IN: Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage: "An accused robber is behind bars after a Central Indiana homeowner fights back. 22 year-old Jorge Barrera now faces burglary charges. According to police, Barrera entered the home on the southwest side of Indianapolis late last night armed with a screw driver. When Barrera began looking around the house with a flashlight the homeowner grabbed his gun and fired a shot, striking a glass door. When polce arrived, they found the homeowner holding Barrerra at gunpoint."


WV: Robbery thwarted: "Two men attempted to Rob Gifford’s gas station in Reader Sunday night, but all they got away with were some ventilation holes in their getaway vehicle. At approximately 11:20 p.m. a man went to the residence next door to the station and asked owner Tom Gifford if he could use his phone because his car had broken down. Gifford got the phone and when he turned around, the man was holding an knife and a second man wearing a ski mask was in his house holding a pistol. The unmasked man asked for money and drugs; Gifford complied. ‘They didn’t want his blood pressure medicine,’ commented Sheriff James Hoskins. The duo led Gifford back to the store where they wanted more money and items. ‘They wanted into the safe,’ said Gifford. What the perpetrators didn’t know was that the store owner had a loaded pistol ready on top of the safe. ‘When they saw the gun, I was going to shoot them, but the safety was on,’ said Gifford. ‘When I finally got it off they had run out of the building.’ The owner then exited the building and unloaded seven shots into their vehicle as they were speeding away …”


IL: Store clerk shoots, kills would-be robber: "A robbery attempt turned deadly early today when a store clerk shot one robber in the chest, police say. Illinois State Police Lt. James Morrisey said the shooting happened just after 3 a.m. Thursday at Quality Market, at 10th Street and Bond Avenue. … Four men entered the store after forcing their way in through a locked front door. … The clerk, a 21-year-old, had a pistol for his protection. ‘The robbers wrestled with the clerk over the gun, the gun discharged during the struggle and struck one of the bandits in the chest,’ Morrisey said.”


Second Amendment protects all Americans, Supreme Court told: "Gun rights advocates have sketched out arguments they hope will convince the U.S. Supreme Court that no state can be a Second Amendment-free zone. In a 73-page legal brief filed on Monday, the groups representing four Chicago residents asked the Supreme Court to overturn the city’s extremely restrictive firearms laws …. ‘It is unfathomable that the states are constitutionally limited in their regulation of medical decisions or intimate relations, because these matters touch upon personal autonomy, but are unrestrained in their ability to trample upon the enumerated right to arms designed to enable self-preservation,’ says the brief, written by attorneys … on behalf of the Second Amendment Foundation.”