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Subject: Re: Armed Citizen - 1992
Date: 9 Feb 1994 18:00:37 -0800

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In article <2jb2ir$[7--3] at [dazixca.dazixca.ingr.com]>,
Ron Phillips <[c r philli] at [hound.edaca.ingr.com]> wrote:

THE ARMED CITIZEN
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Studies indicate that firearms are used over 2 million times a year 
for personal protection, and that presence of a firearm, without a 
shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances.  Shooting usually 
can be justified only where crime constitutes an immediate, imminent 
threat to life or limb, or, in some cases, property.  Anyone is free 
to quote or reproduce these accounts.  Send clippings to: "The Armed 
Citizen," 11250 Waples Mill Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030.
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ARMED CITIZEN - JANUARY 1992

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   An armed robber was preparing to handcuff Astoria, New York,
shopkeeper Robert Knight when Knight seized the opportunity to act.
Stooping down, he pulled a pistol from an ankle holster.  Both men
fired at the same time, but Knight, who has a license for the gun,
hit his target, seriously wounding him.
	(The Daily News, New York City, NY, 09/21/91)
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   As her husband grappled with one of two men who tried to rob their
rural Albert, Alabama, store, Menda Pettway picked up a pistol the
couple keeps for protection.  Firing a single shot, she hit her
husband's assailant in the leg, stopping the attack.  The man and his
confederate fled, but were later apprehended by police.  "We're so
far away from the law that it's usually up to us to protect our own
businesses," a neighbor said.
	(The Advertiser, Montgomery, AL, 10/12/91)
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   Her family taken hostage by her daughter's ex-boyfriend, Barbara
Holt of Kearns, Utah, and her husband were threatened with death,
then forced into the bathroom of their home.  When the man, armed
with a rifle, went into the kitchen with her daughter, Holt slipped
into the bedroom and got her .22 pistol.  "I was hiding in the corner
and when he came out of the kitchen, I just pulled the trigger," Holt
said. Her single shot hit the man in the head and stopped the attack.
	(The Tribune, Salt Lake City, UT, 10/21/91)
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   John Hercules was working at his Nashville, Tennessee, jewelry
store when two teenagers entered, displayed a gun and attempted to
rob the business.  When Hercules confronted the pair, one shot him in
the shoulder.  Hercules returned fire and fatally wounded his 
attacker.  The other robber fled but was arrested soon after.  Police
said he confessed to several other robberies.
	(The Banner, Nashville, TN, 09/12/91)
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   Two men and a woman intent on burglarizing a Cowan, Indiana, home
never got inside after they saw what was behind door number one. When
the trio kicked the door down, the homeowner was waiting for them
with a loaded shotgun, and informed them he would use it if they
entered.  The three fled, but two suspects were later captured by
police.
	(The Star, Muncie, IN, 10/10/91)
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   William DeMar was at the Riviera Beach, Florida, service station
where he works when he noticed two men holding a gun on his boss,
Dave Bowers, and Bowers' father.  Drawing the handgun he keeps at the
garage, DeMar opened fire on the pair, wounding one and stopping the
robbery.  The wounded man drove away but was later arrested.  The
other robber also tried to flee, but Bowers grabbed his own pistol
and captured the man a short distance away.
	(The Post, Palm Beach, FL, 09/13/91)
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   Awakened by his five-year-old daughter, who told him a window had
fallen out in her room, Darryl Padgett picked up a flashlight but
abandoned it for a .22 rifle when a man came through the window.  
When his order to halt was ignored, Padgett shot the man twice and
waited until police showed up to arrest the intruder.  "I've taken
care of my family all my life," Padgett said.  "The old ways are the
best ways."
	(The Californian, Bakersfield, CA, 10/12/91)
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  When John Graves, 81, of Greensboro, North Carolina, took the trash
out at night, he also took a pistol.  He needed it one evening when
someone grabbed him.  Noticing the would-be robber had two 
accomplices, Graves pulled his pistol and shot and wounded the 
teenager.  "All the evidence showed that he ... was defending 
himself," the local prosecutor said.
	(The News & Record, Greensboro, NC, 09/20/91)
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   When a car pulled into the driveway of a vacant house across the
street, Sara Lott of Salley, South Carolina, picked up a pistol and,
along with a friend, went to investigate.  The man in the car told
Lott he was waiting for his girlfriend, but she recognized the car as
having been stolen from a neighbor's home.  Lott held the man, 
recently released from prison, at gunpoint for police.
	(The State, Columbia, SC, 10/03/91)
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   A 44-year-old San Francisco woman, allegedly raped by a man who,
despite a court order while awaiting trial, continued to harass and
threaten her, found herself being pursued by the man while out for a
drive early one morning.  When he blocked her car with his own, got
our and pulled a gun, the woman pulled her own pistol and, firing
through the windshield of her car, shot and mortally wounded her
assailant.
	(The Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, 09/15/91)
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   Anwan Farrooq was behind the counter of his Richmond, Virginia,
convenience store when three men entered.  As two approached the
counter with beer, the third pulled a handgun and opened fire.  Hit
in the chest by one of the bullets, Farrooq was saved by his steel
lined flak jacket.  Pulling his own pistol, Farrooq mortally wounded
the gunman and wounded one of the accomplices.  The third fled.
Farrooq began wearing the armored vest when a friend was robbed.
	(The News Leader, Richmond, VA, 10/10/91)
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  Lulah Lavery was home with her daughter at their Richford, Vermont,
home when they heard the sounds of a forced entry.  As her daughter
phoned police, Lavery loaded a shotgun and went to investigate.
Finding a man reaching through a broken backdoor window, Lavery fired 
a single blast.  The man fled, but a wounded suspect was quickly 
apprehended.
	(The Messenger, St. Albans, VT, 10/11/91)
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ARMED CITIZEN - MARCH 1992


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  Thomas Terry of Anniston, Alabama, was eating in a local restaurant
late one evening when several armed men came in and announced a
robbery. As the robbers tried to herd everyone into a walk-in cooler,
Terry tried to escape through a locked door but alerted the crooks to
his presence.  When one approached the table where he was hiding,
Terry pulled his .45, killed that man in an exchange of shots and
wounded his accomplice.  A third criminal fled.
	(The Star, Anniston, AL, 12/18/91)
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   Alerted when she saw a strange car drive up and the occupants
knock on the door, a 19-year-old woman got a rifle and hid in a
bedroom closet.  When the men broke through a cellar door and entered
the bedroom, she stepped out of the closet, trained the gun on them
and ordered them out.  They fled.
