CCW Stories

A Chicago grocery store clerk and suspected robber are dead after an attempted robbery was interrupted by a concealed-carry holder on Friday night. Police said the armed suspect entered El Barakah Supermarket on 73rd St. on the South Shore at about 6:20 p.m., according to a report from Fox station WFLD in Chicago. Watch the [...]

SCHILLER PARK, Ill. - Schiller Park police said the man who shot and killed a 19-year-old during a Tuesday road rage incident will not be charged because he was acting in self-defense. The shooting took place around 5:50 p.m. near Irving Park Road and Scott Street.

CHICAGO — A Milwaukee man is facing charges in connection with an attack on a Chicago Transit Authority bus earlier this week that wounded the driver and left his cousin dead. Police said Jeremy Howard, 20, was visiting with his cousins when one of the cousins attacked a passenger and punched him in the head [...]

The concealed carriers wounded both of their attackers and ended the assaults. Two concealed carriers in Chicago — a man and a woman — opened fire on attackers in separate incidents on same day last weekend.

Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott just released new research.  Abstract Several articles have been published finding that carry concealed weapons (CCW) laws allowing citizens with a concealed carry permit to go about with a firearm concealed on their person, cause violent crime to increase. While most of the research finds that right-to-carry laws [...]

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The crime took place in the middle of the night in a Walmart parking lot. Armed individuals walked up to a 53-year-old woman sitting in her car overnight Tuesday in a Walmart parking lot in Auburn, Washington, and demanded her property, KCPQ-TV reported. Auburn is about a half hour south of Seattle.

All the alleged attackers were taken to hospitals in critical condition. A concealed-carry license holder shot three males who physically attacked him amid an argument outside his Chicago home Friday night, police told WLS-TV.

A concealed carry permit holder in Chicago drew his gun, opened fire, and scared off three alleged armed carjackers Saturday morning around 3:30 a.m. FOX 32 reported the incident occurred “in the 3700 block of N. Spaulding Avenue.”

CHICAGO — A man successfully thwarted a carjacking early Saturday morning in the city’s Irving Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department. The man, a 34-year-old Concealed Carry License (CCL) holder, was walking to his vehicle in the 3700 block of North Spaulding Avenue around 3:30 a.m. when a black sedan drove up and [...]