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Price: $9.99\nClick Below To Buy Now\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/form>\nIn 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT<\/em> magazine, the idea of my doing an article on the match, within which I would also talk about the real-life gunfight that inspired each stage. Since I had known Jim for years, I knew I could interview him for the article. Getting the go-ahead from Denny, I then did my phone interview with Jim, which I recorded simply so I could replay the tape later to make sure I got all my facts correct in the article.<\/span><\/p>\nHowever when writing the article I realized that Jim\u2019s gunfights, which I had intended to be just background to the match article, were so much more interesting that I abandoned the match article idea and simply made it an article on the gunfights themselves. This was a long article, folks, so long that it had to be split in half and run in two succeeding issues, September and October 1999, of SWAT<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nTime went by, I received word of Jim\u2019s death, which immensely bummed me out. Jim was just so damn COOL. For a man who, beyond any shadow of a doubt, was one of the few people in the modern age to deserve the term \u201cmaster gunfighter,\u201d Jim was also an amazingly nice guy, very emotional, very friendly, who, as he put it, \u201ccries at sad movies.\u201d The only guy who, even as I entered my 40s, always called me \u201ckid.\u201d He was also a famous storyteller, with impeccable comedic timing, who loved talking about his adventures with the famous New York City Police Stakeout Unit, and he\u2019d had 30 years to polish his presentations smooth.<\/span><\/p>\nI did my articles, that audio tape sat in a box in my closet for the next 11 years, even after Jim left us. And eventually I started thinking about all the people who were never fortunate enough to know Jim, never got to hear him tell his stories, which really are an important piece of Americana, in that wonderful, heavy New Yawk accent of his, never got to enjoy Jim\u2019s sense of humor, his immense warmth, never learned the lessons he had to teach. I took that tape and had it turned into an audio download, and here it is. I talked to Jim\u2019s surviving heir, Jim Cirillo Jr. (shown in the photo above with his Dad) to get his blessing for the project, and offered him a portion of the income as I would have offered Jim Sr. if he was still with us. Jim Jr. was nice enough to give this undertaking his blessing.\n<\/span><\/p>\nBy the way, before you listen to this download. I should mention two things.<\/span><\/p>\nOne, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. 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Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT<\/em> magazine, the idea of my doing an article on the match, within which I would also talk about the real-life gunfight that inspired each stage. Since I had known Jim for years, I knew I could interview him for the article. Getting the go-ahead from Denny, I then did my phone interview with Jim, which I recorded simply so I could replay the tape later to make sure I got all my facts correct in the article.<\/span><\/p>\nHowever when writing the article I realized that Jim\u2019s gunfights, which I had intended to be just background to the match article, were so much more interesting that I abandoned the match article idea and simply made it an article on the gunfights themselves. This was a long article, folks, so long that it had to be split in half and run in two succeeding issues, September and October 1999, of SWAT<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nTime went by, I received word of Jim\u2019s death, which immensely bummed me out. Jim was just so damn COOL. For a man who, beyond any shadow of a doubt, was one of the few people in the modern age to deserve the term \u201cmaster gunfighter,\u201d Jim was also an amazingly nice guy, very emotional, very friendly, who, as he put it, \u201ccries at sad movies.\u201d The only guy who, even as I entered my 40s, always called me \u201ckid.\u201d He was also a famous storyteller, with impeccable comedic timing, who loved talking about his adventures with the famous New York City Police Stakeout Unit, and he\u2019d had 30 years to polish his presentations smooth.<\/span><\/p>\nI did my articles, that audio tape sat in a box in my closet for the next 11 years, even after Jim left us. And eventually I started thinking about all the people who were never fortunate enough to know Jim, never got to hear him tell his stories, which really are an important piece of Americana, in that wonderful, heavy New Yawk accent of his, never got to enjoy Jim\u2019s sense of humor, his immense warmth, never learned the lessons he had to teach. I took that tape and had it turned into an audio download, and here it is. I talked to Jim\u2019s surviving heir, Jim Cirillo Jr. (shown in the photo above with his Dad) to get his blessing for the project, and offered him a portion of the income as I would have offered Jim Sr. if he was still with us. Jim Jr. was nice enough to give this undertaking his blessing.\n<\/span><\/p>\nBy the way, before you listen to this download. I should mention two things.<\/span><\/p>\nOne, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
However when writing the article I realized that Jim\u2019s gunfights, which I had intended to be just background to the match article, were so much more interesting that I abandoned the match article idea and simply made it an article on the gunfights themselves. This was a long article, folks, so long that it had to be split in half and run in two succeeding issues, September and October 1999, of SWAT<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nTime went by, I received word of Jim\u2019s death, which immensely bummed me out. Jim was just so damn COOL. For a man who, beyond any shadow of a doubt, was one of the few people in the modern age to deserve the term \u201cmaster gunfighter,\u201d Jim was also an amazingly nice guy, very emotional, very friendly, who, as he put it, \u201ccries at sad movies.\u201d The only guy who, even as I entered my 40s, always called me \u201ckid.\u201d He was also a famous storyteller, with impeccable comedic timing, who loved talking about his adventures with the famous New York City Police Stakeout Unit, and he\u2019d had 30 years to polish his presentations smooth.<\/span><\/p>\nI did my articles, that audio tape sat in a box in my closet for the next 11 years, even after Jim left us. And eventually I started thinking about all the people who were never fortunate enough to know Jim, never got to hear him tell his stories, which really are an important piece of Americana, in that wonderful, heavy New Yawk accent of his, never got to enjoy Jim\u2019s sense of humor, his immense warmth, never learned the lessons he had to teach. I took that tape and had it turned into an audio download, and here it is. I talked to Jim\u2019s surviving heir, Jim Cirillo Jr. (shown in the photo above with his Dad) to get his blessing for the project, and offered him a portion of the income as I would have offered Jim Sr. if he was still with us. Jim Jr. was nice enough to give this undertaking his blessing.