Defensive Gun Use of the Day

An ongoing archive of DGU (Defensive Gun Use) stories in which armed victims defend themselves and others against threats of grave injury or death. They’re more common than some think.

Help Wanted: Cato Institute’s Interactive DGU Map Is A Work In Progress

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Being a gun person requires (or at least implies) some level of understanding that there is only so much that any government can do for you, and that in many instances the best thing...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: One in the Pocket Edition

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Oh darn. Sarasota seems to be light one armed home invader. All because one of the people he was menacing and waiving his gun at early yesterday morning was carrying. "According to police, (Christian)...

Court OKs DHS Drone Surveillance During Armed Standoff

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"Last June, six cows wandered onto  Brossart's 3,000 acre farm, about 60 miles west of Grand Forks," usnews.com reports. "Brossart allegedly refused to return the cows, which led to a long, armed standoff with...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Armed Granny Edition

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A 65 year old small business owner in Garden Grove California decided five armed robbers weren’t going to make her a victim. Those five guys apparently put their collective brain cells together and thought...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Just Lending a Hand Edition

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g1n8cmwhIY "I'm just a citizen trying to help an officer out. That's what I was tryin' to do." That's what Vic Stacy had to say while deflecting attempts to call him ahero. Stacy came to...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: We Beg to Differ Edition

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGWhX8oi7ms While my mother wouldn't be caught dead with a gun, Ruby Hodge might be dead if she hadn't had hers handy. Ruby was still in bed Monday morning when she heard a knock at...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Turnabout is Fair Play Edition

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZ8-9yZOm4 It may be fair play, but the way a Nate's Bar patron turned the tables on a shotgun wielding robber early Sunday would also appear to betray a pair of two-pound hairy huevos. According...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Cyberspace Edition

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By Matt in FL Two guys tried to rob an internet cafe in Ocala, FL. A patron pulls a .380 and pops a couple shots off at them and they rethink their plans, falling over...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Broad Daylight Edition

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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com "You don't come on a man's, you know, property and threaten his family."

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Virginian Standoff Edition

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"He said, ‘Nobody move!'" said William Avaloa. "I was really nervous because you never know what's going to happen." That's how the owner of a convenience store in Chesterfield, Virginia described a attempted robbery...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Don’t Bring a Hatchet to a Gunfight Edition

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We're always comforted by the apparent lack of forethought and planning most burglars use when pulling a job. Take, for instance, this little caper as reported by newstribune.com. Since the two two would-be Dillingers...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: 14 Year-Old Phoenix Boy

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Keeping guns in a home with children is inherently dangerous. You're just asking for trouble; accidents, murder, suicide, termites, billowing clouds of radon, the heartbreak of psoriasis. We know this because our friends at...