	(The Lawrence County Advocate, Lawrence, TN, 12/18/91)
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   Listening in on a police radio, Ron Sisk heard a police chase
proceed through his community of Cottonwood, Arizona.  When the
suspect's stolen truck crashed into a car Sisk was following and he
began to run, Sisk grabbed his gun and held the man for police.  The
fugitive was wanted on felony charges ranging from armed robbery to
attempted murder committed during a week-long, two-state spree.
	(The Journal Extra, Cottonwood, AZ, 12/05/91)
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   Dennis Brown of Atlanta, Georgia,--featured in the January 1991
"Armed Citizen"--recently killed a second thug at the Atlanta,
Georgia hotel where he works.  Brown and a co-worker went to 
investigate an activated car alarm in the parking lot and brought a
suspect back into the office.  When he pulled a pistol and opened
fire, both hotel employees returned the favor with their own guns,
kill the gunman.
	(The Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 11/03/91)
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   Describing her attacker as a man who had once been "one of the 
family," Juliette Blackmon, 81, of Kansas City, Missouri, was forced
to take action when he tried to rob them.  After asking to use the
bathroom, the man instead grabbed a knife from the kitchen and
threatened her and her husband, Elliot.  Elliot picked up a pistol
from the bedroom, however, and passed it to his wife.  Firing twice,
she killed the man.  "I had to do it," she said.  "I'm a Christian
woman, but we have to have protection."
	(The Star, Kansas City, MO, 10/24/91)
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   His store burglarized twice in a week, Denis Picard of Lewiston,
Maine, was on hand for the third attempt.  When he heard the door to
the business being broken down, Picard got a shotgun and 
investigated. Finding a man pawing through a gun case, Picard ordered 
him to stop.  When the intruder instead started to advance, Picard 
helped him make up his mind with a warning blast, then held him for 
police.
	(The Sun-Journal, Lewiston, ME, 10/09/91)
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   After watching two men kicking open the door to her home in a
burglary attempt, a Kingwood, Texas, woman picked up a pistol and 
fired several shots, scaring them off.  Police and local residents
then conducted a manhunt to capture the pair, who police suspect in
numerous other "kick" burglaries in the area.
	(The Echo, Houston, TX, 10/23/91)
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   Sweeping the walk in front of his Norristown, Pennsylvania,
restaurant, Long Som heard his 10-year-old daughter screaming.  Som
pulled a pistol, for which he has a permit, and ran to where she had
been loading boxes in the car, to find a man trying to carry her 
away.  Deciding Som was serious after the businessman fired several
shots in the air, the attacker dropped the girl and ran away.
	(The Times Herald, Norristown, PA, 12/16/91)
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   Delwin Smith was ready when two armed teenagers went on a crime
spree which left one Houston, Alaska, resident wounded. After eluding
the police, the teens broke into a home and struggled with the owner
but fled into the woods after a shotgun one was carrying went off and
wounded the man.  Smith, knowing their location from bulletins on his
police radio, was waiting when they emerged from the brush and held
them at shotgun point until police arrived.
	(The Daily News, Anchorage, AK, 12/14/91)
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   After their son received several death threats, an Everett,
Washington, couple arranged for an armed neighbor to be at their home
when the boy arrived from school.  When the man--a suspect in several
sexual assaults on children--broke into the home, the neighbor
struggled with and shot him.  The intruder fled, but was later
apprehended by police.
	(The Herald, Everett, WA, 12/19/91)
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   Citizens of Ivor, Virginia, turned out in force when two men
robbed the local bank.  After their car crashed while fleeing from
police, the duo fled into a wooded area.  Local residents immediately
armed themselves and, along with police, surrounded the woods.  The
pair surrendered to a volunteer and an officer the next morning.  
Said one local resident, "Here, the feeling is 'Hey, you've got my
money.'"
	(The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA, 10/20/91)
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  Two handgun-toting teenagers probably got the shocks of their lives 
when they attempted to rob a gas station in Richmond, Indiana--the
clerk pulled his own gun and shot at them.  Patrick Harding gave the
duo money from the cash register, but when one of the youths
threatened to shoot him, Harding pulled his own pistol and fired a
single shot, which sent them running.
	(The Palladium-Item, Richmond, IN, 11/21/91)
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ARMED CITIZEN - APRIL 1992

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   A Birmingham, Alabama pharmacist was behind the counter of his
store when a man brought an item to the counter and, instead of 
paying, began rifling the cash drawer.  Told to stop, the robber
instead threatened the druggist and acted as if he had a concealed
weapon.  The man received a mortal wound when the pharmacist fired
his own gun.
	(The Post-Herald, Birmingham, AL, 01/09/92)
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   Asleep at home one morning, Rev. Joel Yarber, a Baptist minister
in Memphis, Tennessee, awoke to someone knocking on the door and then
heard sounds inside the house. Picking up a pistol and investigating,
Yarber found a man attempting to steal a VCR.  When threatened with a
tire iron, Yarber fired four shots, mortally wounding the intruder.
Police said the man entered the home by kicking in a door, and got
there in a stolen car.
	(The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, 02/07/92)
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  Arriving at their Vallejo, California, check-cashing store, Charles
Davenport and his wife were confronted by a handgun-wielding man who
ordered them into the store.  Davenport grabbed his own gun from his
car and drove the man off in an exchange of shots.  An apparent
accomplice also fired, but fled when Davenport fired at him.  Police
apprehended three suspects a short time later.
	(The Times-Herald, Vallejo, CA, 12/24/91)
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   The only thing between her children and the man breaking into her
home was a shotgun, and a Flint, Michigan, woman took full advantage
of the fact that she was armed.  As the intruder broke through the
door, the woman hid her two children under a table, knelt in front of
it, and when he entered the room, fired several blasts from the pump
gun.  The wounded prison parolee fled, but police apprehended him by
following a trail of blood.
	(The Journal, Flint MI, 01/10/92)
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   Herman Moser's World War II Navy marksmanship training came in
handy when a man tried to rob his jewelry store in the Chinatown
section of New York City.  Moser, 71, was at the shop with his
grandson and another man when the armed robber entered.  When the 
robber ordered them into the shop's bathroom, Moser, fearing for 
their lives, pulled his licensed handgun, fired and killed the man.
"It still came to me, the steady, where to aim," Moser said.
	(The Times, New York, NY, 01/07/92)
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   Even though ill and wearing an oxygen mask, a homebreaker found
that 74-year-old Lena Mae Pate of Oroville, California, was no
pushover.  When the man broke into her home and, despite warnings,
continued to advance, Pate fired at him with her .38 revolver,
putting him to flight.  A wounded suspect--who had once worked for
Pate--was arrested after seeking treatment.
