A senior citizen used his legal firearm to rescue his 74-year-old wife as she was being attacked during a violent home invasion.

Gaston Glock forged a legacy of empowering Americans to exercise their constitutional right to self-defense.

"If you try to rob a store, you should expect to be shot," Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers said.

"They ran because they saw my gun, and, you know, I was serious about it," he said of his encounter with would-be robbers.

Police are investigating the incident and encouraging residents who have any footage of the incident to contact law enforcement.

Suddenly, everyone of all political stripes is realizing the importance of gun ownership — and that means everyone.

"Every year 400,000 life-threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms." Guns aren't the problem, criminals are.

This story is yet another cautionary tale amid America’s crime epidemic that law-abiding citizens are more armed than they’ve ever been.

"We have to think about a whole new strategy," Newt Gingrich said after a gunman slaughtered 18 people in Lewiston, Maine.

The only thing dumber than trying to rob a gun store on a Sunday afternoon is using a hammer as your weapon of choice.