Stopping Power
Green Beret court-martialed for failing to use a weapon of sufficient caliber. Seems he shot a home invader right between the eyes with a 22LR. Didn’t penetrate.
No, I doubt it’s true but the read is entertaining.
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June 22nd, 2012 at 10:22 am
It’s true, and was done in good fun.
June 22nd, 2012 at 10:33 am
I hope the perp took the hint and changed his ways; he used up his lifetime quota of luck right there.
June 22nd, 2012 at 10:49 am
God Bless him!
In that older photo of him he looks like actor Bill Duke from “Commando”. I wouldn’t want to tangle with him, .22 or no!
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm
I know a perp who was once shot over his right eye during a righteous police shooting. Guy was pointing a shotgun at the cops and the cop shot at him with a .38 special. The bullet hit him over the top of his right eye and he went down like he had been poleaxed. Several minutes later he started moaning. We learned later that the bullet had hit his brow ridge, deflected and gone between skin and skull. Four years later he was out on parole, seemingly none the worst for wear.
June 22nd, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t special forces from the era this guy was supposed to be from sometimes use suppressed .22’s for close-in stealth work?
June 23rd, 2012 at 12:11 am
My cousin, who used to be with the state bureau of investigation, was just telling me about a time when he was sent rushing to the hospital for a deathbed statement. He finds the guy sitting up and talking. He reported this was a no deathbed statement. His boss told him, they’d been told the guy was shot in the head. He was, only the .22 hit him in the forehead and tracked around his skull to exit the skin in the back of the skull.
June 23rd, 2012 at 11:27 am
I’ve seen the same thing JKB describes with a .32ACP FMJ. It dug itself about 180 degrees around his noggin from the forehead and the ER doc sliced the skin on the back of his head and popped the bullet out. Made a mess, but he walked out of the hospital the same day.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Taxi driver, classic Pacino. One reason I don’t own a .25.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Correction, I own one, just never use it. It was my Popaw’s. I miss that guy.