The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns that were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
The Washington Times has a long article on our research on the FBI Active Shooting reports missing cases where civilians stop attacks (see also here). This was also picked up in the Daily Journal on March 26, 2023. The article is as follows: Mercedes Perez crashed her...
FBI ACTIVE SHOOTER DATABASE is available here for people who want to check all the casesDownload 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...