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LOSD MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT! LIVE 2 PM ET! Tennessee Governor Bill Lee appears poised to sign into a law a new defense of property statute just passed through the state legislature that would allow for the use of deadly force in defense of mere personal property. That would make Tennessee only the second state to allow […]

For decades there has been only one state in America that allowed for the use of deadly force in defense of mere personal property—the great state of Texas. In every other state you are limited to only non-deadly force in defense of property, period—and often not even that much. There’s been nothing to prevent other

Detroit-area resident Dayton Knapton, who shot at a group of fleeing burglars on July 8, 2025, killing 17-year-old burglar Sivan Wilson, has been bound over for trial on a charge of manslaughter for the killing, multiple counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and two counts of a firearm enhancement. Knapton claims

Exactly a week ago an apparently deranged Jason Thomas Nichols made threatening demands at the front door of a home in Fairfield, CA, and engaged in a conversation with the homeowner through the Ring doorbell, which video captured the exchange. The homeowner involved in that conversation was not home at the time, but a woman

Alan Ritchson plays a man who always knows exactly how much force is necessary. But in a real fight with a real neighbor, the rules are different — and the consequences are too. A self-defense attorney with 35 years in use-of-force law breaks down what Ritchson was legally allowed to do, what he wasn’t, and

A recent court filing in the prosecution of Tyler Robinson in the assassination of Charlie Kirk recently made some waves when it was reported that the ATF had reported that the bullet recovered from Kirk’s body could not be matched to the rifle that authorities believe was used by Robinson to kill Kirk. The real

LOSD MEMBERS ONLY! Join me as we explore whether you can legally use deadly force against a simple assault in Missouri. The Court of Appeals thinks so in Missouri v. Danielle Lechocki, and the Missouri Supreme Court just declined to hear that appeal. A Marine veteran pulled a knife during a confrontation at a veterans

Join me as I share some great use-of-force legal insight from my buddy Von Kliem, from Force Science. I often note that use-of-force law doesn’t require perfect decision-making, it only requires reasonable decision-making–and that’s true, both for civilian and police use-of-force. Aggressive prosecutors, however, are increasingly demanding what’s not required–perfection. Using perfect 20:20 hindsight in what

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals (the highest court for local D.C. matters, distinct from the federal U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit) issued its decision in Benson v. United States (and the District of Columbia as intervenor-appellee) on March 5, 2026. The charges stemmed from Benson possessing a 9mm handgun equipped

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the question of whether the federal statute stripping Second Amendment gun rights from habitual users of marijuana was constitutional. In an exchange with the government lawyers arguing in support of the law, Gorsuch pointedly noted that our Founders drank a great deal by modern-day standards, and asked