[Badger52]

Often we don't hear about the defensive gun uses because they get buried in the court system and don't meet the MSM's dicta of "if it bleeds it leads." Here's one the Journal-Sentinel followed up on:

A college student whose string of armed store robberies ended when he was shot by a customer who had just gotten a Wisconsin concealed carry permit was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.

The Jan. 30, 2012, shooting inside an Aldi grocery was the first such bystander crime intervention since Wisconsin became the 48th state to allow concealed carry just two months earlier.

The customer - Nazir Al-Mujaahid - was not charged with any crime and emerged as a high-profile gun rights advocate, even as he tangled with authorities up to and through Thursday's sentencing for the return of his 9mm handgun. The gun had been seized as possible evidence in the case.
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[Judge] Moroney first expressed the idea Al-Mujaahid's gun should be kept in police custody in case Cotton appealed.

But Monroe argued Al-Mujaahid's gun has nothing to do with Cotton's crime and even if it did, his client would be more than happy to produce it for prosecutors if and when needed. Meanwhile, Monroe said, Al-Mujaahid remains deprived of his property and concerned for his own safety.

Persuaded, Moroney agreed he would sign an order requiring police to return the gun to Al-Mujaahid in its holster and without requiring a separate case.

Monroe then left to take depositions in a federal civil rights lawsuit Al-Mujaahid and Wisconsin Carry Inc. filed months ago over the slow return of his gun, and the general practice in Milwaukee County of making lawful gun owners "engage in formal litigation to recover their seized property."

LINK to full story here.