Armed Citizen

A female employee of the Phone Store in Birmingham, Ala. was making her way to her car in the parking lot, when an armed robber confronted her and demanded money. A male store employee noticed the robbery and retrieved a gun. As the male employee attempted to find cover, the criminal fired at him. The armed employee returned fire, causing the robber to run from the scene. Neither of the store employees was hurt during the incident. (The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Ala. 10/21/09)

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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.