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American citizens have secured two more YUGE Second Amendment wins at the hands of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. The first of these wins involves the news breaking yesterday afternoon that the Trump Department of Justice has dropped all efforts in its litigation against arm braces for firearms. The Biden administration had sought to […]

MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT! On Wednesday, July 9, murder defendant Raul Valle walked out of a Connecticut criminal court after having been acquitted on charges of murder and intentional manslaughter and intentional assault for having stabbed four persons, one fatally, at a 2002 party turned violent. Valle had argued at trial that his conduct was justified as

MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT! On Wednesday, July 9, murder defendant Raul Valle walked out of a Connecticut criminal court after having been acquitted on charges of murder and intentional manslaughter and intentional assault for having stabbed four persons, one fatally, at a 2002 party turned violent. Valle had argued at trial that his conduct was justified as

MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT! On Friday, June 27th, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed the murder conviction of Kayla Giles Coutee, by a vote of 4 to 3. Giles had been convicted at trial of the murder of her estranged husband during a child-custody swap in a Walmart parking lot on September 8, 2018.  Giles’ conviction was affirmed

On April 2, a verbal at a Texas high school athletic meet turned deadly when 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart under a crowded tent. Now, Anthony faces a first-degree murder indictment and up to 99 years in prison as Texas tries him as an adult. His defense? He claims it

Imagine you’re in your car and find yourself trapped by hundreds of lawless rioters. Or you’re going about your business and find yourself attacked by a mob of riotous people. What if you drive through the rioters to safety? Or pull your lawful pistol in self-defense? And what if you do any of that and

Just a quick blog post/podcast to explain how we’re taking further steps to distinguish between our traditional “Law of Self Defense” content (use-of-force law focused) and our new “Attorney Andrew Branca Show” political and legal analysis content. The bottom line is everybody is getting more of everything, but how we deliver it is changing a

President Trump continues to abide by his commitment to America to defend the Second Amendment from Progressive infringement. This time we have Trump’s Department of Justice arguing against the Illinois ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines”—actually the most popular rifle platform in America and the standard-capacity magazine for which firearms are designed and

A judge in Manatee FL recently dismissed murder charges against a defendant, applying Florida’s self-defense immunity statute. I found the facts of this case to be an interesting exercise in “decision-tree” legal analysis of the issues involved, and therefore though it would be a useful exercise for the Law of Self Defense community.

Some of the main questions addressed in today’s show (amongst various others): Explain the difference between equal and proportionate force? Has the transcripts to your posts been stopped? Tracking spreadsheet for lawfare cases? Hey Andrew! Explain a bit how it’s reasonable to argue that a taser or other non-deadly use might be used as deadly