Tam Snarks it up about this story:
William Coleman III was robbed of his Walter- brand P22 just after 2:00 a.m. October 4 in Gresham by a young man who asked him for it — and flashed his own weapon as persuasion.
Coleman, 21, was talking to his cousin in the 17200 block of NE Glisan St., after purchasing the handgun earlier that day, when a young man asked him for a cigarette, police said.
The man then asked about the gun, pulled a gun from his own waistband and said “”I like your gun. Give it to me.”
Coleman handed over the gun and the man fled on foot.
Mr. Coleman was relived of of a Walther P22, sounds like he got the better end of the deal if you ask me! Walther makes some really good guns, but the P22 (actually made by Umarex of Italy) is not one of them.
Also I must snicker at the file photo at the top of the page. I can imagine some pointy-headed editor who was probably sneering at this “dumb redeneck” getting his life threatened typing in “Wather P22” into their search engine, and getting that messed up CGI rendering of a PPK and saying “That’s it!” and publishing the story.
Also since open carry has become vogue this is only the SECOND case of an open carry person being actively targeted by the criminal element. All the anti-OC people claim that openly carrying will result in you getting shot before a robbery happens, or people snatching your gun as you walk down the street, but really the exceptions prove the rule.
I hope this guy gets his gun back, and another man open carrying (but the other kind, that comes with the magic badge) takes HIS gun away.
