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THE ARMED CITIZEN  June 1997

 Five hoodlums strolled brazenly into a Miami, Florida, Burger King in
 the middle of the morning and ordered the cashiers to give them the
 money in the registers. While two of them held their guns on the
 employees and customers, two other suspects jumped across the
 counter. A brief scuffle ensued and the men ran from the restaurant.
 As one of the suspects exited the building, he turned to shoot. It
 proved to be his undoing. By that time, manager Ulysses Williams had
 unholstered his own gun. He fired first, striking the suspect dead.
 Police were still searching for the other four suspects. 
(The Herald, Miami, FL, 12/12/96)

A brief crime spree came to a quickend when a Houston, Texas, bandit
attempted to carjack a carry permit holder. A man was fueling his car
when a gun-toting robber approached him and demanded his wallet, keys,
and car. Unable to find the right car key,  the crook ran into the
intersection and pointed his gun in the window of Robert Eichelberg's
van. Eichelberg, a concealed-carry permit holder, fired a shot at the
suspect. He then stepped from the van in an attempt to run to safety,
but was confronted by the carjacker. The assailant fired several shots
at Eichelberg, but missed. Eichelberg returned the fire, and didn't.
The wounded thug was apprehended a block away. (The Chronicle,
Houston, TX, 2/18/97)

 The burglar evidently believed the first break-in of 57-year-old
 Floyd Williams' Lovington, New Mexico, home had been such an easy job
 that he returned just a week and a half later. During the first
 incident, the suspect beat Williams with a pipe, laying a threeinch
 gash across his head. But in the second burglary, Williams was ready,
 armed with a .25-cal. pistol. When the intruder broke through the
 front door, the homeowner fired, striking him in the leg. The wounded
 house-breaker ran to a car, and he and his accomplice fled the scene.
 Two months later, police discovered the body of the fatally wounded
 suspect in a ditch, where it was allegedly dumped by his accomplice
 after the man died from Williams' shot during their getaway.The
 accomplice was found and arrested. 
(The Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, TX, 1/31/97)

 Dubbing Marty Killinger, 61, and Dorothy Cunningham, 75, the "Pistol
 Packing Grandmas," Grant County, Washington, Sheriff Bill Wiester
 honored the two women for defending themselves against four young
 thugs who had forced their way into the women's rural home after
 cutting the phone lines to the house. As the punks struggled with
 Killinger in an attempt to get her car keys, Cunningham retrieved a
 Luger pistol from her bedroom and chased the intruders into the yard,
 where they turned and began shouting taunts. Cunningham then loosed
 several shots over the heads of the suspects, who finally decided it
 was best to leave. "This is a clear message to criminals that senior
 citizens won't tolerate this type of behavior from these young
 punks:' Wiester said. (The World, Wenatchee, WA, 2/16/97)

 Thugs, one of them armed with a pistol, ambushed 56-year-old Roberta
 Andrews and her daughter Leashea in a Gainesville, Florida, mall
 parking lot. The mother was trapped outside the car, but Leashea was
 able to jump into the driver's seat, where she fished around in the
 darkness and pulled out her .38 revolver--the sight of which sent the
 assailants packing. (The Sun, Gainesville, FL, 3/22/97)

 A 67-year-old Spartanburg, South Carolina, liquor store clerk was
 behind the counter when a robber strode in, pulled out a large
 butcher knife, and demanded cash. The woman told him "No:' pulled a
 .38 from beneath the counter, and ordered him to leave. Doubting her
 conviction to use the gun, the knife-wielding bandit threatened her.
 The woman replied with a single gunshot. A sudden believer, the man
 immediately ran from the store, empty-handed but unhurt. A search of
 the area by police turned up nothing. (The Herald-Journal,
 Spartanburg, sc, 2/5/97)

 Mulberry, Arkansas, citizens are discussing the possibility of
 holding a festival to commemorate a foiled heist at the town's bank.
 An ex-con just three weeks out of prison was chased down by
 Mulberry's mayor and the public works director after the crook robbed
 the bank of more than $50,000 in February. Using a .22 rifle handed
 to them by a citizen, the two chased the suspect to a railroad bridge
 where law enforcement officers arrested the culprit. 
(The Democrat Gazette, Little Rock, AR, 3/16/97)

  Deacon Bob McMillan grew suspicious of the man who had asked him to
  pray with him following services at a church in Apache Junction,
  Arizona. During a break in prayer, McMillan retrieved the .32-cal.
  pistol he kept in his car. Upon returning, his suspicions were
  confirmed as he found the stranger waving a handgun at his wife's
  head and at his two best friends and demanding the weekly offerings.
  McMillan pushed his wife out of the way and quickly shot the man,
  wounding him. He then called police. McMillan said later, "I felt I
  only had a split second to live(' (The Tribune, Mesa, AZ, 3/19197)

 Defense Secretary William Cohen's brother, Robert, opened the door to
 his Banger, Maine, home and found himself facing the same man he had
 filed a police report on for harassing him in a bar two weeks
 earlier.The man charged through the doorand slashed Robert Cohen,who
 fought back with a single shot from a.22 pistol. Cohen attempted to
 back up the stairs, but again his six-foot, seven-inch attacker came
 aftei him, cutting the homeowner on the face. Cohen fired a second
 shot that sent the intruder tumbling down the stairs. Police arrested
 the wounded man at the scene. Two accomplices were also later
 apprehended.
( The Daily News, Banger, ME, 3/1/97)

 An alert postman in rural Reno County, Kansas, rounded up a posse of
 sorts after witnessing a suspicious vehicle cruising up the driveway
 of a home where he knew the owners were away. The postal worker and
 four armed local residents returned to the home to find it being
 burglarized by two men. They ordered the pair to lie on the ground
 and alerted sheriff's deputies, who soon arrived on the scene. 
(The Eagle, Wichita, KS, 1/1/97)