	(The Bee, Sacramento, CA, 01/04/92)
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   Even though the three robbers who entered their St. Petersburg,
Florida, pawnshop were holding them at gunpoint, David and Elizabeth
Anderson were able to turn the situation around and come out on top.
When Elizabeth and one of the thugs started to struggle and his gun
went off, David pulled his own pistol and shot one robber, killing
him, and with his wife held the other two for police, who said the
three were apparently trying to steal guns.
	(The Times, St. Petersburg, FL, 01/18/92)
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   Linda Patterson was walking to her car in the parking lot of a
Searcy, Arkansas, store a few days before Christmas when she saw a
man holding a knife on a woman.  Patterson pulled a revolver from her
purse and yelled, "You had better think twice about what you are
doing!"  Seeing that she was armed, the would-be kidnapper fled.
	(The White River Journal, Des Arc, AR, 01/02/92)
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   A would-be robber got a lesson in superior armament when he tried
to rob the San Diego, California, liquor store where Majid Kachi
works.  When the man walked in a threatened him with a large knife,
Kachi caught his arm with one hand and pulled a revolver from under
the counter with the other, prompting the man to turn tail and run.
"Mr. Kachi would have been quite legally justified in shooting the
man who was threatening him and his business," a police spokesman
said.
	(The Union, San Diego, CA, 11/17/91)
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   Only 11, a Talkeetna, Alaska, girl called on the firearms training
her mother had given her when someone broke into her home early one
morning.  When she heard movement outside, then inside, the house,
the girl got a shotgun and yelled, "I've got a loaded shotgun and if
you don't get out of here right now, I'm going to blow your head
off!"  The intruder took the non-too-subtle hint and fled.
	(The Times, Anchorage, AK, 01/15/92)
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   Faced with greater odds and superior firepower, Atlanta, Georgia,
grocer Nam Hoon Kim made his shots count when the four men who had
just taken money from his store and held his wife at gunpoint started
shooting.  Kim grabbed his own gun and, in the exchange, killed one 
of his assailants and put the others to flight.  Kim was not charged
by police, and neither he not his wife were injured.
	(The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 11/27/91)
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  Mary Lee and Samuel Carleton had just pulled up to their Terrytown,
Louisiana, home when a man pointed a gun at Sam and demanded money.
What the robber didn't know is that Mary Lee is a security guard and
retired police officer.  She fired a single shot from her own pistol,
putting the crook and an accomplice to flight.
	(The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, 02/05/92)

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ARMED CITIZEN - MAY 1992

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	John Parker was alone in his Racine, Wis., tavern one
evening when a pair of youthful gang members armed with sawed-off
shotguns burst through the door.  Parker grabbed a .357 Mag. from
under the counter and, as one of the thugs fired a blast at him,
unleashed four shots.  Parker received a slight hand wound, but
killed both of his assailants.  Police said both youths had long
police records, and the district attorney ruled that Parker acted
in self-defense. 
	(The Journal Times, Racine, Wis., 01/15/92)
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	Fed up with repeated burglaries at the grocery store
where he works as a clerk, Phil Holznagel of Spokane, Wash.,
decided to mount his own stake out.  His plan paid off early one
morning when two men broke into the store.  Holznagel corralled
one of the men in the store and held him at gun point for police.
	(Spokesman-Review and Chronicle, Spokane, Wash., 03/0l/92)
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	His shadow proved to be the undoing for a St. Paul,
Minn., house breaker.  Asleep on the sofa, Bob McQuiston awakened
to what he thought was one of his children upstairs.  "I usually
spot their little shadows when I'm downstairs...but this shadow
just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger," he said.
 McQuiston called police, grabbed his double-barrel shotgun and
held the intruder for police.
	(The Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn., 03/01/92)
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	Robert Smith missed both, part of the Super bowl and
being run down, but he did capture a man who attempted to
burglarize his neighbor's truck.  Smith grabbed his .38 and went
to intervene when he noticed the man in the truck.  When the
criminal's accomplice tried to run him down, Smith fired two
shots, causing the car to veer up over a curb and into a house.
The driver fled, and Smith held the failed thief for police.
	(The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 01/28/92)
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	BBs are no match for bullets, a young hoodlum found out
when he attempted to rob a Brooklyn grocery store with a BB gun.
When the youth entered the store brandishing the gun, the owner
fired several shots with his licensed 9 mm, killing the thug.
The store owner was not charged.
	(The Daily News, New York, N.Y., 03/11/92)
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	Hearing noises outside her Mission, Tex., home, 65-year-
old Celia Munoz found a pair of house-breakers at work.  They
beat her, but she managed to break away and retrieved a .22
rifle.  When one criminal lunged at her, she put them to flight
with a single shot.  Police later arrested two suspects, one with
a hand wound.  "I am never gonna be without a gun," she said.
"If anybody is kicking my door down, you better watch out."
	(The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Tex., 03/14/92)
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	A clerk working the graveyard shift alone at a Wilco,
Va., service station unlocked the door to let in what appeared to
be a customer.  Once inside, however, the "customer" pulled a lug
wrench from under his coat and demanded money.  The clerk
responded by pulling a .32 automatic, which convinced the would-
be robber to flee.
	( The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va., 01/20/92)
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	Charles O'Brien started spending nights in his Plano,
Tex., store after a November burglary.  Awakened one evening by
the sounds of breaking glass next door, O'Brien picked up a
pistol, investigated and found two juveniles holding bags.  A 10-
year-old ran off, but O'Brien held the 16-year-old for police,
who found the boy was armed with a pistol taken in the earlier
entry.
	(The Star Courier, Plano, Tex., 01/09/92)
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	A dentist by trade, Fred Sickles recently branched out by
capturing two men who attempted to burglarize his home.  Sickles
was eating breakfast with his wife when the men started pounding
on the doors.  "We had a good idea why they were here, so we just
sat quietly and waited, "Sickles said.  Scared off by an alarm
after they broke down the back door, the men found Sickles
waiting for them at their car with a loaded shotgun.  He fired a
warning blast and held the pair for police.
	(The Times, Kenton, Ohio, 02/24/92)
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	Ernie Smith was watching television in his Eugene, Oreg.,
home when he heard loud noises coming from his store next door.
Looking through a peephole, Smith saw a man drop through a hole
in the ceiling.  Smith grabbed his shotgun, ran into the store
and held the burglar for police.  "Hey, I got to defend my wife
and the house," Smith said.  "And a loaded 12-ga. talks."
	(The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oreg., 01/14/92)
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	An early-morning burglary attempt proved to be fatal
when, instead of loot, the culprit found an armed homeowner.
Mary Berry was awake because of an earlier burglary at her
Louisville, Ky., home, and when she heard sounds of another
forced entry, she called police.  She was still on the phone when
the man entered the kitchen, and Berry mortally wounded him with
a single blast from her shotgun.
