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 ("Z" @ Apr 15 2005, 01:47 PM)

I use blue tips aka HydraShocks....

sorta. HydraShok is a conventional hollowpoint with a center post. forgot who makes those. Federal, maybe...

the big names in frangible ammo are Glaser, who make the blue and silver-tipped "Glaser Safety Slug" and MagSafe. i have run GSS through the SIG to verify functionality - i oughtta get a batch of those for the Glock now that it's summer. in my part of the world we need to be aware of the "winter load" and the "summer load" because there's a good chance a frangible load will simply expand in the leather coat...

neither the blue nor silver Glaser will cycle in a Desert Eagle.
but i have a Marlin lever-action carbine in .44 Magnum that will happily gobble up all the stuff the Eagle can't. i used to stack the tubular magazine in the Marlin for escalation. blue, then silver Glasers, then StarFire, then 240gr truncated cone hunting loads. i always figured the Glasers would be the ammo of choice in case i had to deal with a coyote in the yard making trouble, but none ever did.

frangible ammo is a VERY good idea in an urban or confined environment... (ask any sky marshall...)