Mississippi Home Owner Shoots, Kills Man In Midnight Robbery Attempt

By Dan Zimmerman

ADAMS COUNTY, MS — How often do you make the effort to get to the range — especially in the winter — to get in some quality trigger time? When you do, is it with a purpose or do you just plink mindlessly, pumping random holes into paper?

Indoor ranges aren’t the best environment for honing your shooting skills, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get some good work done there that could benefit you during an actual self defense situation. There are plenty of drills you can use to improve your accuracy and practice shooting in less-than-ideal conditions.

Conditions such has having only one working hand. That seems to have happened to a Mississippi home owner last week when he exchanged gunfire with a would-be robber.

Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten said an older man — who appeared to have his face wrapped with some sort of material that obscured his appearance — upon preliminary investigation seemed to have attempted to rob a secluded residence on Proby Road.

That older masked man was 52-year-old Richard Washington. But his robbery attempt didn’t go quite as he planned.

Patten said the resident was shot in the hand by the potential suspect, but the return …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation