Did you guys see this today?

[familyman]

A man wounded by a burglar during a home invasion Thursday morning talked to 2News about the incident -- in which he was shot with his own gun.

Chad Morley said he found the burglar inside of his home at approximately 9:00 a.m. Thursday after noticing some of his property stacked up by a side door.

Morley decided to go inside the house, located near 6000 West Eaton Way, and retrieve his handgun to fend off the intruder. Moments later, the two men started wrestling for control and Morley was eventually shot in the arm.

"We both fought over the gun and he hit me in the head," Morley said. "My hands were just completely covered in blood." (Video)

"We both had a hold of the gun and (he) turned it toward me... and it was so slippery from blood, I couldn't hang on to it," he continued. "Then I saw his finger go to the trigger and... that's when it hit me and knocked me over a loveseat."

Morley said he was over at his father's house nearby when the burglar must have entered. Upon returning, and seeing the items stacked near the door, he said it was clear something was wrong.

"I knew something was going on. I catch shoplifters for a living, so there's a lot of people that would probably like to know a lot about me," Morley said. "So I always carry my gun with me... constantly, it's right by me."

"I didn't waste any time. I just grabbed my gun... I half-cocked it and made sure there was a bullet in the chamber. I was prepared to shoot him," he added.

After the struggle, the burglar managed to get away from the home and flee into the neighborhood. He has not yet been captured.

"In a situation like that, it's either you or them. And people like that don't have a care for anything and would rather steal people's merchandise that they worked their tail off for," Morley said. "They would rather be lazy... and sell it and make their living that way."

Morley received a gunshot wound to the arm and a laceration to his forehead. When asked if he would have handled the situation differently in a do-over, Morley said he probably would have shot first -- and asked questions later.

"Honestly... probably shoot him before he had a chance to take my weapon away and then putting me in 10-times more danger," he said.

"It's not something you want to get in front of a news camera and say, 'oh I should have shot him'... but it could've been a lot worse for me," Morley added.

The burglar is described as a Hispanic man, about 6'0" tall and weighing between 165-175 pounds. Morley said the suspect wore a baseball cap and a blue bandana around the lower part of his face.
**Note**
Anti-gun advocates are constantly claiming that a defensive weapon is far more likely to be taken away and used against you. However, this story (the 3,459^th story posted on the Civilian Gun Defense Blog to date) may possibly make the third or fourth such story, while we have documented 147 incidents of a criminal's gun being used against him (also to date). Since our news searching methods are unbiased (that is, they will turn up shootings both by citizens and by criminals), the real world stories are clearly in contrast to this claim.

[cschwanz]

i dont even know what to say to that. So many things wrong...how do you get your own gun taken away...He said he always carrys his gun, yet when he returned home he had to retrieve it.....he said "i would have rather shot first and asked questions later", just the kind of thing anti-gun ppl want to hear to be able to take away guns from law abiding citizens....

[familyman]

Moral of the story: Don't bother getting your CC permit and carry a gun everyday unless you're going to use it.

Why would you engage in a wrestling match with an intruder when you have a loaded gun? USE THE GUN! It's bad enough he had to go into his house to get his gun, then he let the criminal take the gun away from him and shoot him with it!

Wow!

[Oreo]

He was very lucky. It sounds to me like he doesn't really know how to handle a firearm, otherwise the burglar would never had been able to get close enough to take the gun.

[Tripledigitride]

" I was prepared to shoot him," he added."

Obviously Not!

"When asked if he would have handled the situation differently in a do-over, Morley said he probably would have shot first -- and asked questions later."

Very Good Idea.

One would think a "component" gun owner would have this figured out even before the purchace of a firearm.

[D_Fence]

Uh, don't go into the house if you think you are being burglarized. Catching the bad guy red handed ain't worth the risk of a bullet in the gut the second you step in the door to investigate. I'm always amazed at the number of stories about people who "grab a gun and investigate." Most cops won't even go into such a situation without backup.

[thisismyusername]

Originally Posted by D_Fence

Uh, don't go into the house if you think you are being burglarized. Catching the bad guy red handed ain't worth the risk of a bullet in the gut the second you step in the door to investigate. I'm always amazed at the number of stories about people who "grab a gun and investigate." Most cops won't even go into such a situation without backup.

+1

[profesor]

I don't know how I would have reacted but as I read it I am thinking, why did you let him get that close to you and take your gun away???

[CC Packing Company]

Doesn't pretty much every firearm instructor out there preach that the best confrontation is the one that doesn't happen?!?!?!

[tomfoolery]

couple things....

the part where getting shot in the arm threw him over the couch?? what the heck gun was he using?

second, as mentioned...why would you even go in the house? if the house is empty of family just call the cops and wait for them. Granted i know a lot of guys who would go in to the house.