The Armed Citizen® January 25, 2019

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The Armed Citizen Extra
A man trying to break into an Anderson County home was shot and killed late one night. While he was only one of a larger group of people attempting to force entry, none of the other suspects had yet been apprehended at the time of this writing. (WYFF, Anderson, S.C., 12/20/2018)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives
January 1974

The 45th robbery of Albert Ekstrom's Bridgeport, Conn., grocery was too much for him. Ekstrom, 72, grabbed his pistol and chased the would-be holdup man out of his store. Soon afterward, police arrested a 17-year-old suspect. (The Connecticut Sunday herald, Bridgeport, Conn.)

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