Back in the 1990s when I worked for NRA’s Publications Department, it was my job as a young editor to go through hundreds of envelopes we received each month in the mail and review the newspaper clippings inside about encounters where citizens used firearms to defend themselves, their homes, their families and other innocents. I would try to pick out the best ones with the most complete information and summarize the stories for the “Armed Citizen” column that appeared each month in American Riflemen, American Hunter and for a while what was called American Guardian (later to morph into America’s First Freedom) magazines.
Back in the 1990s when I worked for NRA’s Publications Department, it was my job as a young editor to go through hundreds of envelopes we received each month in the mail and review the newspaper clippings inside about encounters where citizens used firearms to defend themselves, their homes, their families and other innocents. I would try to pick out the best ones with the most complete information and summarize the stories for the “Armed Citizen” column that appeared each month in American Riflemen, American Hunter and for a while what was called American Guardian (later to morph into America’s First Freedom) magazines.
