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From:
The American Rifleman
August, 1993

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

James Bracewell, 18, was in the stockroom of his father's Dublin, Georgia, liquor store when a man armed with a knife walked in, grabbed a female clerk and demanded money. The robber got the case, but he made a mistake when he threatened to kill the clerk and told Bracewell to give him the store's handgun, kept under the counter. Bracewell grabbed the gun and fired twice, mortally wounding the robber. (The Courier Herald, Dublin, GA., 03/26/93)

Stopping by to check on their son's Winnabow, North Carolina home, Walter Babson heard noises in the home. Retreating to his car to get his .45, Babson then searched the mobile home and found two men hiding there, one under a bed. Babson escorted the duo to the living room and called police. (The Beacon, Brunswick, NC., 06/06/93)

A Ceresville, Maryland, man was sitting on the deck of his home with his wife and daughter when an armed fugitive on the run from a manhunt suddenly appeared. The homeowner got his family inside, locked the doors, grabbed his gun and loaded it. When the resident shouted that he was armed, the fugitive — captured soon after by police — ran. "It was a split-second decision to load the gun and threaten him," the man said. "But I didn't want him in my house." (The Post, Frederick, MD., 04/27/93)

Modesto Aguilar, Sr., and his family sleep on the floor of their San Antonio, Texas, home because it has been shot up by gang members so many times, but Aguilar evened the score a little one evening. Awakened by the familiar sound of bullets hitting his home, he got his M1 carbine and returned fire, killing one of the criminals. Two others fled. (The Express-News, San Antonio, TX., 04/16/93)

Raped at knifepoint in her home, an Edmonds, Washington, woman exacted revenge. Allowed by her attacker to go to the bathroom, instead she pulled a pistol from her purse. Firing several shots, she chased and cornered the sex offender in a downstairs bathroom and held him for police. Several weeks later the man pleaded guilty to eight rapes in a six-month period. (The Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA., 05/14/93)

James Henry sees his fatal shooting of an intruder in his Tulsa, Oklahoma, home as a clear case of self-defense. "I had to do it. I am too old to run," Henry said. When the man started banging on the door to his apartment, Henry retreated to his bedroom, grabbed a gun and phoned police. Though the police dispatcher told him not to shoot, Henry squeezed off a single round, mortally wounding the man, when he opened the door to the room. (The World, Tulsa, OK., 04/18/93)

Standing in the kitchen of his New Cassel, New York, home, facing a robber armed with a shotgun, Archell Freeman surrendered his cash and gold jewelry. When the crook demanded more loot, Freeman led him into the living room and grabbed a revolver off a shelf. Firing several times, Freeman mortally wounded the gunman. (Newsday, New York, NY., 03/26/93)

A Wichita, Kansas, pizza-shop clerk got the best of two robbers, one armed, when he pulled his own pistol and shot it out with them. The clerk, alone in the store when the criminal duo entered, grabbed his pistol in response to demands for money. The robber fired first and missed, while the clerk's aim was true. The pair fled, but the wounded crook collapsed and was captured. Police affirmed the clerk's right to defend himself with a handgun. (The Eagle, Wichita, KS., 03/25/93)

Arriving at his Fullerton, California, home late one night with $1,200 in receipts from his bar, Elias Torres was grabbed from behind while another threatened him with a handgun. Torres pulled his own pistol and fired twice, killing the gunman. Although Torres was carrying the gun — after earlier assaults — without a permit, police said he was justified in killing his attacker. "[The shooting] is indicative of the current environment with street robberies and carjackings and people … arming themselves," said one officer. (The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA., 04/27/93)

Alone in her Albuquerque home one morning, Catherine Mobley armed herself with a handgun when a man intent on burglary broke through a sliding glass door. Mobley ordered the man to leave, but when he refused, she shot and killed him. "If it appears to be what it appears to be, this is not an open and shut case," said the DA. "It's a shut and shut case." (The Journal, Albuquerque, NM., 05/12/93)

After enduring several months of vandalism directed at him by another man, Lanny Spurlock of Culleoka, Tennessee, took action when the vandal and an accomplice kicked in the door to Spurlock's home hours after challenging him to a fight. As the duo entered the home, Spurlock, armed with a handgun, fired three times, slightly wounding his tormentor and putting both to flight. (The Daily Herald, Columbia, TN., 05/10/93)

A man fleeing Houston police made a fatal mistake when he jumped through the window of a home owned by an armed citizen. Awakened by the noise, the homeowner grabbed his gun and, finding the intruder armed with a pistol, shot and killed him. (The Post, Houston, TX., 04/07/93)

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

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