	(The Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., 03/07/92)
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	Hugh Davitt of Scranton, Pa., stopped his car to talk to
a group of teenagers after they snow balled his car.  Instead of
talking, the youths began to beat Davitt.  After one of them
sprayed him with Mace, David pulled his registered pistol and
fired a single shot, wounding one of his assailants and stopping
the attack.  Authorities later said Davitt acted in self-defense
and would not be charged.
	(The Tribute, Scranton, Pa., 03/10/92)
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	Wearing a mask and armed with a sawed-off shotgun, a man
bent on robbery entered Reid's Mart in Hubert, N.C., just as
owner Steve Reid was closing for the night.  Reid at first
thought it was a joke, but when it became evident that the gunman
meant business, Reid pulled his 9 mm from his back pocket and
fired a single shot, striking the crook in the chest, killing
him.
	(The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C., 03/25/92)
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	Odell Smith, Jr., a Birmingham, Ala., cabbie, picked up
two men who turned out to be armed robbers.  When the man in the
back seat held a gun to his head and demanded money, Smith
grabbed his .38, spun in the driver's seat and fired three shots,
killing the gunman and then wounding his accomplice.
	(The News, Birmingham, Ala., 04/10/92)
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	Napping in her rural Mission, Tex., home with her two
children, Vanessa Cooper heard a car pull up, and, looking out
the window, saw an unfamiliar car in the driveway.  Fearing for
the safety of her children, Cooper picked up a pistol and went to
investigate.  She found a man in the living room, and when he
ignored her questions on why he was there and lunged at her,
Cooper fired, killing the intruder.
	(The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Tex., 03/13/92)
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	When his stepfather began beating a 16-year-old
Kalispell, Mont., youth's mother, the boy ordered him to stop.
When the man---who had a history of alcohol-induced violence
against the family---continued his attack, the teen got a rifle
and shot and killed the man.  "The boy clearly was justifiably
concerned about the welfare of his mother and younger brother
and sister when he shot," said the county attorney.
	(The Daily InterLake, Kalispell, Mont., 02/21/92)
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	Six burglaries in one week were enough for Todd Bridges,
the manager of several Wichita, Kans., muffler shops.  Armed with
his AR-15, his late-night stakeout was rewarded when a man forced
his way into the shop Bridges was guarding.  Bridges ordered the
man to halt, but when the burglar began running toward the back
of the shop, fired three shots, hitting him once, "I didn't want
him to get back there and start taking shots at me," said
Bridges.
	(The Eagle, Wichita, Kans., 03/27/92)
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	David Shanley was content to let the two men who had
taken money from the register of his liquor store flee until one
pulled a gun and threatened to kill him.  When that happened,
Shanley, a former New York City police officer, drew his own gun
and opened fire, wounding both robbers.  Both fled but were
apprehended by police while seeking medical treatment for their
wounds.
	(The Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., 04/10/92)
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	Ron Simpson carries a gun on the job as a midnight-shift
service station attendant in Aurora, Ill.  He needed it recently-
for a third time in 18 months-when a man walked in, pretended to
have a gun and demanded money from the register.  When the robber
dropped his guard, Simpson pulled his 9 mm pistol and held him
for police.  "The gun's not there to protect the store; it's
purely to protect me," Simpson said.
	(The Beacon, Aurora, Ill., 04/23/92)
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	Covering the rioting in Atlanta, Ga., that followed the
Rodney King jury verdict in Los Angeles, a TV-news team found
themselves the targets of the mob.  They were rescued when
Garnett Sumpter, the husband of one of their coworkers, happened
onto the scene.  Drawing his licensed pistol, Sumpter convinced
the mob to go elsewhere.
	(The Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., 05/5/92)
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        Vincent McCarthy wasn't afraid to lend a hand when he
noticed a police officer struggling with a man and woman at the
side of the road.  He tried to help subdue the man, who was
kicking the officer in the face.  Despite McCarthy's warnings,
when the man pressed his assault, the tour boat captain shot him
once in the leg with a pistol he is licensed to carry and stopped
the attack.  Neither the officer nor McCarthy were seriously
injured.
        (The Daily Commercial, Leesburg, Fla., 04/10/92)
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        T.J. Namen credits his insomnia with helping him nab two
teens who were breaking into cars in the lot of the Anchorage,
Alaska apartment building he manages.  Getting a pistol and
sneaking outside after noticing the two, Namen waited until he
heard breaking glass, then jumped up, announced that he was armed
and held them for the police.
        (The Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska, 03/31/92)
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        Jack Arnold, 81, thought he had escaped the gang violence
of his North Richmond, Calif., home, when he moved into his motor
home and parked it outside of the city.  He was apparently the
target of random violence, however, when a man carrying a knife
burst through the door one evening.  After being threatened and
struck, Arnold grabbed a 12-ga. and killed the intruder with a
single blast.
        (Daily Ledger/Post Dispatch, Pittsburg, Calif., 03/05/92)
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        Peter DelFranco, owner of a Bridgeport, Conn., pizza
shop, ordered a man out of the store after he tried to get change
for a roll of "dimes" actually containing pennies.  Instead of
leaving, the man stepped behind the counter, feigned having a gun
and started taking money from the cash register.  DelFranco fired
a single shot from his pistol, putting the man to flight.  A
wounded suspect was found nearby.
        (The Post, Bridgeport, Conn., 01/15/92)
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        Mike Court was finishing his day's work by making a bank
run for the Tampa, Fla., store where he works.  As he prepared to
make the deposit, a robber stepped up and demanded the money.
Instead, Court pulled his own .380 and, after a short discussion,
the two began to shoot it out.  The exchange ended when Court
wounded the criminal.  "If I'd given him the money, who's to say
he wouldn't have shot me anyway," Court pondered.
        (The Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., 02/20/92)
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        Apparently intent on burglary, two hoods cut the phone
lines to Floris Gold's Cape Ferrelo, Oreg., home.  They were busy
forcing their way into the basement when confronted by the 72-
year-old-home-owner, but fled when they noticed she was carrying
a shotgun.  One fired a shot as he was running---missing Gold---
which earned him a charge of attempted murder when police caught
up with him and his accomplice a short time later.
        (The Curry Coastal Pilot, Brookings, Oreg., 02/12/92)
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        Increased crime prompted Angelo Accurso to get a permit
to keep a gun in his buffalo, N.Y., market.  He put it to good
use when a man walked in one morning and began to beat him with a
piece of pipe.  Although seriously injured, Accurso managed to
pull his pistol and loosed several shots.  Severely wounded,
Accurso's attacker staggered from the store and collapsed on the
street.
