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I have a box of 00 buckshot I was thinking of dropping off.

If the store owner dies they can be charged with murder.

Why would you waste any Hevi shot loads on black guys 4 buck and aim higher.

Any kind of shot weight, is deadly under 10 yrds, he could be shooting #8 shot and still blow this thugs arm off. Rio7

At that range -- looked like about 15 feet -- just some high base #6s would have been very, very effective, as in "terminal."

L. W.

But double-aught buckshot would have penetrated the shoulder and made it through the thug's heart.

Hopefully store owner is ok and recovering in same hospital. Would be awesome if he was hovering over the perp when he wakes up.

Yup

Aint no way they sound like groids to me.

Sound like punk white bread

And I have been A LOT of negroes, I ain’t from Salmon

I could be wrong, might be some *Huxtable* neegers

Should have aimed a little higher.

I agree. At that range, about 20 feet, a direct hit of the upper arm bone with #8 shot would have blown the humerus in two. Must have just winged him.

Elderly store owner Craig Cope speaks out after shooting would-be robber
By Joshua Rhett Miller
August 2, 2022 3:17pm Updated


An elderly California liquor store owner who flipped the script on armed gunmen during an attempted robbery said Tuesday that he had no choice but to open fire on one of the assailants, insisting it was “either him or me.”

Craig Cope, 80, said he feared for his life as four would-be thieves drove up early Sunday to Norco Market & Liquor in Norco, where he was behind the counter when one of the assailants busted in with a rifle and yelled at him to freeze.

Cope said he knew something was off when he saw a dark BMW SUV pull up alongside the store instead of into several nearby open parking spaces. They also “backed in” as they approached, which was another “red flag” for the quick-thinking owner.


“I got a long gun pointing directly at me,” Cope told The Post Tuesday, adding that he feared for his life. “It was either him or me and I was little bit faster.”

“And then I saw them getting out of the car in masks and with guns,” Cope continued. “So, I figured what was going to happen. I just knew they were armed and masked and that they were coming in, so I was ready for them.”

At one point, three of the suspects hopped out of the SUV, while a fourth man stayed behind to act as a getaway driver, Cope said.

Surveillance footage from inside the store shows Cope firing the shotgun just seconds after the gunman announced the robbery, wounding the would-be robber in the arm.

“He was screaming that I shot his arm off,” Cope recalled. “That’s what he said."

Norco in Riverside County is not known as a “high-crime area,” Cope said. Many of the city’s residents own horses and the community is largely conservative.

“It’s not a good area for robbers to come,” Cope said flatly. “Many of the homeowners are conservatives and probably armed. These guys didn’t do their homework.”

Authorities tracked down the four suspects at a Southern California hospital, where one had a gunshot wound consistent with a shotgun blast, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

He musta been shooting rock salt like Uncle Jesse.

To quote the Cable Guy. Don't care who you are, that there is funny.

The store owner will learn to use #4 buckshot for that application.

It was funny as hell.

To old to run and to old to fight is a recipe of disaster for a robber.

So I take it he was hit by California approved "Pepto Bismol?" (bismuth Shot)

Well, folks get pissed off when I use the term I learned back in the 1950's.
Kinda like that river in Africa with a single "g".

Orange is the new black. (makes target acquisition all that more easier too)

C'mon, guys!
Consider that pattern density kills, not shot size.
Peter Hathaway Capstick may not have been THE consummate authority, but for sorting out wounded leopards, he claimed that #1 buckshot was (ahem!) the "cat's meow"!

C'mon, guys!
Consider that pattern density kills, not shot size.
Peter Hathaway Capstick may not have been THE consummate authority, but for sorting out wounded leopards, he claimed that #1 buckshot was (ahem!) the "cat's meow"!