PRINCESS ANNE, Md. –-(Ammoland.com)- When 22-year-olds Cody Allen King and Justin Michael Bull decided to rob a local pharmacy in Maryland they thought that there would be little resistance. Maryland has some of the most draconian gun laws in the country. Statistics show that these gun laws have little to no effect on crime. So, these two would be robbers had nothing to worry about while committing their planned robbery.
Yet, they did have something to worry about in this instance. The alleged robbers entered the Karemore Pharmacy in Princess Anne Maryland with a modern sporting rifle. The two suspects ordered everyone to get down on the ground like a scene out of a movie.
Wasim Amir, the pharmacist on duty, was sitting in his office watching the robbery taking place. He decided he wasn’t going to let his customers and co-workers be in danger from two gunmen who could open fire at any time. Amir grabbed his revolver that he kept in his desk and entered the pharmacy.
Amir yelled at the man holding the rifle before firing two shots at the suspects. Upon taking fire from a good guy with a gun, these two would be bad guys with a gun decided to flee the scene rather than be shot.
Amir thwarted the robbery, and he became a hero in the process of possibly saving other people’s lives. The police responded to the scene and determined that Amir did not hit anyone with his shots, but they were enough to chase the robbers away.
Police took King and Bull into custody a short time later. AmmoLand does not have a clear picture of how police were able to identify the suspects and apprehend them. Police are holding both suspects on multiple charges including attempted armed robbery with a firearm. Although our sources confirmed that police are filing other charges against the two men, it is unclear to what those charges are at the time of this writing.
As for Amir, he owned the gun legally, and police have not filed any charges against the pharmacist, and no charges are expected to be filed.
For years, the NRA has been pushing the slogan, “the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
Anti-gun rights advocate claim that this statement is a myth, but gun rights advocates say this incident is just one in a long line of examples that gets glossed over in the mainstream media.
In 2017 Stephen Willeford, an NRA instructor with an AR-15, stopped the Sutherland church shooter. They also point to the attempted school shooting at Prince Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia where an armed guard stopped the shooter before he could kill any students.
They point to the fact that even in Maryland, there have been other examples of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun. On March 20th of this year, a school shooter at Great Mills High School was stopped by a school resources officer with a firearm. Anti-gun advocates consider these incidents as outliers.
Gun rights advocates also point to the rise in violent crime in Maryland since the state started passing more stringent gun laws. For example, carjackings in Maryland have more than doubles since 2013. Other nearby states have only seen a 4% increase on average.
There is no information to when King and Bull will appear in court.
About John Crump
John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast which can be found at www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews. John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%’ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book on leftist deplatforming methods and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss, on Facebook at realjohncrump, or at www.crumpy.com.
Being Maryland, I expected the story to end with the pharmacist in jail while the two crooks would be given therapy because the mean man scared them.
The only reason I need to give for having any weapon or a magazine of any size or any amount of ammunition is that I want to have it.
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I Legally bought and owned a 30 cal Universal Carbine with 4 15 round clips and 5 30 round clips , NEW Jersey banned this type of gun and the lawful punishment was 3 years for people caught with one . I had to take this fine rifle to a Delaware gun shop who paid me $100 for the gun , clips , Sling and all . Also had 800 rounds of 30 Cal ammo I surrendered to the Gun shop owner . Just an example how Vivious NJs Gun Laws are in this Dem O Rat controlled shit hole… Read more »
ladies and gentleman we are better than this name calling get’s us know where. and with that it is sad that these two upstanding examples of human feces were not taken off this earth! God Bless the USA
Alan.. you mean to tell me that everybody that buy’s a AR with a 30rd. magazine has the intention to kill as many people as possible, as fast as possible.lf that’s the case.. there would be a whole lot of dead people.Do you realize how stupid you sound. You sir are a fucking idiot!!
Just go out on the balcony and shoot a shotgun in the air!
A single action hand gun is all you need .
Maybe it was an AirSoft AR? Or maybe stupid robbers listen to Nancy, Hillary and Chuckie and get an AR because they are told that’s what they need.
Somebody needs to get Mr. Wasim Amir a few boxes of ammo and some range time.
I expect this to be used as an excuse for the laws. “See, only bad guys use ARs & a revolver is plenty to defend yourself. That’s all you need.” Despite one of the arguments for not arming teachers is that a pistol can’t possibly be used to defend against an AR. They twist the narrative to fit their agenda. Just saw yesterday info released says the Parkland killer used 5 round magazines. Of course us logical people would say “see magazine limits make no difference to criminals & mass shooting perpetrators. They only hinder people in self-defense situations.” While… Read more »
Anti-gunners consider stories like this to be “anecdotes.” They ignore the fact that a collection of anecdotes is called “history.”