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Today’s post is a replay of yesterday’s live recording of our self-defense law analysis program, “Calling the Shots,” hosted by Alien Gear Holsters. We’re continuing our new approach of analyzing the legal dynamics of use-of-force events captured on video. If you’re listening to this on podcast, we also make an effort to verbalize what’s happening […]

A Georgia homeowner attacked by three armed masked robbers at o-dark-thirty managed to draw his own gun in response and shoot and kill all three of his attackers. Such a highly successful defensive use of a firearm by an armed citizen is, naturally, unacceptable to the Progressive media, so they contort themselves in an effort

In preparing for this weekend’s live Law of Self Defense LEVEL 1 Class in Florida, I came across a Florida court of appeal case that highlights once again the dangers of placing your fate in the hands of strangers, even judges, unless absolutely necessary. In this case, we have a panel of three Florida appellate

This past December a Colorado man shot and killed a person unlawfully in his home. Normally, Colorado’s “Make My Day” law acts as powerful legal protection for homeowners who use force in defense of their homes against intruders—indeed, it’s arguably the most favorable defense of home statute in the country. Last week, however, a judge

Today’s post involves the defensive shooting of an armed suspect by a North Carolina deputy almost exactly a year ago but is back in the news this week because the suspect’s family has decided his shooting was inappropriate. Why did the deputy shoot him? Well, when the deputy responded in his patrol car to a

Wyoming adopted a form of self-defense immunity in a change to its self-defense statute, 6-2-602 Use of force in self defense, that became effective on July 1, 2018. While that’s good news for law-abiding people who are compelled to defend themselves in the great state of Wyoming, the updated statute fell far short of fully

One of the most common misconceptions I see held in the gun community by the ill-informed is the belief that if they are ever facing a criminal charge for the use of force against another person, all they need to do to escape criminal liability is “articulate their narrative of self-defense.” Well, no, I’m afraid

Today’s post is prompted by a long-time member of the Law of Self Defense community, Anthony S. (many thanks!), and it involves a Federal Court of Appeals decision filed just this past July that involves consideration of the Tueller Drill (which the decision refers to as the “21-foot-rule”). What’s perhaps most interesting about this decision

A New York woman was convicted earlier this year of murdering her live-in boyfriend and father of their two children, by shooting him through the head as he slept on a couch. Now she’s looking at being sentenced for second-degree murder as well as a second conviction for felony gun possession. UPDATE (7/15/2021): “HUDSON VALLEY

Jury selection begins today in the murder trial of former police officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment. Guyger claims that she mistakenly believed she had entered her own apartment and stumbled upon a home intruder inside her residence. It’s uncontested that Jean was doing nothing to deserve