        (The News, Buffalo, N.Y., 04/03/92)
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        After entering through an unlocked back door of an
Alcolu, S.C., woman's home, a male intruder put an extension cord
around the woman's neck and told her not to scream.  Thinking
quickly, the woman fell to the floor and grabbed a rifle kept
under the couch, prompting her attacker to flee.
        (The Item, Sumter, S.C., 02/8/92)
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        Even though Pizza Hut has a policy against drivers
carrying firearms, a Pensacola, Fla., delivery man decided his
own safety was more important than company policy and took his
pistol with him.  He needed it one evening when three criminals
tried to rob him.  Making the delivery, the man decided he didn't
like what he saw.  Telling the trio he was getting their drinks,
he instead got his 9 mm.  When one of the group yelled "Die!" and
fired a shot, the delivery man ducked behind his car and returned
fire, driving them away.  A company official later said the man
would keep his job.
        (The News Journal, Pensacola, Fla., 01/29/92)
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        A would-be armed robber found it never pays to bring a
knife to a gunfight when he vaulted a counter in Walter
Krasowski's Chicago coin shop and slashed him with a butcher's
knife.  Krasowski pulled a .45 revolver, fired and wounded his
assailant twice.  The man fled, with Krasowski in pursuit.
Police found the man lying in the street, with Krasowski holding
him at gunpoint.
        (The Daily Southtown Economist, Chicago, Ill., 03/20/92)
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        James Summey of Lincolnton, N.C., got the drop on two men
who had broken into his son's home and was holding them at
gunpoint while his wife phoned police.  He almost made a fatal
mistake, however, when he agreed to let one of the house breakers
get a cigarette.  Instead of tobacco, the man came up with a .25
semi-automatic pistol and fired several shots at Summey; all
missed.  Summey returned fire with his .44 Mag., prompting the
gunman to cease hostilities and wait quietly for police.  His
accomplice fled, but turned himself in soon after.  "If Mr.
Summey had wanted to harm one of them, he could have really done
it," a detective later said.
        (The Lincoln Times-News, Lincolnton, N.C., 02/19/92)
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	Witnessing two women being repeatedly stabbed in front of
his bicycle shop in Baltimore, Md., Sandy Mandel grabbed his
licensed .45 and went to intervene.  He chased the knife-wielding
assailant for a block, but when the attacker turned and raised
his knife, Mandel fired a single shot, wounding him.
	(The Sun, Baltimore, Md., 05/15/92)
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	After finding money missing from her Kennewick, Wash.,
tavern, Carol Mae hodgins decided to start spending nights in the
business.  Alerted when the phone began to ring, Hodgins and a
friend---both armed with .357s---were ready when a former
employee used a key to open the door.  After he took money from
several games in the bar, Hodgins---a former security guard---
held him for police.
	(The Tri-Cities Herald, Kennewick, Wash., 04/11/92)
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	His wife awakened by the sound of breaking glass outside
their Arlington, Tex., apartment, NRA member Jim Newton grabbed
his AR-15.  Outside he found two men trying to steal his wife's
car.  Newton returned fire when one man shot at him, killing the
gunman and putting his accomplice to flight.  "It appears that he
was definitely in fear of his life and that he fired in self-
defense," a police detective said.  A handgun found near the dead
man had been fired twice, police said.
	(The Star-Telegram, Ft. Worth, Tex., 05/14/92
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	Stalking his former girl friend was a fatal mistake for a
Memphis, Tenn., man after he kicked his way into her home for the
second time in eight months.  Not finding the woman at home, the
intruder instead stabbed the woman's mother and Donzale Shelby, a
family friend, with a kitchen knife.  Although wounded, Shelby
grabbed a gun and shot his attacker once in the chest, mortally
wounding him.
	(The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., 05/30/92)
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	A convicted felon with a long police record pushed his
luck too far when he attempted to rob the Charleston, S.C., area
nightclub managed by Paul Thomas.  Thomas and a female employee
were locking up for the night when the armed robber grabbed the
woman, held a gun to her head and forced them back inside.
Thomas feigned a breathing problem, however, and when the gunman
lowered his gun, Thomas whipped out a pistol and fired several
shots, killing the man.
	(The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C., 04/14/92)
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	Delivering pizzas in Syracuse, N.Y., early one morning,
John MacDonald was accosted by two men who tried to steal the 
pies.  MacDonald tried to keep hold of the pizza bag, but when
one of the pair attacked him with a broomstick, MacDonald let go
and drew his pistol.  One man fled with the pizzas, but MacDonald
gave the other a ride to the police station in his delivery car.
He is licensed to carry, police said.
	(The Herald American, Syracuse, N.Y., 04/19/92)
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	Araina Thompson, beaten repeatedly by her former
boyfriend, knew a court order would not keep her safe when he was
released from jail, so she took the precaution of buying a
pistol.  When he showed up at her Bensalen, Pa., apartment, 
violating the court order for the third time, and began to beat
her.  Thompson got her pistol and shot and killed him.
	(The Trentonian, Trenton, N.J., 04/25/92)
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	Victimized by two previous burglaries at his Newport News,
Va., home, Jonas Norris evened the score when the man returned
for a third try.  After entering the home via a window, the
burglar's movements woke Norris, who fired several shots at him.
The man fled, but a wounded suspect was apprehended while seeking
medical treatment.
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	Hearing screams near their Maple Rapids, Mich., home,
Louis and Cindy Ward investigated and found a 65-lb. pit bull
attacking an 11-year-old neighbor.  As Cindy calmed the girl and
distracted the dog into ceasing its attack, Louis grabbed a shot-
gun.  Hoping to draw the animal away, Louis picked up a stick and
threw it, but when the dog came after him, Ward shot and killed 
it.  Police credited Ward's actions with saving the girl's life.
	(The State Journal, Lansing, Mich., 04/19/92)
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	Driving to work, Macon, Ga., resident Joe Moody saw a
couple who manage a local grocery being robbed by three armed,
masked men.  He paused nearby to tell a security guard to call
police, then, with his .44 Mag., returned to the store.  Gun in
hand, he hopped out of his truck and ordered the trio of thugs to
scram.  They took the hint and fled.  Police later arrested
several suspects, all convicted felons.
	(The Telegraph, Macon, Ga., 04/21/92)
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	Mark Rigas was working in his Waldoboro, Maine, pizza
shop one evening when a man walked in, waved a gun around and
demanded money.  Instead of complying, Rigas pulled his own gun--
which he keeps in the shop for just such an occasion--and called
police.  The would-be robber fled while Rigas was on the phone,
but a suspect was soon arrested.  "I work too hard for my money
to let some guy rob me," said Rigas.
