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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werewolf" data-source="post: 1421266" data-attributes="member: 239">If you catch 'em in the act you can indeed use your 12 gauge but only to hold them at the place the felony occured. If the robbers decide to take off in the face of that 12 gauge pointed at 'em you're just out of luck. Except under special circumstances you can't shoot 'em. The felony pointing of a firearm law exempts one in cases where you point a firearm at those commiting a felony act in your presence. So the cops won't be able to nail you with that. They might however try to nail you on misdemeanor pointing of a firearm, which law provides no exemption as the felony pointing of a firearm does though I have never heard of that happening. OK police are generally very reasonable when citizens are victimized by criminals. There is however no provision in OK law for one to shoot another except in those cases where self defense is involved and that needs to meet the criteria of the attacker having the means, the opportunity and the intent to put a lethal dose of whoopass on you. OK does have a justifiable homicide statute which covers some wide ground and may provide for shooting a felon caught in the act (I seem to remember it covering felony acts that represent a danger to others, arson for example, but it has been many, many years since I read it and it may have changed since then. It sucks but unless the thieves are armed and present a lethal threat to you you can't shoot 'em.</blockquote>

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