The Armed Citizen® Oct. 21, 2024

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posted on October 21, 2024
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An armed attacker is dead after breaking into an apartment in Medford, Oregon, belonging to an armed resident willing to defend another person inside the residence.

Police were called just after 6 p.m. on August 24 with a report of an individual attempting to break into an apartment. A few minutes later, a second call came to dispatchers reporting that gunshots had been fired. Police arrived to find a dead man at the apartment in question.

A subsequent investigation revealed that the attacker was armed with a knife, had forced his way into the apartment and had advanced on one of the apartment residents with the knife. Another resident inside the apartment was armed and opened fire to stop the attack. (KOBI-TV 5 News; Medford, Wash.; (8/27/24)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1982

John Hofmaster answered an early morning knock at his Westmoreland, N.Y., door, only to be shoved aside by a man who scuffled with him until he managed to get the keys to the family car. Hofmaster broke free, retrieved a .45-cal. semi-automatic and fired a single shot through the car's window as the thief tried to run him down. The bullet hit the man in the left arm, preventing his escape. (The Daily Press, Utica, N.Y.)

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