“It’s a weird feeling,” Jorge Guzman said as he walked through his bullet-riddled home on Lima Drive.  “I don’t care who it is or who they think they are, when you’re in that position, it’s totally different.”

The break-in occurred in the early morning hours last Monday. Only Guzman and his uncle were home at the time.

The chilling encounter was captured in a call to 911.

“Please, they’re breaking the windows,” Guzman told a dispatcher.

Guzman, who had barricaded himself in a back bedroom with a handgun, described the scene as it unfolded to dispatchers.

Listen to the 911 call when a homeowner uses a handgun to defend himself against an intruder. Click Here

“I hear somebody in the house. They’re trying to open the door. Hurry! Please hurry,” he said.

The dispatcher continued to reassure Guzman that sheriff’s deputies were on the way.  At one point, Guzman was instructed to lay down his weapon.

“Go and put your gun down because if you hear anything, it’s going to be the deputies,” the 911 dispatcher insisted.

Then, moments later, the sound of gunfire was caught on tape.

Guzman told 11 News he fired the shots because the intruder was trying to kick down the door to his bedroom.

“As soon as he put his foot there, that’s when I shot, because he had a big tattoo on his face and when the lady was telling me that’s the sheriff’s department, when he came into that door I said that’s not the sheriff’s department,” Guzman said. Read more

Source: txcn.com

People who “have nothing to hide” are often quite happy to answer any questions and consent to any intrusion a police officer might ask of them. They may even invite officers to “look around” if they want to.

If you ask a good defense attorney how much you should cooperate with police, particularly when they are conducting an investigation in which you could possibly be a suspect, he will tell you “Not at all.” Don’t give them one word more than you must and never give them permission to search your car, look through your home, or examine any of your guns.

David Olofson took the “nothing to hide” approach. When the police confiscated one of his firearms from a friend he had loaned it to, Olofson freely chatted with police about how many guns he had, how many he has built, how he helps people to buy and assemble their own AR-platform rifles, and quite a bit more.

David Olofson’s loquacious ways probably helped to put him in prison for 30 months for illegally transferring an unregistered machine gun – that was actually just a malfunctioning semi-auto – and his case has set a very dangerous precedent which threatens all gun owners.

On the other side of the coin is Albert Kwan. A Seattle Class III firearms dealer and collector, Kwan followed the path of minimal cooperation. When agents asked him about a pair of Makarov barrels they thought he might have bought and asked to examine any Makarovs or Makarov parts he might have, Albert told them he had only purchased one barrel and that they should get a warrant if they wanted to examine it or anything else he owned.

Kwan says he wasn’t trying to hide anything; he just wanted to make sure his rights were respected and his privacy protected. Unfortunately, under-cooperating can be as problematic as over-cooperating.

Albert Kwan’s lack of cooperation “raised red flags” with agents investigating a murder case – the murder of a federal prosecutor. Albert was never a suspect in the murder, but agents thought he might have sold the gun, or at least the barrel, that the murderer used and they wanted to know where that barrel had gone.

When he refused to let agents look at his guns and take his Makarovs, agents’ were peeved and they began trying to force Kwan to tell them what they wanted to hear – something Kwan has consistently maintained that he is unable to do because he says he never had a second barrel. Read more

Source: Knox Report from Ohioans for Concealed Carry

Investigators said the homeowner, Mark Brown, returned to his house in the 8500 block of Norton at about 9:30 a.m. when he heard someone inside.

Brown grabbed a shotgun hidden under a bed and found the burglar in a bedroom, police said.

The homeowner fired several shots after the burglar rushed at him from a closet. The burglar was hit three times, according to investigators.

The burglar, whose name was not released, died at the scene.Milton Brandt has lived on Norton for 50 years. He called 911 after the shooting.”I just talked to (Brown) a while ago.

He's upset, sure he is,” Brandt said. “He walked in the door and said all the lights are on.”Brown said he felt lucky that the burglar did not find the shotgun.”

The guy had already ransacked his bedroom and just so happened that God bless him, and he didn't find the shotgun under the bed,” said David Brown, the homeowner's father. Read more

Source: click2houston.com

There was a bill introduced into the Senate in 2000 that would have amended the Internal Revenue Code and therefore the National Firearms Act of 1934 to include handguns. The 1934 NFA is the legislation that created the mandate for tracking and taxing the manufacture and transfer of class III firearms and destructive devices. If made into law, handgun owners would fall under the same laws that owners of fully automatic weapons and firearms with silencers have to follow. It would have been the fear of national gun registration becoming a reality. Fortunately this legislation never had a prayer of passing nine years ago.

The original bill was S. 2099 (not SB-2099) and there are slightly different versions bouncing around the internet. In some versions the IRS would have a form that accompanied the 1040 or there would be a section of the 1040 that would require all gun information. A gun tax (usually $50 per gun) is mentioned. It is stated that either the senate does not have to vote on it or, it will be voted on while everyone is worried about health care and announced thirty days after passage. It may appear in a form that combines it with the very real and current H.R. 45; the Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009.

Most of these allegations are incorrect about the real legislation from nine years ago. IRS reporting on income tax forms was never involved. The tax was on the manufacturing or transfer of a gun not an annual tax. It amends the tax code of 1986 that is already in place for destructive devices (class-III weapons). Federal, state and local law enforcement would be involved but only to share registration information. These are the same rules that every owner of a class-III weapon has to follow now. Furthermore, it only involved handguns, not all guns.

The bill didn’t have a chance and everyone knew it, even the man that introduced it. Read more

Source: Baltimore Hunting & Fishing Examiner