I read it every month. I don't recall the last one I saw that required a citizen to shoot THROUGH something to defend themselves.
Guess you missed these found them in a few minutes on the NRA website:
Returning home to find a man rooting around in her living room, a 22-year-old woman quickly fled to the bedroom. She locked the door behind her and obtained her husband's handgun and ammunition. According to authorities, the young woman fled to an adjacent bathroom and turned the door's lock while the intruder forcefully entered the bedroom. She quickly loaded her husband's gun and, when the intruder began pounding on the bathroom door, she fired a single shot. Upon realizing his intended victim was armed, the once-brazen thug fled the home.
AUTHORITIES SAY BENNIE Hall, Jr. went outside to warm up his car before work, then returned inside to finish getting ready. He left the door open to keep his car in view, but briefly entered a back room to holster the .45 pistol he is licensed to carry. At that point he heard his car pulling away. "I looked, and the car was gone," Hall said. He spotted the car turning around at the street's dead end, and when it came past his house, he attempted to stop it by waving his arms in the air. Instead of giving himself up, the carjacker veered directly at Hall in an apparent attempt to leave no witnesses to the crime. Hall shot into the car, killing the driver. "Mr. Hall has a right to protect himself with deadly force if his life is in danger ... Based on the totality of the evidence and circumstances, he was doing just that," said County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Deters.
Unable to fend off an alleged intruder on her own, a woman ran to the home of her neighbor, Roger Ledford. But police say the suspect continued to pursue her, even shooting the lock off Ledford's side door. As he attempted to breach the door, Ledford shot him with a shotgun, killing him. "The homeowner was fearful of what was going on and shot and killed him," said Capt. Brad Stanley of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office. Police also said the assailant had poured a flammable substance inside the woman's
When a man heard his doorbell ringing incessantly, he ignored it in hopes that the person would go away. But, shortly thereafter, he heard a pounding at his back door; so he grabbed a firearm as a precaution and went to investigate. According to police, the man then saw someone trying to force his door open, and when he pulled back the window blinds, he saw an arm reach through a broken window. The homeowner fired one shot, striking his assailant in the chest. The would-be intruder ran around the front of the home, collapsed and died.
A pregnant woman was lying on the couch in her home when she heard the mini-blinds on her kitchen door rustle. Police say the woman, whose 1- and 3-year-old children were also in the home, got up to investigate and found a man trying to break in. When she spotted him, he ran around the corner of the duplex to the front door and tried to kick it in. The woman warned the prowler that she had a gun. When he replied that he also had a gun, she shot at him and he returned fire. The intruder was hit in the chest and died on the way to the hospital. No one else was injured.
According to police, a man stole a fire extinguisher from a dialysis center, then attempted to use it to break into a nearby home. A detective responding to a burglar alarm at the dialysis center witnessed an armed citizen thwart the alleged home invader. "While [the detective] was waiting for uniform patrol, he noticed a commotion across the street at a home," said a police spokesman. The detective reported that the man was allegedly trying to break through the front door using the fire extinguisher, but was shot in the groin by one of the occupants. The suspect was arrested on multiple charges after his release from the hospital.
When a guest told him that someone was trying to break into his Nye County, Nev., home, Pahrump Valley Times outdoors columnist Dan Simmons retrieved his .357 Mag. revolver as a neighbor called law enforcement. After the police investigated and left, the intruder returned, smashing the glass in the front door with a rock. Simmons, who had retrieved his revolver for the second time that morning, fired a shot, wounding the intruder.
As her ex-boyfriend proceeded to kick in her back door, a Manor Township, Pennsylvania, woman called police and then ran upstairs. Fearing help would not arrive in time, the woman locked herself in a bedroom and grabbed a rifle from under the bed. The man entered the home and raced upstairs where he began pounding on the locked door. When the woman's warnings to stop went unheeded, she fired a shot, injuring him. Police arrived as the man was leaving and placed him under arrest. Said one investigator, "He wasn't there to deliver flowers. She was defending herself."
