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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.

This weeks’ Law of Self Defense Show focuses on the newest outrage propagandized into being by the racial grievance industrial complex, this time over the acquittal this past Friday of East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld for the shooting death of Antwon Rose. Naturally, Officer Rosfeld is white and Rose is black, or this shooting

This Post of the Day sadly covers what appears to be the mistaken killing earlier this month of a Texas police officer by a homeowner, after the homeowner mistook the officer for a burglar. As is often true early on in such cases, the facts surrounding this shooting death are still unclear. How those facts

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee voted this week to advance HB 49, also known as the “Alabama Church Protection Act,” embedded below or attached to this Post of the Day. As usual, this bill that has nothing whatever to do with Stand Your Ground is being characterized as a “stand your ground” bill: “House Committee

In today’s Post of the Day I’m pleased to report that the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance the proposed civil self-defense immunity bill HB1284 to the full Senate. That vote was 7-3, with every “yes” vote that of a Republican and every “no” vote that of a Democrat. Naturally, opposing self-defense immunity