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From:
The American Rifleman
March, 1994

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

As one young thug beat Rochester, New York, store owner Boleck Slepecki, the other raided the cash register. Even though his face was bloodied and his glasses smashed, Slepecki was able to get his .357 out of his waistband and fired twice. One of his shots hit the door frame, the other hit his attacker in the leg. Both robbers fled but were quickly apprehended. (The Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, 12/28/93)

Taking care of his banking at a bank in Carrollton, Maryland, Anthony Campagna was startled to see a man bolt out the door and hear a teller yelling she had been robbed. Campagna ran after the man and began chasing him on foot. After a short chase, Campagna drew his licensed handgun, fired a warning shot, and when the robber tripped, held him for police. (The Sun, Baltimore, MD, 12/24/93)

A trio of juveniles obviously expected easy pickings when they attempted an armed robbery at a Phenix City, Alabama, convenience store early one morning. But the clerk on duty had a different idea. After the trio kicked in the door and fired two blasts from a shotgun, the clerk ducked behind the counter and came back up with a gun. In an exchange of shots, he mortally wounded one would-be robber. Two companions fled and were arrested later. (The Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, GA, 12/19/93)

A Milwaukee woman didn't hesitate to use her gun when, upon investigating a noise in her home late one night, she found a man breaking in and already halfway through the window he had smashed. The woman fired her .38 three times, hitting the man in the chest and killing him. The district attorney's office said no charges would be filed. (The Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI, 12/29/93)

On the lam from a massive police manhunt after an armed robbery, a convicted felon grabbed Nadav Joshua as he stepped out the front door of his Cypress, California, home and took him hostage. Joshua ordered his wife to run, but she screamed for help and, armed with a knife and antique gun, attacked her husband's abductor without effect. But neighbor Mike Weiser rushed across the street with his shotgun. He ordered the abductor to freeze. When the warning went unheeded and the man raised his gun, Weiser killed him. (The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA, 12/31/93)

A Miami family was out shopping for a piano Christmas Eve, and when they stopped the car at a red light, a man smashed the car's back window and attempted to grab a purse off the back seat. The driver pulled his gun and shot the would-be thief. Two accomplices fled. (The Herald, Miami, FL, 12/24/93)

Tending to chores outside her Willoughby, Ohio, area home, Patricia Tycast was startled to see what appeared to be a flashlight in a second-floor window. Walking next door, she told her father, William Barrett, that someone might be in her house. Barrett grabbed his .38, and went to Tycast's house, where he found two men fleeing the home. Barrett helped them along with five shots from his revolver. (The News-Herald, Willoughby, OH, 12/20/93)

Asleep on the couch, a Hartsgrove, Ohio, woman was startled awake by suspicious noises in her laundry room. She grabbed her husband's rifle and confronted an intruder, holding him at gunpoint. While she was on the phone with police, however, the man fled, with an accomplice in tow. Two suspects were quickly apprehended. (The Star Beacon, Ashtabula, OH, 01/05/94)

A fixation proved to be fatal to a Tennessee man when his former girlfriend armed herself. When the man broke into Geneva Mason's Ten Mile, Tennessee, home and threatened to kill her four-year-old daughter with a knife, Mason fired several shots from her .38, striking him fatally. (The News-Sentinel, Knoxville, TN, 12/23/93)

Two brothers were using a Newport News, Virginia, car wash when a man approached, brandished a gun and demanded money. After confronting the robber, who threatened him with a gun, the older brother drew his 9mm and fired several times, mortally wounding the thug. The dead man was a convicted drug offender whose sentence had been suspended. (The Daily Press, Hampton Roads, VA, 01/06/94)

Guy Velardo is a veteran of World War II and six robberies at his Wakefield, Massachusetts, pharmacy, so he doesn't rattle easily. When a man walked in one evening and demanded prescription drugs and threatened to shoot Velardo if he didn't comply, the druggist simply pulled a .380 — a war trophy — and fired a single shot. The man fled, but a wounded suspect was arrested at a local hospital. (The Globe, Boston, MA, 11/19/93)

A court order against her former boyfriend was no sure protection, but Cheryl Belshe's handgun was. When the man, who had a history of violence against girlfriends, violated the order and broke into Belshe's Norman, Oklahoma, home, she shot and wounded him. "This is the type of case that the 'Make My Day' law was intended to allow a victim to protect themselves in their home," said the local district attorney, who added that Belshe would face no charges. (The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK, 12/03/93)

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