Conn.: Deadly shooting during robbery attempt: "Investigators are on the case of a deadly shooting in Bridgeport that happened during an attempted robbery at a restaurant. Police say two men tried to rob the Peking Restaurant on Wade Street around 9:00 p.m. But a worker there was armed with a gun shot one of the robbers. The two robbers took off but crashed their getaway car nearby on Wood Street. The driver was found dead inside. We're told the worker was licensed to carry the gun."


Detroit jury convicts man on weapons charges only: "Harvey Malone's house was burglarized and his SUV was firebombed. He lived in fear and worried the man who had terrorized him for years would return. One night in January 2008, the man he feared did return to slash the tires of Malone's new vehicle with a knife. The elderly man stepped out on his porch, followed the younger man, then lifted the gun and fired as the two men faced each other. "I didn't have a choice," Malone said. "He would have killed me." Jurors in the 2008 trial acquitted him of attempting to murder Edward Coleman, 42, but convicted him of two weapons charges. Malone is free on bond pending his appeal. Rendered a quadriplegic, Coleman died from his injuries six months after Malone's trial concluded."


Gun-haters whine: Ten states sell half of “imported crime guns”: "Nearly half of the guns that crossed state lines and were used in crimes in 2009 were sold in just 10 states, according to a report being released Monday by a mayors’ group. Those states accounted for nearly 21,000 guns connected to crimes in other states, said the survey by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an association of more than 500 mayors led by New York’s Michael Bloomberg and Boston’s Thomas Menino.” [So what?]


Home is where the gun is: "I had a phone call with a member of our armed intelligentsia. Turns out he’s more intelligent than armed, and maybe not so intelligent either. The TTAG reader has a pocket-carry Smith & Wesson revolver for home defense and … that’s it. He keeps the Smith in a bedroom safe. I told him flat out: if you’re attacked in your home, you’re dead. Not only are you bullet deficient, but you’ll never get to that safe in time. And if you do, you’ll never be able to open it. And if you do, you’ll have spent too much time with your back to the bad guy. It’s home carry or nothing. Literally.”