Have You Ever Needed To Use Your Firearm?

serious concealed carry permit users who have pulled your firearm what happened I had to pick my wife up at the airport one night we got back to our house at around 2:00 a.m. my wife had left her purse ooh in the truck so she went back out to get it she comes running back in screaming because some guy had been hiding in our bushes and poked out on her as she was getting into the truck she escaped him and ran inside screaming I grabbed my gun and a flashlight and turned on the guy he froze and I told him to lay on the ground and held him there until the cops came to arrest him protip if you tell 9-1-1 you are holding someone at gunpoint they get there really fast this was many years ago but I worked at a local bar as did my girlfriend at the time we had some trouble earlier that night with a couple of guys who wanted to fight our doorman they didn't win and got a little roughed up before they left hours later I'm walking my girlfriend to her car and this pickup truck comes hauling butt from the far end of the parking lot and screeches to a stop just past where we stood by guy hops out of the passenger side with an axe handle yes I live in FL and says something like it takes four of you to mess up my buddy well now it's your turn as he was saying the seal approaching us I had pulled my pistol and chambered around 0.38 0 auto he saw this and stopped in his tracks put his hands up and backed his way toward the truck they took off and we didn't see then again the kicker is that a few weeks later I went to the gun range and found that the firing pin and that posed gun had broken I couldn't have used it even if I had really needed to good thing just the sight of it was enough to scare off a bad guy road rage incident there was a guy in front of me at a red light it's a long red it finally turns green he's busy texting light turns yellow then red again he has a passenger passenger is just looking at the driver and yelling the light turns green again I'm still waiting this time I tap the car horn the passenger looks back through the rear window then opens his door gets out and starts kicking my passenger side window and trying to get in my car the door was locked but I couldn't dry off because I was too close to the car he got out and there was someone right behind me he tried kicking my mirror off missed got more mad came to the driver's side tried getting in again I was in shock and didn't know what to do for the first like 5 10 seconds of this happening more in shock out of disbelief than anything then I remembered I had my CCW drew it in the car and the guy held his hands up got back in the passenger's seat and then the next green light came and it was over the whole thing was surreal a tip from a retired cop if you can't see the bottom of the cars wheels in front of you you're too close and are putting yourself in a vulnerable position always be able to see the rear tires touching the ground I'm a very petite girl in my late 20s had someone tap on my window one night while I was at a gas station they were closed pumps still operating in a kind of sketchy neighborhood in my big city FL I hadn't even gotten out of my car to pump gas as I was still looking for my debit card guy was trying to rob me or steal my car I honestly don't know cause he had a mask over his nose and mouth with a hoodie and I couldn't hear but I did see he had a gun partially coming out of his hoodie pocket those middle ones I felt my heart in my throat but somehow I pulled mine out of my person pointed it and he ran like heck I assumed some punk kid with a fake gun maybe but I cried like heck once I got out of there and parked somewhere safer I don't know what would have transpired had he had an actual gun I don't even remember what I was thinking dear lord that is scary this isn't my story but my friend's dad from about 15 years ago he owns a business in a rough part of town and is a big italian-american dude picture an Italian stereotype basically six feet two inches thick black hair slicked back nice suits gold chain gold rings loud and assertive he's a character but we love him after work one day he's finished at the grocery store and his putting bags in the backseat of his car when someone walks up to the opposite door and leans forward into the car the guy is very unkempt and looks to be in rough shape he flashes a knife and says you're going - let me take those groceries and walk away sir my friend's dad pulls his gun and says I don't want any trouble here take a bag but leave me alone the guy walks away and my friend's dad immediately calls the police he then calls me friend says he's going into shock shaking uncontrollably heart racing just absolutely shaken up by having to pull his gun well the police arrived he tells them what happened and the officer says why the Frick didn't you shoot him my friend's dad said the guy was clearly in a bad spot and only asked for the food didn't even ask for the jewelry or money I pulled my firearm in my own home it was a quiet afternoon and I was lying in bed to take a nap when my home security system let me know an unknown face was at my front door not unusual I get packages all the time and my phone always lets me know when an unfamiliar faces at the door anyway I just wanted to take her nap so I didn't go looking into it I figured I just get the package later then my phone indicated that my front door had been opened I opened the app and see on the video feed two men had entered my