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From:
The American Rifleman
April, 1992

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

A Birmingham, Alabama pharmacist was behind the counter of his store when a man brought an item to the counter and, instead of paying, began rifling the cash drawer. Told to stop, the robber instead threatened the druggist and acted as if he had a concealed weapon. The man received a mortal wound when the pharmacist fired his own gun. (The Post-Herald, Birmingham, AL, 01/09/92)

Asleep at home one morning, Rev. Joel Yarber, a Baptist minister in Memphis, Tennessee, awoke to someone knocking on the door and then heard sounds inside the house. Picking up a pistol and investigating, Yarber found a man attempting to steal a VCR. When threatened with a tire iron, Yarber fired four shots, mortally wounding the intruder. Police said the man entered the home by kicking in a door, and got there in a stolen car. (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, 02/07/92)

Arriving at their Vallejo, California, check-cashing store, Charles Davenport and his wife were confronted by a handgun-wielding man who ordered them into the store. Davenport grabbed his own gun from his car and drove the man off in an exchange of shots. An apparent accomplice also fired, but fled when Davenport fired at him. Police apprehended three suspects a short time later. (The Times-Herald, Vallejo, CA, 12/24/91)

The only thing between her children and the man breaking into her home was a shotgun, and a Flint, Michigan, woman took full advantage of the fact that she was armed. As the intruder broke through the door, the woman hid her two children under a table, knelt in front of it, and when he entered the room, fired several blasts from the pump gun. The wounded prison parolee fled, but police apprehended him by following a trail of blood. (The Journal, Flint MI, 01/10/92)

Herman Moser's World War II Navy marksmanship training came in handy when a man tried to rob his jewelry store in the Chinatown section of New York City. Moser, 71, was at the shop with his grandson and another man when the armed robber entered. When the robber ordered them into the shop's bathroom, Moser, fearing for their lives, pulled his licensed handgun, fired and killed the man. "It still came to me, the steady, where to aim," Moser said. (The Times, New York, NY, 01/07/92)

Even though ill and wearing an oxygen mask, a homebreaker found that 74-year-old Lena Mae Pate of Oroville, California, was no pushover. When the man broke into her home and, despite warnings, continued to advance, Pate fired at him with her .38 revolver, putting him to flight. A wounded suspect — who had once worked for Pate — was arrested after seeking treatment. (The Bee, Sacramento, CA, 01/04/92)

Even though the three robbers who entered their St. Petersburg, Florida, pawnshop were holding them at gunpoint, David and Elizabeth Anderson were able to turn the situation around and come out on top. When Elizabeth and one of the thugs started to struggle and his gun went off, David pulled his own pistol and shot one robber, killing him, and with his wife held the other two for police, who said the three were apparently trying to steal guns. (The Times, St. Petersburg, FL, 01/18/92)

Linda Patterson was walking to her car in the parking lot of a Searcy, Arkansas, store a few days before Christmas when she saw a man holding a knife on a woman. Patterson pulled a revolver from her purse and yelled, "You had better think twice about what you are doing!" Seeing that she was armed, the would-be kidnapper fled. (The White River Journal, Des Arc, AR, 01/02/92)

A would-be robber got a lesson in superior armament when he tried to rob the San Diego, California, liquor store where Majid Kachi works. When the man walked in a threatened him with a large knife, Kachi caught his arm with one hand and pulled a revolver from under the counter with the other, prompting the man to turn tail and run. "Mr. Kachi would have been quite legally justified in shooting the man who was threatening him and his business," a police spokesman said. (The Union, San Diego, CA, 11/17/91)

Only 11, a Talkeetna, Alaska, girl called on the firearms training her mother had given her when someone broke into her home early one morning. When she heard movement outside, then inside, the house, the girl got a shotgun and yelled, "I've got a loaded shotgun and if you don't get out of here right now, I'm going to blow your head off!" The intruder took the non-too-subtle hint and fled. (The Times, Anchorage, AK, 01/15/92)

Faced with greater odds and superior firepower, Atlanta, Georgia, grocer Nam Hoon Kim made his shots count when the four men who had just taken money from his store and held his wife at gunpoint started shooting. Kim grabbed his own gun and, in the exchange, killed one of his assailants and put the others to flight. Kim was not charged by police, and neither he not his wife were injured. (The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 11/27/91)

Mary Lee and Samuel Carleton had just pulled up to their Terrytown, Louisiana, home when a man pointed a gun at Sam and demanded money. What the robber didn't know is that Mary Lee is a security guard and retired police officer. She fired a single shot from her own pistol, putting the crook and an accomplice to flight. (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, 02/05/92)

If you have had a firsthand “Armed Citizen” experience,
call NRA-ILA Grassroots at (800) 392-8683.

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