That may not be too far from the truth.surprise_i'm_armed wrote:"Investigators did a quick weapons background check..."
They asked his wife what he had? :-)
SIA
When we had a break in several years ago. When I heard our back door being kicked down. I awoke and responded with my gun in hand and told the wife to call 911 while I went to take care of business and see about the rest of the family in the house. When I cleared the house and determined the intruder must have realized we were home and never actually made entry, and fled, I went to tell the wife everything was OK. She was still on the phone with 911 giving them a laundry list of all the guns, ammo and cool toys that I own.
I immediately grabbed the phone and hung up. Then spent the next 7 minutes, while waiting for police to show up, educating her on what to say and not say to 911 operators.
Alerting them to the fact that I, the home owner responding to an intruder, was presently armed was one thing but the 911 operator was also concerned with the rest of my collection rather than the immediate situational circumstances.
IMHO, communicate only pertinent situational and location information needed for them to get to your house ASAP and don't be afraid to hang up and take care of business. Don't volunteer any unnecessary details, it will only detract attention from the task at hand and put potentially put undue focus on you as the potential bad guy. Remember they are forming an opinion of what is happening and who you are based on what their understanding of what you are telling them that may not fit with the facts. Having lots of gun may be normal to you , but to 911 operator may mean something else.
I was expecting the headlines to read, "deputy shoots suspect with massive arsenal" but fortunately the responding deputy was very professional, and courteous and did not treat me as a threat but appropriately as the victim.