in a real armed robbery sometimes you
get an opportunity for a counter ambush
and sometimes you don't
i'm john correa your host here at active
self protection and i welcome you to
today's lesson here at active self
protection we have three videos today
all out of houston texas the mantis x-10
firearms performance system is an
invaluable training tool for shooters of
all levels to make themselves better
with their defensive firearms in our
first armed robbery we see a very common
tactic this guy's just gonna come and
decide okay i'm a customer here's a pile
full of change and he is just gonna
present himself as somebody who is doing
a normal transaction until she gets to a
place where she's gonna open the
register and when she does and he
decides that it's the right time now
he's gonna take a second because she's
counting out all of his loose change
here to buy a pack of gum he is gonna
draw a gun you can see it right there
when she runs away he actually grabs the
entire drawer with the cash in it and
then jerks it out you know with the the
controller in it and runs off
in our second one very similar incident
here you see this guy wandering around
the store like he's a customer and then
he is gonna go up to the register when
he's decided it's time say oh i'm gonna
buy this thing now she's gonna scan the
thing and then again you know get to the
payment screen or whatever and he is
going to draw a gun and you can see this
gun right here now he holds that gun a
little bit closer and demands that she
open the register in this particular
case
and you can see that she's in shock she
is absolutely you know whoa what's going
on especially when he puts the gun in
her face i think he almost booped her on
the snoot with it or whatever now i also
want you to notice that there's going to
actually be another employee that's
going to show up he's going to come
around start coming around this other
employee's on their phone doesn't see
what's going on until he then points a
gun at her and says no you get over here
as well and then i the the
accountant there or the clerk rather i
don't know why i called her an
accountant but the clerk is gonna then
finally get it open and give him the
money oh okay fine man here here's
everything out of the till boxer with
the gun again grabs the money that he's
got available and walks off this last
one we actually have audio when it
starts so let's listen in
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police haven't caught any of these
robbers thankfully we still get to learn
lessons question for you out of today's
video in any of these instances if they
were armed do you think any of these
victims should have launched a counter
ambush let me know
in this one i really want to think about
our candor ambushing opportunity so
again as a defender you're always going
to be on an initiative deficit because
of course they don't announce their
their intentions until they have you at
their initiative and their advantage
right so he's using this again he's you
know he's got like a pocket full of
nickels and dimes or whatever because he
wants to distract her and when he
decides it's the right time he pulls the
gun now of course she startled there and
anybody would be in that case and i
think she did a fine job here of just
backing away from him and getting the
heck off of him now if you try to draw a
gun here or something like that terrible
idea because again i think it's possible
if she was really astute she might have
been able to drive in grab that gun go
for it have a fight for him you know for
it with him whatever but that's an awful
lot to ask him to ask of this woman
although he's not holding the gun very
well better off back off here look for
an opportunity it actually comes pretty
quick you notice here he's using that
hand with the gun in order to hold stuff
and this would be a fantastic
opportunity for a counter ambush if our
clerk was like whoa man backed off from
there waited until he was you know uh
unable to to immediately present the gun
like he is here draw your own gun and
absolutely go to work especially because
this guy doesn't have his eyes on her
would have been a perfect counter-ambush
opportunity so again even in the midst
of an armed robbery pay attention to
your surroundings see what's going on
around you look for an opportunity for a
counter ambush of course would only work
if she was armed i'm not saying that she
has to be or whatever but to protect
your life i think it's wise
okay he runs off that's great give him
the till next thing here we get several
opportunities for a counter ambush if
they show up on time and if you are
prepared if you have the attitude the
skills and the plan and you know what
your draw to first shot time is and you
know you can do so very quickly of
course again same initiative deficit
here he pulls the gun she has to look
and go oh no what am i going to do she
tries to draw a gun there then then
she's drawing from the drop terrible
idea however i also want you to notice
that he is you know going to put that
gun right up on her like this and i hear
this all the time on the internet people
say well you know real bad guys don't
put guns up where they can be taken away
like that it's just hogwash we see it
happen here in real life all the time i
also see regular people take guns away
from bad guys all the time usually when
the bad guy's not paying attention
though so in this kind of case could you
take this gun away from sure you could i
i absolutely there are multiple
techniques to do so but make sure that
you learn them from a reputable source
there are more opportunities here too so
okay if i don't have the empty-handed
skills and those kinds of things take a
gun away from him those kinds of things
if she's armed to herself there are some
opportunities not here when he comes
around but now watch what goes down when
the other employee shows up who should
have been paying better attention to her
surroundings of course but now that
means look at what our perp has done
he's turned his shoulders away from us
and he's turned his head away showed us
his ear and his shoulder if you have a
two second draw to first shot there is
nothing he can do to outdraw you in that
moment so again getting that gun out
quickly getting an accurate shot on this
guy if our clerk was armed is absolutely
a possibility number one number two a
hundred percent justified and i know
some folks would say yeah but it's just
the company's money give it up no he's
threatening their lives he's not
threatening the company's money here
he's threatening the life of these
clerks and so stopping that is a moral
good and also quite acceptable on a risk
basis okay so in this case he didn't
hurt him okay fine so go ahead and give
it up that's great all right and that's
exactly what these ladies did i don't
have any problem with that
but but my point is is that if you had
the attitude the skills in the plan you
could have ended this threat without
getting bonked like that like he did by
that firearm
now this last one i think is the most
difficult of all because this guy just
busts in with the gun and he doesn't get
distracted and that is going to make it
very difficult but there are still some
opportunities here you see him like oh
okay open it open and open it and look
at what he's doing here he's actually
looking away with the gun not pointed so
again if our clerk was really kind of
switched on here takes a big hard step
to the left while they draw their gun
and get it out i think that because this
guy is not paying attention if our clerk
has a one second draw to first shot
there's nothing that this guy's going to
be able to do to get a shot into that
clerk before the clerk gets one on him
but this would be the expert mode you
better have about a one flat or a one
two draw the first shot in order to pull
this one off if you don't you just be
your best bet here you know what he's in
control just give him the money out of
the tilt now i know some folks are gonna
talk about oh okay well what about when
he's leaving i think right here
originally if you got a 1.5 draw the
first shot i don't have any problems
with that but once he's turns away and
he starts heading out the door i think
the smarter bet is just to let him go
because again in that moment once that
threat is over as long as he's not
turning around pointing the gun at you
again probably a smarter bet just to let
him go so that you don't have to deal
with the legal aftermath of using your
firearm in a deadly force encounter
think you probably could justify it
saying he just threatened me with the
gun he's still in my store those kinds
of things but probably not smartest from
a tactical perspective as well as from a
practical perspective but before that
wouldn't have a problem with it but the
last one was expert mode for sure so my
advice to you
train hard know how long it takes you to
get your gun out and the only way to
know that is to actually put it on a
timer i'd strongly recommend
professional training so that you get as
good at that as you can as you think to
cover your asp
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