Daily segments on NRA News that push the false claim that guns are more likely to be used in self-defense than to commit a crime recently celebrated the actions of a shooter who police want charged with a felony and the case of a man whose murder conviction for shooting his tenant under disputed circumstances was recently overturned.

"The Armed Citizen File" and "Hero of the Day" are daily features on NRA News' televised show on The Sportsman Channel and radio show on SiriusXM, respectively. In both segments, host Cam Edwards shares media accounts of defensive gun use, which often conclude with the demise of alleged criminals. Online gun retailer ChaperThanDirt.com sponsors "The Armed Citizen File" segment.

The purpose of the segments is to advance the notion that guns are often used for self-defense in the United States. Indeed, promotional material for one of the segments cites repeatedly discredited research to advance the claim that "[f]irearms are used more than two million times a year for personal protection":

The "more than two million" figure likely comes from the research of criminologist Gary Kleck, whose claim that up to 2.45 million defensive gun uses occur each year has been promoted on NRA News and throughout right-wing media.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/13/nra-news-promotes-dubious-acts-of-self-defense/197555