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How many bullets are TOO many bullets? That’s the legal question we ask in today’s show, using a couple of high-volume fire police shooting videos as context, and exploring the self-defense law element of IMMINENCE, with a particular focus on the AOJ Triad. . Join me LIVE at Noon ET, Thursday, January 11, to discuss. […]

A Mississippi 11-year-old calls 911 saying that his mother’s dangerous ex-boyfriend had arrived at their home unexpectedly and was acting aggressively. Cops show up at the house, guns out, and start clearing.  The mother exits first, and the a clearing cop starts calling for the boyfriend to come out unarmed. A human form rushes out

An Orange County CA liquor store found himself the victim of an armed robbery recently–but then realized that the robber’s gun was not real. The clerk then presented his own real gun from under the counter. The robber, realizing he’d brought a fake gun to a real gunfight, immediately fled. Is it lawful to pull

Houston TX-area homeowner Terry Willis was alerted to a swarm of car thieves amongst his driveway vehicles by his home security cameras around o-dark-thirty. His response? He stepped out of his home pointing an AR rifle he’d built himself, and told them “I don’t think you want to do that.” The car thieves fled in

Two men, one much larger than the other, get into a physical confrontation on a Philadelphia subway platform, with the larger man holding the smaller against a support column. Suddenly the smaller man–now identified as Chaz Wearing–throws a punch, then another, sending the larger man staggering off the platform and onto the tracks–seconds before subway

In today’s Law of Self Defense Q&A Show we’ll address a variety of self-defense law questions, including: Can I be a licensed bodyguard to my own wife, and then carry in restricted locations? Are the flurry of new gun control laws being passed constitutional? When can I point my gun at another person and not

One driver cuts the gas line at Costco, and finds himself being chastised by a second driver for the offense. The first driver decides to escalate the verbal confrontation to the physical be securing an expanding baton from his truck. The second driver responds to this by presenting a pistol. Who is in the right?

In an officer-involved shooting that is reminiscent of Texas Police Officer Aaron Dean’s 2019 prowler-investigating shooting of Atatiana Jefferson–for which Dean was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in jail (perhaps not coincidentally that shooting occurred on November 10)–another Texas police officer has shot and killed another homeowner while responding

Last week I was interviewed for about an hour by Jean-Francois (aka Jeff) Truchon, CEO & Founder, The Atomic Bear, a survivalist equipment business, as part of his research for a self-defense book he’s writing. I’m sharing my own copy of this interview with Law of Self Defense Members only, in this pre-recorded show content.

Three men got involved in a low-level confrontation outside an Illinois pizza place last Friday–and things escalated quickly, as captured on video. Ultimately, Michael Freund, who was watching the other two men wrestle each other on a porch. One of those two men was purportedly a friend of Freund’s, and the other was Dexter Perkins.