Category: A Victory!
A masked intruder picked the wrong San Francisco home and brought a husky along for the bad decision.
A 73-year-old Vietnam War veteran shot a suspected burglar during an early-morning struggle inside his Sunset District home, according to CBS News Bay Area.
The break-in happened shortly after 5 a.m. on September 26 near 22nd Avenue and Lincoln Way, along Golden Gate Park.
Surveillance footage reportedly showed the suspect walking around the area about 40 minutes before the burglary. The homeowner said the man drilled a large hole through a wooden door, reached inside and unlocked it.
“A professional burglar cut his way into my home,” the veteran told CBS.
Face-to-Face With a Masked Intruder
The homeowner was sleeping on the third floor when noises woke him. He retrieved a handgun and went downstairs to investigate.
On the second floor, he encountered a man wearing black clothing, a hoodie and a face covering. The suspected intruder had also brought what the homeowner described as a roughly 60-pound husky.
The veteran said the man grabbed him, causing him to fall onto his hands and knees.
“I shot him because I felt really threatened,” he told CBS. “He had already made this deep intrusion into my home.”
The homeowner reportedly fired one shot and believed he struck the man near the hip or buttocks. He suffered minor scrapes to his hands and knees during the confrontation.
The masked man fled, leaving bloodstained shoe prints leading toward Golden Gate Park. He also left the husky behind. San Francisco Animal Care and Control later took custody of the dog.
Police Detain Wounded Man
A short time later, officers found an injured man approximately three miles away near Geary Boulevard and 47th Avenue.
Paramedics transported him to San Francisco General Hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Police detained the man while investigators worked to determine whether he was connected to the burglary.
Initial police reporting treated the burglary and the discovery of the wounded man as separate incidents because investigators had not yet established a connection. No charges against the homeowner had been announced.
The veteran withheld his name and face from the CBS report because of safety concerns. He said he remained shaken but was thankful he escaped without serious injuries.
“I had a little help from a friend,” he said, referring to his handgun.
The bizarre details will get plenty of attention. Still, the heart of the story is straightforward: an elderly homeowner reported being attacked inside his own home and used a firearm to stop the threat.
=============================================== I see that San Francisco still has some really tough men around! Grumpy
Here’s a scenario that should make every gun owner’s blood boil. A 22-year-old Oklahoma National Guard member, sent to Washington, D.C., to support President Trump’s crime-fighting effort, now finds himself facing charges. His alleged offense? Carrying a firearm.
What Happened
The Associated Press reports that Spec. Jakob Noonan was arrested Monday, September 29, after U.S. Park Police found a handgun during a traffic stop. Noonan was riding with a fellow Guard member in a Honda SUV when officers pulled the vehicle over for an expired tag.
According to a U.S. Park Police statement, the officer noticed an empty holster in the back of the vehicle and asked whether a firearm was present. Noonan confirmed there was. At the time, he was off duty, out of uniform, and driving his personal vehicle. He told the officer the firearm was registered in Oklahoma — an open-carry, permitless-carry state — and that he was temporarily living in the capital as part of the National Guard operation. A records check confirmed he had no valid District of Columbia concealed-carry permit.
Noonan was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and had his first court appearance in D.C. Superior Court the same day. Notably, his arrest marks the second time in two months that a member of the task force has been arrested — the deployment itself has been contentious since Trump launched it in August 2025 under an emergency crime declaration.
A Joint Task Force-District of Columbia spokesperson told Task & Purpose on Saturday that it knew about the service member’s arrest.
“JTF-DC service members are expected to maintain high standards of professionalism and conduct at all times. This matter will be addressed in accordance with established policies and procedures,” the spokesperson said, pointing further questions toward the Metropolitan Police Department.
The Legal Absurdity
Here’s where it gets ridiculous. In his home state of Oklahoma, Noonan can legally carry without any permit. While he’s on the clock in D.C., he can lawfully carry a handgun or a service rifle. But to lawfully keep a gun in his personal vehicle in the District — one that isn’t locked up, unloaded, and inaccessible — he’d need a D.C. carry permit under the licensing scheme the D.C. Circuit struck down in Wrenn v. District of Columbia back in 2017, before the District rewrote it with new procedural barriers that are just as effective at keeping non-residents out.
Under D.C. statute, he faces a possible five-year prison term.
The question answers itself: does a man suddenly become a danger the moment his workday ends? Of course not. National reciprocity would resolve this absurdity: a lawful carrier shouldn’t become a felon by crossing a jurisdictional line, especially one the federal government ordered him to cross.
Pirro’s Pickle
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has backed herself into a corner. She’s said she wouldn’t go after D.C. residents for openly carrying rifles or running afoul of the District’s “large capacity” magazine ban.
But back in February she warned in a Fox News interview, “You bring a gun into this District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.”
TTAG criticized those comments at the time, and Noonan’s case is exactly why. Pirro drew the hardest possible line against non-resident carry — no exceptions, no discretion, no case-by-case consideration — and now the test case is a Trump-deployed National Guardsman who was lawfully carrying under the laws of the state that sent him.
If she prosecutes Noonan, Second Amendment supporters will raise a stink, and rightly so. If she doesn’t, the left will cry double standard.
Either way, this case is exactly why gun owners took issue with her tough talk in the first place. A U.S. Attorney who publicly commits to prosecuting every outsider who carries into D.C., regardless of circumstance, has handed herself a political problem the moment one of those “outsiders” turns out to be sympathetic.
Here’s hoping Noonan’s attorneys mount a Second Amendment challenge to D.C.’s non-resident carry licensing scheme. The Supreme Court’s post-Bruen framework specifically protects public carry for self-defense, and the District’s effective denial of that right to residents of 49 other states — including an active-duty servicemember ordered to the capital on federal business — is exactly the kind of as-applied challenge the Bruen framework was built to resolve.