Armed Citizen

Lisa Guzzardi-Arndt was visiting the home of Kenneth Messemer in West Babylon, N.Y. when her ex-husband arrived on the property and forced his way into the house. George Arndt then began threatening to kill Messemer, and “was attempting to attack Mr. Messemer,” according to Det. Lt. Gerard Pelkofsky. During the attack, Messemer retrieved a gun and shot Arndt, killing him. The Suffolk County police are conducting an investigation, but no one has been arrested. (Newsday, New York, N.Y. 03/10/10)

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During the decades the American Rifleman has published “The Armed Citizen” column, thousands of incidents of law-abiding Americans using firearms to halt or prevent crime have appeared in the magazine. Editorial space allowing, the total could have been far greater of course, as award-winning survey research shows that each year in the U.S. gun owners use firearms for protection as frequently as 2.5 million times.

This archive contains “Armed Citizen” entries from the present back to 1958. The database is searchable by key word and state and results are displayed in chronological order according to the month of publication in the American Rifleman.