\n<\/span><\/p>\nBy the way, before you listen to this download. I should mention two things.<\/span><\/p>\nOne, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. 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Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Time went by, I received word of Jim\u2019s death, which immensely bummed me out. Jim was just so damn COOL. For a man who, beyond any shadow of a doubt, was one of the few people in the modern age to deserve the term \u201cmaster gunfighter,\u201d Jim was also an amazingly nice guy, very emotional, very friendly, who, as he put it, \u201ccries at sad movies.\u201d The only guy who, even as I entered my 40s, always called me \u201ckid.\u201d He was also a famous storyteller, with impeccable comedic timing, who loved talking about his adventures with the famous New York City Police Stakeout Unit, and he\u2019d had 30 years to polish his presentations smooth.<\/span><\/p>\nI did my articles, that audio tape sat in a box in my closet for the next 11 years, even after Jim left us. And eventually I started thinking about all the people who were never fortunate enough to know Jim, never got to hear him tell his stories, which really are an important piece of Americana, in that wonderful, heavy New Yawk accent of his, never got to enjoy Jim\u2019s sense of humor, his immense warmth, never learned the lessons he had to teach. I took that tape and had it turned into an audio download, and here it is. I talked to Jim\u2019s surviving heir, Jim Cirillo Jr. (shown in the photo above with his Dad) to get his blessing for the project, and offered him a portion of the income as I would have offered Jim Sr. if he was still with us. Jim Jr. was nice enough to give this undertaking his blessing.\n<\/span><\/p>\nBy the way, before you listen to this download. I should mention two things.<\/span><\/p>\nOne, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. 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Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I did my articles, that audio tape sat in a box in my closet for the next 11 years, even after Jim left us. And eventually I started thinking about all the people who were never fortunate enough to know Jim, never got to hear him tell his stories, which really are an important piece of Americana, in that wonderful, heavy New Yawk accent of his, never got to enjoy Jim\u2019s sense of humor, his immense warmth, never learned the lessons he had to teach. I took that tape and had it turned into an audio download, and here it is. I talked to Jim\u2019s surviving heir, Jim Cirillo Jr. (shown in the photo above with his Dad) to get his blessing for the project, and offered him a portion of the income as I would have offered Jim Sr. if he was still with us. Jim Jr. was nice enough to give this undertaking his blessing.\n<\/span><\/p>\nBy the way, before you listen to this download. I should mention two things.<\/span><\/p>\nOne, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. 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By the way, before you listen to this download. I should mention two things.<\/span><\/p>\nOne, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
One, when I conducted this interview Jim had just gotten a new girlfriend, years after the painful death of his wife Mildred, named Violet Jiminez. Violet answered the phone when I called Jim for our scheduled phone interview, which is why at the beginning of the tape I\u2019m teasing him about getting a new girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Two, the last gunfight Jim discusses during the interview is one in which he and frequent partner Bill Allard faced, and triumphed over, two armed robbers inside a hotel. I have heard Jim tell this story before, in person, and he had a perfect, funny wind-up to it, but as he was moving toward it, at that point I interrupted to ask a question about something else, and he never got back around to his normal, great ending to the story. So I offer it to you here:<\/span><\/p>\nDuring this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
During this stakeout, two armed robbers walked into a hotel lobby, one of them reached under his long coat and pulled out a sawed-off rifle and hit the counter guy right between the eyes. The counter guy went down while the second robber, armed with a handgun, scooted under the counter and was then back there with the counter guy. He tapped the till, then, seeing a drawer with a key hanging out of it, asked the counter guy, who was still on the floor, \u201cIs there more money in there?\u201d The counter guy answered, \u201cNo, there\u2019s no money in there.\u201d The bad guy opened the drawer and sure enough there was money in there. He snarled, \u201cWhy, you em eff,\u201d and started kicking the counter guy, really putting the boots to him. Jim and Bill at this point didn\u2019t want to come out and engage because if they did they\u2019d have a hostage situation. But as soon as the second bad guy scooted back out under the counter they emerged and fireworks ensued. This is the gunfight where Bill Allard famously went through three guns before it was done.<\/span><\/p>\nAll that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
All that is on the tape. What\u2019s NOT is what happened afterward. Here it is, folks.<\/span><\/p>\nAfter the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
After the gunfight was over, Jim went up to the counter guy and asked him, \u201cWhy did you tell him there wasn\u2019t money in the register? The key to the drawer was hanging right out of it, you had to know he was going to open it and find the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Counter guy: \u201cWell, after that first guy hit me I was so pissed off, I wasn\u2019t going to do anything to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJim (puzzled): \u201cBut you just fetched yourself a beating you didn\u2019t have to get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCounter guy (grinning): \u201cYeah, but even as he was kicking me, and I was covering up, I was thinking, \u2018Boy, are YOU guys about to get it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, as occurred to so many other malefactors who ran into Jim Cirillo, just a few seconds later that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n-Duane Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price: $9.99 Click Below To Buy Now In 1999 at the Firearms Academy of Seattle in Washington state was conducted an IDPA match in which several of the stages were based on Jim Cirillo\u2019s gunfights. Jim actually attended and shot this match; so did I. Afterwards I pitched to Denny Hansen, the editor of SWAT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2436,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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