Defensive Use of Firearms

A key running back for the Louisiana State University football team, along with his teammate, were involved in a self-defense shooting over the holiday weekend. Officials say that neither have been charged with a crime.

A 55-year-old woman shot and killed a man who attacked her, her daughter, and another 75-year-old woman while they were leaving for church, Detroit local media reported earlier this month. In what police are describing as a self-defense incident, the man approached the women in their driveway, forced them back inside the house, and refused to leave. The 55-year-old fired two rounds into the man’s chest, and he died at the scene.

The wife of a first-year law student at Tulane University shot and killed her husband earlier this week after she claims he tried to beat and strangle her. She told deputies that the abuse has been going on for years, and she has not been charged with a crime.

A South Carolina woman used her home defense firearm to shoot and kill a man who had escaped from a nearby prison less than thirty minutes before the incident, local law enforcement announced earlier this week.

Washington mini-mart owner Tan Ho has been robbed before, so when a man entered his business last Tuesday demanding money, he didn’t hesitate to take action.

When Kansas City resident Benjamin Seadorf heard “blood-curdling” screams coming from the street outside his home, he didn’t hesitate to step in and help. Leaving his own four children in the house, he grabbed his Smith & Wesson M&P chambered in 9mm and ran outside. He found a woman being beaten and strangled in her car with her three small children watching from the back seat.

A South Carolina woman used her handgun last week to defend her home and her three sleeping children against a burglar who had broken into her front door. Security camera footage shows Cecil Charles Parnell, 43, along with an unidentified woman, attempting to break into the home owned by Ashley Jones. Jones told WSPA she heard banging on her front door and two people speaking on the porch.

To Mel Bernstein, owner of Dragon Arms in Colorado Springs, storing an AR-15 in a synagogue is as common sense as any other safety measure. And in the wake of a massacre in Pittsburg that left 11 Jews dead, he’s putting his money where his mouth is. “I don’t really like what’s going on in the country,” he told KOAA. “And I’m offering them a free AR-15 rifle with two magazines and 100 bullets.”

An Alabama man is being hailed as a hero after he used his concealed firearm to stop a masked gunman at a McDonald’s in southwest Birmingham. The suspect entered the restaurant on Saturday night around 10:45pm just after it had closed, according to local media. He gained access by entering just as an employee was unlocking the door for a father and his two sons to leave. The suspect opened fire as soon as he entered, but the father drew his own concealed weapon and returned fire.