Crime happens everywhere and at any time. 17 million to 20 million of us carry concealed in public every day. We don’t go looking for trouble, but sometimes trouble finds us. This story of armed defense unfolded in Chicago, Illinois, back on the fourth of July in 2021. A 33-year-old convicted felon was standing on his balcony, shooting his 9mm handgun into the air. It was late at night on the 4th of July, and children were standing in the alley between buildings. Adults asked the felon to stop shooting since there were children nearby. The felon became enraged and…
Author: David Reeder
Keshondra Howard Turner has been serving up delicious meals out of her family’s food truck in Houston for about three years now, and never had a problem with thieves or robbers… until this week. On Tuesday, the 53-year-old grandmother was on the job and inside the Elite Eats truck when a young man rolled up and asked what was on the menu before pulling a gun and stepping out of his truck. Houston police Lt. Bryan Bui says as the robber approached Turner she managed to shut the food truck’s service window, but that didn’t dissuade the suspect from trying to…
The world’s largest arms exporters is a pretty interesting list. America comes in at number 1 because we are the best at everything. Sliding into a distant second is Russia. Russia exports a wide variety of weapons, from small arms to its tanks. While most of their equipment has taken a reputation hit in the last year, the AK series seems to be one of the last successful Russian exports. Today we are looking at the AK 200 series of the famed assault rifle layout. The AK 200 is another attempt to modernize the aging Kalashnikov rifles. In the early 1990s,…
Liberty and responsibility are obverse sides of the same coin. Historian Russell Kirk once wrote, “Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.” When we exercise our liberties, we assume responsibility for the consequences of that free exercise. I recently wrote about making the transition from gun owner to armed citizen, and making concealed-carry of a handgun part of everyday life. It is a wonderful thing to exercise our natural rights, but when we do so, the newfound responsibilities that accompany those rights will change our lives in certain ways. Becoming an armed citizen, one needs to…
I’m delighted to pass along this item from T. Markus Funk, author of Rethinking Self-Defence: The ‘Ancient Right’s’ Rationale Disentangled (2021), Understanding the Role Values Play (and Should Play) in Self-Defense Law, 58 American Criminal Law Review 331 (2021), Cracking Self-Defense’s Intractable ‘Difficult Cases,’ 100 Nebraska Law Review (2021), and What US Law Reformers Can Learn from Germany’s Value-Explicit Approach to Self-Defense, 73 South Carolina Law Review 195 (2021). On January 5, 2023, at around 11:30 p.m., a 46-year-old diner-patron was sitting in a booth at the southwest Houston’s El Ranchito Taqueria #4 when a masked robber began pacing around the restaurant demanding money from the patrons at gunpoint. As the robber walked past…
Crime happens everywhere and at any time. It was about four o’clock on a Sunday afternoon when the police received calls about a road rage shooting about ten miles northwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. There were a number of witnesses but we don’t have answers from the person who started the incident. We have preliminary police reports from the armed citizen who stopped the armed attack. Investigators determined that 71-year-old Alden Jones was speeding, driving erratically, and cutting off other drivers as he passed through the nearby neighborhoods of Hermitage and Old Hickory. When he stopped at a stop light,…
Crime happens everywhere and at any time. In this case, the good guys were about ten miles northeast of downtown Detroit. They were attacked just before ten o’clock on a weekday night. An armed man with his concealed pistol license was headed to a delicatessen with his friend. You could go out for a snack and leave your gun at home, but they needed a firearm for self-defense that night. The defender and his friend walked into a late-night delicatessen selling liquor. Two men followed them inside. One of the two men followed the defender as he left the store.…
A recent NBC News report could spell bad news for President Trump. According to the outlet, federal and local law enforcement agencies are preparing for a possible indictment of President Trump in the Southern District of New York, Manhattan. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Secret Service, the NYPD, New York State’s court liaisons, and the District Attorney’s office are among the agencies involved. It should be noted that no charges have yet been filed in connection with the ongoing Stormy Daniels hush money case, nor will they be filed in the near future—all preparations are purely precautionary. NBC…
“After dozens of interviews and seven public hearings, the Civilian Oversight Commission’s special counsel has released a 70-page report condemning the ‘cancer’ of violent deputy gangs and urging Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna to create a policy officially banning the secretive groups,” The Los Angeles Times reported March 2. “’They create rituals that valorize violence, such as recording all deputy-involved shootings in an official book, celebrating with “shooting parties,” and authorizing deputies who have shot a community member to add embellishments to their common gang tattoos,’ the special counsel team wrote this week.” Because The Times article is behind a paywall making it…
I haven’t spent a lot of time in New Jersey in my life and, no offense to those who live there, but I have no inclination to change that. The one thing that might make me change my mind are the casinos in Atlantic City and elsewhere in the state. Yet there’s a problem. It seems the casinos are all on board with Gov. Phil Murphy’s gun control efforts. However, as our own John Petrolino writes over at Ammoland, there may be something shady going on there. Due to litigation, the carry-killer law has several provisions put on hold through temporary restraining orders.…