Raleigh, North Carolina, August 1, 2023 (WRAL News) Raleigh police will not file charges after a woman shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a Food Lion grocery store. According to police, 49-year-old Steven McLamb is accused of tugging on a woman’s car door...
Defensive Gun Use
Armed Man saves Woman from Robber at Major transit hub, Police say. Police Arrest the Good Samaritan. This occurred while the NYPD was being even more restrictive on issuing permits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDHlT9IYYM With New York City's robbery rate up 25.3% from two years ago and overall serious crime up 29%, New Yorkers have some real concerns about crime. On Tuesday, November 7th, a good samaritan, John Rote, of Queens, rescued a...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During July 2023
Wichita, Kansas, July 2, 2023 (KWCH) No charges will be filed against the man who was arrested and accused of firing shots inside City Nightz nightclub on July 2. He’s set to be released from jail Thursday afternoon. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 20 Cases During June 2023
Allentown, Pennsylvania, June 4, 2023 (69 News) Edgar Gonzalez, 22, suffered a gunshot wound while involved in an altercation on June 4 in the parking lot of the AutoZone at 1871 South 5th Street in Allentown, according to a news release from the district attorney's...
Armed Israeli Civilians Stop Terrorist Attack at Their Kibbutz
It was simply impossible for the military or police to protect all the civilian targets. . We have our own group, men aged between 20 and 40, who have been specially trained to be a civilian army. They are the ones who saved our lives,” the social worker and therapist...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 63.5%.
Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are available here (2000-2013), here (2014-2015), here (2016-2017), here (2018), here (2019), here...
Armed Serial Carjacker Shot by Concealed Carry Holder in Chicago
Another concealed handgun permit holder stopped a carjacking in Chicago. A Chicago man who received probation in a carjacking case late last year got shot this month while trying to carjack a rideshare driver at gunpoint, prosecutors say. Darick Benson, 20, was...
Arizona woman shoots sex offender with long criminal record who is breaking into her home
At 2 PM on August 11th, 54-year-old Sandra Tracy shot and killed Jayson Magrum, who is a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal record, who was breaking into your Three Points, Arizona home. Three Points is a rural unincorporated, thinly populated area of...
Chicago Rideshare Driver with Concealed Handgun Permit Shoots Two Armed Robbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-fhPrtakKU Two armed robbers walked up to a Chicago ride share driver a 1:02 AM and, according to police, "announced a robbery", but it didn't turn out the way the robbers had hoped.. . A Chicago rideshare driver shot two...
Armed civilian rescues mailman from robbery
Here is another defensive gun use by a civilian legally carrying a gun in public. Police said they responded to a neighborhood in the Village of River Grove at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, where they discovered a U.S. Postal Service employee was approached by an armed...
And gun control advocates wonder why you need a magazine with more than 10 rounds?: Woman shots two of the four burglars who broke in to her apartment, likely carrying a concealed handgun.
A woman was found to have shot the burglars who broke into her house in self-defense. With four burglars in her apartment when she came home, it looks like the woman was already carrying a concealed handgun . The woman arrived at her apartment along the 4900 block of...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 32 Cases During May 2023
Beaumont, Texas, May 1, 2023 (12NewsNow) On Monday, May 1, 2023, Beaumont Police officers were sent to the Regent Apartments in reference to a victim of a shooting… Beaumont Police received multiple calls about the incident… The caller said four people wearing masks...