home so I hit the send help button and got my weapon when the two men opened the door to my room all it took was then seen the gun in my hand to run away my dog ran away from me while I was on a hike in the woods yanked the leash right out of my hands he bolted to chase after some noise I didn't hear I followed him the best I could by using his barks and listening to general rustling noises in the woods he is not a graceful carp as I got closer to where I thought he was that trees were pretty thick and I started to hear a low growling noise that are associated with a mountain lion I've never heard a mountain lion to the best of my knowledge at least I drew my gun then because I suspected that I was about to walk up on this mountain lion eating my dog I would need it out of self-defense luckily it turned out to be a house cat that had perched itself in a tree to avoid my dog I could have sworn that growl was from something ten times bigger mountain lions actually can't growl roar but they try their best anyway it sounds like a woman being brutally murdered I was driving one evening and must have unknowingly done something to aggravate this guy because he went nuts on the road he would tailgate flash his lights back off and roar up right onto my bumper tried to cut me off and stop I drove defensively but he was definitely following me he pulled up next to me at several points and was yelling and screaming at me so I pulled my gun from the passenger seat popped it out of the holster and laid it in my lap where he would not be able to see it he followed me for about seven miles and I was able to pull into a parking lot at the last second to lose him but he pulled in at the next entrance and continued to follow me I was close to home and low on gas so I pulled into an adjacent neighborhood and called the police they asked if I wanted somebody to come out well done and they said they would if they could the guy kept turning off his headlights and backing off to trick me into thinking he gave up but as soon as I would turn he would race up to try to find where I parked one time he waited too long and I ended up behind him I had shut off my lights and put my emergency brake on by one click to turn off my driving lights and managed to sneak away I went home and could hear his truck racing and screaming through the other neighborhood to find me due to his very loud and distinct muffler I went inside and realized about 20 minutes later that I left my work badge out in the car when I went out to grab it I could still hear him racing around looking for my car we both ended up pretty lucky I didn't have to find out what he wanted to do or try to do and he didn't end up getting short joke is on him though I went home and played video games he wasted gas for about 30-40 minutes in a truck that couldn't have been doing much better than 10 miles per gallon I pulled up to gas station and parked on the side of it not the front I began to reply to my text messages when this girl ran across the street into the parking space where I was at a car pulled up one space over next to me and grabbed a girl and was trying to shove her into the car I rolled down my window and asked her if she was okay the man replied with yeah my GF is good I once more asked her if she was okay and just before the guy was going reply I quickly said I'm asking her not you apparently that infuriated the man and he walked pretty quick to my passenger window and had his hands inside and told me there was no problem it was weird for a brief moment everything slowed down and I saw that he was going to reach for something or hit me so I pulled my Glock from my side and he backed up quickly and told me to shoot him obviously this man was crazy so I began to call the cops he got in his car and his GF got out and he sped off some guy opened the door and got into the passenger seat of my car while I was sitting at a red light while driving through an industrial area of my town late at night I had just dropped off a friend at his work on a night shift so the doors were unlocked older car no auto locks he was going across the crosswalk and veered off to the side of my car when he got to it then opened the door and got in I had started drawing my gun as soon as he changed direction at my car so it was out and ready when he got in he turned toward me to say something I was pointing the gun at him and I said what the Frick are you doing he stammered something unintelligible got out and ran off he might have mistaken me for someone else like a lyft or uber or something but I wasn't about to sit there and wait to see what his intentions were nobody got carjacked mugged and nobody got shot so it all worked out in my opinion one time I was picking up my sister-in-law from work and she gets off late snow had blocked the road to her workplace so I parked right down the street maybe 25 30 yards away or so she texts me that she was coming out so I started to look in that direction she came out and started to walk toward me when a guy came out from from a nearby alleyway and tried to take her backpack but ended up tossing her to the ground but took my gun from my car holster and Randy huh he was on top of her trying to take the bag off when I shouted that to get off her or I will shoot but he took one look in my direction and ran with nothing tripping over some snow as he went along grabbed my sis-in-law and got in my car took her to the ER for some stitches since she hit the pavement pretty hard we did a police