Armed Citizen

Three robbers, armed with knives, knocked at a home in Oklahoma City, Okla., in an attempt to lure the homeowner to the front door. The homeowner opened the front door and was ordered by the armed robbers into a bedroom. While in the bedroom, the homeowner was able to retrieve a gun and fired at the intruders, causing them to flee. Police later arrested two of the criminals, charging one with assault and both with robbery. (KWTV, Oklahoma City, Okla. 02/02/10)

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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.