KY: Shot man threatened group, had weapon: "Alice and David Morris said Charles Pearl stopped his vehicle and approached their picnic table, swinging a tire iron in his hand. "He said, 'Which one of you hos wants your head knocked off first?' So everybody jumped up and I said, 'Hey buddy, come on, I don't know what your problem is but we don't need this around here,'" shooter David Morris said. Morris said he told Pearl to leave, but Pearl yelled profanities at him. When Morris came back, Pearl was still there, and Morris said Pearl approached him. "I came down with a clip in this hand and gun in the back. I laid it down, like that. He said, 'That doesn't scare me. I said, 'No, this will.' And bam. That's all I done," Morris said. Police interviewed more witnesses Monday, but no arrests have been made."


NY: Intruder shot by 80-year-old man during apparent break-in: "Stephen Boyechko had been napping with his wife, Pauline, when he was awakened by the sound of someone breaking into his home through a bathroom window, police said. Stephen Boyechko picked up his handgun, which Albright said he legally owns, and confronted the intruder. The suspect, who has not been identified by authorities, moved toward Boyechko and was shot twice, once each in the abdomen and the groin, Albright said. When they arrived, police found the intruder wounded in a hallway by the bathroom …”


IL: Off-duty cop shoots man who broke into his home: "An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who broke into his South Side home Friday morning, police said. The intruder, who police said was armed, had not been identified as of late Friday. The officer thought he heard someone breaking into his home in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood and called 911 around 8:45 a.m., then he was confronted by an intruder ‘with something in his hand,’ said Wentworth Area Deputy Chief of Patrol Eddie Welch. The officer, who police did not identify, fired his service weapon several times, killing the intruder …”


San Francisco eyes ammunition registry; gun group vows lawsuit: "Today’s revelation that the City of San Francisco might consider an ammunition registry scheme brought a promise from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms that a lawsuit would quickly follow. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said in a report in the San Francisco Examiner that Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is working with the City Attorney’s Office to ‘craft legislation’ regarding an ammunition registry shows the city has learned nothing from its defeat in court over a 2005 gun ban proposition.”