Armed Citizen

Twenty-five -year-old college student, Samir Al-Madi was tending to his father’s convenience store in Deerfield Beach, Fla., when a masked robber entered. The criminal drew a gun and pointed it at Al-Madi, who retrieved his own pistol and shot the robber in the jaw. The wounded robber was identified as 24-year-old felon Alexander Brown. Brown has already served two separate prison terms for a drug conviction and burglary. (The Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 03/07/10)

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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.