Las Vegas, NV, March 1, 2021 (FOX 5 Vegas) According to police, the shooting happened around 6:45 p.m. on March 1 in the 3300 block of South Jones Boulevard, near West Desert Inn Road. A suspect allegedly attempted to steal a vehicle from the Panda Auto shop and was...
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: Twenty-one Cases During January 2021
Palm Beach, FL, January 2, 2021 (WPBF) Authorities say that a person was shot outside of the RaceTrac gas station at 2995 45th Street just before midnight on Saturday. A vehicle owner confronted and shot a burglar inside of their vehicle, according to police. The...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: Twenty-six Cases During December 2020
Akron, OH, December 1, 2020 (Cleveland 19) The robbery happened just before 8 p.m. at the MetroPCS store on Main Street in Akron. According to Akron police, the suspect entered the store, pulled out a handgun, and took money from the cash register. The suspect then...
Mass public shooting stopped by concealed handgun permit holder in Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, July 4th, 2021 It seems likely that if the concealed handgun permit holder hadn't intervened in this case there would have been at least three deaths instead of just the one woman. There were obviously other people present, so who knows how many...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: Cases during June 2020
Chicago, IL, June 1, 2020 (CWB Chicago) A Logan Square store owner with a concealed carry license fired shots at hammer-wielding looters who confronted him in his shop early Monday, prosecutors said. The businessman even managed to detain one of the alleged intruders...
Defensive Gun Uses Where People Legally Carrying Concealed Guns Have Stopped Crime, Cases From Early December to Late December 2019
San Antonio, TX, December 1, 2019 Police said the owner caught the suspect, who is in his 50s, trying to steal property behind the business.The store owner grabbed his gun and confronted the suspect, according to a sergeant at the scene.An altercation occurred and the...
Chicago armed robbery thwarted as gun owner with concealed-carry permit kills suspect
Another of our collection of concealed handgun permit holders who have stopped violent crime. A man was shot and killed while trying to rob a cell phone store in Chicago on Saturday, police said. The would-be robber entered the cell phone shop on the 3400 hundred...
Defensive Gun Uses stopping Domestic Violence over last six months
San Antonio, June 7, 2019 (KSAT ABC 12) A 48-year-old man who was shot in the chest by his on-again, off-again girlfriend has died from his injuries, San Antonio police said. Police also said they found the woman, in her late 50s, with her tooth knocked out. They...
Two defensive gun uses by concealed handgun permit holders in Chicago this past week
Chicago, Illinois, March 28, 2018 An armed suburban man with a concealed-carry license intervened in a 3-on-1 beating and robbery in River North yesterday evening, according to a witness and police. The victim was in the 700 block of North Clark around 8:30 p.m. when...
CPRC interviewed by Fox News about Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Stopping Robbery in Chicago
CPRC's John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about a permit holder who stopped a robbery in Chicago: . . . The incident could add more fuel to the ongoing debate about whether the proliferation of handguns is responsible for crime or if more guns in the hands of...
Concealed handgun permit holder in Chicago stops armed robber
From the Chicago Tribune (November 1, 2015): A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber . . . The dead man has been identified as Reginald Gildersleeve, 55, of the...









