Western Wayne County, Mich., authorities say a gun-toting Comerica Bank customer foiled an attempted robbery after a robber pretended to have a bomb and demanded a teller give him money. Nabil Fawzi, who has a concealed-weapon permit, held the robber at gunpoint until police arrived. The robber was arraigned on bank robbery, armed robbery and habitual offender charges, which can bring up to life imprisonment.(www.woodtv.com), MI. 6/24/08)

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.