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@Jonaschuzzlewit @confederatehobo I once lived across the road from an old guy who had worked for the public utility in our town since about 1954. He was a big fan of black powder revolvers because he spent his days maintaining long runs of power lines and the roads along them cutting through miles and miles of forest and he could shoot BP without bothering people whereas he would inevitably get complaints if he was shooting high pressure smokeless

He was also a volunteer firefighter and HAM radio guy so he was always listening to the emergency and LE radio signals. One night he heard about a silent alarm at a store down the hill from his house and he assumed that it meant FIRE ALARM, so he boogeyed down to be first on-scene

A Sheriff's deputy he knew had already pulled up and asked, "Are you armed?"

"Uh. Yeah?" Wondering why, still not catching on

"OK I'll go around back - if he comes out front you hold him"

"Who?"

"The burglar!"

So he gets his Colt 1851 Navy .36 out and loads caps onto five of the cylinders. Deputy goes through the rear and the burglar comes out and gets the barrel of a black powder revolver shoved into his left nostril by an old guy in overalls who then cocks the hammer back

He calls out, "Got em!" so the Deputy comes through and cuffs the guy. Deputy sees the gun and laughs. "Would you have shot 'em?" he asks

"'I have no idea!' says the Elmer

"I can still smell the gunpowder from that thing!" the junkie said during his trial

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