Defensive Use of Firearms

Sunday evening, two 16-year-olds attempted to rob a man in his home in Saginaw, Texas. GunsAmerica spoke with Saginaw’s Assistant Chief of Police, Russel Ragsdale, to learn more details.

Recently release body cam footage shows that a sheriff’s deputy with the Greenville County, S.C., Sheriff’s Office shot and nearly killed a man who was standing inside his own home with the front door closed. The footage contradicts the initial statements from the sheriff’s office that claimed the man had opened the front door before pointing a gun at the deputy.

A 61-year-old disabled veteran was forced to fight for his life last week as four men armed with guns invaded his secluded home in north-central Florida. Police say the man was found with a gunshot wound to his stomach and an AR-15 across his legs.

A man living in a suburban neighborhood northeast of Atlanta discovered on Thursday morning his next-door neighbor, 42-year-old Andrew Strauss, breaking the windows on his home and wielding a machete. After warning Strauss to stop, the homeowner shot the intruder, who was pronounced dead at a hospital later that morning.

A man in a town just south of Tampa, Florida, used his defensive handgun to shoot another man who had attempted four carjackings in broad daylight at a local shopping center.

Learn what to do when the police stop you for a suspected traffic infraction and you are armed.

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When 24-year-old Austin Orwig found himself up against four armed intruders, he grabbed his gun, opened fire, and sent them running.

If 24-year-old Roberto Sanchez thought hitting a pastor’s home in suburban Houston would make an easy score, he discovered his mistake far too late.