[Jim Bremner]

First time I used a gun for protection.

1984, I was 18 years old I had bought a worn out colt 1911 in .45 acp on the street. I didn't tell anyone in my family that I did it

It was on a Friday that I got it and 50 rounds of ammo.

Saturday night around 1:30 I hear leaves and plants moving under my bed room window. I loaded the gun. Feed the chamber

My window screen came off, I slipped the safety off and my finger was going to the trigger.

A form appeared, Finger on the trigger, I asked who was their


It was my sister and her boyfriend, she forgot her keys and was coming home later than she wanted my parents to know.
I slid the .45 under my pillow and she doesn't know to this day about it.

Second time.

Camping out in the desert with my wife and 4 sons we where on a dry lake bed with 3 other groups of campers none of them within 1 mile of us. Out of Cell phone range 83 miles from no-where 5 miles off of the highway

We ride motorcycles and had placed ALL dirt bikes, gear EVERYTHING in our locked trailer nothing out. not even a chair was out

2-3 in the morning I hear a vw motor idle up to us, drive around our motor home and trailer. It stopped on our side with the door

I held my new .45 up in the window, turned the flash light on behind the gun so they saw the silhouette of the gun....they drove off.

yes I'm glad that I have the right to own a fire arm

if they had an emergency they would have driven up fast and loud and would not have stopped.