Althouse: Shot, right in the gun.

July 15, 2016

Shot, right in the gun.

"An off-duty sheriff's deputy under attack managed to fire his gun and made a 'one in a billion' shot. The deputy's bullet traveled up the barrel of a suspect's gun, colliding with the cartridge inside and lodging itself there."

12 comments:

Chuck said...: Wasn't there a "Mythbusters" on this notion? I thought they disproved the possibility of this happening?

(Those guys loved guns and they knew the audience did too. They did shows about physically dodging bullets, and I think there was one about shooting an opposing sniper through his scope. But I thought that they did one about shooting into the barrel of an opposing gun and they got nothing more than a bunch of messed up guns. Even when they had bench-mounted guns facing each other, lined up carefully in a lab with a laser.); 7/15/16, 4:54 PM
john mosby said...: Guns don't kill guns; people kill guns.

JSM; 7/15/16, 5:05 PM
Jon Ericson said...: @Chuck
What a buffoon.; 7/15/16, 6:05 PM
Unknown said...: This, or something almost as difficult - shooting a pistol out of a bad guy's grip, was common in the old west. I've seen it in a hundred old movies.; 7/15/16, 6:22 PM
David said...: Lone Ranger did it all the time.; 7/15/16, 6:55 PM
rhhardin said...: Story from some recent DVD watching

A man was shot but a bible in his shirt pocket stopped the bullet and protected his heart.

If he'd had another bible over his face, he'd be alive today.; 7/15/16, 6:59 PM
Big Mike said...: Has anyone besides me realized that this could not have happened unless the perp's gun was pointed directly at the deputy?

It may be a "one in a billion shot" but I recollect reading about it happening during WWII in my Dad's old "Yank" magazines. It happened at least twice during the Vietnam War, once to an American soldier and once in a killshot made by legendary Smerican sniper Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. Gunny Hathcock actually put his round through the eyepiece of the enemy's telescopic sight.; 7/15/16, 7:16 PM
Unknown said...: As Maxwell Smart would have said: The old bullet in the barrel trick!; 7/15/16, 7:56 PM
Curious George said...: "Big Mike said...
Has anyone besides me realized that this could not have happened unless the perp's gun was pointed directly at the deputy?"

Everyone realizes that. So?; 7/16/16, 6:59 AM
Big Mike said...: @Curious George, I rather doubt your conclusion.; 7/16/16, 8:45 AM
JAORE said...: Common sense gun control for cops.

Aim for the barrel....; 7/16/16, 9:09 AM
mikee said...: Shooting the gun out of a bad guy's hand used to be such a highly used cliche on TV and movie Westerns that some anti-gun people actually think it is a reasonable possibility in the real world.

It is not.; 7/17/16, 11:41 AM