2AM News

"A 3 on 1 fight is not very fair, but when those 3 are dumb as rocks and decide to lock someone in a closet, it evens the odds when that closet is the place where the dad keeps his guns. Houston police said that today 3 men forced their way into a man’s house and put his son in a closet while they ransacked the place. Little did the 3 criminals realize that this closet was the same place where the resident kept his guns. When he thought the men were gone the son grabbed a gun and went downstairs where he had an encounter with one of the intruders. The intruder was armed and the 2 exchanged gun shots. The son was not injured but he was able to land 2 shots in the suspect's leg and shoulder." (05/14/13)

"It was 5am when a woman with a gun defended her home against a man trying to break in. Betty Collins took action and confronted the man with her loaded .357.  'I said, 'Get on the ground.' and he got on his knees. I said, 'no, put your face in the dirt and you’re gonna stay there.',' recounted Collins. The past two mornings, she says, someone has stolen items from her car. But this morning was going to turn into a home invasion unless she did something about it." (05/16/13)

"'He came over and asked to speak to me again and he laid the napkin on the counter,' Milby says. 'The note said that he had a gun and that not to press the emergency button that he would start shooting people if I didn’t give him oxycontin, adderall and needles.' The pharmacist tells WHNT News 19 he pulled his own gun out, scaring Davis away." (05/13/13)

"Police said the grandson chose to stay with her that night and told police he retrieved a rifle for security. At 4 a.m. he stated had a loud knock at the back door, a brief pause, followed by a dramatic forced entry from an intruder though the side door of the home. The man told police he picked up his rifle and took a shot at the intruder but missed. The man said he looked out and saw a car in the driveway occupied by a female in the passenger seat. He stated that while attempting to get the license plate number, the driver, who was also the suspected intruder, attempted to hit him with the car, so he fired more shots. Police said the suspect, who was struck this time, managed to get away and drove to an area hospital." (05/13/13)

"Newly-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) proves that more guns in private hands do not lead to more murders, and a Pew Research study showing widespread ignorance of this fact suggests that the public has been misled, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. 'The BJS data covers 1993 to 2011 and suggests that for almost 20 years, the gun prohibition lobby has been consistently wrong about private gun ownership and its correlation to crime,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb." (05/11/13)

"Wichita Falls police responded to a burglary call on Anita Street on April 30. They were told the resident was holding the suspect at gunpoint in the backyard. The resident told officers he heard someone trying to get into the house and saw a man removing the glass from a storm door. He confronted the would-be intruder and held him until police arrived." (05/11/13)

"New Orleans police say at least 19 people either attending or taking part in a Mother's Day second-line parade in the 7th Ward were wounded in a shooting. ... ten men, seven women, a 10-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl. ... Police believe three suspects were involved. They were seen fleeing on Frenchmen toward Claiborne Avenue." (05/12/13)

"Second Amendment rights advocates are fuming today over words from three Democratic state senators caught on tape after Thursday's hearing on the upper chamber's gun control package. The three female senators, who sound from the recording to be Sen. Loretta Weinberg, Sen. Sandy Cunningham and Sen. Linda Greenstein are heard discussing the just-closed hearing. 'We needed a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate,' said an unknown voice." (05/10/13)

"Designs for a 3D-printed gun must be taken offline, the US government has demanded. The US State Department has written to the gun's designer, Defense Distributed, saying that publishing such designs, which enable anyone with a 3D printer to produce their own plastic gun, could breach arms-control regulations. The order, however, comes after the blueprints were downloaded more than 100,000 times, and cannot prevent their further redistribution by others who have already downloaded them." (05/10/13)

"National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000." (05/07/13)

"An armed intruder was sent to a South Bend hospital early Monday morning after breaking into a house and later getting shot by the homeowner. According to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department, just after midnight Monday, a gunman entered a home .... Police say the couple woke up to the sound of the door breaking, which prompted the male homeowner, Camrom Vawter, 34, to get a gun. Vawter told police he shot the gunman, disarming him, then called 911. The intruder was later identified as 41-year-old Michael Righter of Kewanna. Police say a woman inside the home reported she is currently going through a divorce with Righter." (05/06/13)

"An armed robbery on Watts Road was stopped by a resident carrying his own firearm, and police are still searching for two suspects. ... Two suspects forced their way inside, confronting the victim with a handgun while demanding money, police report. The victim then managed to arm himself with a firearm, which caused the suspects to flee, and no weapons were fired during this exchange." (05/04/13)

"Shell casings littered a Mobil gas station parking lot after an armed robbery and exchange of fire shut down the business in West Park Monday afternoon, authorities said. The incident happened when the two robbery suspects approached the clerk and demanded money. ... The clerk complied, but one of the suspects fired at him, and he returned fire, possibly hitting one of the men, detectives said. The clerk wasn't injured and the two suspects fled the scene." (04/29/13)

"The Texas House approved a batch of bills Saturday to further soften gun laws that were already among the country's most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class, putting potentially armed marshals in public schools and exempting the state from any future federal bans on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines or universal background checks." (05/04/13)

"The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department tells Action 7 News they were called to a home on Southfort around midnight Wednesday. There, they say, a man had broken into a home. The homeowner allegedly shot the intruder, taking him down. Emergency crews took the suspect-turned-victim to UNMH." (05/01/13)