Monthly Archives: January 2012

Article – Okla. Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It’s Okay to Shoot

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Okla. Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It’s Okay to Shoot

Recently widowed, young, single mom cowering in a bedroom with her infant child, on the phone with 911 as two men force their way into the house…..pretty much pushes all the ‘righteous shooting’ buttons.

The only way this shooting could possibly be more justified is if the bad guys were the re-animated zombie corpses of Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden wearing dynamite sport jackets and holding a molotov cocktail in each hand.

Part of me wants to say that, if there were an afterlife, her husband would be very proud of her. But, then again, that was exactly the proper response for that situation so I’m not sure excess pride is warranted for doing something that your supposed to do anyway. Regardless, it’s a just and proper ending to what could have been quite a tragedy. Poor gal is probably still grieving from losing her husband, now she’s got to deal with the emotional aftermath of this incident.

I’m going to ignore the part about asking the 911 guys if it was okay to shoot the bad guys. The threshold for that kind of response was met long before they came through the bedroom door. I understand that no agency is going to want to be on the hook for ‘giving permission’ for someone to shoot someone else, but at least they gave the veiled and coded approval with the ‘do what you have to do’ answer.

Man, I bet that shotgun left a real mess behind.

Article – Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria

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Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria.

Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear, leading to reliance on a secretive system by which firearms manufacturers can submit proposed weapons for testing and find out one at a time whether they comply with the law, critics say.

The ATF recommends that manufacturers voluntarily submit weapons for case-by-case determination. But those judgments are private and, it turns out, sometimes contradictory. Critics say nearly identical prototypes can be approved for one manufacturer but denied for another.

It’s like some sort of government-institutionalized version of Calvinball.