Defensive Use of Firearms

In what some believe will be a new test for Texas’s stand your ground law, a homeowner has been charged with murder after he shot and killed a man parked on his driveway.

Two million Americans obtained concealed carry permits in the last 12 months, representing the greatest one-year increase in permits ever recorded by the Crime Prevention Research Center.

“If you’re breaking into someone’s home in the middle of the night, if you don’t get shot or killed you should feel fortunate.”

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.