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It may seem counter-intuitive that a person engaged in criminal conduct could kill someone and then be permitted to attempt to justify the killing as lawful self-defense. After all, just yesterday I wrote in the Post of the Day that an armed robber who suddenly finds himself facing his victim’s gun, and who shoots the […]

The right of self-defense is as old as civilization itself. Self-defense was written about by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and indeed self-defense is arguably older than humanity itself as a form of Natural Law—after all, all wild creatures attempt to defend themselves from attack. That said, it’s also a right that is not absolute,

Judge Benitez yesterday issued an order partially suspending his April 29 summary judgment order finding California’s newest ban on normal capacity magazines (§32310) unconstitutional. That April 29 summary judgment had the effect of suddenly making normal capacity magazines legal in California, and today’s stay modifies that status. (Yesterday’s order is embedded/attached below.) That newest normal

This episode of “Calling the Shots,” as always kindly hosted by Alien Gear Holsters, aired live on April 3, 2019, and is posted up here as a recorded re-broadcast the following day. Questions covered in this hour-long episode of self-defense law insight and expertise include: Explaining the element of reasonableness Using deadly force to stop

A couple of days ago we provided a “Cliff Notes” explanation of the recent Federal district court order finding California’s latest “large capacity magazine” (meaning, of course, “normal capacity magazine”) ban unconstitutional: Duncan v. Becerra: aka CA large-capacity magazine decision. (That post also included a copy of the 86-page summary judgment order issued in that

Here’s a pro-tip for all of you who will be seeing headlines in coming days from “news” articles writing about a recent “scientific” study on gun violence: Any time you see such a study purport to examine “gun violence” but actually examine “homicide” and “suicide,” you can be pretty sure it’s a hack job. I’ve

So, we had a pleasantly pro-Second Amendment decision this past Friday out of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, by US District Judge Roger Benitez. I caution that I don’t claim any great expertise in “gun law,” as our focus at Law of Self Defense is “use-of-force law,” which is

In some very good self-defense law news I learned today that Utah Governor Gary Herbert has signed into law HB 114, a key effect of which is to change Utah from a “soft” stand-your-ground state to one of the small minority of “hard” stand-your-ground states. I wrote about this distinct just a couple of weeks

I’m pleased to report that tomorrow Ohio finally joins the other 49 states in placing the burden of persuasion on the legal defense of self-defense upon the prosecution to disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. If none of that first paragraph makes sense to you, you need to join us for tomorrow’s Law of Self

This week’s Case of the Week is a bit of a cautionary tale about a case that involves an insulting verbal exchange at a party in Greenville SC that resulted in a single punch thrown by one man at another, knocking the victim down. The victim then left the party, dropped at home by friends.