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...
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...
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...
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns that were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. Our original write-up on this problem is available here. Specifically, just those cases where just mass public shootings were...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Here is a dramatic example of an 18-year-old mother who protected herself and her young 3-month old from her stalker. For gun control advocates who want to ban anyone under 21 from having guns, this might be something to remember. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 31,...
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. We have most seriously updated this list starting at the beginning of 2020. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with...
Chicago, Illinois, April 1, 2023 (CBS News Chicago) A suspected robber is dead after a store manager shot him in a Chicago auto parts store Saturday afternoon. According to the Chicago Police Department, an armed 30- to 40-year-old man entered the O'Reilly Auto...
On Friday, June 23rd, 2023, an employee at Turnberry Towers near Karen and Paradise shot a gunman who walked in and fired shots at the front desk. Fortunately, the employee had a concealed handgun permit and was able to quickly stop the attack before anyone else was...