I believe the answer is no

[Informed Decision]

I was thinking the other day that I can not recall a single movie that showed a legally armed citizen defending themselves, or others. It was always a good guy ( cops/ private eyes .. People you'd expect to have firearms) , the bad guys of course are carrying. I don't think a vigilante movie would count either. Then there's the poor farmer who grabs thier shotgun to defend property or family & they always die. It seems , that if people saw it in the movies they'd accept it more. It'd be kinda cool for an everyday guy save the star in trouble. INGO thoughts?

 

[oldpink]

The first scene in a movie I thought of was the one in Boogie Nights where Don Cheadle is in the donut shop and the customer there draws, but (sure enough) said customer gets killed, along with the clerk and the robber.
I believe I've seen at least one movie where a bystander prevailed with a gun, but I just can't recall which one, unless you want to count Ash (played by Bruce Campbell!) in The Evil Dead with his boomstick.

 

[danielson]

Great idea that will never happen when liberals make most of the movies. Im not saying its a conspiracy that started in hollywood as some means to get people to dislike guns, so they could take them away. Im just saying the majority of liberal democrats do not understand, and do not want to understand, the things that appear obvious to us, and the majority of things hollywood, are made by liberal democrats.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

TREMOR's Old Burt was a complete gun nut and his gun room is something to this day I aspire to have.

 

[foszoe]

Yeah, the ones I remember, the citizen is depicted as inept and usually dies. Several people do carry a gun as a talisman though as I once heard a wise man say and that is usually what they want to show. After all, it's the bungled self defense attempts that usually make the news it seems like.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

The first scene in a movie I thought of was the one in Boogie Nights where Don Cheadle is in the donut shop and the customer there draws, but (sure enough) said customer gets killed, along with the clerk and the robber.
I believe I've seen at least one movie where a bystander prevailed with a gun, but I just can't recall which one, unless you want to count Ash (played by Bruce Campbell!) in The Evil Dead with his boomstick.

It's a trick. Get an ax.

 

[Kutnupe14]

OP, you don't seem to watch many movies.

 

[kramer5702]

Punisher? Father and son defending their entire family against the mob until gunned down...but of course the Punisher Frank Castle lives!

 

[Woobie]

I don't know if Charles Bronson's character was licensed, or if you had to be at the time the movie was made, but he had a legally owned .32 revolver that he defended himself with in Death Wish. Of course, he fled the scene, and lied to law enforcement when they caught onto him, but he started out legit. In Death Wish 2 he just flat out hunts some folks down, so that one definitely doesn't qualify.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Used to happen all the time in westerns. Grew Up watching The Rifleman with Chuck Connors - defended himself and his son often with that modified Winchester '73.

 

[MCgrease08]

Sleeping with the Enemy.

Julia Roberts' character defends herself by shooting and killing her abusive ex-husband. Although it may have been his gun that she somehow got from him and not one she had for protection. It's been awhile since I've seen it.

 

[sparkyfender]

In "Fatal Attraction," Anne Archer's character shoots the deranged Glenn Close character.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Defending yourself or your group with a bow: Deliverance!

 

[88E30M50]

The only portrayal of legal firearm use I can remember seems to always be set in the home. Not counting westerns, I don't recall any movies that had a non-LEO carrier draw and successfully use a handgun outside of their own home. I think Danielson's right in that the folks that make movies just don't think that way.

There is one big exception though. In 'Gran Torino', Clint Eastwood draws a 1911 to protect his teenage neighbor from a couple of street thugs. No shots are fired, but it's probably more representative of the unrecorded successful uses of a handgun than what makes the news. BTW, Clint Eastwood is not a typical Hollywood director/actor.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I'm confident that almost any non-LE Clint Eastwood movie would apply.

 

[jbombelli]

Although it's debatable as to the good guy status, Taxi Driver. Travis Bickle shoots an armed robber in a mini mart.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Reservoir Dogs

Woman gets her car jacked, she pulls gun from glovebox and shoots Tim Roth in the stomach.

It's essentially the most important thing to happen in the movie.

 

[lazarus0213]

If I recall, Sleeping with the enemy with julia roberts. She has her abusive stalking ex husband at gun point after hes broken into her home. she dails 911, the dispatcher answers. She has not yet shot her ex husband. He looks tense and axious as she holds him at gun point. The best part is just before she shoots him she tells the 911 dispather she has shot an intruder.

 

[avboiler11]

Red Dawn???

John Wick (home invasion part, sorta)

The Brave One (okay, kinda vigilante)

A History of Violence

 

[Zombiekilloftheweek]

Pulp fiction, samuel l jackson and john travolta were eating at the restaurant when the couple decides to rob the place. Now they werent technically good guys. Lol