(08-31-2020, 06:29 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-31-2020, 06:15 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: LOL.  Please don't stop posting.  I haven't had this good of a laugh in a long time.

For the record, I am not a police officer.  I was back before you were a gleam in your daddy's eye (late 1980's).

Regarding the part in bold.  Do you think that a convicted felon causing property damage and pursuing a clearly armed person is going to stop because the armed person ejects the magazine from his weapon?  Is all threat to life on either side really over?  

I was born in the first half of the 1980s.

Your question is not really relevant to the law. the man might keep charging him, and even try to tackle him and start beating him, but if there is no magazine, and nothing in the chamber, the threat of death or great bodily harm is greatly reduced. Almost eliminated.