Three armed black males dressed in all black forced their way into a home in Dallas this afternoon, and pistol-whipped the unarmed homeowner when she didn’t have have the money they thought she should have at the home. they threatened her, and then they took something even more valuable: her nephew.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 10-year-old boy police say was taken at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery in the 800 block of Buick Avenue in Cedar Crest neighborhood of Dallas.

Police say Nicholas Fierros, Jr. was taken by three armed men who entered a residence at about 12:30 p.m.

Anyone who spots the boy or has information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Dallas police at 214-671-4268.

Fierros, Jr. is 4 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 60 pounds. He has brown eyes and brown hair. Police say he was taken from the home without shoes and wearing an orange shirt and khaki shorts.

Police say the suspects fled the home in an unknown direction.

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Gun control supporters keep telling us that we don’t “need” semiautomatic rifles like AR-15s, nor the skills to use them.

Their uneducated opinions are frankly worthless.

A basic AR-15 carbine, with a 30-round magazine of common 55-grain .223 ammunition in the hands of a competently trained shooter could have left us with a very different outcome to this story, with authorities attempting to ID the killed and injured criminals instead of on a frantic search for a missing boy who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Update: The boy was recovered, unharmed.