The Armed Citizen® Dec. 5, 2025

Armed Citizen® Today

Around 7 a.m. on Nov. 7, 2025, near Los Angeles, a 79-year-old Vietnam War veteran heard his duplex tenant screaming.

He found a naked 30-year-old man had forced his way into the woman’s home. The veteran confronted the intruder and ordered him to leave, but the naked man instead attacked, slamming him to the ground and breaking both of his legs. Fortunately, the veteran was armed and was able to transfer his firearm from his pinned right arm to his left and fire three shots at the assailant, killing him. The armed citizen was in stable condition after undergoing surgery for his broken legs.

“This incident, although horrible, brought me a great feeling that I was able to do something to protect other people,” the veteran later told reporters. His son told them: “He just keeps his head and takes care of other people around him. He’s a hero.” (ktla.com, Los Angeles, Calif., 11/10/25)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – June 1976

When a late night caller rang the doorbell of his East Liverpool, Ohio, home and asked to use the phone, John Eiferd became suspicious and warned his wife not to open the door until he got his revolver. When the door was opened, a masked man entered, carrying a rifle.

Seeing Eiferd’s revolver, however, the man turned and crashed through the door, taking the screen and wooden frame with him in haste. (The Evening Review, East Liverpool, Ohio)