OK a couple of things: This thread (and any thread in this subforum) is NOT the place to (a) show pictures of your preferred weapon or (b) pronounce how you would deal with a hypothetical attacker or (c) indulge your prison **** fantasies and finally, it also is NOT the place to engage in the larger gun control debate. None of those sorts of posts have any true bearing on the situation relayed in the OP.

The legal situation will reveal itself in due course and I wish a full and speedy recovery to the two riders. They are what this thread is about.