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About 2 hours ago I had someone pounding on my back door screaming for help. It;s the young female renter from the house behind mine.
I roll outta bed, grab the .45, ask her to step over by the window so I can see who it is. I then let her in.
She is hysterical saying that there is a gang on her street with machine guns shooting at each other and had shot out her front window. And she could see them waving guns around.
So I get dressed, call up 911, and because the call came from my house they came to my house. Long story short it is most of the police dept all 3 of them.
Long story short they want us both to come over to the neighbor's house. Sure enough the window is busted out, and there are silver balls everywhere.
Well we can hear yelling and screaming up in the woods along with alot of F bombs, and all of a sudden out come 6-8 dark clothing figures with AK's and AR's. Every officer draws, including me. All of suspects are ordered to the ground, at gun point, all the guns are secured from them. 5 AK's 2 AR's and 7 various hand guns. All our shooters are teens from the neighborhood.
Turns out it is the neighborhood kids out shooting screen doors and mail boxes with Automatic airsoft guns loaded with metal bb's. and the rifles are battery opperated full auto and powerful enough to dent and then punch holes in the side of tin mail boxes with the metal BB's.
They all went into handcuffs or plasticuffs. And they all got to have their parents come meet the officers. The parents were not happy and were more then content to have the airsoft guns layed out on the street while the officer ran them over repeatedly til they were trash. Apparently those airsoft guns run $200+ for some of them. And ALL of these had the red tips removed or colored over with sharpie marker.
What followed was a lecture on the fact that any or all of their kids could have been killed tonight and although it would have been a tragety it would have been justifyable. Teens shooting out windows dressed as ninjas, and presenting arrms at officers at a scene filled with 4 police cruisers with their light flashing. With what has happened recently in the news with officers being killed, tonight really put my adrenaline through the roof. To seen more then a half dozen figures emerge from the treeline accross the street and brandishing rifles was absolutely terrifying. And I have been at the end of a gun more then once in my life and it is something you never get over.
In the end I got a thank you for the help and compliments on keeping my head, and that all of the officers felt good with the choice of bringing me along and were glad I hadn't come unarmed. In the end what made several of the teens immeadiatly comply they told us was that myself and one of the officers have lasers on our gns which were activated when the youths came outta the woods. Long story short they told us they realized that once you get a lock on them with the laser it doesn't matter where they run the bullet will find them so they just gave up. Thank you Hollywood.
All 8 youths are looking a various charges that will be determined tomorrow. I have to go down and write a formal statement and report tomorrow.
So right now the neighbor just left after having coffee with me and my girlfriend. She was really freaked out by the whole thing.
Edited to add: When I got dressed I put on a Safriland Paddle with the Kimber right in plain sight. The officers never said a thing at my house and had no issue with me bringing it along holstered when we went over to the other street. All four knew it from standing talking with me inthe livingroom, and all complimented and were grateful I was armed when it was all over.
About 2 hours ago I had someone pounding on my back door screaming for help. It;s the young female renter from the house behind mine.
I roll outta bed, grab the .45, ask her to step over by the window so I can see who it is. I then let her in.
She is hysterical saying that there is a gang on her street with machine guns shooting at each other and had shot out her front window. And she could see them waving guns around.
So I get dressed, call up 911, and because the call came from my house they came to my house. Long story short it is most of the police dept all 3 of them.
Long story short they want us both to come over to the neighbor's house. Sure enough the window is busted out, and there are silver balls everywhere.
Well we can hear yelling and screaming up in the woods along with alot of F bombs, and all of a sudden out come 6-8 dark clothing figures with AK's and AR's. Every officer draws, including me. All of suspects are ordered to the ground, at gun point, all the guns are secured from them. 5 AK's 2 AR's and 7 various hand guns. All our shooters are teens from the neighborhood.
Turns out it is the neighborhood kids out shooting screen doors and mail boxes with Automatic airsoft guns loaded with metal bb's. and the rifles are battery opperated full auto and powerful enough to dent and then punch holes in the side of tin mail boxes with the metal BB's.
They all went into handcuffs or plasticuffs. And they all got to have their parents come meet the officers. The parents were not happy and were more then content to have the airsoft guns layed out on the street while the officer ran them over repeatedly til they were trash. Apparently those airsoft guns run $200+ for some of them. And ALL of these had the red tips removed or colored over with sharpie marker.
What followed was a lecture on the fact that any or all of their kids could have been killed tonight and although it would have been a tragety it would have been justifyable. Teens shooting out windows dressed as ninjas, and presenting arrms at officers at a scene filled with 4 police cruisers with their light flashing. With what has happened recently in the news with officers being killed, tonight really put my adrenaline through the roof. To seen more then a half dozen figures emerge from the treeline accross the street and brandishing rifles was absolutely terrifying. And I have been at the end of a gun more then once in my life and it is something you never get over.
In the end I got a thank you for the help and compliments on keeping my head, and that all of the officers felt good with the choice of bringing me along and were glad I hadn't come unarmed. In the end what made several of the teens immeadiatly comply they told us was that myself and one of the officers have lasers on our gns which were activated when the youths came outta the woods. Long story short they told us they realized that once you get a lock on them with the laser it doesn't matter where they run the bullet will find them so they just gave up. Thank you Hollywood.
All 8 youths are looking a various charges that will be determined tomorrow. I have to go down and write a formal statement and report tomorrow.
So right now the neighbor just left after having coffee with me and my girlfriend. She was really freaked out by the whole thing.
Edited to add: When I got dressed I put on a Safriland Paddle with the Kimber right in plain sight. The officers never said a thing at my house and had no issue with me bringing it along holstered when we went over to the other street. All four knew it from standing talking with me inthe livingroom, and all complimented and were grateful I was armed when it was all over.