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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:47:52 PM EDT

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

Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47

Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family

September 7, 2010 7:19 PM

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From jcap17

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 an AK-47 assault rifle, pulled the trigger and he ended up in jail, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.

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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.

"He starts threatening my family, my life. ‘Oh you’re dead. I’m
gonna kill your family and your babies. You’re dead.’ So when he says
that, 20 others guys come rushing around the corner. And so I fired
four warning shots into the grass,” Grier said.

Grier was later arrested. John Lewis is Grier’s attorney.

"What he’s initially charged with – A D felony reckless endangerment
— requires a depraved indifference to human life, creating a risk that
someone’s going to die. Shooting into a lawn doesn’t create a risk of
anybody dying,” Lewis said.

[div]Grier said he knew Nassau County Police employ the hi-tech
"ShotSpotter” technology in his area and that the shooting would bring
police in minutes. Cops told Guzman he was very cooperative.

[div]Grier also said he was afraid the gang outside his house was the
dreaded MS-13. And Nassau County Police Lt. Andrew Mulraine, head of
the gang unit, said MS-13 has 2,000 members in the county.

[div]"They’re probably the most organized. They almost have a military
hierarchy within the gang, so they are the most organized gang we
encounter on a daily basis,” Mulraine said.

[div]You may think a person has the right to defend their home. But the
law says you can only use physical force to deter physical force. Grier
said he never saw anyone pull out a gun, so a court would have to
decide on firing the gun.

[div]Police determined Grier had the gun legally. He has no criminal record. And so he was not charged for the weapon.

[div]That ShotSpotter technology pinpoints where a gun has been fired
within 35 feet. Police said it also detected two other shootings in
nearby Roosevelt that night.

Posted: 9/7/2010 5:49:09 PM EDT

[#1]

how is twenty dudes comming at you threatening to kill you and your family not "life threatening"

I don't understand how people can live in places with laws like that.

If they rushed me after saying that shit id mag dump on em and reload repeat.

Posted: 9/7/2010 5:53:31 PM EDT

[#2]

You hotlinked all that for a dupe?

Posted: 9/7/2010 6:03:38 PM EDT

[#3]

SUPER DUPER IBTL dupe

Posted: 9/7/2010 6:05:31 PM EDT

[#4]

You bring up search and type in M-A-N

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