Top Guns: Counter Snipers

This takes the cake:

The full caption reads

A US airman with a machine gun in Indian Springs. Burglars in the United States could once sue homeowners if they were shot, but now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Millar)

Currently available here. Via Wizbang. Cross-posted from Murdoc Online.

Get book. Throw it. Repeat.

Washington man accused of faking emergency call that sent armed response to unsuspecting Lake Forest family’s home.

On March 29 at 11:30 p.m., authorities allege, Randall Ellis, a 19-year-old from Mukilteo, Wash., hacked into the [Orange County California's] 911 system from his home and placed a false emergency call, prompting a fully armed response to the home of an unsuspecting couple that could have ended tragically.

Thinking that a prowler was roaming his back yard, a resident of the home, identified only as Doug B. in the district attorney’s complaint filed in court, walked outside with a kitchen knife as SWAT officers from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department waited with assault rifles.

Authorities do not believe this is the first time the suspect has done this.

Ellis is expected to appear in an Orange County courtroom Monday to face charges of computer access and fraud, false imprisonment by violence, falsely reporting a crime and assault with an assault weapon by proxy.

That’s gonna leave a mark.

Now that I think about this, I’m surprised that it hasn’t happened more often. It’s apparently a growing trend known as “SWATting”.

Nice.

(via Instapundit and Slashdot)

On David Hardy’s Of Arms and the Law: Fed. court voids law forbidding employers to ban guns in parking lots

There are a lot of negatives there, but what it means is that employers ARE free to ban guns in their parking lots in Oklahoma. Now that the battle over concealed carry permits has been lost by the anti-gun crowd, the next rounds will be over things like this in an effort to limit the places that gun owners can defend themselves.

What goes up might come down unexpectedly.

Hah.

Most of them, anyway.

MSNBC.com: Police: Church deacon shot 5 in Louisiana office

A special tactical unit used explosives to enter the building shortly after midnight and shot John Ashley to death after he opened fire, police spokesman Sgt. Clifford Gatlin said.

Police said Ashley repeatedly shot at them during the 10-hour standoff Thursday, and even shot at a remote-controlled police robot they sent inside. No officers were hurt.

Instapundit on this story:

We’re supposed to be worried about why. I think I have an answer though, and it’s the same reason I personally have bought arms from China: They’re good, and they’re cheap. Some years ago I bought a Chinese SKS rifle (a lightweight Kalashnikov variant) for 99 bucks. I expected it to be reliable and inexpensive, and it was. It also shot really well, and had a surprisingly smooth trigger pull. I liked it so much I went back and bought another to give my brother for Christmas. If someone had offered to sell me an AR-15 for the same 99 bucks I might have gone with it, but they didn’t, and for the price the SKS was an excellent buy.

The weapons are for the Iraqi police, not the Iraqi army.