report but don't think they ever caught the guy God dang that is terrifying , your poor SIL we have a gunsmith shop I was alone in the shop doing book work I'm a woman and not the gunsmith when some guy came in trying to look in cabinets touchin tools et Cie and asking what guns we sell I repeatedly told him we only repair build guns and he needed to leave he was getting agitated and I was getting annoyed I pulled my weapon out of the holster under my desk with one hand and called the sheriff with the other the idiot told me I couldn't shoot him because I didn't track the slide I asked him if he was willing to find out he stammered a bit then took off sheriff picked him up 30 minutes later peering into a neighbor's house he was ahem hadn't known well by the sheriff way out in the country neighbor lives a mile or so down the road I was frankly shocked the sheriff was able to arrive so fast for your information my gun always has a chambered round when the shop is open to isolated in too many em heads in the area I clear it and lock up gun and mag at the end of the day in two years I've only drawn it twice , the idiot told me I couldn't shoot him because I didn't track the slide Lowell edifice thanks was about to leave the house third floor condo with central private courtyard when I heard screaming looked down in the courtyard and saw a guy dragging a girl with his arm around her throat ran down the stairs and came out right in front of them she was slumped to the ground and he was behind her with his arm around her neck she had one forearm between his arm and her neck so she could still breathe she saw me and screamed he's trying to kill me I yelled at him a couple of times to let her go and got no response so I drew my pistol and told him I was going to shoot him if he didn't let her go I didn't want him to drag her into the condo he was trying to get her to he did comply at that point and quickly left the building my wife was watching from upstairs and had called 911 i holstered and covered before the cops arrived and luckily new one from where I worked the girl had meanwhile jumped in a car and left but the guy's mother lived there and came out of all the parties we're contacted it turned out they had issues with DV before no issues from the cops on my end filled out a witness statement and got my gun back and went on about the day years ago I stopped at a rest area along i-59 in Alabama very late at night I had gone to the restroom and was walking back to the car the path back into the parking lot wasn't very well-lit and went through a bit of wooded area as I walk through the darkest part a man stepped out of the trees and fell in behind me following about 15 feet back I was about 200 feet from my car and I could see that there wasn't another one parked near it every hair on my neck stood up I walked straight toward the car guy kept following me and didn't say a word I don't know what he had in mind but I assumed it wasn't good I had a browning point three eight zero auto in and inside the pants holster when I got about 15 feet from the car I pulled it out I took about two more steps and then turned around and walked backwards until I was against the car door whatever the guy had in mind he decided otherwise he stopped turned on his heels and hold but back up the path I got in the car and headed on down the road I hope he didn't stick around and try to harm anyone else this was in the days before cellphones and I sure as heck wasn't going back up the path to find a phone I wasn't CCW at a time but I was open carrying while working at a gun store otherwise I wouldn't open carry when we closed at night we locked up and left together no exceptions so we are standing at the door while the manager is kicking it in the car with the lights off comes rolling up to the door they started to roll the window down in the guy closet of the car drew his gun followed by the rest of us the guy didn't think that rolling up to a dart gun store at night with his lights off to ask if we were still open was a bad idea a guy at the range where I lived almost got ventilated because he walked up to the counter reached into his pants and pulled out a loaded pistol apparently it was jammed and he needed help but man there are way better ways to handle okay so I'm not a concealed carry permit holder but my husband is we were on a trip for a wedding and stopped in New Orleans for a couple days for some downtime while we were there we got turned around after leaving a restaurant and were kind of lost we were on a road a couple blocks from where we had started so decided we would try and go back there and start over we only had two drinks each with dinner so we weren't drunk but pretty relaxed two guys approached us with knives drawn one was like a camping knife and the other was a decent-sized butterfly knife and said hands up so we did the main guy said for me to get my husband's wallet and give it to him my husband concealed carries at his back so I pulled his gun pointing at them was enough and the main guy said Frick and they both ran off my husband was really proud of me and I'm glad I didn't have to shoot anyone I think we both handled it a lot better because of being relaxed from the drinks normally I think I would have been freaking out this is my favorite one I'm proud of you too and I don't even know you : I grew up near some fairly rural places I was out on a work call in one of these said rural places I'm on a dirt road just big enough for one car each