Murfreesboro, Tennessee, August 1, 2025 (Rutherford Source) A customer shot and killed a suspected thief during an attempted ATM theft early Friday at a 7-Eleven Exxon on East Northfield Boulevard, Murfreesboro police detectives said. Detectives with the Criminal...
Defensive Gun Use
Detroit Man Shoots Three of the Four Men who were trying to Attack Him
Prosecutors can take months to decide whether to pursue charges in a shooting, even when the person who pulled the trigger clearly acted in self-defense or in defense of others. In this case, however, Wayne County prosecutors moved quickly and determined that the...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 35 Cases During July 2025
Richmond, Virginia, July 2, 2025 (12 On Your Side) Henrico Police say they were called to the 3700 block of Vawter Avenue just after 5 p.m. on July 2 for a reported shooting call. They arrived and said the incident happened on Vawter Avenue between Young Street and...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 41 Cases During June 2025
Asheville, North Carolina, June 1, 2025 (Asheville Citizen Times) After gunfire erupted on Rankin Avenue near College Street around 12:07 a.m. June 1, Asheville Police Department detectives reviewed a "significant amount of physical and digital evidence" and conducted...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 39 Cases During May 2025
Austin, Texas, May 1, 2025 (FOX 7 Austin) Austin police said on May 1, around 6:59 p.m., officers responded to a call reporting that someone had been shot at the Shell gas station at 2001 E. Riverside Drive… The investigation revealed Valerio-Rodriguez went to his...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 26 Cases During April 2025
Houston, Texas, April 1, 2025 (KHOU 11) The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. on Elm Street near Renwick Drive. Officers with the Houston Police Department's South Gessner Patrol Division responded to the scene following reports of gunfire… In an update, HPD said the...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 26 Cases During March 2025
Evansville, Indiana, March 5, 2025 (14 News) Officials say one person was hurt after dispatch received multiple shots fired call in an Evansville housing complex near Highway 41. They say callers told them they heard at least 8 to 12 shots around 8:15 p.m. near the...
At Real Clear Politics: She Saved Her Life. 7-Eleven Fired Her
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. Also published at The Daily Signal, Zero Hedge, Yahoo, and World Net Daily. . Stephanie Dilyard is lucky to be alive. . Yet last week, 7-Eleven fired the 25-year-old after she used her gun to save her own...
Seattle Armed Carjackers Stopped by Armed Victim
Seattle armed carjackers meet their match as a licensed concealed handgun permit holder stops their attack, the attempted carjackers are now in critical condition. Seattle police are investigating an attempted armed carjacking in the Belltown-Queen Anne area that...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 25 Cases During February 2025
Juneau, Alaska, February 3, 2025 (Juneau Empire) A driver fatally shot another motorist he said was threatening him with what appeared to be a rifle shortly after midnight Monday in the roundabout at Mendenhall Loop Road and Stephen Richards Memorial Drive, according...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2024 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 3.7%, the correct number is at least 36%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 52.5%. In 2024, it was 62.5%.
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories (see also here). We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting attacks. FBI...
A Woman “had no other choice but to defend herself and that is why people have guns.” She was six months pregnant and had two other children in the house. She survived years of domestic abuse and defended herself against “a terrible domestic assault.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWOs6orCFls Wednesday, April 17, 2025 . . . We learned on April 18 that it appeared to be domestic violence-related, and no charges were filed at the time. Wednesday, we spoke with District Attorney General Frederick Agee. He told...












