PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS
Last Action Date: May 6, 2024
North Carolina: Home Invaders Thought Disabled Vet Was an Easy Target - He Grabs a .45 and Proves Them Wrong :: 12/09/2014
A Vietnam veteran who is disabled and uses a walker to get around thinks he was targeted in a recent home invasion because the suspects thought he was an easy mark.
According to the Gaston Gazette:
Sapienza, a Marine Corps veteran who served four years in Vietnam, was watching television in his bed at 7:42 p.m. at his home on Davis Avenue. He heard someone prying off the lock and pulling the nails to the latch out of his front door.
He grabbed his .45-caliber handgun, put it in a holster on his walker and began shuffling toward the sound. He flipped a hallway light on, yelled out to announce he was armed, and yanked open the door to see two men wearing ski masks.
They jumped off his porch and practically tripped over one another trying to flee, Sapienza said.
Sapienza left a note for any would-be robbers who might follow up on his door. It read:
To Whom it May Concern:
I see you tried to break in, took my lock off my door. That’s OK, you try to break in my house again, I will be waiting on you.
Enter at your own risk.
