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In today’s show Attorney Andrew Branca begins a reading of part 2 of 2 of the 2010 US Supreme Court decision of McDonald v. Chicago. McDonald is the seminal 2010 Supreme Court decision written by the Justice Samuel Alito extending the finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an individual […]

In today’s show Attorney Andrew Branca begins a reading of part 1 of 2 of the 2010 US Supreme Court decision of McDonald v. Chicago. McDonald is the seminal 2010 Supreme Court decision written by the Justice Samuel Alito extending the finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an individual

In today’s show Attorney Andrew Branca begins a reading of the 2008 US Supreme Court decision of DC v. Heller. Heller is the seminal Supreme Court decision written by the brilliant (now deceased) Justice Antonin Scalia, finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an INDIVIDUAL right, and not merely a

In today’s show Attorney Andrew Branca begins a reading of the 2008 US Supreme Court decision of DC v. Heller. Heller is the seminal Supreme Court decision written by the brilliant (now deceased) Justice Antonin Scalia, finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an INDIVIDUAL right, and not merely a

In today’s show Attorney Andrew Branca begins reads the part 2 of a 4-part reading of the 2008 US Supreme Court decision of DC v. Heller. Heller is the seminal Supreme Court decision written by the brilliant (now deceased) Justice Antonin Scalia, finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an

In today’s show Attorney Andrew Branca begins a reading of the 2008 US Supreme Court decision of DC v. Heller. Heller is the seminal Supreme Court decision written by the brilliant (now deceased) Justice Antonin Scalia, finding that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is an INDIVIDUAL right, and not merely a

MEMBERS ONLY! Is it possible to wait TOO LONG before defending yourself? It obviously is–and in today’s show we share some use-of-force videos that illustrate that point, and document it for your records as part of the specialized knowledge that may inform your own decisions in self-defense. Such documentation is critical to ensuring that this

Byrna is a company that manufactures various OC products for purposes of less-lethal self-defense (Byrna.com). Though I’m generally a fan of OC as a less-lethal self-defense options, I’ve for years had serious concerns about the product design choices made by Bryna–specifically, their production of less-lethal OC devices that closely resemble actual firearms. (Find all my

Today’s MEMBERS ONLY Law of Self Defense Show covers the legal and tactical analysis of a use-of-force event captured on video in which a suspect initiates a vigorous and sustained fight for an arresting officer’s service pistol. There are a bunch of lessons–both legal and tactical–to be learned from this event. NOTE: the suspect IS

Today’s Law of Self Defense Show brings us the great joy of debunking yet ANOTHER utterly trash “study” of defensive gun use out of Harvard–specifically, the Harvard School of Public Health. I’d like to thank gun-control advocate Rob McIntyre (probably a fake name, goes by @canucktunes on Twitter, with 104 followers) for bringing this trash