too different from NV (except of course for Philadelphia, where i do not live, that wants to be another NYC, Chicago, California, or Massachusetts).

the DE can be picky, with its gas operation. the SIGs are much more forgiving, and the Glock pretty much always gets factory loads anyway (in part due to manufacturer's stipulation (prompted i have no doubt by liability issues) and that defensive environment thing...)

the Eagle wouldn't be my first choice in a residential defensive encounter, because i have neighbors here, not at all like NV (where my property backed onto about 250 acres of BLM land...). but i do keep it on the nightstand primarily as a deterrent. a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle with a 50mm red-dot sight is a BIG handgun...