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Hey folks, Thanks for joining us for the re-broadcast of today’s episode of “Calling the Shots,” kindly hosted live earlier today by Alien Gear Holsters, and their guy Nate. In this episode we handled self-defense law questions in a “dueling questions” format, allowing the audience to choose which of a pair of questions they wanted […]

This week’s Case of the Week is an unanimous decision out of the Ohio Court of Appeals, State v. Krug, released just this past Monday, March 18. It deals with a defendant, Krug, who was convicted of several stabbings in 2007 and sentenced to 37 years in prison after his claim of self-defense was found

Today’s Post of the Day observes that Utah is once again making an effort to progress from being a mere “soft” Stand-Your-Ground state to a “hard” Stand-Your-Ground state. Recent progress on this effort is marked by the Utah state senate voting by a wide margin of 18 to 8 to advance the “hard” SYG bill,

A week ago today the Little Rock Police Department released a statement regarding a February 22 use-of-force incident in which one of its officers fired 15 rounds through the windshield of a stolen car, killing the alleged thief. What’s notable about this event is how thoroughly the department aggregated various video footage of the shooting

This Case of the Week is on an interesting defense of dwelling situation out of Louisiana that illustrates both that the legal risks for use of force are never zero, no matter how favorable the law appears to be to the defender, and also why a defender with the law on their side might nevertheless

The Florida supreme court heard arguments this week on whether the newest flavor of Florida’s self-defense immunity law, which was last substantively revised in 2017, ought to apply retroactively to cases that were charged prior to that change. Naturally, and despite the fact that the linked news article was published on a site called “LAW.COM,”

This week’s Law of Self Defense Show answered such questions as: “What percent of self-defense hearing are successfully attacked by prosecutors” “Which of the five elements of self-defense are most successfully attacked? Which one do self-defenders most often screw up? Which pillar is the hardest to get right? Why?” “Why are jurors not allowed to

Former Florida cop Nouman Raja was convicted by jury yesterday of manslaughter by culpable negligence and attempted first-degree murder with a firearm for the 2015 shooting death of Corey Jones, reports NBC News and other sources. Attorney Benjamin Crump, a prominent leader in the racial grievance industrial complex, is involved in this matter as a

The Associated Press and other news sources are reporting that the “Stand-Your-Ground” (SYG) bill that had been under consideration by the Arkansas legislature has died in a state senate committee on a 4-3 vote. Arkansas thus remains one of the minority of 13 states that imposes a legal duty to retreat before one may act