	(The Courier-Gazette, Rockland, Maine, 04/23/92)
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	Believing the burglars who took more than $20,000 in
tools and motorcycles from his motorcycle shop in Jeffersonville,
Ky., would return, Jim Beatty armed himself with a shotgun and
waited.  When two men broke into the shop, Beatty forced them
back out again with several warning blasts.
	(The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., 03/17/92)
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	David Plasters, a city councilman in Greeley, Colo.,
picked up his 9 mm and went to investigate when he heard noises
at the rear of his home at 2:30 a.m..  In the kitchen, Plasters
found a man entering through a window.  Plasters ordered him to
freeze, but the intruder ran though the house and out another
window and escaped.
	(The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo., 06/17/92)
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	Two burglars casing a Wichita, Kans., residential area
made the wrong choice when they broke into a home occupied by a
woman and her great-grandmother.  The two women fled the house
and went to a neighbor's home.  The neighbor grabbed his .357,
interrupted the burglary and ordered the pair to surrender.  They
instead jumped in their car and fled as the neighbor fired six
shots at them.  Responding police soon arrested one suspect and
recovered a large cache of stolen property.
	(The Eagle, Wichita, Kans., 05/14/92)
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	Kouman Lee was behind the counter of his Fontana, Calif.,
store when an armed robber came in and demanded money.  As the 
man took cash from the register, Lee, the victim of several
previous robberies, was able to reach a gun kept behind the
counter and fired, hitting the robber.  The wounded criminal
fled, but was found at a local hospital.
	(Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Ontario, Calif., 05/27/92)
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	Noticing his girl friend's garage in disarray, Lithonia,
Ga., resident Orlando Sheppard got a pistol out of his truck.
When he walked inside the house, he found two men there, one
armed with a handgun.  Both Sheppard and the intruder fired; the
gunman---owner of several felony convictions---was mortally
wounded.  Sheppard, his girl friend and her young son escaped
uninjured.  The accomplice fled.
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	Hearing glass breaking in his 75-year-old neighbor's
backyard, Leonard Carralero, Jr., of Miami, Fla., got his shot-
gun, investigated and found an intruder attempting to break into
the woman's house.  The stranger sprinted away, but Carralero
caught up with him on the front yard.  Carralero, thinking the
man was reaching for what appeared to be a gun under his clothes,
fired a single blast and mortally wounded the would-be burglar.
Police said the dead man had a police record.
	(The Herald, Miami, Fla., 04/18/92)
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	Answering his telephone at 3 a.m., Bill Gross of Phoenix,
Ariz., heard his next-door neighbor on the line, telling him
someone was breaking into her apartment.  Gross armed himself
with a semi-auto, went outside and found a man trying to open the
woman's front window.  Gross ordered him to stop, but when the
man turned and charged, he fired a shot which wounded the
intruder.
	(The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz., 04/30/92)
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	Stopped for a red light, Laura Huntington of Woodstock,
Ga., suddenly found herself with an extra passenger in the car---
a man holding a razor to her throat.  Following his directions,
Huntington stopped the car on command, and seizing the moment,
pulled her revolver.  Her assailant wisely decided to flee.  "I
had already made up my mind I was going to use it," she said.
	(The Daily Journal, Marietta, Ga., 06/04/92)
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	Pensacola, Fla., area resident Jack Taylor was helping a
friend fix his car when the pair were attacked by a man wielding
a tree limb. Struck from behind, Taylor, a former deputy sheriff,
pulled a pistol from his back pocket and shot at his attacker.
The man and an accomplice fled, but a wounded suspect and a 
juvenile were later caught.
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	Walking through the woods in a state park in Wenatchee,
Wash., Michael Vanney was horrified to see a cougar pounce on his
five-year-old daughter Jessica.  Armed only with a hunting knife,
Vanney yelled for his wife to bring a handgun, then jumped on the
cat, knocking it off the girl.  When his wife arrived with the
gun, Vanney fired two shots, treeing the cat, which was later
captured and held in quarantine.  Jessica suffered only minor
scrapes in the attack, according to an Associated Press report.
	(The Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, 06/24/92)
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	A vow of vengeance led only to a gunshot wound for a
Houston, Tex., man after he stalked a female former coworker for
six months.  The woman, who had filed several complaints with
police over the man's harassment, was in a grocery store parking
lot when the stalker jumped into her car and tried to abduct her.
When he did, the woman pulled a gun and fired, wounding him 
twice.
	(The Post, Houston, Tex., 06/03/92)
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	Gray Edge of Woodruff, S.C., tucked a pistol in the 
waistband of his pants when a smalltime criminal fleeing from 
police started pounding on the door to his home, demanding to use
the phone.  When Edge opened the door slightly to hand out a
portable phone, the man forced his way inside and began to 
threaten Edge with a metal bar.  Knocked off balance, Edge
managed to pull his gun and fire, mortally wounding his assailant
	(The Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C., 05/11/92)
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	Beth Smith of Hartselle, Ala., grabbed her pistol when
her grandmother burst into the house, saying two men had invaded
her home next door.  In pursuit of the fleeing pair, Smith fired
a warning shot, prompting one to drop to the ground.  Smith held
him for police.
	(The News Journal, Pensacola, Fla., 06/11/92)
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	Asleep in the apartment above his Brooklyn, N.Y., auto
shop, Ezekial Witherspoon grabbed his licensed 9mm pistol when he
awoke to the sounds of forced entry.  In the ensuring confron-
ation, Witherspoon shot and mortally wounded an intruder who had
gained entry to the shop by smashing a window.  Police did not
charge Witherspoon, stating that the shooting appeared to be
justified.
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	John Gibbs, a Jacksonville, Fla., volunteer reserve
police officer, was using a car wash early one morning when a car
with three men in it drove up and stopped nearby. When one of the
occupants jumped out and pulled a gun, Gibbs countered with his
own gun. In the short fight that ensued, Gibbs escaped harm while
mortally wounding his assailant. The accomplices fled. Police
said Gibbs apparently acted properly in shooting the man.
	(The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla., 07/20/92)
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	James Eldridge heard glass shattering and looked out his
house window to see two men in his carry-out store lot. When one
got a pillow case out of a car and the pair started for the 
store's front door, Eldridge got his shotgun and confronted them.
One would-be burglar fled, but the store owner held the other 
until police came.
	(The News-Sun, Springfield, Ohio, 07/13/92)
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	Timothy Riley, a resident of Green, Ohio, is very popular
with his neighbor. Hearing glass breaking next door, Riley armed
himself with a shotgun and confronted two house breakers. The
pair ran back inside, but surrendered when Riley ordered them 
out. Riley held them at gunpoint for police. "When those burglars
saw the barrel of my shotgun, they laid down on the ground and
got real peaceful."
