Milwaukee Man Shoots Armed Robber

A Milwaukee man only recently acquired his permit to carry a concealed handgun and then found himself in the middle of an armed robbery.   As the robber threatened a store clerk with a shotgun, the permit holder was able to draw his weapon and shoot the culprit.  The Milwaukee District Attorney said: “He disrupted an [...]

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New Cato Study: Tough Targets

Today, Cato is releasing a new study, Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens, by Clayton Cramer and David Burnett.  The paper makes use of a news report-gathering project to explore in more detail how Americans use guns in self-defense. The paper makes many excellent points, but I’ll mention just three here.  First, the [...]

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