American Rifleman "Armed Citizen"....

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Lavan

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Mebbe just me but it seems that every time I read the "Armed Citizen" feature, if the shooting was with a 9mm, they always say they found the suspect at a hospital or trying to get away in his car or something like that.

BUT

When they print, ".... pulled out his/her .38 revolver..." it always seems as if they find the suspect dead at the scene or in the yard or somewhere...but dead all the same.

Anyone else notice this?
 
I remember reading one where it was "Pulled out their AK-47 Rifle" Too bad I cant remember what issue that was from.

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Dead [Black Ops]
 
I read the "Armed Citizen" regularly and often am totally amazed some of the good guys survive their encounter what with the bad tactics they use, the free use of warning shots, and then some of the statements they make to the police afterwards.
 
The Armed Citizen has, in my opinion, gone down quite a bit from the period January 1991 to June 1994.

Coincidentally, that coincides with my period of employment there, when I wrote TAC. :D

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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
 
I remember one of the 'Armed Citizen' stories where some jewelry store robbers laughed and were unimpressed when the store owner tried to scare them off with his 9mm. They fled when he returned from a back room with an AR-15.
I didn't quite understand why they would be so dumb to challenge someone with one type of firearm, and think they were facing certain death with another. That is, if the story is correct.
 
Mike Irwin, not to veer too far off topic, but I'm constantly amazed at the number of people on this board who are well-known in the firearms community. Charlie Petty is around TFL somewhere, along with some other notable gun writers.

Come to think of it, don't you guys have jobs? :)

Dick
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Monkeyleg,

Unfortunately, I'm not NEARLY in the same league as Chuck. He's a good guy.

I spoke with him regularly when I worked at Rifleman, edited a couple of his articles, and took some photographs of the hutments at Camp Perry for an article that he wrote for another NRA publication.

I was really just starting to make a recognizable name for myself when NRA laid me off in 1994.

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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ModIMark0:

I didn't quite understand why they would be so dumb to challenge someone with one type of firearm, and think they were facing certain death with another. That is, if the story is correct.[/quote]

That's because assault weapons are SCARY.
 
**basks in the presence of notable gun writers** :D

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

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"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"
 
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