by Daniel Terrill Guns.com
Amid a national debate on assault weapons and the recent passing of strict New York gun laws, a college student armed with an AR-15 rifle scared off two armed and potentially dangerous burglars during a midnight home invasion last week in Rochester, New York.
Chris Boise, a student attending Rochester Institute of Technology, told the local ABC affiliate that he awoke just after midnight Tuesday morning to a noise downstairs something that sounded like a knock on the door. When he reached the stairway he saw two men standing at the bottom and he noticed that one of them had a gun aimed right at him.
Boises roommate, Raymond (he didnt want his last name printed) heard commotion Boises screams just outside his bedroom door.
I heard one scream from him, and I knew it wasnt like a I stepped on a piece of glass kind of scream, said Raymond, who also attends RIT. It was like something primal.
Trusting his instincts, Raymond, who legally owns an AR-15, unlocked the rifle from its case.
He said, By the time I had it out and ready, one of the men came at my door, slowly opened it, saw that there was a barrel on the other side and from there backed out.