Maestro Pistolero
Active Member
- Mar 20, 2012
- 876
Good reply, alucard0822.
It is generally a good idea to notify police first if you have had occasion to draw your firearm in the presence of a perceived threat. Whoever makes the call first, tends to get the benefit of the doubt from officers. Make sure you articulate to the dispatcher, and to the officer that you were threatened, the nature of the threat, and that you didn't have to fire because the threat subsided.
You will have acted reasonably. That doesn't mean you won't be arrested, although it's doubtful, depending upon where you live. What it does mean is that there will be a record of your reasonable thought process both in drawing the weapon, and in the deciding it was not necessary to fire it.
It is generally a good idea to notify police first if you have had occasion to draw your firearm in the presence of a perceived threat. Whoever makes the call first, tends to get the benefit of the doubt from officers. Make sure you articulate to the dispatcher, and to the officer that you were threatened, the nature of the threat, and that you didn't have to fire because the threat subsided.
You will have acted reasonably. That doesn't mean you won't be arrested, although it's doubtful, depending upon where you live. What it does mean is that there will be a record of your reasonable thought process both in drawing the weapon, and in the deciding it was not necessary to fire it.
