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Where Clayton Cramer, Pete Drum, and "DaveLoneRanger" keep track of civilians using guns in self-defense.

Businessman Fired Shots

Alleged robber was free on bond.  Omaha Police say that one of the owners of the Benson Jewelry and Loan fired a weapon that killed a would-be robber and critically injured his alleged accomplice...

79-Year-Old Shoots Two Intruders, Police Say

The homeowner told police the two men kicked in his back door just before 5 a.m. Saturday. They tried to flee after being shot.

Update

Teen Dies After Botched Robbery

...as [the victim] tried to get away, a fight started. That's when the victim apparently pulled out his own gun and fired several shots, hitting two of the suspects.

Man credits gun in foiling intruder

Man "fired his .45-caliber Smith & Wesson twice by accident, while trying to cock it and chamber a round."  He won in the end but it's something to learn from!

Police: Storeowner Fires In Defense; Robbery Suspect Dies

A 17-year-old robbery suspect died late Thursday or early Friday after he suffered a gunshot wound when a storeowner fired in self-defense, police said.

Teen worker defends her fired boss

To officials with the Long John Silver's seafood chain, a restaurant manager who foiled a robbery after picking up a hammer and hitting a masked gunman he feared might kill him was an employee who violated company policy that requires cooperating with robbers.

Pistol-packing hiker kills brown bear in sudden Chugach foothills attack
"We hadn't had that bear dead within three minutes when 12 cross-country runners from the high school came by," Babcock said.

Fatal Shooting May Have Been Self Defense

The shot gun went off and a member of the club returned fire, killing one teen, injuring the other [May have been? - Ed.]

Pizza man saved by gun, but fired for packin' heat
Prosecutors call it 'clear case of self-defense,' yet national chain prohibits carrying firearms.

Store owner kills armed man

Wearing mask, gloves, he intended to rob Roselawn shop, police say

The owner of a convenience store shot and killed an armed man wearing a black ski mask who authorities said was intending to rob the store, police said Friday.

Cops:  Man was serial robber

Covington Police say the robber who was shot and killed by a Covington store owner last month when he tried to rob the business was also responsible for four other Covington hold-ups.

77-year-old woman shoots intruder

A 77-year-old woman who lives alone on Rogers Gap Road shot one of two 19-year-old men who tried to break into her home early Sunday

Weapons Law Works

His suspicion turned to fear when, moments later, the man made a U-turn, stopped his car in the middle of the road and walked toward him.

Robber shot to death during robbery

A 20-year-old Wayne County man was fatally shot by a woman whose house he tried to rob Wednesday.

Man successfully defends home against four invaders

One man is dead and another was in critical condition with two gunshot wounds to the head after an apparent home invasion

Woman Defends Herself after Courts and EPO's Fail
A woman eluded a gunshot fired by her ex-husband Monday night and killed him with a return shot from her own pistol, authorities said Tuesday.

Store owner in gun battle with robber
Man's son, maybe intruder too, injured during holdup
A gun battle during a robbery late Saturday in Pike County left a storekeeper wounded, and maybe one of the assailants as well. Russell Hall, owner of Hall's Midnight Market at Robinson Creek, said a man armed with a pistol shot his son, Michael Hall. Russell Hall then fired several shots at the robber, which drove him away.

Woman kills 1 intruder, other flees
A woman shot and killed one of two suspected robbers who had broken into her home before dawn today, a sheriff's spokesman said.

Tenant kills thief  hiding under bed. Police overlook burglar
A burglar undetected during a police search of an East Side apartment early Saturday morning later crawled from beneath a bed and was shot in the head during a gunfight with a resident. The burglar was shot after he shot and wounded Shermaine D. Whitley, who lives in the ground-level apartment on South Street, police said.

True Stories of Armed Self-Defense 
for January, 2001
This month brought numerous reminders of why many Americans own guns. But these stories were nowhere to be seen on ABC, CBS, CNN, or NBC. They weren't news to editors of the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Los Angeles Times. Overlooked by the mainstream media, these accounts show how lives are saved when law-abiding citizens own firearms.

Fight may have been racially motivated
CCW Holder Thwarts Attack 
EAST BREMERTON - A black man was waiting for his girlfriend to get off work at Oh! Gallagher's Sports Pub and Grill late Tuesday when he was insulted and challenged by a young, drunk patron who used racial epithets, witnesses told deputies.

How Long Does it Take to Die?
One of the arguments the gun-banners use is that victims of crime should call police and let the authorities handle the situation. As James Brady said, "For defense of the home--that's why we have police departments." An examination of two cases, however, would seem to put the lie to that statement.

Gun-toting attorney foils burglary
Tom Beiting was headed downstairs to his law office one morning this week from the second-floor apartment in the remodeled Newport, Kentucky mansion he owns when he was startled by the sound of the back door opening.

