[27M] My gf [25F] of 6 months and her parents [50sMF] are all mad at me because I injured her father when he tried to intimidate me the day I met her parents

I grew up in a military family. Both my father and grandfather were both career officers in the marines. I did 8 years as an infantry marine. My gf's parents invited us over for a dinner last weekend so they could meet me and what not. They live about an hour away from where my gf and I live.

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We get there and walk in and her father is sat at the kitchen table cleaning his sidearm. He asks me to take a seat and talk to him and my gf and her mother walk off into the kitchen to work on dinner. I sit and chat with her father for a bit, get to know eachother a bit.

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It was just a small talk conversation. He finishes and reassembles his weapon and invited me to his man cave. I follow him, he's showing off his hunting mounts and then out of nowhere, he loads a magazine into his sidearm and slides a round into the chamber and then points it at me and starts to say "if you--". I havent been out that long so my instinct kinda takes over, having someone point a loaded weapon at me, and I disarm him. I dislocated one of his fingers in the process. He screamed and my gf and her mom came running. I fortunately have a bit of medical training, so I put his finger back in place for him.

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So both her father and her mother told me to leave, my gf drove so she obviously came with. The whole drive, she was asking what happened, saying I shouldn't have done that, etc and I explained it all and she was saying that I shouldn't have done that to him but personally I don't feel bad at all. I don't think I reacted negatively. I'm assuming the "If you--" was probably going to be "If you break my daughter's heart, blah blah blah". That's some first date or prom date crap.

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Anyway, my gf let me know that her parents want me to pay for her dad's hospital bills. Which is odd because after I set the finger, all he would need would be a splint and a wrap which can be bought at any walgreens.

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So do you think I overreacted?

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Edit: I appreciate all of your comments and I never thought that I overreacted, I was just looking for reassurance on that point. I have no intention of paying his hospital bills. Mostly because he obviously doesn't have any trigger discipline and his trigger finger being dislocated in the process is his own fault and also because all he needed after I set the finger back in place was a splint.

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