The Armed Citizen® Dec. 15, 2025

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posted on December 15, 2025
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The Armed Citizen

Armed Citizen® Today

A 23-year-old college student heard a knock on his door in Tucson, Ariz., after midnight on Oct. 16, 2025. The student answered, and a man asked for someone who didn’t live there.

As they spoke, however, the student noticed another man behind the one he was speaking with, who had his face covered and was armed with a gun. He immediately retrieved his own gun and fired as the men advanced into his home, striking and killing both intruders.

Police noted that there was no indication the student had been involved in any criminal activities. (tucson.com, Tucson, Ariz., 10/16/25)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – January 1977

When a late-night intruder broke into the rural Fowler, Calif., home of Forest H. Smith, 81, neighbors alerted his son-in-law, Roy Garrett. Garrett and his two teenage sons rushed to the old man's home, where they found the thug holding a knife to Smith's throat.

After the man swung at him several times with the knife, Garrett shot him in the shoulder with a rifle, but the powerful crook kept coming. Garrett's younger son then broke a shotgun over the criminal's head, sending him fleeing outside. There, the other son bashed him with a baseball bat, then held the unconscious burglar for sheriff's deputies. (The Bee, Fresno, Calif.)

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