Keeping Secrets
For whatever reason, the networks chose to spike the story.
It's almost like the media moguls have a secret they don't want us to know. An exciting, heart-wrenching story such as this, breaking even as the evening news shows went on the air, would seem a natural.

Prosecutor clears woman in killing
`Clear case of self-defense' in holdup
Ruth Robinson watched in fear as the gunman, demanding money, cocked the handgun and threatened to kill her husband. Robinson, who was working with her husband, James, at the Busy Mini-Mart on South Hoskins Road in northwest Charlotte, reached under the counter and grabbed a handgun.

An Extraordinarily Gruesome Case
or Why Everyone Needs a Gun
When Hayward Bissell and his girlfriend Patricia Ann Booher left Ohio on a trip to Florida, no one could have guessed that they would soon make front-page news. Though the national media reported the sensational aspects of the case, only local newspapers wrote about the woman who saved herself and her husband from Bissell's insane rage.

Man armed with BB gun killed in robbery attempt
Would We Call This a Failure in Target Selection?
A man armed with a BB gun died while he and his partner tried to rob a pair of Charlotte businessmen Thursday outside a motel on Broad River Road, police said. The robbers didn't know these were ex-military officers, one of whom built his career on teaching anti-terrorism skills to state officials, according to newspaper reports.

3 Against 1: Ex-Cop Wins; No Shots Fired
...As I walked around the building, (I was less than 25 yards from a main Avenue), I noticed three young men approaching from the opposite direction. As they neared, they gave a knowing look to each other, and split up. One of them crossed to the other side of the street. The other two separated themselves to where they were approximately four feet apart - the width of the sidewalk. All three un-zipped their jackets.

Refuse To Be A Victim Again
A deeply personal story from a young policewoman about how she came to her philosophy of self defense

Las Vegas Homeowner shoots intruder to death
A gunbattle in a Las Vegas home early Tuesday left an intruder dead and the 60-year-old homeowner shaken but unharmed, police said.The Tuesday morning shootout unfolded as the two men stood just a few feet from one another in the den of the homeowner's residence in the 3200 block of South Tenaya Way at Desert Inn Road.

Have gun, will not fear it anymore
Bleeding and weakened from the bullet wound in her chest, Susan Gonzalez aimed her husband's .22-caliber pistol, the one she hated, and emptied it into one of the robbers who had burst through the front door of her rural Jacksonville home.

Orange Pizzeria manager kills suspect during robbery
The manager of a Hungry Howie's Pizza & Subs restaurant on Silver Star Road shot and killed one masked robber and seriously wounded another Wednesday night, authorities said.

Wounded Grocer Shoots Assailant
Khalid Balala, whose family owns the Hill's Grocery store at 3754 Cascade Road, was forced to the floor at gunpoint by three suspects and shot in the arm about 4 p.m., said Fulton County police Detective Glenn Martin. Balala, still sprawled on the floor, reached for his own handgun and returned fire, Martin said.

Another Thug Done Gone
On November 17, 1998, at 3:00 a.m., Adrian Rodricka Cathey jimmied open the back door of an apartment near the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He made his way through the house until he reached the bedroom where the co-ed he'd been stalking was asleep.

Carjacking Victim Kills Attacker
The target of a carjacker turned the tables early Monday, pulling out a gun and killing his would-be attacker.

Arlington man, 68, with permit uses his gun to thwart robber
The 68-year-old Arlington man had just left his car in the parking lot of Harrigan's restaurant, at 944 E. Copeland Road, about 4:25 p.m. Sunday when a man wielding a handgun approached and demanded money.

Deacon saves granddaughter from kidnappers
It was all one big blur, authorities said. His 13-year-old granddaughter was struggling to get out of the car, to escape from one of the men who had held her for days in a cheap motel room outside of Atlanta and sexually abused her.

Bowling Green woman fights back
Anne Barry of Bowling Green, Kentucky, knows the importance of having a firearm. "If I hadn't had that gun, I wouldn't have had a chance," she said.

Mugger shot by intended victim
A man police say was trying to rob another man ended up in the
hospital Thursday because his chosen victim, a man out for his morning walk, packed a .25-caliber automatic in his exercise pants and used it.

Clerk handed over cash, was shot anyway
Joseph Hewitt was talking to his wife, Carolee, on the telephone at her second job Wednesday night when a masked gunman robbed and shot her. The senselessness of the crime shocked police because the 23-year-old mother of two gave the robber the money he demanded.

Grayson County bank chief kills robber
Crime doesn't pay at the Bank of Clarkson. In fact, it can be quite lethal. For the second time in three years, branch manager Clyde Bratcher Jr. has gunned down a would-be robber at the bank's Midway Plaza branch in the Grayson County town of 611.