Carl Rowan, I believe.
It was indeed Carl Rowan, and his pistol wasn’t registered so it was illegal.
“Perhaps the most hypocritical advocate of tough gun laws was Carl Rowan, an influential newspaper columnist, now deceased. However, in 1998 Rowan was confronted with a teenager who was on his property illegally. Rowan used a gun and wounded the teenager. Rowan was charged with firing a gun he did not legally own. At his trial he claimed he had the right to use whatever means he had to protect himself and his family. Isn’t that the argument defenders of the Second Amendment use? It doesn’t impress the elite who think they will never have to do so themselves, but rely on hired bodyguards.”