	(The Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, 06/09/92)
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	An armed robber had successfully hit Kep Van Dang's
Pensacola, Fla., store twice in a week, but pressed his luck too
far when he tried a third time. Dang got a pistol after the
second robbery, in which the criminal threatened to come back.
When the robber returned and pointed a gun at Dang and a clerk,
the storekeeper pulled his new .38 and fired several shots,
halting the robbery and driving the man from the store. Police,
who found a wounded suspect several blocks away, said Dang would
not be charged. "We're going to keep that gun, it's our pro-
tection," said Dang through an interpreter. 
	(The News-Journal, Pensacola, Fla., 07/15/92)
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	Shoved aside by a strongarm thief who vaulted the counter
and began looting the till, the clerk of a Bristol, Pa., 
convenience store simply pulled his licensed revolver and fired a
single shot. The blast had the desired effect, driving the man
from the store.
	(The Times, Trenton, N.J., 07/28/92)
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	Watching a house for a friend, Arthur and Annie Brown of
Greenville, S.C., were ready when they found a trio of teenagers
while checking the home. Noticing items out of place when they
entered, the Browns had their pistols ready when they confronted
the intruders. Mrs. Brown, 73, fired a warning shot from her gun,
and together with her husband, held the three for police. "We
both got our pistols because of previous break-ins," she told
police.
	(The Piedomont, Greenville, S.C., 06/11/92)
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	Feeling uneasy about her only customer, a lone Palmdale,
Calif., store clerk put herself within easy reach of the revolver
she keeps in the store for protection. When the man exposed him-
self and threatened to rape her, the clerk responded by firing a
single shot from her .357 Mag., prompting the criminal to flee
the store.
	(The Antelope Valley Press, Palmdale, Calif., 07/10/92)
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	The owner of a lunch truck gave the burglar a chance to
leave, but when the thief wouldn't comply, the Elizabeth, N.J.
truck owner retrieved a shotgun, only to be confronted by the
intruder carrying a machete. After a warning shot had no effect,
the truck owner fired a blast that put the man to flight. Police
arrested a wounded suspect two blocks away.
	(The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., 06/05/92)
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	A would-be robber paid with his life when he tried the 
ultimate in stupid stunts---robbing a gun store at knife point.
Edward Sarhan was working in the Miami, Fla., area shop when the
man entered and demanded money. As employee Tony Milan wrestled
with the knife-wielding assailant, Sarhan drew his .38 revolver
and shot the man three times, killing him.
	(The Herald, Miami, Fla., 06/09/92)
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	Two self-described "feisty" senior citizens were more
than a match for an armed intruder who entered their Ambridge, 
Pa., home, apparently intent on burglary. As the crook pointed a
pistol at her, Jean Hankinson screamed for husband Melvin to get
the shotgun. As Melvin grabbed for his scattergun, the thief ran
downstairs and dove through the window. Police said he apparently
took a set of car keys and the next night tried to take the
Hankinson's car, but was again driven off.
	(The Beaver County times, Beaver, Pa., 07/13/92)
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	When his dogs interrupted his morning shave, Tom Fletcher
looked outside to see a man hiding behind a peach tree in his
Juliette, Ga., yard. Fearing the man was a wanted fugitive,
Fletcher, 76, picked up his pistol, went outside and captured the
stranger. It turned out the man was wanted for the throat-
slashing murder of a woman during a burglary and the stabbing of
a motorist.
	(The Telegraph, Macon, Ga., 07/05/92)
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	A pair of Las Vegas, Nev., carjackers learned that it's
hard to practice your profession when the chosen victims are also
armed.  The pair approached a car parked outside a pizza shop,
drew guns and announced the robbery, but the car's two occupants
drew their own guns and opened fire.  The two would-be robbers
fled, but a wounded suspect and an accomplice were apprehended
shortly after the incident.
	(The Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nev., 08/18/92)
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	Hearing suspicious noises outside his home early one
morning, a West Goshen, Pa., homeowner --- already on alert after
his car had been stolen two months earlier --- picked up his 9 mm
pistol and investigated.  Outside he found two men loading his 
gas grill into their car.  He ordered them to stop and held them 
at gunpoint for police.
	(The Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa., 09/01/91)
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	Working outside his father-in-law's restaurant, a Tacoma,
Wash., man was informed by his wife that a group of armed and
unruly teens was causing a disturbance in the eatery.  When the
group moved outside and one member threatened the Tacoman with a
bottle, he fired a single shot from his pistol, wounding his
attacker and putting a stop to the disturbance.  The wounded man
faces several charges, police said.
	(The Morning News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., 07/29/92)
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	Feeling sympathy for an acquaintance with a hard-luck 
story, Gary Melton loaded the man $50.  The man returned to 
Melton's store the next day, but not to repay the load.
Threatening Melton --- who is confined to a wheelchair --- with a
letter opener, the man demanded more money. Instead of complying,
Melton pulled his pistol and shot the man to death.  Police said
the slaying was justified.
	The Times Dispatch, Richmond, Va., 08/28/92)
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	William Stubbs was in his Hallsboro, N.C., store when a
man walked in and started to beat him with a club. Stubbs feigned
unconsciousness until his wife, hearing the commotion, walked in
and was attacked.  Stubbs --- who suffered several broken bones
and cuts in the attack --- grabbed a pistol from a drawer and 
shot the man several times, killing him.  Stubb's wife was also
badly beaten in the attack.
	(The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, N.C., 06/28/92)
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	After successfully fighting off a would-be rapist while
walking her dog, a Murray, Utah, woman, enraged over the
incident, retrieved a pistol from her home and went hunting for
the man.  Finding him attempting to hitch a ride on a local
highway, she held him at gunpoint until a passing motorist
summoned police.
	(The Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, 08/06/92)
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	Stopped at a highway rest stop, Ray Cage of Justine, 
Tex., was returning to his truck when he was approached by two
men.  When one flashed a gun and ordered him out of the truck,
Cage instead came up with his own gun and exchanged shots with
the duo.  Even though he was wounded in the hip, Cage drove his
attackers off.  Two suspects were later apprehended.
	(The Citizen, Keller, Tex., 08/04/92)
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	Charleston, S.C., resident Theodore Palmer returned home
from work early one morning only to find a stranger in his
bedroom.  Queried as to what he wanted, the man instead advanced
on Palmer, who retreated to the hallway and grabbed a rifle he
keeps there.  In a brief struggle for control of the gun, Palmer
shot the intruder several times.  He fled, but a wounded suspect
was later apprehended.  A police officer said burglars should
consider being shot ... "an occupational hazard."
