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Join me for a reading of the Federal court decision finding that California’s ammunition background check law, passed as Proposition 63 by popular vote, is an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment! Another GREAT Second Amendment analysis under Bruen by the great and powerful Federal District Judge Roger T. Benitez! Disclaimer – Content is for […]

Certainly it can be lawful to shoot someone attacking your or another person. In Texas it can even be lawful to shoot someone engaged in stealing. But is it EVER lawful to shoot someone who is running AWAY, and not presenting as a threat to anybody? Today’s show looks at video from a Texas gas

US Federal trial judge Kathryn Mizelle, presiding in Florida, has just ordered that defendant Emmanuel Ayala cannot be tried for the crime of unlawfully possessing a firearm in a post office because the law against such possession is itself is an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment. The judge’s order is very long–53 pages!–and I’ve

An argument between two men in a bodega goes ballistic when one of them pulls a handgun. Unfortunately for him, this turns out to be a poor decision, as the other fellow simply takes the handgun from him. Worse, the other fellow then proceeds to shoot the aggressor to the ground, firing at least five

A couple are awoken at o-dark-thirty by the sound of loud banging on their front door. As the man retrieves a firearm the woman calls 911 to report an apparent home invasion. Then the glass in the the door shatters and the male homeowner fires a single shot through the front door. When police arrive

Shocking absolutely no one, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) has issued a press statement defending Alec Baldwin’s apparent manslaughter of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the movie set of low-budget western “Rust,” after the actor was again indicted for manslaughter last Friday. (See our show on that news here: https://youtu.be/MILXfooJESE) This statement defending #AlecBaldwin came as

The Republican-controlled legislature is advancing House Bill 5 (HB5), also known as the “Safer Kentucky Act,” and it includes a ton of tough-on-crime provisions that other states that value the safety of their residents out to consider modeling. (Kentucky’s governor is a Democrat, but the Republican legislator is a super-majority with veto-override capability.) Included in

You’re riding your motorcycle down a backwoods road, when you’re waved down by a pedestrian. You stop, and he compliments you on your bike. In fact, he likes your bike so much, he produces a knife and demands you turn it over to him. What are you LEGALLY allowed to do to defend both yourself

A brief decision handed down last Friday by the New Hampshire Supreme Court touches upon a number of interesting use-of-force legal doctrines, including the legal duty to retreat (or not), “soft” stand-your-ground, defensive display of a firearm, and more. Sadly, the court’s reasoning in this decision is much muddier than it would have been had

As two men happen to be walking towards each other, one pretends to launch a punch, but holds back the blow–it’s just a “sucker-punch prank.” The other fellow responds by beating the prankster to the ground, leaving him unconscious. We have the video, and we’ll share it with you in today’s show! Was the counter-attack