Armed Citizen

A man armed with a butcher knife was acting erratically and chasing after people in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store in Memphis, Tenn. As the criminal lunged to cut one driver leavin the lot, the driver retrieved a pistol and shot the attacker, killing him. The armed citizen had two young step-daughters in the car with him during the attack. Witnesses had nothing but positive things to say of the armed citizen, with one woman noting, “Self-defense… That’s what I would have done, the same thing.” Police have stated that the driver is not likely to be charged. (WHBQ, Memphis, Tenn. 03/05/10 WREG, Memphis, Tenn. 03/05/10)

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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.