El Paso Homeowner Shoots Home Invader After the Intruder Shot the Man’s Dog

  You can learn a few things from a John Wick movie, but maybe the most important lesson is…don’t mess with a man’s dog. Maybe Bruce Wayne Murphy isn’t a movie fan. Or maybe he’s just too much of a dim bulb to have picked up on the attachment people have for man’s best friend. … Read more

Oregon Homeowner Shoots a Home Invader After Being Forced to Make Him a Sandwich

Apparently breaking into residences and victimizing innocent people can work up an appetite in a fugitive on the run. Terry Lee Martz was feeling a might peckish on Saturday while carrying out a broad daylight home invasion at a residence in the eastern Oregon town Ontario. Martz let himself into the home on Saturday around … Read more

Florida Man Shoots, Kills ‘Visitor’ Who Broke Into His Home, Attacked His Wife

The Associated Press reported a defensive gun use that happened yesterday in Panama City, Florida. A man was walking down the street acting erratically. When the man smashed his way through the door of a home and started beating a woman, the homeowner shot him. The AP, however, refers to the attacker not as a … Read more

Armed Home Invader Shot in Neck During Daylight Break-in

You know that “bump in the night” situation that home owners fear? Well they don’t always happen at night. As a recent defensive gun use in southwest Virginia illustrates, those bumps can happen any time of day. As WSLS reports, this particular break-in happened last week at about 4:30 p.m. The man authorities say broke … Read more

Three Home Invaders Shot This Week in Unrelated Self-Defense Shootings, DGUs That Some People Call a ‘Myth’

Contrary to what some would have you believe, defensive gun uses happen literally every single day. Over a million annually, preventing assaults, robberies, rapes and murders. Besides other stories we’ve already reported, here are three more DGUs that barely made the news, further discrediting the myth that guns don’t make a home safer. One happened early … Read more

Burglar “Lucky To Be In Jail” After Being Shot At First Thing in the Morning

“This individual is lucky to be in jail,” the sheriff of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, commented dryly. “He could have been in the care of the county coroner’s office.” That individual, a 37-year-old man named Michael Rowe, is now facing up to 15 years in the slammer for that burglary charge alone. The invasion was … Read more

Criminals Don’t Obey (Gun) Laws: NY Burglar Shot by Drug Dealer in Illegal Defensive Gun Use

Gun control doesn’t keep guns out of criminals’ hands. You may have read that here before. Fortunately, they often use them on one another. Case in point: Last month in Troy, New York, police were called to a home after a report of a home invasion and shooting. When they arrived, they did indeed find … Read more

Pittsburgh Man Wrestles Gun From 18-Year-Old Home Invader, Shoots and Kills Him

Around 9:00am on Friday morning, August 31, police received a call about an attempted robbery at a home near a monastery in Pittsburgh. By the time they arrived, they found the body of Daniel Ling, 18, of Baldwin, Pennsylvania, lying on the porch. Ling had been shot with his own gun after the homeowner caught … Read more