The National Rifle Association, in its "Armed Citizen" column, which appears monthly in its American Rifleman and American Hunter magazines, publishes excerpts of self-defense accounts with a firearm from newspapers across the country:

• The Armed Citizen - the current month's column.
• The Armed Citizen Archive - searchable from 1958.

KeepandBearArms.com: Guns Save Lives Stories - online news accounts of defensive gun use.