Home Defense UK Style

[Feuer Frei!]

Well, this guy is incredibly lucky. And pretty stupid.
Spotlighting these sorts of stories may give other people, IQ-challenged, the notion that there is a possibility that you can take on armed Hooligans, and win.

This is the dramatic moment a father-of-two wrestled a gun from a pair of hooded men who burst into his home and were caught on camera.
Adrian Draper, 43, grappled with two gunmen after they forced their way into his home on Saturday morning.
But the hooded men didn't realise the dramatic incident was caught on CCTV - which Adrian had set up in case he was burgled.
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Moment of truth: Adrian Draper wrestles the gun (circled) off one of the intruders who broke into his Ilkeston home.

The shocking footage shows Adrian - in the blue shirt - being beaten by the two men, while they hold a gun to his head - before he dramatically wrestles the weapon from them.
Adrian said: 'I'm really angry that this has happened in my own home. My teenage daughter was upstairs at the time, and she was frozen with fear.
'I was so lucky to have had the cameras running - I bought them because I was worried about being burgled, and I'd been setting them up and testing them out on Saturday.'

He added: 'I answered a knock at my front door and there were two hooded men there. They pushed a gun into my stomach. At first, I thought it was fake, but the expressions on their faces made me realise it was real.'
Adrian claims he grabbed hold of the weapon and twisted it out of the man's hand - but moments later the two men had grabbed the weapon back and pushed him into his front room - right in the line of the camera.

The camera recorded about 20 seconds of footage of the trio wrestling with the weapon - before Adrian managed to grab the gun and chase the two men into the kitchen.
He said: 'I saw that the safety catch was on the gun, so I started hitting them with it until the gun fell out of my hands.
'They grabbed the gun and ran out of the front door.


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Caught on camera: Adrian Draper captured the footage because he had set up a webcam in case he was burgled.

SOURCE (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011238/Gun-terror-Ilkestone-home-Adrian-Draper-wrestles-firearm-hooded-intruder-broke-in.html)

All i can say is: "Don't try to be a hero".

[sidslotm]

fear of breaking into anothers mans home should exceed the fear of death.

[Jimbuna]

One very stupid yet lucky man :nope:

[papa_smurf]

Very, very lucky.

[badhat17]

Just an average day for Ilkeston really.

[August]

All i can say is: "Don't try to be a hero".

If he'd just meekly complied with what the robbers wanted he might have got a bullet in the head for both him and his daughter for his troubles.

Dead people can't testify.

[Jimbuna]

Actually....and with absolutely no evidence to support it, I'm wondering if the whole thing was stage managed :hmmm:

[Tribesman]

Actually....and with absolutely no evidence to support it, I'm wondering if the whole thing was stage managed
My first thought was who has he been doing dealings with, pretty much the same thoughts as with that "burglar" stabbed dead the other week over there.

[Feuer Frei!]

If he'd just meekly complied with what the robbers wanted he might have got a bullet in the head for both him and his daughter for his troubles.

Dead people can't testify.

And dead people can't be fathers to their daughters.

[Growler]

Actually....and with absolutely no evidence to support it, I'm wondering if the whole thing was stage managed :hmmm:

+1.

Looks well-framed, if you ask me. And I'm not necessarily speaking of the shot composition.

[nikimcbee]

Answer: Buy a Rotweiller or a short barrel shotgun.

[Snestorm]

And dead people can't be fathers to their daughters.

If a man isn't willing to put his life on the line in defense of his daughter,
He's not a man.

[TLAM Strike]

:timeout:
What! How can it be! A gun crime in the UK? with a handgun! Don't they realize that handguns are illegal!

He said: 'I saw that the safety catch was on the gun, so I started hitting them with it...

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2813/18160s.jpg
the safety can be switched off... :o

*this* is why we had to save your "arse" in WWII!

[Tribesman]

What! How can it be! A gun crime in the UK? with a handgun! Don't they realize that handguns are illegal!

Yes, the police recovered a toy gun so it is definately a guncrime:doh:

Looks well-framed, if you ask me. And I'm not necessarily speaking of the shot composition.
Lucky the curtains were shut in the middle of the day.:03:

[TLAM Strike]

Yes, the police recovered a toy gun so it is definately a guncrime:doh: according to the article one of the guns was fake, the other one appears to be real.

[Growler]

Lucky the curtains were shut in the middle of the day.:03:

Wouldn't be proper to have the neighbors calling in the police to ruin the scene.

[Tribesman]

according to the article one of the guns was fake, the other one appears to be real.
And??????.


Wouldn't be proper to have the neighbors calling in the police to ruin the scene.
Wouldn't be good to have sunlight ruining the shot.

[Feuer Frei!]

If a man isn't willing to put his life on the line in defense of his daughter,
He's not a man.
I don't think that's the issue, IF or If not someone would put their life on the line for their daughter.
The question is IF you are successful each and every single time you attempt to disarm armed louts.
Me thinks not.
I would put my life on the line for my daughters in a heart beat, but, and that's a big but, is it a winnable situation?
Would it save my daughters if i died attempting to disarm them/him/her?
No guarantee is there?
You are of more use to your loved ones alive.