Since we're telling stories...
1) Off-duty cop, carries good old M1911 .45 in an ankle-holster. Guy robs liquor store, runs straight toward cop. Cop pulls gun and yells "Halt"! Perp keeps coming. Cop shoots perp right between the eyes. Perp sits down, blinks a couple of times, then jumps up and runs the other way. Cop is so stunned he doesn't shoot again. Best anybody can figure out is the bullet hit the guy's forhead at just the right angle to snap his head back and glance off the skull.
2) Guy robs convenience store with .22 pistol, then flees. Cops find him dead in an alley a few blocks away. It seems he stuck the pistol in his pants and as he was running it went off, discharging into his thigh and penetrating the artery. Three blocks was how far he got before he bled out.
Both stories are true, both told years ago by the late Colonel Jeff Cooper in the pages of Guns & Ammo magazine.
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