On December 18, 2022 at about 6 p.m., a previous customer returned to Famous Sam's bar in Tucson, Arizona, and fired round into the ceiling. Another customer pulled his pistol and told the person with the rifle to drop the gun.
When the suspect started to point the rifle at him and another customer, he shot the rifle toting shooter.
The story was originally reported in KOLD as this:
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A man is battling for his life after a bar fight ended in a shooting near Grant and Silverbell in Tucson late Sunday, Dec. 18.
In an interview with KVOA, Mark Rhude, the bar owner gave a more detailed account of what happened. From kvoa.com:
TUCSON (KVOA) - A shooting at a bar on Tucson's west side Sunday was initially reported by multiple media outlets as a "bar fight", but Famous Sam's owner Mark Rhude said it was a much different situation that could have been more serious.
Speaking exclusively with News 4 Tucson, Rhude said it was an active shooter situation stopped short by a heroic customer with a gun.
Arizona was the second state to re-establish Constitutional Carry. Vermont always had Constitutional Carry, from the time the Bill of Rights was ratified. Alaska re-established Constitutional Carry in 2003. Arizona re-established Constitutional Carry in 2011. In Arizona law, there is a local wrinkle in Constitutional Carry. A person may carry in an establishment which serves alcohol, but the person who is carrying is not allowed to consume alcohol while they are carrying a concealed firearm. The firearm has to be concealed. From AZleg.gov:
A. A person may carry a concealed handgun on the premises of a licensee who is an on-sale retailer unless the licensee posts a sign that clearly prohibits the possession of weapons on the licensed premises.
As private property, establishments may ban the carry of firearms altogether, if the owner desires to do so.
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