Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47

[The Northerner]

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — He was arrested for protecting his property and family.

But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line.

He got a high powered AK-47 and pulled the trigger and he ended up in jail, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.

George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.” He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.

“I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, ‘Can you please leave?’ Grier said.

Grier said the five men dared him to use the gun; and that their shouts brought another larger group of gang members in front of his house.

Read more: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/07/long-island-man-arrested-for-defending-home-with-ak-47/

[Posteritatis]

1. Interesting article, though the writer needs their adjective license revoked.. (nt)

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Maybe he went to a "high powered" journalism class.

[Posteritatis]

6. Or a vicious, high-powered journalism class. (nt)

[slackmaster]

2. I don't know about NY state law, but here in California you have to wait until they break in...

...before you start shooting, in order to be protected by our Castle Doctrine law.

Dude didn't handle the situation very well IMO.

BTW, that was not an AK-47. It was a semiautomatic variant of the classic Kalashnikov rifle.

[tularetom]

4. Interestingly the linked article has been corrected

The rifle is no longer "high powered". But it's still an AK-47.

[geckosfeet]

5. moran

Walk out with a gun and say 'please'

[Blue_Tires]

7. so what happened to the kids supposedly threatening him?

were they arrested as well? did they run away??