Elderly Minnesota man sends one home invader running, one to the morgue

By Bob Owens | 1:08 PM | November 14, 2013

Chalk up another one for the good guys with guns.

Pine County Deputies responded to the home of an elderly man on reports of a shooting.

When they got there the homeowner told them that two men had entered his house on the Fox road near Sandstone in what appeared to be a robbery attempt.

The Sheriff’s office reports at least one of the suspects was armed with a handgun and confronted the homeowner. The homeowner grabbed a handgun of his own and shot the armed suspect killing him.

It would be very interesting if the FBI kept data on the ages of shooters in defensive gun uses (DGUs) and the effects of the shots they fire. While I’m basing this on nothing empirical at all, it seems that the older folks who end up shooting it out with bad guys tend to be more accurate than younger folks.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.