Is there any truth to this?

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I was at a LGS and while I was browsing, happened to listen to the salesman telling a lady customer who was shopping for defense ammo, that you are only legally allowed to discharge two bullets if a BG attacks you. Any more than that can draw homicide charges. Does this make sense and is this true?
I am sure we have lots of LE professionals on this forum as well as folks who have a lot of experience. Thanks for sharing any factual info you might have.
 
This is gunstore BS. You will have to justify every single shot you fire, but there is no magic number that will automatically equal homicide.
 
More than likely the salesman knows just about as much about the product he's selling as he knows about the law. :rolleyes:

Find another LGS to shop at.
 
bwahahaha......find another LGS to patronize because that yo-yo doesn't know what the hell he is talking about!

You shoot until the threat is stopped. It can be 1-2 or any number of rounds!
 
This would almost be laughable if it wasn't advice that he was giving to someone else that may be equally clueless. Now she may be thinking about that idiot's advice if/when she ever does get in trouble.

I am unqualified to give out legal advice, but I know I would shoot until incapacitation of the threat is achieved, physically or mentally. That could be any number of shots.
 
That's one of the better ones I've heard of late.

In my opinion, you shoot till the threat is neutralized regardless if it takes one round or 20.
 
Sounds as silly as a line I heard at a gun show once. A guy nearby was going on about how it was illegal to have more than "X" number of rounds of ammo stored in your home. He claimed to know a guy who told someone that he had a couple thousand rounds of ammo, and the cops came and seized it. Several folks nearby called BS on it, but he was adamant about his story.
 
They say a good salesman can sell ice to an eskimo

That said, I'd say you'd best shop for your ice at another location.
 
So double tap, stop, look and see how effective your shots were, then double tap again?

My LEGAL method will be: keep pulling the trigger and placing rounds on target until target is no longer in my sight picture.
 
Of course it could be that the salesman was trying to say that there are prosecutors who will use multiple wounds as circumstantial evidence that the self-defense point had passed and that this was now a vengeance killing. That part is true, but not something that I would discuss with a neophyte customer. The A response would have been: once you buy a weapon, please be sure to take a self-defense and home-defense course so that you will understand how and when to use this.
 
This is gunstore BS.
You will have to justify every single shot you fire, but there is no magic number that will automatically equal homicide.
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Unless the bullet entry holes are in the BG's back, i.e. . ;)



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On the flip side of the coin, I had a friend tell me they would "empty their gun" into a BG if it ever happened. I made it clear you can only fire until the threat is neutralized, to which I met some feedback.:rolleyes:
 
The axiom we were told in the Army was that you don't stop the bad guys by using equal force, you stop the bad guys by using SUPERIOR force.
In a case like yours, I just shake my head and walk away, never to deal with that idiot again. It's the classic case where when paying wages for an employee, you get what you pay for, and in this case it is surely low wages and a sub-standard mentality. I would look for a better class LGS. Nuff said.
 
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