TN: Memphis Homeowner Shows Burglar Who's Boss: "A Raleigh man defended his property Saturday morning, August 7, by shooting the guy who was trying to steal it. James Curlin says this is the third time his shed has been broken into. Just before 5 a.m. Curlin woke up to a familiar scene, "My neighbor called and said somebody's in your shed." "I jumped out of bed, grabbed my gun and I come out here. I hollered, 'come out of the shed, come out of the shed.'" But Curlin says instead of coming out, the intruder threw items from the shed at him, gas cans, bottles and even a hand saw. "He started slinging stuff at me, if he hit me he'd kill me. I didn't know if he had a gun, I didn't know," and Curlin says he didn't want to risk that he did. So he shot him twice in the leg. The intruder was found by Memphis police in a neighbor's yard, just minutes after the shooting."


TX: Armed assailant had his eye on Hummer, not on victim's gun: "Customers at the Academy Sports & Outdoors in the 2600 block of N.W. Loop 410 had to duck for about 10 minutes as two men began shooting at each other in the parking lot. The victim told police he was loading up his vehicle after shopping when a man with a gun surprised him from behind and demanded the man's Hummer. That's when he pulled out his own gun in order to protect himself. As it turned out, that shopper is also a licensed concealed handgun carrier. Two vehicles were hit during the exchange of bullets, and so was the shopper. He suffered a gunshot wound to the hip area, but he is expected to be OK. Meanwhile, witnesses say the suspect took off in a white small 4-door car. Investigators are reviewing surveillance video and have a description of the gunman".


CA: A pier is a park? "A group of gun owners who gathered Saturday on the Redondo Beach Pier to extol the virtues of the 2nd Amendment found themselves confronting a different hot-button legal issue: Redondo Beach Municipal Code 4-35.20 (a). Passed by the City Council in May, the ordinance prohibits guns in public parks. The city attorney says the pier is a park. Members of South Bay Open Carry, an organization that promotes a California law that allows people to openly carry unloaded weapons, say the pier is a commercial district. What's more, they contend that the city's ordinance oversteps state law by adding parks to the types of public venues where open carry isn't allowed, such as schools and public buildings. The two sides have been going back and forth on the issue in recent days."