The Waffle House murderer had standard size magazines right??

He got jumped while reloading, right?



In the midst of a discussion on Facebook about solutions I commented about magazine size and malfunctions (Aurora CO movie theater). I was challenged on how often that happens so I started looking. Someone did some serious research here.

This includes malfunctions, reloads, and shooters stopped while reloading.

http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weapon-malfunctions-in-an-active-shooter-event


Written by Greg Ellifritz

*I originally wrote this article about four years ago. I updated it after reading Ron Borcsh’s excellent chapter on active killers in the book “Straight Talk On Armed Defense.” Ron’s research alerted me to several previously unknown active killer cases where the shooters had malfunctions. I did some more research in addition to Ron’s excellent work and came up with a more complete list of historic active killer events where the killer had a malfunction or an empty weapon at some point. I have at least 27 documented shootings where this has happened.

“In fact there could have been many more injuries and possibly more fatalities — the reason for that is that the man had an assault rifle…and we’re hearing from witnesses the gun appeared to have jammed after only a few rounds.


Jamming weapons are not uncommon in active shooter events. In fact, another spree shooting with much more media coverage (the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado) had a similar ending...

http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weapon-malfunctions-in-an-active-shooter-event