Defensive Gun Use

Civil Liability: Even If Your Defensive Gun Use Was Ruled Justified, It May Not Be Over

Shutterstock By Rob Geiger You’ve survived the scariest moment of your life, successfully defending yourself against an attacker. You’ve also made it through an exhaustive criminal investigation, where you were exonerated after asserting that you…


Gun Store Owner Fakes Heart Attack, Grabs a Gun and Shoots One of Three Armed Robbers

Courtesy Fox4News.com You might expect gun store owners — especially those who run their stores by themselves — to keep a pistol on their hip. That just seems to be a good security practice. A…




A Sociological Examination of America’s Gun Culture Finds That It’s…Diverse

Courtesy nature.com from What is gun culture? Cultural variations and trends across the United States As the abstract for this bit of sociological analysis puts it, “This paper advances the literature on gun culture by…


Concealed Carrier Stops Man Who Was Strangling a Woman in a Tennessee Restaurant Parking Lot

Bigstock Never mind. Nothing to see here. Just another assault — or worse — stopped by a legally armed individual. The kind of thing that all the smartest people tell us almost never happens in…


Houston Convenience Store Clerk Dodges a Bullet, Then Shoots and Kills Gunman [VIDEO]

Courtesy KHOU Here’s a tip for would-be stick-up men. A large percentage of the clerks who work in Texas’s stop-and-rob convenience stores arm themselves. We’ve seen this ourselves, time and again. They know they’re considered…



Michigan Concealed Carrier Shoots, Kills Man in Black Hooded Sweatshirt Threatening Motorists With a Gun

Courtesy WLNS On Monday morning a man dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt walked down the middle of a busy highway in Delta Township, Michigan, near Lansing, shooting a handgun in the air and pointing…


Florida Man Shoots, Kills ‘Visitor’ Who Broke Into His Home, Attacked His Wife

The Associated Press reported a defensive gun use that happened yesterday in Panama City, Florida. A man was walking down the street acting erratically. When the man smashed his way through the door of a…