By this time, gentle snowfall had clouded the area.

How poetic.

The liquor store is a neighborhood fixture. The owner greets nearly every customer by name. Elton John plays through a raspy radio, the Clint Eastwood display stands next to a gurgling fish tank and the Senegal parrot named Henry nibbles affectionately on the owner's ear.

I would give this guy all of my business. And my liquor business is considerable.

Who the fark robs a liquor store? The armed Viet Nam Vet thing aside, who robs a liquor store?

And that's the name of that tune.

That place is around 10 minutes away from me. I'll have to stop in and say hello.

ultraholland: TFA: One detective, the owner said, approached him and said that while keeping a registered handgun in his business was legal, shooting it outside in the parking lot was crossing a line.

"He said, 'Look, you can't do that. We're the police and we can't even do that,'" the owner said, although he was told that no charges would be pursued against him.

I wish I had the ability to shoot recklessly at fleeing people and not suffer any consequences. This guy should consider himself lucky.

Cop's right too. Most major metro police departments have strict rules against firing at a moving vehicle except to save a life. The problem is, if you hit the driver and disable kill him, you now have a 2000 lb unguided missle travelling at 30 + mph in a populated area.

david_gaithersburg: Oh man. This is Maryland. Things are going to get very very bad for this man in short order. As stated in the article "no charges have been filed against the owner".

Only in the Progressive stronghold of Maryland would that sentence be necessary. Once any politician finds out that the owner has not received a public flogging that will change in short order. By the end of the week he will be arrested for attempted murder, discharge of a firearm, and at least a dozen other charges. Governor O'Malley is going to be on his a s s like flies on shiat.

Shhhh. grown-ups are talking. The sentence "no Charges will be filled" is necessary nearly anywhere in the US where his actions (firing at a moving vehicle) violate the rules for Self-defense (fleeing suspects no longer represent a danger to you), Discharge of a firearm within city limits, and reckless endangerment (even cops don't shoot at moving vehicles). I'm MD-Born, MD-raised and MD-barred, and only inthe paranoid fantasies of the NRA is MD considered particularly anti-gun. It only seems that way because VA is bug-fark nuts in the laxity of their gun laws

A man fires a rifle for many years. and he goes to war. And afterwards he comes home, and he sees that whatever else he may do with his life - build a house, love a woman, change his son's diaper - he will always remain a jarhead.

My dad frequents Pawn shops and one of his buddies manages one over in Fort Worth and said one time a kid came in and ask 'Have you been robbed yet'

Without blinking an eye a clerk behind the counter pulled out a rifle and said 'Have you been shot, yet'

BigBooper: Not to be a Debbie Dower here, but did anyone else notice that quick draw chased after the attacker and fired three rounds at the get away vehicle. The kicker is, he couldn't even hit the get away vehicle. Those three bullets went somewhere, and put the whole neighbor hood at risk.

Now I'm all for armed self defense, but once the bad guy is not a threat, it's just stupid and dangerous to go all vigilantly and run after someone trying to shoot them in the back.

Perhaps the owner should have the "Sir Issac Newton is the Deadliest Son of a biatch in Space" lecture presented to him.

Magorn: I'm MD-Born, MD-raised and MD-barred, and only inthe paranoid fantasies of the NRA is MD considered particularly anti-gun.

By what standard process my an average civilian who has been convicted of no felony offense be issued a concealed weapons permit by the state?

Dimensio: Magorn: I'm MD-Born, MD-raised and MD-barred, and only inthe paranoid fantasies of the NRA is MD considered particularly anti-gun.

By what standard process my an average civilian who has been convicted of no felony offense be issued a concealed weapons permit by the state?

Ask for one, have a good reason for wanting it.

I like that better than the "Must issue" that VA does, or the "Want to strap a hogleg to your hip and walk around town? No permit needed" standard VA has for open carry

I think it's reasonable that my fellow citizen have an actual need to walk around with instant access to a killing machine before he/she is allowed to, but that's just me