75 Pittsburgh officers on leave after hourslong shootout and standoff during eviction attempt
www.nbcnews.com
The suspect, William Hardison Sr., shot at deputies trying to serve an eviction notice, resulting in a standoff that lasted about 6½ hours.

    Details are still scant, but…

“I mean, he had a lot of ammunition in that house, and certainly … all of us were strapped, you know, with ammunition, and we were calling for additional ammunition,” Kraus said. “Like I said, we tried to give him every opportunity to come out.”

    …I’ll go way out on a limb and suggest that this could’ve been handled better.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    214·
    10 months ago

    How long was he collecting ammunition? Did he buy a box on payday once in a while for a few years, or did he go out to Walmart and buy everything he used?

    Everyone seems to assume that this guy found out he’d be evicted and he immediately went and bought a rifle and 20,000 rounds of ammunition that evening. Bullets don’t go bad, he probably bought them over a few years.

    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
      68·
      10 months ago

      Not sure that’s much better. I’ve accumulated 15,000 rounds of ammo that I’ve not used but I need more… how about 20,000 rounds??

      Someone accumulating that amount of ammo “just in case” has probably got some other issues.

      • tacosplease@lemmy.world
        64·
        10 months ago

        Lots of people have lots of bullets. Not saying they aren’t crazy, but if they are then there’s a fuck ton of heavily armed crazy people… Ok yeah actually that checks out.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      68·
      10 months ago

      If instead of buying guns with your paycheck for years, you plopped it in an index fund, perhaps rent wouldn’t seem so out of reach.

      Edit: if you click the links within the articles and keep going, you find out he got evicted because he’s a SovCit who refused payments and wanted to fight the gov

      Sources said Hardison believed he was a sovereign citizen, meaning he thought he was exempt from the law.

      A Channel 11 News photographer discovered a video of Hardison during a prior interaction with police in 2019. In the video, you can see a Moorish flag, which is flown by Moorish sovereign citizens.

      Hardison had a criminal history dating back to at least 2000.

        • SCB@lemmy.world
          11·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I travel a lot for work and 3 news articles is not what I would call “heavy reading”

          Perhaps you’d be less busy if you weren’t working retail at a gun store.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      47·
      10 months ago

      So? If you can’t pay your rent and face eviction you sell that shit, you don’t start shooting people doing their fucking job.

      Gun nuts are the first to speak about individual responsibility but when it’s their turn to face their responsibilities you can be sure of one thing, they ain’t facing them without a fight!

      • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        This guy was a sovereign citizen, so the worst of the worst kind of crazy.

        Didn’t see that mentioned elsewhere in the thread, and it’s a big fucking detail to leave out.