Armed Citizen

Armed citizen John Hurley intervened in an attack on an Arvada, Colorado, police officer, killed the attacker, and was then inadvertently shot and killed by police. 

A report by the Washington Examiner’s Byron York outlines January’s Capitol rioters were armed with bear spray, not guns.

An armed man who allegedly tried to rob six people Monday night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, died after being shot by one of the would-be victims.

A homeowner who was attacked by a fugitive accused of shooting a sheriff’s deputy spoke from a hospital bed Thursday to say, “I’m just glad I had my pistol.”

Approximately ten armed residents are rotating duties each night to stand guard at the entrance of a subdivision in Kenosha, Wisconsin. 

An armed citizen in Kwethluk, Alaska, intervened on behalf of officers and foiled a mass shooting at the village’s public safety building.

The district attorney for Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County says a beer store employee was justified in intervening and fatally shooting a robber at Drake’s Pizza Thursday night.

A report by the Daily Mail indicates that Monday’s shooting outside a Duncanville, Oklahoma, Walmart, was cut short by an armed citizen who confronted the gunman. 

A man who allegedly stole a car with a six-year-old boy inside it was pursued and ultimately shot by the boy’s father.

An armed citizen intervened and saved a 65-year-old man from a road rage incident in Massachusetts.

An armed citizen in Kansas City, Missouri, saved a mother of three from assault after hearing “blood-curdling” screams from a car outside his house.

An armed son in Fulton County, Georgia, ran to the sound of his mother’s screams and shot a carjacking suspect multiple times.

GOA executive director Erich Pratt issued a press release noting that gun control failed in Texas but an armed citizen saved the day.

A homeowner awoke to the sound of his dark barking, retrieved a firearm, and held a robbery suspect at gunpoint until police arrived.

On Sunday a knife-wielding robbery suspect cornered a gun-toting citizen and got shot in the leg and transported to the hospital.

An armed citizen intervened and stopped a stabbing that was underway in a Walmart parking lot in Topeka, Kansas.

On January 12 Breitbart News reported that an armed citizen intervened by shooting and killing a suspect who was attacking an Arizona state trooper on the side of I-10.

On January 12, an armed citizen stopped and killed a man who was beating an Arizona State Trooper on the side of I-10.

The suspect in a hit-and-run accident can be seen pleading for his life in a video which shows him being held at gunpoint by an armed citizen on an interstate overpass.

On Memorial Day, a Walmart customer chased down an alleged purse snatcher, pulled a firearm, and held the suspect at gunpoint in the parking lot.

Three suspected intruders allegedly broke into a home early Friday morning, were met by gunfire, and one of the suspects was killed.

On March 22, a son allegedly stabbing his mother with a knife at an intersection in Phoenix, Arizona, was shot and killed by an armed citizen.

At mid-morning on December 26 a Southlake, Texas, man saw a drew his gun to stop a domestic attacker who he spotted “hitting” a woman on the side of the road.