OH: Man shoots back at drive-by shooters: "The man, in his early 20s, was taken to an area hospital for his injuries. His condition was unknown as of press time. Witnesses told police a white Chevy Astro van-type vehicle drove east on Hillcrest and started exchanging fire with the man who was at a bus stop, said Lt. Brian Johns of the Dayton Police Department. “We had a big gun battle in a pretty nice neighborhood,” Johns said. After being shot, the man ran about 50 yards down Elsmere before collapsing, leaving a blood trail behind him. The van, which had its side door open was last seen heading north on Elsmere."


CA: Gunman beaten to death: "Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said a disagreement over a wager started about 1 a.m. between two groups of people attending a cockfight at a house on the 6200 block of Washington Avenue. One man fatally shot Orosco. The shooter was chased down by Orosco's older brother, 24-year-old Rafael Orosco, and another man, 32-year-old Juan Carlos Aguilera, both from the Modesto/Turlock area. Aguilera and Orosco wrestled the shooter's gun away and beat him to death in the street outside of the home. Aguilera was flown to a Modesto hospital with a gunshot wound, Pazin said. Another person was treated at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock."


MD: Gun rights advocates challenge Maryland’s restrictions: "The gun rights advocates who successfully challenged the District’s gun laws have moved their campaign to Maryland, filing a federal lawsuit claiming that the state’s weapons restrictions violate the Second Amendment. The seven-page suit … challenges Maryland’s restrictions on handgun carry permits. Under state law, applicants must show, among other things, that they are not addicted to drugs or alcohol, don’t have a history of violence and have a ‘good and substantial reason’ to carry a gun. Plaintiff Raymond Woollard, a Navy veteran who once fought with an intruder in his … home, was denied a permit because the state found that he could not show he had been subject to ‘threats occurring beyond his residence …’”


The NYC "subway vigilante" story retold: "First up at 10 p.m. is the story of Bernard "Bernie" Goetz, who gunned down four men threatening him on the Seventh Avenue 2 express subway train in 1984, at the low point of NYC's modern crime-and-grime era. Goetz says that after shooting the four men, which he describes in detail, he went back to his apartment, where he listened to news coverage on the radio. He was surprised it was being played as big news. "It's a big deal, Bernie..." says Shatner. "You shot four people." "Well... if you think you shot innocent people, it's a big deal. If you think you shot some bad guys, it's 'who cares?'" Goetz says."