way in the woods the big butt truck comes up behind me and starts flashing lights and honking I pull over as much as I can without going into the ditch that ran alongside the road dude blows past me and gets maybe 200 feet in front of my car and pulls over by the time he pulled over I'm moving again I Drive past him windows blacked out and the truck is idling I get a few feet in front of him and he starts it all over again we do this dance four times he gets on my bumper and goes notes I let him go and then he gets right behind me eventually I have enough of this I put my gun on my hip visibly and step out of my car if this is going to end badly I want it on my terms he turned around when he saw me step out so I'm facing the front of his truck I put my hand on my gun so it's super obvious what's about to happen he sees me gun turns around again and drives off I'm not sure I would have been able to shoot at him but I'm glad I had my gun for some reason during that entire read I imagined this Big Bud truck as an unmarked 18-wheeler with payload few years ago a new tenant moved into a house three houses down from me she was a four feet eight sash 90 pound lady with two massive ABT very very agressive pitbulls who had to be deprecated from each other due to violently attacking each other these two dogs would growl and snarl opit in the front yard got through the fence and out in front of me in the street this tiny lady cone running out right as this dog starts charging me I don't know how that she barely got that dog under control I told her clear as day if this happens again and this dog gets in range to hurt me I will shoot it she screamed and cried and called our neighbor who is a sheriff he sided with me he had video of the attack and other incidents of these dogs well long story short about a month later this dog gets out and charges me and I shot it seconds later the second dog come through the fence I shot the dog as well I promptly call the sheriff's office explains what happened few seconds later the Sherif SIA comes running out as he heard the shots looks at the dogs and says I'll call the owner ended up not getting in any trouble due to security footage and witness from the sheriff the lady moved out about two months later I still feel bad about shooting those dogs but there was zero chance I was going to allow two 120 Plus dogs rip me apart don't feel bad those dogs could haven't probably would have freaked you up it's the crappy owners fault for raising such aggressive dogs one time my wife and I were walking in the downtown of our small city to our car in a pay lot a group of guys in a cart began following us and saying profane things to my wife in another language I happen to speak we got to her car and they blocked me in one of the guys got out and approached my wife's door so I also stepped out and pulled my gun on him he got back and without a word and they sped off another time a drunk high dude jumped the fence into my backyard I pulled my er out shined the gun light in his eyes and told him I was going to shoot over the sound of my bark which my wife was trying to hold back the guy ran off you should have let the dog bite his nuts I was waiting in a supermarket parking lot in our car while my wife was picking up some groceries I had the door unlocked because I was expecting her back any moment some very drunk guy just got into the backseat and was laying down he smelled like liquor I asked him what he was doing and he responded with incomprehensible rambling in a firm voice I told him he needed to get out he refused and continued with his incoherent rambling he then put his dirty shoes up on the seats of our brand-new car he refused to leave and even started kicking the door handle he was a pretty large man so dragging him out would have been very difficult and risky at that point I pulled out my Glock 19 and pointed it at him he very quickly got out and sprinted away he was surprisingly well coordinated for a person who seemed so drunk well I'm not sure about you but if I'm drunken don't quite know where I am having a gun pointed at me in an unfamiliar vehicle would probably get me sober enough real quick didn't draw but was open carrying and at the ATM getting money to pay the sitter after an evening out and dinner so it's dark around 9:30 p.m. or so as I started working the ATM my spidey sense started going off I glanced left saw nothing to the right and something was amiss I stopped looking for detail and started looking for movement I saw a dark silhouette of a person sneaking along the wall the ATM was lit up like the noonday Sun so I took a half step left made sure that my firearm was plainly visible and continued my transaction while paying attention to the guy trying to sneak up on me when he got close enough he realized I was armed his eyes got huge he bolted away and every couple of steps glanced back to see if I was chasing him it's a bad idea to approach someone in a skulking manner at night specifically staying in the shadows doing that means you have ill intent the fact that I'm a 6 feet 2 inches 250 pounds male did nothing to discourage him I'm glad I was but my spidey-sense started going off always trust your spidey sense your gut feeling only cares about saving your life and it's often right we travel up to TN from FL to a friend's cabin about every other year this cabin is about a 20-minute drive off the main road we stopped at the gas station at the main road and I noticed a couple of meth tap kids