Podcasts

My post yesterday about the Federal lawsuit brought by one Kayla Giles against USCCA resulted in a fair-sized tsunami of feedback, both positive and negative.  In that lawsuit Giles claims that USCCA is failing to meet their “self-defense insurance” obligations towards her as a Platinum member. By the way, if you missed that LIVE post […]

NOTE: IMPORTANT UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST: A few caveats before I get to the meat of this topic. First, we’re currently only hearing one side of this story, and that’s the side of the party suing USCCA (actually, they’re suing parent company Delta Defense, but given the nature of the relationship between

I was recently interviewed by a new and rapidly growing pro-2A podcast, “Meet the Pressers,” hosted by Klint Marco and Matthew Mallory.  The format is focused on interviews with leading figures in the Second Amendment and firearms training communities, most of which are names that will be immediately recognizable to all of you, including such

There have been a number of use-of-force cases in the news lately involving people who used deadly force in defense of mere personal property.  These news stories include the case of a Nebraska woman who last month shot a shoplifter, a Minnesota man who earlier this year shot a car thief, and a Memphis man

Today’s post is primarily a replay of our most recent episode of “Calling the Shots,” our weekly show in which we do real-time legal analysis of use-of-force events caught on video. In this week’s episode we analyze: An execution-style shooting in a pharmacy robbery The thwarted robbery of a liquor store A defender who empties

I know you’ll all be shocked to learn this, but it seems that the racial grievance industrial complex is once against lying to our faces about the police shooting of a violent, gun-armed black suspect. On August 3, 2019, two white Colorado Springs police officers shot and killed a black suspect, De’Von Bailey. The shooting

Today’s post is a replay of my guest appearance this past weekend on Armed America Radio, hosted by Mark Walters. It seems likely that this will be the first of many appearances on Armed America Radio, something to which I’m really looking forward. Before we get to the recording of my appearance this past weekend

Michael Drejka, the Florida man who shot and killed Markeis McGlockton after being physically attacked by McGlockton in a dispute over a handicap parking spot, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison, following his conviction in August of manslaughter. This case always seemed to me to be sufficiently ambiguous that an acquittal was very

Today’s post is a replay of yesterday’s airing of our weekly self-defense law analysis program, “Calling the Shots,” hosted by our partner Alien Gear Holsters. In this week’s episode of “Calling the Shots” we analyzed the legal dynamics of use-of-force events captured on the four following videos: NYC Subway OC/Knife Fight LA Realtor Attach Knife

Today’s post is prompted by a news story out of the Nashville area in which an off-duty member of Nashville EMT, who also happens to be an ex-NFL player, decided to go to his gun in response to some malcontents doing ring-and-runs at his home, and other residences in the neighborhood. If you’re guessing that