News articles about AR-15's being used for self-defense

[jwinch2]

With all of the bad press that gets thrown around regarding the AR platform, and another murder today where reports indicate that one was used, it might be a good idea to have a central location of reports on AR's being used defensively. That way, when people spout off about things, there can be a response with some evidence to back things up.

Thoughts?

[Mauser KAR98K]

Allegedly a man in Rochester, NY uses his AR-15 to chase away two armed burglars.

http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/rochester-ny-resident-uses-ar-15-to-scare-off-would-be-burglars/

[Mauser KAR98K]

Son uses Dad's AR 15 to protect his home.

http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/video/son-uses-dads-ar-15-to-defend-home/

[Mauser KAR98K]

This one should show why we need high capacity magazines. Home invader has an AR-15 plus 3 buddies, all chased away by armed home owner.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e55_1234305715

More ammo lets us stay in the fight longer, considering criminals don't care about laws and usually use stolen weapons that have high capacity magazines.

[jwinch2]

Thanks. I had seen the one from a few years ago with the kids, but the Rochester one was new for me.

Stuff like this gives us the means to show that the AR, like any gun is a tool which can be used for good as well as evil.

Thanks again, and keep them coming if you hear of anything else.

[HES]

Here is a new one


NO SHOTS FIRED: HOME INTRUDERS DECIDE NOT TO STICK AROUND AFTER SEEING THEIR ‘VICTIM’ HOLDING AN AR-15 (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/24/no-shots-fired-home-intruders-decide-not-to-stick-around-after-seeing-their-victim-holding-an-ar-15/)

Two home intruders, one holding a handgun, broke into a New York apartment on Tuesday and waited at the bottom of the stairs for a potential “victim” to come down. While their intentions are unknown, it is clear they were criminals up to no good.

After hearing some noise coming from the basement, Christopher Boise, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, went to check it out.

“They were waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs,” Boise told WHAM-TV. When they saw him, the man with the gun pointed the barrel towards him.

Relying on pure instinct, Boise let out a blood-curdling scream in order to alert his roommate, Raymond, who is also a RIT student.

“It wasn’t like a, ‘I stepped by stepped on a piece of glass’ kind of scream,” Raymond said. “So, I instinctively went to my gun bag.”

In that bag was a AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, one of the very guns at the center of the current gun control debate.

About five seconds after he retrieved his gun, one of the intruders began opening the door to the room where he was waiting. But he was ready.

“By the time I had it out and ready, one of the men came at my door, slowly opened it, saw that there was a barrel on the other side and from there backed out,” Raymond recalled.

After seeing the barrel of an AR-15 staring them in the face, the two men fled from the apartment. No shots were fired and no one was injured. In fact, the rifle wasn’t even loaded at the time of the incident, Raymond said.

It’s not the kind of story that always makes national headlines as bullets never went flying, but it certainly shows why so many Americans are adamant about protecting the Second Amendment as it is written in the U.S. Constitution. It also shows that, in some cases, a gun doesn’t even have to be used in order for it to protect its owner and others.

In NY of all places too