Podcasts

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

An apparently Muslim gunman from the West African nation of Senegal apparently gunned down a number of Americans on the streets of Austin TX last night, using a long gun to massacre innocent Americans. Whether the US attack on Iran triggered some kind of dedicated sleeper agent or just another hyper-violent emotionally unstable radical Muslim

Knife-armed Attacker Breaches Barrier Door! Shoot? We’ll break down the video of a NYC police officer compelled to shoot a knife-armed attacker after the attacker breaches an interior door used by the officer as a barricade. Cops in Elevator Attacked by Knife Attacker–Female Cop DOES WHAT? A knife-armed maniac starts stabbing police, attacks two officers

MEMBERS-ONLY! LIVE at 5 PM ET, Saturday, February 14, 2026. Can a BB gun be deemed to be a deadly weapon? We’ll break down the video of an anti-ICE protestor firing at ICE supporters from her car with a BB gun that very much resembles a real pistol. What happens when police shoot the wrong

In today’s LIVE show, I talk with my buddy and world-class self-defense instructor Mickey Schuch, of Carry Trainer (https://carrytrainer.com/) about the recent ICE shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and also the Renee Good shooting as well. The value of this exchange will be in the somewhat differing perspectives that I and Mickey bring to

My buddy Bill Shipley, career Federal prosecutor and defense counsel for dozens of January 6 defendants, who hangs out on X using the handle @Shipwreckedcrew, recently published an analysis of the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti. AND WE GOT AN UNEXPECTED SPECIAL GUEST: NICK REKIETA of @RekietaLaw

The ICE shooting of Alex Pretti looks chaotic and ugly because, of course, it WAS chaotic and ugly. That said, it didn’t happen at random. All the game pieces for the outcome that is the shooting death of Alex Pretti were put into place before that first shot was fired—and it was Alex Pretty himself