NRA - Armed Citizen, Issue no. 64

AUGUST 2017   Armed good Samaritan takes down robbery suspect By John Boch, Truth About Guns A hero with a gun came to the aid of two other good Samaritans in capturing a violent would-be armed robber in Seminole, Florida. Donald Rush, 40, visiting from Pennsylvania, accessed his gun and ended the mayhem without firing a shot…       Man holds break-in suspect at gunpoint until police arrived By Chelsea Simeon, WKBN-TV 27 (Youngstown, OH) Police said a man living in Boardman, Ohio held a break-in suspect at gunpoint until officers arrived. The man — a CCW holder — reported that he spotted two suspects going through his neighbor's car just before 2 a.m. He then grabbed his gun and ordered them to get on the ground until officers arrived…       Jewelry store owner fights back, killing robbery suspect in NW Harris Co. By Jessica Willey, KTRK-TV ABC 13 (Houston, TX) Three armed men rushed into Your Jeweler in Houston, Texas and demanded cash and jewelry and pistol-whipped the owner before he managed to grab his gun. Two out of three robbery suspects were shot, one fatally, when the owner of a jewelry store fought back…       17-year-old Spokane girl pulls gun on home intruder on the run from Spokane County deputies KHQ-TV Q6 (Spokane, WA) A 17-year-old north Spokane County girl protected herself and her home with her dad's gun when a suspected car thief on the run from Spokane County deputies came into her house. She grabbed the gun and hid behind her makeup vanity but soon found herself face to face with the man on the run from deputies…       Mother of three shoots home invader By Liz Artz, Ross Cavitt, WSB-TV (Atlanta, GA) A woman called Marietta police and said someone was breaking into her house, and that she had shot and killed him. The woman said the intruder was armed and threatened to kill her three children. “It was either him or me and I wasn't going. My kids weren't going to get hurt…       Armed pharmacy customer foils robbery By Josiah Destin, Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Police say a customer shot a robbery suspect at a Walgreens in north Phoenix. The robbery suspect had pulled out a gun and jumped the pharmacy counter, pointing a weapon at people and demanding oxycodone from the pharmacist. A customer who was in the store and armed with a gun shot the suspect…     ISSUE #64 JOIN NRA STATE LAWS AT A GLANCE LEARN ABOUT NRA'S WOMEN'S PROGRAMS FIND A LOCAL NRA SAFETY COURSE THE LATEST NRA-ILA NEWS READ MORE ARMED CITIZEN STORIES                 If you have an armed citizen story to share, tell us here.

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