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From:
The American Rifleman
April, 1995

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

When the robbery suspect police were searching for climbed from his hiding spot, he thought the coast was clear. He didn't count on Pineville, Louisiana, resident Bobby Mills. Mills, with pistol in hand, had just checked a storage shed in his backyard after learning of a police manhunt in the neighborhood. Walking around to the front of his home, he discovered the man crawling from beneath his truck. Mills told the man to freeze as nearby police rushed over to arrest the suspect. The police chief praised Mills for his assistance. (Daily Town Talk, Alexandria, LA, 12/5/94)

Nilous Banks, Jr., was away the night three months earlier when three masked men broke into his Knightdale, North Carolina, home, tied up his wife and children, and stole more than $2,000 worth of jewelry. But this time, Banks was home. Hearing a crash at his front door. he ran to his bedroom to retrieve a 12-ga. shotgun. Returning to the living room. Banks encountered three men entering his trailer — one of them waving a gun. yelling at him to get on the floor. Instead. Banks emptied his shotgun, killing all three of the intruders. Two guns believed to be the criminals' were found at the scene. (The News & Observer, Raleigh. NC, 11/18/94)

North Carolina resident Patti Davis credited an NRA gun safety and self-defense course with giving her the ability to save herself when an armed robber attempted to shoot her. Davis, her mother-in-law, and another family member were walking from a restaurant while vacationing in Florida when the bandit jumped from the shadows. To protect her 77-year-old mother-in-law, Davis pushed her to the ground. Davis then knocked her attacker's arm skyward just as he fired a shot that took off half her left index finger. But the move gave her time to pull her .38 from her purse and drive off the attacker and an accomplice with a couple of shots. (The Times, Apalachicola, FL, 1/5/95)

A would-be rapist started the year off on the wrong foot when he attempted to rape an armed West Hartford, Connecticut, woman as she walked home early on New Year's Day. Dragging the woman into the bushes, pinning her to the ground, and forcibly removing part of her clothing, the attacker refused to heed the woman's words when she tried to reason with him to stop. Her licensed derringer did what words failed to. A single gunshot wound to the chest ended the attack as the man staggered into the road and collapsed. He died later in a hospital. The woman was not charged in the incident. (The Courant, Hartford, CT, 1/6/95)

The money from the cash register was not enough for three Kansas City teens robbing a convenience store, so the one wielding a pistol demanded a male customer's wallet. Although the customer complied, the bandit shot him in the chest and then turned the gun on the female store clerk. He pulled the trigger, but the gun misfired. Unbeknownst to the bandit, his first victim was saved because the bullet struck a daily planner held in his jacket pocket. The man then pulled his own pistol, shooting the armed assailant, who fled. He held the other two teens until police could arrive. The wounded robber was found later and arrested. (The Star, Kansas City, MO, 12/31/94)

Off-duty sheriff's deputy James Charles Strickland was removing presents from the trunk of his car on Christmas Eve when two masked men walked up behind him and began beating him with their pistols. They then broke down the door of Strickland's Fayetteville, North Carolina, home and knocked down his wife, who witnessed the attack. Making his way inside to his gun, Strickland shot and killed one of the attackers, who police later said had an extensive criminal record including drug charges and assaulting a police officer. The accomplice was apprehended the following day. (Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, 12/27/94)

Fourteen-year-old Nathan Archuleta was home alone with the flu when he came face-to-face with an adult burglar standing in the kitchen of his Pueblo, Colorado, home. Recognizing he had been caught in the act, the thief grabbed a kitchen knife and slashed the terror-struck boy in the arm. Archuleta dashed for his bedroom, hoping to escape the full-grown attacker, who followed closely behind him. With nowhere else to run, the boy grabbed his BB gun from his dresser and shot the criminal, who miraculously fled the house. (The Chieftain, Pueblo, CO, 1/7/95)

"It's more than fighting fires. If somebody is in trouble, we're going to show up," said Sipsey Valley volunteer fire-fighter James "Buddy" O'Hanlon. O'Hanlon was one of about 30 armed volunteer firefighters who responded within minutes to an emergency call from their chief, L.A. Marlowe, who had just been robbed and shot at outside of his Buhl, Alabama, store. One suspect was spotted before he made it 100 yds. and was cornered in the woods by the army of firefighters, who apprehended him. Sheriff's deputies quickly arrested another robber who had been identified by the firefighters. A third suspect was later apprehended. (The News, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1/12/95)

Just a day after thieves made off with hundreds of dollars worth of parts from his Stanislaus County, California, trucking company's yard, Ben Bonora discovered they had returned, stacking another $1,000 worth of parts near a fence to pick up later. Armed with a 12-ga. shotgun and a .38 handgun, the business owner staked out the location for five hours. When three men pulled up in a van, Bonora let them load their vehicle with the stolen goods and then surprised them with a citizen's arrest. He marched the three to a grain trailer, where he locked them up until sheriff's deputies arrived. (The Bee, Modesto, CA, 1/25/95)

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

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