Melany Yancey was home alone when two men wearing bandannas kicked in her front door and came upstairs about 2:50 a.m. Yancey later told police that she had locked herself in her bedroom and retrieved a handgun when she first heard the commotion. The intruders then attempted to break through the bedroom door. She fired a shot in their direction, and one man fired back at her. The men then moved into another bedroom and Yancey took the opportunity to flee her house, firing two more shots at the invaders as she ran outside. She was able to call 9-1-1 from a neighbor's home. Police found one of the suspects lying on the driveway, dead from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The other suspect remained at large.
A 19-year-old Midtown, Md., man was shot and killed when he opened fire on two motorists stopped at a red light. The man in the second of the two cars drew his own gun and shot back. Andre Lamont Hill approached a car stopped at a red light in Baltimore at 10:20 p.m. and fired multiple times, hitting that car and a car directly behind it. When the second car was sprayed with bullets, the driver, who had a permit to carry a gun, fired back, striking Hill several times in the head. The motive for the attack was unknown, according to Baltimore police.
A 79-year-old Minneapolis, Minn., man shot a home invader who had broken into the elderly man's residence late one night. Harvey Keefe, a World War II Marine Corps veteran, heard someone smash in his back door late one night. Keefe remained in his locked bedroom and picked up his .38-cal. revolver as he heard someone making his way through his house. When the intruder jiggled the doorknob to Keefe's bedroom, the veteran feared for his life and fired his gun. When the intruder appeared to back off and he heard sounds of someone leaving, Keefe called 9-1-1 and waited for authorities to arrive. A suspect suffering from a gunshot wound was found six blocks from the scene and a trail of blood led back to the house. Keefe said he didn't regret firing the shot. "I know I've done the right thing," he said.
A Birmingham, Alabama, family's night of terror came to an end after a 16-year-old youth defended his mother and siblings from his mother's estranged husband, who had been threatening to shoot into the home all evening. Frightened, the family barricaded itself in an upstairs bedroom. When their tormentor broke into the house via a back door, his violence was answered by the youth, who delivered several fatal shots through the bedroom door. The youth was not charged
The Rockingham County, Virginia, woman had already dialed 911 after discovering the door to her home ajar, when a Halloween-masked suspect charged from another room and slashed her with a knife. Suffering two cuts, the woman dashed upstairs where she barricaded herself in a bedroom, grabbed her 12-ga. shotgun, and fired a single shot at the intruder through the door. Police were still searching for the suspect, who fled the home on foot without any valuables
Two housebreakers were trying to enter the Riverside, Calif., home of Edwin "Pop" Gardner, an 88-year-old retired doctor and school board member. The pair chased Gardner and his wife into their bedroom and tried to break down the door after the elderly couple barricaded themselves in. Finally Gardner opened fire with a shotgun, severely wounding one of the thugs.
These are just a few I grabbed - there are lots more there, and of course many more that we will never know because the NRA doesn't and can't run anything like all defensive gun use stories. There are many stories that don't give enough detail to know if the homeowner was shooting through cover or concealment or not - though most criminals like most human beings often try to hide or seek cover in a fight.
As for the frequency of through and throughs with FMJ, try reading the article in "Combat Handguns" that I referenced in my first post.
Well I tried to read it all but it won't give me the whole article on the web - but since you have it just answer these two simple questions -
What is the percentage of citizens shooting guns in self-defense using fmj bullets who injure innocent bystanders by shooting through someone vs the percentage of citizens shooting guns in self-defense using hp bullets who injure innocent bystanders by shooting through someone?
And what is the percentage of total civilian self-defense shootings where innocent bystanders are shot due to overpenetration?
These questions are crucial to your claim because your state that you have: "measurably lessened the danger to others whom I DON'T wish to harm." by using hp ammo.
I won't even ask to look at how many innocent bystanders are injured by missed shots vs shots that hit their initial target but over penetrated and then injured an innocent bystander. Or how criminals were shot or stopped because the fmj could penetrate the door, doorjam, couch, car door, counter etc... - that was shielding some perp.
I'm not claiming that fmj is the only rational or responsible option - sometimes hp might be the right choice given a set of circumstances - but hp is certainly not always the best choice nor the only responsible choice.