	(The Post & Courier, Charleston, S.C., 08/27/92)
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	Stocking a cooler in the store where she works, a
Eufaula, Okla., woman was confronted by one of two men who 
entered the store.  Turning, the woman saw the second man behind
her, his pants down.  She threw a case of beer at the second man
and ran to the counter, the duo in pursuit.  Getting a pistol
kept in a drawer, she drove the men from the premises without
firing a shot.
	(The News-Capital & Democrat, McAlester, Okla., 07/27/92)
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	Talking with several friends outside a York, Pa., 
restaurant, Barb Wallace was shocked to see one of her party
randomly attacked.  The two men sparred, but Wallace's friend was
knocked to the ground and kicked, his cheekbone crushed.  When
the attacker turned his attention to Wallace --- who works as a
prison guard --- she pulled her revolver.  The man fled.
	(The Daily Record, York, Pa., 08/10/92)
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	Robbed at gunpoint, Dayton, Ohio, pizza-delivery man
William Armour decided he should carry a gun on the job.  Armour
was sitting in his car when a man approached and put a pistol to
his head.  Reacting quickly, Armour grabbed his own pistol and
fired a single shot, mortally wounding the would-be robber.
Domino's Pizza, citing company policy forbidding drivers to carry
guns, fired Armour.
	(The Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, 07/28/92)
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	A history of domestic violence by a Mississippi man 
against his wife ended when he was shot to death by his son. When
the man came home drunk and started to beat his wife with a base-
ball bat, Chris Cayson of Plantersville, Miss., grabbed a rifle
and fired four times, killing his father.  Police, citing a 
history of abuse, said Cayson's actions saved his mother from
serious injury or death.
(The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Miss., 06/10/92)
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     "I suppose it was silly, but I was worried about my cats,"
said Corydon, Ind., resident Mary Setzer after she foiled a 
burglary at her home.  Alerted to the break-in by a friend,
Setzer arrived home to find the basement door forced open.  She
retrieved her revolver, found two teenagers in her basement and
held them for police.  Setzer immediately purchased a shotgun,
saying "A pump gun makes a noise when you load the chamber. Most
people when they hear that, they're not going to hang around."
     (The Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., 06/02/92)
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     World War II veteran William Marisak's best war story comes
from the war against crime.  While he was tending bar at his
Brooklyn tavern, four armed robbers burst in and shot him twice.
Marisak responded with his licensed .308, wounding one of the
gunmen and putting the others to flight. "If I didn't have a gun,
all of us would have been dead," he said.
     (Newsday, New York, N.Y., 09/13/92)
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     Panagiotis "Pete" Ioannidis thought he has left violence
behind him when he moved from his native Greece --- where he
battled Nazis and Communists --- to Providence, R.I.  He was 
forced to take up arms again, however, when a man walked into his
convenience store, pressed a knife to his wife's throat and 
demanded money.  Ioannidis emerged from a back room, pulled his
pistol and fired three shots, mortally wounding the robber.
     (The Journal-Bulletin, Providence, R.I., 09/29/92)
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     A trio of strongarm robbers demanded money from James Tibbs
and his son.  When the Pueblo, Colo., residents refused, the 
crooks started throwing punches.  The elder Tibbs pulled a pistol
from his pocket and fired a warning shot, then fired for effect,
when the criminals persisted, wounding two.
     (The Chieftain, Pueblo, Colo., 08/02/92)
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     Benny Taylor of Anniston, Ala., and his wife had been
terrorized for years by a thug who regularly stole their Social
Security money.  When the criminal's attacks became increasingly
violent, Taylor finally accepted the loan of a .38 from a friend.
When the man showed up at the house again and kicked through the
door, Taylor fired twice, killing him.  "I didn't know what else
to do," Taylor said.  "This is my home."
     (The Star, Anniston, Ala., 09/09/92)
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     While Clint Reynold's uncle tried to fend off a 600-lb
grizzly with a rifle butt as it tried to climb through a window
of the family's Central, Alaska, home, Reynolds, 14, jumped out
of bed and loaded his .357 Mag. revolver.  He rushed to the 
rescue, firing 15 shots at the bear, seven striking home, 
mortally wounding the marauding bruin.
     (The Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska 07/22/92)
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     A former boxer writing a crime novel did some first-hand
research when he stopped a burglary in a crowded North Hollywood,
Calif., coffee shop.  A regular at the shop, Randy Shields was
working on the story when two armed robbers burst in and fired
several shots.  Slightly wounded as he crawled behind a table, he
came up firing when the bandits threaten to kill customers and
employees.  In the ensuring battle, Shields chased the men from 
the store.  Two wounded suspects were later apprehended.
     (The Mercury News, San Jose, Calif., 09/21/92)
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     Steve Cartier thought he's subdued a deranged intruder with 
his 9mm pistol, but when his wife phoned Battle Ground, Oreg., 
police, the housebreaker lunged at her.  After scuffling with the
man, who ignored two warning shots, Cartier shot and killed him.
The county prosecutor said he expected no charges to be filed
against the homeowner.
     (The Oregonian, Portland, Oreg., 08/14/92)
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     After losing nearly everything to Hurricane Andrew, Dade
County, Fla., resident Bart Sanfillipo was serious when he put a
sign in his front yard warning looters he would shoot. 
Sanfillipo, his wife and an insurance adjuster were tallying the
damage when an armed bandit leaped from a van and fired a 
shotgun blast over their heads.  Sanfillipo responded with his
.44, hitting the young thug in the head at 30 ft. "Score one the
good guys," a police detective said of the incident.
     (The Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 09/14/92)
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     A Yonkers, N.Y., woman demurred when a stongarm robber
demanded her purse as she was making a call at a public phone.
She instead reached in the purse and came up with her licensed
.38.  The criminal fled empty-handed.
    (The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, N.Y., 08/06/92)
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     A semi-automatic pistol provided protection the police
couldn't for a New Orleans, La., area woman.  After calling
police to report a prowler outside her home, the woman got the
gun, and when the intruder crept through the front door, shot him
once in the neck, putting him to flight.  A wounded suspect was
apprehended minutes later.
     (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 07/22/92)
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     An Upper Marlboro, Md., homeowner warned the intruder he was
armed.  But the housebreaker ignored the warning and charged up
the stairs.  The householder opened up with a .38 and killed him.
     (The Times, Washington, D.C., 09/02/92)
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     Two would-be burglars made a big blunder when they woke up
the owner of a Mechanicsville, Md., home.  When one shined a
flashlight into the face of the sleeping 71-year-old man, he 
grabbed his shotgun and chased the duo from the home with several
blasts.
     (The Enterprise, Lexington Park, Md., 08/21/92) 
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