Self-Defense

An employee at a Florence County, South Carolina, Smokers Town shop shot and killed an alleged armed robber around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday. 

A man who reportedly became angry after being denied alcohol entered a Riverton, Utah, convenience store Friday with a shotgun and was shot dead by a bystander.

A delivery food driver in Miami Gardens, Florida, managed to pull his gun and fatally shoot an alleged armed robber in self-defense around 1:40 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) is sponsoring the Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act, a bill which would allow former and current members of Special Forces to carry concealed nationwide.

A lawsuit for Silver Spring Jewish Center and Rabbi J. Menashe Shapiro challenges Montgomery County’s house of worship concealed carry ban. 

A report from the New York Post indicated the alleged 24-year-old In-N-Out shooter supported national concealed carry reciprocity. 

A Rochester, New York, homeowner shot and killed an alleged burglar in his kitchen Monday morning around 4:15 a.m.

The Civil Rights Division of President Trump’s Department of Justice put Maryland’s Montgomery County on notice that there will be action against them if the ban on armed congregants is enforced.

A female clerk at St. Louis, Missouri’s McNeal’s Superette “feared for her life” and therefore shot an alleged robber Thursday morning about 10 a.m., according to KSDK.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government published a column on constitutional carry and suggested a number of gun controls to offset it. 

The interim CEO of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is asking state lawmakers to ban guns on the transit system. 

The Dan Wesson DWX Compact is a metal-framed 9mm pistol that delivers precision that one would expect only from the highest-end firearms.

Maryland’s Democrat-run Montgomery County Council passed a concealed carry ban and “ghost gun” regulations on July 21, 2026. 

Gun Owners of America (GOA) filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Virgin Islands’ (USVI) restrictions against firearm possession and concealed carry for Americans that do not have a “residence or place of business” in the Caribbean territory.

Port St. Lucie Police Chief Leo Niemczyk reacted to a deadly weekend shooting by praising citizens’ ability to be armed to defend themselves. 

A concealed carrier shot and killed a man who was allegedly armed with a knife and terrifying customers Sunday in a Cerritos restaurant. 

Gun control outlet The Trace admitted “a sharp drop in shootings” at a time when firearm sales are rising. In a column dated July 15, 2026, The Trace noted: “Shooting deaths and injuries remain at historic lows in the United

A case against California’s “sensitive places” restrictions reopened as a result of SCOTUS’s ruling against Hawaii’s carry restrictions. 

An alleged intruder is in critical condition after the occupant of a Huntsville, Alabama, home opened fire on him Wednesday around 3:00 a.m. 

One-hundred-sixteen Ohio school boards have chosen to allow teachers and employees to be armed for classroom defense. 

SCOTUS denied cert on a Third Circuit ruling that found Pennsylvania’s ban on emergency concealed carry for 18-20-year-olds unconstitutional.

An alleged burglar who was shot twice by a Memphis apartment resident Tuesday is in the hospital “fighting for his life,” according to Action News 5.

President Trump noted the NRA’s hard work for the Second Amendment and made clear his administration is working on “national right to carry.” 

A man allegedly crashed his SUV into a San Tan Valley, Arizona, home around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and was shot dead by a resident.

Video footage of the incident for which St. Louis Starbucks workers were fired for fighting off would-be robbers in 2023 has been released.

A homeowner called 911 to report a break-in at his home Friday morning, then shot and killed the suspect before police arrived. 

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel for Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s ban on concealed carry for 18-20-year-olds is “unconstitutional.”

As of Friday, 18-20 year-old West Virginians are able to legally conceal carry for self-defense without needing any permit or license from the state.

A mother who shot an alleged intruder told reporters she grabbed a gun and did what she thought was necessary to protect her children.

A Miami Gardens, Florida, man shot and killed an alleged intruder at his neighbor’s house around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.

On June 9, 2026, President Trump’s Department of Justice launched an investigation into Philadelphia Police over the possible reliance upon “vague, personal discretion” in cancelling some permits for concealed carry.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said a home intruder armed with a shotgun died Friday night after being shot during an exchange of gunfire with a San Jacinto, California, homeowner.

The Brady Campaign is cheering Tuesday’s passage of storage legislation in New York that will require gun owners to lock up their firearms. 

An alleged Tulsa, Oklahoma, home intruder was shot around 12:00 a.m. Monday then identified and arrested after dropping his wallet while fleeing the armed resident.

An alleged burglar in Kansas gave up early Sunday morning after a woman saw him going through her car and placed him in a leg lock. 

An alleged intruder is hospitalized after a female homeowner opened fire on him Monday morning in Clarksville, Tennessee, around 1:40 a.m.