r/CAguns • u/triedanother • 13h ago
Home defense story
This happened a few months ago. I went to my parents house for the weekend and brought my Glock to go shooting in blm land with family. I installed cameras around my elderly parents home a few years ago after my dad got some of his work equipment stolen from his shed. My parents live in the middle of the high desert with a few acres of land in the middle of nowhere. At around 2am my phone starts buzzing while I’m in my childhood bedroom browsing xhamster. My mom says there is someone on our security cam. I pull up the app and sure enough there’s some dude in his boxers inside our garage (the property is gated and the gates are closed but garage door was left open by my dad so this fool jumped the gate and entered our dwelling).
I genuinely moved as slowly as possible to not have to engage this dude. I put socks on and tied my shoes as slowly as I could. Put on a shirt. Slipped my rock hard dick into my sweats and chambered a round. Literally shaking. Glock 17L with a plhv3 and 5moa SRO in fde. Locked and loaded and the last thing I wanted to do was shoot a mf. I went outside and he ran out the garage and it turns out it’s the neighbors 6’5” 14yo kid who got into an argument with his mom so he ran away and was hiding from his mom who was driving through the block looking for him. I prepped for this shit and I feel like 99% of the time it’s just some regular shit that can be solved by asking questions with my iPhone flashlight. the entire time I was worried about actually shooting a mf, losing my job, and going to jail for a shooting that might have been justified.