watching us we were in a big white van that looked like a church bus to families and the van full of all our stuff the cabin is on a lake and we were on a two-week vacation on the way up the road I see these guys are following us so I pulled over to let them pass on this small road they go ahead and stop in front of us and proceeded to get out of their car they said they are looking to get to the lake and could they follow us by the time one of them gets to my window my gun is on my lap he looks down and says sorry I thought you were someone else they turned around and ran back to their car and went back down the road I never leave home without it this story really makes me wish we had state to state reciprocity I travel a lot as a musician and I just go to too many places with differing laws to carry we've been in some really sketchy areas but thankfully nothing's ever happened I was camping in a state park a guy busted out the back window of my truck at 1:30 a.m. and was halfway in the cab he had hit a few others earlier I found out later I'm always armed and pulled my point 4-0 caliber handgun on him stopped it right there glad I did who knows what else he could have all would have done with other campers in the campground I carry a Ruger 90 handgun walking across the street to a gas station at night like I did all the time in order to pick up some drinks for the girlfriend and I I've crossed the street and I'm approaching the building from its side which has a small grass lot spanning from its wall to the sidewalk I see a man peak around the corner then come towards me it is a Texas spring so it's a good 85 degrees outside at this point and he's wearing a hoodie with the hood over his head he makes a line straight at me so I turned right to go around him no big deal as his path leads straight to the apartment complex skate and I was in the way however he turns and heads towards me again I turn a game to HUD the other way getting a little nervous and he changes direction again I see he's got his hands in the pocket of the hoodie and is holding something long since I can make out a shape near the lump of his hand we go back and forth until we are face to face and he asks me for money I tell him I have any he insists in it and takes a step towards me I reach back lift my shirt and put a hand on the grip of my gun and tell him I don't have any cash he insists again telling me that yell you got stuff and starts walking quickly at me with hands still in his hoodie pockets I draw my gun to hand the grip and point it at the ground between us and tell him this is what I got his hands go up and I see the hilt of a large knife in his pocket he backs off and leaves while I watch him then holster the gun and hurry into the gas station to call the cops they arrive and search the area for him but couldn't find him if I didn't have that gun I would no doubt have been robbed and gutted that night at the time this happened I was living in em country that changed what you're about to read from regular road rage Jack often I might actually have to use deadly force here a driver was aggressively tailgating me he passed me and began break checking me when I exited he swerved over at the last second he got halfway up the ramp and stopped there are now a half dozen cars stopped behind me and this nutjob stopped in front of me on either side of me are concrete construction barriers with no room to drive around this guy he was bouncing around in his car by himself like he was in an argument I called 911 screaming incoherently and gesturing at me he starts staggering towards me I'm boxed in cars behind me can't go forwards can't go backwards can't go around I was coming back from the range so I had my handgun highpoint forty have at it on the passenger seat I didn't want to escalate the situation but at the same time he clearly wasn't asking for directions I pulled the gun out of the holster took the safety off and chambered around and 911 with me about my location evidently the exit number wasn't sufficient so I just put the phone down on the dash Wendy got to my car he started alternating between screaming and laughing I didn't know if he was on em or PCP or something else I didn't know if he was having a mental break I didn't know if he had a gun it's scary how fast panic shuts down your brain how far would my round go would it penetrate those houses will I lose my hearing firing in a vehicle what will happen to my eyes with the gun less than a foot from my face can I even aim like this will the glass affect the round my brain basically stopped functioning and went into a loop our brains go into survival mode in extreme stress situations and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it it's part of the reason why trauma victims often remember specific smells or visual patterns or sounds but lack a coherent timeline of events I just kept repeating that threshold over and over if he punches the window I shoot it felt like he was there for an hour but it was probably only a minute tops I hope the other cars behind me saw what was happening eventually he got in his car and drove away I was able to give 9-1-1 a plate and a description of both him in the car the plate was stolen and nothing ever came of it I moved out of the area years ago the story has a happy ending though I've since replaced the high point with an M&P shield 9 if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 28min 38sec (1718 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020