The Armed Citizen® October 18, 2019

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posted on October 18, 2019
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Armed Citizen Extra
A man who attempted to assault a liquor store clerk with a samurai sword was met with stiffer resistance than expected one Thursday afternoon. When the man charged into the store armed with his Shogun-era sidearm, he swung it around thrice at close range before the clerk was forced to retaliate with a slightly more modern sidearm, fatally shooting his assailant. (Patch.com, Port Jefferson, N.Y., 10/4/19)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives
October 1974
After buying some beer at a Knoxville, Tenn., convenience food store, a "customer" pulled a gunand ordered clerk Mary Finger to stuff money into a bag. In his office, manager Charles Costner ovehear the demand, got a cal .38 handgun and seriously wounded the robber when the latter tried to shoot him. (The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tenn.)

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