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Today’s After Action Analysis show covered two use-of-force videos. One video was of a woman shooting and killing one of two men engaged in a fist-fight in a Flint MI entertainment center.  Just a few days ago prosecutors announced that there would be no charges against the woman. We explore how her use of deadly […]

This week’s “Cases of the Week” includes seven appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases out of the following states:  Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Texas. You can likely learn a lot from those cases even if your state is not listed, because the general principles of self-defense law are about

It’s oh-dark-thirty (literally 3:30 a.m.) and you’re asleep in bed with your live-in partner.  Your partner hears an intruder in the house, and wakes you: “Someone’s in the house, get your gun.” The intruder hears this warning and flees from the house into the street.  You pursue the intruder into the street, and fire a

This week’s “Cases of the Week” includes eight appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases out of the following states:  Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas (x3). Access requires a minimum of Bronze-level membership, available FREE at lawofselfdefense.com/join.  NOTE: You may also be interested in taking advantage of our Silver-level membership price freeze,

Hey folks, In this episode of Calling the Shots, instead of doing our usual breakdown of use-of-force events captured on video, we took a dive into the 5 elements of self-defense law, as well as taking questions from the live audience. Enjoy! And remember: You carry a gun so you’re hard to kill. Know the

Attorney Andrew Branca here from Law of Self Defense, where we help you make you hard to convict. If someone threatens to kill you, is that alone sufficient to justify shooting that person to death? That’s the question raised by a shooting reported out of (you guessed it) Florida this past Saturday (and a hat

This week’s After Action Analysis show takes a look at two recent use-of-force events captured on video. The first video analyzed is of an armed robbery in which a bystander draws his own gun and shoots the robber repeatedly, without warning. The second video analyzed is of the church shooting that took place in Texas

A pair of Californians came up with an exciting plan for getting through an otherwise boring day:  they set an unlocked bicycle in their front yard as bait for property thieves, whom they would then beat with a baseball bat when the theft was attempted. Even better, they recorded their brave acts of “defense of

Hey folks, Welcome to this episode of “Calling the Shots,” the weekly use-of-force video legal analysis show featuring the expertise of yours truly, and hosted by Alien Gear Holsters, the video of which you can find here: https://lawofselfdefense.com/calling-the-shots-january-8-2020/ In this episode we “call the shots” on two use-of-force events caught on video:  first, a road

Adjusting an OEM trigger or replacing an OEM trigger with an aftermarket alternative are two of the most common modifications folks in the gun community make to their firearms, and particularly their handguns. But can doing this make you more vulnerable to a criminal conviction? The answer is yes, but perhaps not in the way