Florida Homeowner Gets Into Shootout With Gunman

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USA –-(Ammoland.com)- News 4 WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida reports 03-20-2017, a Westside homeowner who is a military veteran, said he heard gunshots and screaming, so he went outside with a handgun in his belt. It happened just before 10 a.m. on Buttercup Street at Brannon Avenue.

He said he saw a stranger pointing a rifle at a neighbor. He reported the stranger was waving his rifle around and saying something to his neighbors. The neighbor was standing by their van with their children. The stranger started walking towards them.

“He tried to shoot my neighbor’s dog in close proximity to my neighbor. I think he shot a second time in the direction of my neighbor and the children. And then when he saw me and I made the comment “There were not going to be no more shootings in this neighborhood”. The stranger reacted by turning with his AK-47 and at firing me and my house, …Read the Rest

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