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From:
The American Rifleman
January, 1997

Studies indicate that firearms are used over two million times a year for personal protection, and that the presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances. Shooting usually can be justified only where crime constitutes an immediate imminent threat to life limb or in some cases property. Anyone is free to quote or reproduce these accounts. Send clippings to: "The Armed Citizen," 11250 Waples Mill Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030

Three would-be burglars hot-wired Al Novak's conversion van and then used it as a vehicular battering ram to crash through the front of his Minneapolis, Minnesota, gun shop. Novak, who has lived in a small apartment in the shop for the past 16 years, was awakened by the commotion and confronted the unwelcome guests with his 9 mm. "They took one look at me and went back out the same way they came in," said Novak. It was the fourth time his shop had been burglarized since 1980. (Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, 7/12/96)

Clyde Bratcher had just opened the rural Clarkson, Kentucky, bank branch he managed when a man opened the front door and pointed a rifle at him. Bratcher drew a .45 cal. handgun from beneath the counter and shot the apparent robber, who staggered outside and collapsed. Not realizing the suspect would expire before fleeing, Bratcher followed him outside and shot the tires out on his car. (The Messenger- Inquirer, Owensboro, KY, 8/9/96)

Under the apparent influence of drugs, a knife-wielding man harassed and threatened a group of campers before making his way to a Calaveras County, California, couple's home. There, the brute tore through a screen door, punched a hole in a French door's glass window and strode into the dwelling. The husband grabbed a handgun, but after confronting the intruder, offered to summon help for the man who had grown hysterical shouting, "They're out to get me!" Instead the man insisted the homeowner shoot him. When he refused, the angered intruder pulled out his knife and approached the husband, who was finally forced to oblige the maniac's demands with a fatal shot to the chest. (The Bee, Modesto, CA, 7/31/96)

An 18-year-old woman was retrieving cash from a Reno, Nevada, automatic teller machine when two robbers pushed her against the machine and demanded she withdraw all of her money. Suddenly, the sound of a round being chambered in a semi-automatic pistol was heard from behind as a voice yelled, "Leave her alone." The two assailants bolted. The mystery rescuer then asked the woman if she was okay and advised her to go home before disappearing himself. (The Gazette, Reno, NV, 8/9/96)

A judge's restraining order -- signed after Donna Montoya was attacked and threatened with murder twice in seven weeks by her ex-boyfriend -- did little to keep her violent former partner from coming around her parents' Albuquerque, New Mexico, house in search of her. Though she wasn't at the residence at the time, the one-time boyfriend repeatedly circled the house, kicking at a door, throwing a large rock through a window, and shouting, "It doesn't matter. I'm coming in, anyway." When he tried, Montoya's father, Juan, met the man with a rifle, mortally wounding him with a single shot. Police believe the man was also carrying a large knife at the time of the incident. (The Journal, Albuquerque, NM, 7/23/96)

A teenage crook got quite a surprise after he entered 68-year-old Ruth Haskin's home through a kitchen window and stole into her bedroom. The Upper Deerfield Township, New Jersey, woman kept a .22 cal. handgun within arm's reach whenever she slept. Upon awaking to find the youth in her bedroom, she reached for the gun and shot him in the chest as he came at her, wounding him. (The Press, Atlantic City, NJ, 8/25/96)

One of Phil Carter's Tallahassee, Florida, neighbors was describing the car she had seen in his driveway earlier in the day when his home was burglarized when she pointed to his house and said, "As a matter of fact, there it is in your driveway." Sure enough, the suspects had returned. Carter jumped in his truck and attempted to block the green Ford Mustang. He then jumped halfway though the escaping bandit's vehicle, one hand on the steering wheel and the other around the driver's neck, when he spied his stolen hunting rifle laying in the back seat. He quickly grabbed the .270, slid from the car, and took aim at the vehicle, shooting out three of the four tires. The car crashed into a tree with the passenger spilling out the door in surrender. The driver pushed on and managed to escape on his vehicle's rims, but Carter held the accomplice for police. Police were still searching for the second suspect. (The Democrat, Tallahassee, FL, 8/11/96)

A Rochester, New York, homeowner grabbed his shotgun after witnessing a gang of men armed with guns and clad in dark hooded sweatshirts and pants storm a neighboring duplex. After hitting the man's neighbors, the roving band of marauders descended upon the armed citizen, who was determined to protect himself and his children. As the, assailants forced their way into his home, the man opened fire, trading shots with as many as seven suspects. The man was able to successfully fend off the attack, killing two of the intruders and wounding a third. Police were still looking for the other suspects. Police were searching for links between this attack and similar home invasions earlier in the summer that had left two citizens dead. The man's neighbors were considering following his lead and arming themselves for protection. (The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, 8/27/97)

In what was deemed a "rare" attack by a rabid Eastern coyote, an Albany, New York, woman required stitches to her head, back and legs after being repeatedly bitten by the creature while working in her garden. Hearing her screams, neighbor Giles Bullock shouted at the animal, hoping to scare it away. When that failed, he retrieved his 12-ga. shotgun and killed the animal with a single blast. "It was a good thing (Bullock) was here to help her," the thankful woman's husband said. (The Times Union, Albany, NY, 8/24/96)

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