Armed Citizen

Around 8:15 p.m. convicted criminal, Demitrius Newbill, entered the Pasteleria Panaderia bakery in Waukegan, Ill. Newbill’s hand was tucked under his shirt as he asked for a paper and pencil which he used to write, “I have a gun. Give me all the money.” The owner gave Newbill the money in the cash register, as well as all of the employees’ phones after Newbill made a second demand. As Newbill backed out of the store he made a move that looked like he was going for his gun. The store owner retrieved a .38-caliber revolver from behind the counter and fired at Newbill, striking him. Police apprehended Newbill at the scene and after an interrogation the criminal confessed to the robbery as well as to claiming he was armed. Newbill has a previous conviction for robbery from 2003. The owner of the bakery holds a current Illinois firearm owner’s identification card. (The Daily Herald, Chicago, Ill. 07/08/09)

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During the decades the American Rifleman has published “The Armed Citizen” column, thousands of incidents of law-abiding Americans using firearms to halt or prevent crime have appeared in the magazine. Editorial space allowing, the total could have been far greater of course, as award-winning survey research shows that each year in the U.S. gun owners use firearms for protection as frequently as 2.5 million times.

This archive contains “Armed Citizen” entries from the present back to 1958. The database is searchable by key word and state and results are displayed in chronological order according to the month of publication in the American Rifleman.