Shootout With A Bank Robber! Commander Tim Gramins

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Active Self Protection Podcast we sit down with Commander Tim Gramins of the Skokie, IL Police Department as he tells us about the 2008 gun battle with a bank robbery suspect who was determined to kill him and about how he was down to his last 4 rounds before the gunfight ended. Then we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and talk about gun sales in the U.S. seemingly plateauing in the last quarter of 2021. Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever and the rest of the ASP staff as they talk to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Title music by Jorikbasov.

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0:00.0	I've got a pretty good site picture and you see three different holes through my windshield. They're tracking him. I'm tracking him through my sights and then fired through the windshield. So I have about three or four, a group of about three or four, and then a group of three or four. And you'll see him come up into the windshield as he's coming up to my driver's side. Hey, their self-defenders. John Korea is proud to be an ambassador for Heckler and Coke Pistols.
0:23.0	The entire active self-protection team loves our HKs, knowing that we can drag them all over the country,
0:28.1	shoot thousands of rounds of years through each one, subject them to very little care,
0:31.5	and they will always go bang, incredibly reliable, and a joy to shoot.
0:35.1	Please visit them at hk-usa.com, hk-usa.com and tell them the
0:40.9	Active Self-Protection podcast sent you. All right, folks, we're back again with another episode of
0:45.4	the Active Self Protection podcast. I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite former Fed with us today,
0:51.8	a man of some note. He is a commander, watch commander with a Skokie,
0:55.6	Illinois Police Department. His name is Tim Grammins, and he has a heck of a story to tell. Tim,
0:59.5	thanks so much for being here. Oh, it's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Where are you from originally?
1:03.3	Are you from that area? So, you know, I grew up in Wisconsin, but then I moved down to
1:09.2	Chicago suburbs in my youth. So I've been around,
1:13.8	you know, for a pretty long time. About 40 years in Chicago suburbs. Very good. And so let me
1:19.5	ask you this. This is usually one of my first questions when I have an LE guest is,
1:22.9	why law enforcement? But drew to law enforcement. And do not say you wanted to help people,
1:27.4	because that's just too easy.
1:29.5	Okay.
1:30.2	So I will, well, one I'll say I actually wanted to make the world a better place for everybody.
1:36.4	So that's kind of my thing, which I think includes helping people.
1:40.6	But honestly, it started.
1:43.0	My grandfather was a Milwaukee. I actually always wanted
1:46.8	to be a special agent with the FBI actually was recruited by them once I was a cop after being a
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