CCW Stories

An armed Applebee's customer in New York helped stop a man who allegedly attacked the staff with a steak knife, police say. New Hartford police officers responded to the restaurant around 6:42 p.m. Saturday for multiple reports of a fight involving a knife and a handgun. Read more...

Things were a tad more exciting than usual at Bingo Paradise in Pensacola, Florida, on Wednesday night when a couple of good guys with concealed guns used them to detain a man accused of shooting at two females outside the bingo hall. Read more...

The recently radicalized Maine teen arrested in an unprovoked New Year’s Eve machete attack on police came to Times Square with murder on his mind, prosecutors charged Wednesday. Suspect Trevor Bickford was held without bail Wednesday at a Bellevue Hospital arraignment where authorities detailed his chilling confession to the savage one-man assault targeting three NYPD officers less than two hours before the arrival of 2023. [...]

A good Samaritan with a gun saved a woman from an alleged attempted abduction at the Shops of Saddle Creek parking lot Friday at 8 p.m. The Daily Mail reports that surveillance video shows two suspects allegedly grab the woman as she attempted to get in her SUV. The woman struggled to get free and, [...]

In Gainesville, Ga., the morning of Oct. 17, 2022, officers received a call that a man armed with knives was damaging cars and threatening people in a neighborhood. Medical personnel were at the scene tending to one person’s injuries when the assailant reportedly began attacking them. An armed citizen witnessed this attack and shot the [...]

With the start of the new year, Alabama officially allows people to carry concealed guns without a license, meaning some form of “constitutional carry” has now been enacted in half of all states. Alabama now allows people to carry a loaded, concealed handgun – or transport one in a vehicle – without a permit and [...]

Alabama’s constitutional carry law took effect January 1, 2023, meaning law-abiding Americans in 25 states can now carry a gun for self-defense without paying the government a fee or getting government permission. On December 14, 2022, Breitbart News noted some 25 states had passed constitutional carry legislation and Alabama’s would take effect at the start of [...]

A woman in Philadelphia with a concealed carry permit shot and wounded an alleged attacker about 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day. CBS News reports the woman shot the man “on Tackawanna Street near Torresdale Avenue,” as he was allegedly attacking her. Read more...

Don’t Be a Sitting Duck is in the business of teaching Floridians how to safely carry a concealed handgun. The Kissimmee firearms academy offers a four-hour training session required by state law to carry a loaded gun in public. For owner and firearms instructor Bryan Villella, that just makes sense. Read more...