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PICKING’ THE WRONG TARGET: Concealed Carrier Puts Bullet Into Armed Robber’s Nose

A group of thugs in Hartford, Alabama must have been expecting an “easy score” when they set upon a married couple who was returning home from a night out on Friday.

They fled in a panic after the husband countered with ballistic rhinoplasty from his legally-concealed handgun...


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Good story. One thing I'd like to see less of is the inherent tendency to have to specify "legally owned" all the time. I guess they feel it is necessary, but I was somewhat amused they chose to say this: "It was only the presence of a legally-carried handgun that enabled the husband to defend himself and his wife from this gang of human predators." Hmmm...and an illegal gun wouldn't have? Semantics I guess. Just wonderin'. Also, a good can of pepper spray might have done the trick? Armchair quarterbacking I suppose. Hopefully a lesson taught to those criminals. Thanks for posting.

Watch the video of them pepper spraying a marine and making her go through drills. Doesn't stop her at all. So to answer your question in my opinion, definitely wouldn't count on it. In a gun free zone, it would be a good option... Better than nothing. I'd rather go for a taser or something though over pepper spray if I could. The criminals took a gamble and a risk, and they lost!