Killeen, TX, January 18, 2022 The man was wanted in connection to a string of robberies in the area and has an active warrant out of Dallas for aggravated robbery. When police officers attempted to serve an arrest warrant at the suspect’s house that morning, the man...
Defensive Gun Use
People legally carrying guns have protected others
Woodbridge, VA, February 27, 2022 A good Samaritan fired shots at an oncoming car that eventually hit a woman, and his son, following a melee at a Woodbridge commuter lot. The incident started as a domestic dispute. The good Samaritan possessed his weapon legally and...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 22 Cases During March 2022
Atlanta, GA, March 1, 2022 (FOX 5 Atlanta) Officers have arrested five teenagers after a police chase through multiple metro Atlanta cities and counties early Tuesday morning.Officials tell FOX 5 the incident started around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in DeKalb County with a...
UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shootings
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?" We provided...
Mass Public Shooting averted: Woman fatally shoots a man armed with an AR-15 type gun who began shooting at a crowd of people in Charleston, West Virginia
Cases like this just don't get national news. Here a man with "an extensive criminal history" started firing an "AR-15 style firearm" into a crowd. Fortunately, a woman who was legally carrying a gun was there to stop the attack. Police said a woman who was lawfully...
People legally carrying guns have saved police officers
Maple Falls, WA, February 10, 2022 Two deputies responded to a report of shots fired in a Maple Falls neighborhood. Upon arrival, the suspect started yelling at the deputies, waving a shotgun around, and “appeared to be intoxicated by his speech and actions.” The...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During February 2022
Philadelphia, PA, February 1, 2022 (Fox News) The shootout unfolded just before 4 a.m. in a convenience store on the 5500 block of Torresdale Avenue in the city’s Wissinoming neighborhood, the Philadelphia Police Department said.The 32-year-old woman, whose name has...
Active shooter stopped by legally armed Citizens
More examples of mass public shootings that were stopped by citizens legally carrying concealed handguns are available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUW9LvPSPjA South Fulton, Georgia: . . . Meadows said the men involved in the shootout with Hambrick have been...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 31 Cases During January 2022
Philadelphia, PA, January 3, 2022 (NBC Philadelphia) A legally armed Lyft driver shot and critically injured two suspects who carjacked him in Philadelphia, police said.The ordeal began Monday shortly before 2:45 p.m. A 38-year-old Lyft driver was driving his 2011...
Nashville man fires at least nine shots in self-defense
A man uses a gun to protect himself and his young son. Sometimes it takes more than a couple of shots to protect yourself. . . . Officials responded to the call about a man who was shot around 7:50 a.m. at an apartment complex located at 3501 Andrew Jackson Way....
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 20 Cases During December 2021
Charlotte, NC, December 2, 2021 (WSOC-TV) Police have classified a shooting that left a 48-year-old man dead in east Charlotte at the beginning of December as a “justified homicide.”The shooting happened at about 5:10 p.m. along Lawyers Road at East W.T. Harris...
Ukrainian Civilians get basic military training with machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTqSuHku7uc Interesting that a large number of civilian women are receiving training on how to use machine guns to defend themselves and their country.