Defensive Use of Firearms

A wealthy New Jersey businessman had his firearms seized after he used an AR-15 to chase car thieves away from his property last year, according to a new report from the New York Post.

A police officer with the Washington, D.C., Metro Police Department shot and killed a man earlier this month who was wielding what was later determined to be an air-powered rifle.

Much of the incident was caught on a dashboard camera. A career criminal who ambushed two sheriff’s deputies in Brevard County, Florida, died of his injuries last month after one of the deputies shot him with a magazine’s worth of ammunition. The incident was caught on a dash cam, and Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey [...]

But Atlantic writer David Frum has a better idea. What if, instead of taking America’s guns by force, we convince gun owners to give up their guns willingly? Rather than disarmament, Frum suggests self-disarmament.

Not one, not two, not three, but four home intruders tried to break into a Phoenix home earlier this month, according to the Phoenix Police Department.

Self-defense incidents aren’t always as they first appear. Sometimes, further investigation reveals that the attacker and victim already knew one another, or that the “victim” isn’t as innocent as they claim to be.

A peeping Tom got more than he bargained for in Harris County, Texas, last week when a mother and father armed with handguns confronted him outside their young daughter’s window.

Tragedy in Olde Town Arvada, Colorado, this week as police fatally wounded a good guy with a gun after he stopped a cop killer dead in his tracks.

A resident of an apartment complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas, used a hunting rifle earlier this week to take down another man who was wielding a semi-automatic rifle and had already killed one apartment resident.