Day: July 13, 2017

Anyone who carries concealed for more than a few days finds something that annoys them about toting a gun around all the time. Whether it’s the occasional nostalgia about wild weekends with friends or the way that a particular holster sometimes scratches your side or the uneven pull in a particular pair of jeans. There

So reads a headline at the Blaze, though a more precise formulation would have been “Man who shot neighbor to prevent him from drowning children will not face charges.” Be warned: Shooting someone for his crime, in the sense of in retaliation for the crime, is itself criminal (though it will often lead to a lesser sentence than

Comment and links from a very knowledgeable and great friend of Jews Can Shoot: At most opportunities I attempt to “remind” those who will listen that the when the Nazi’s came to power in January of 1933, the previous Weimar Republic (“republic” in name only as it was a coalition of primarily “Socialist” parties) had

The Oregon legislature just passed a gun control measure that substantially weakens constitutional rights. Senate Bill 719 will allow a family member or a police officer to obtain a civil court order immediately stripping someone of the right to possess a firearm for up to a year, if a judge finds the person presents a danger to

I, for one, enjoy reading through the formal legal decisions penned by judges. While it has the term “decision” the documents are actually the logical and legal rationale for the court’s decision – the basis of which various appeals will be based on. So when the decision was released from the recent preliminary injunction keeping the latest California restrictions

Blair Gladwin owns Gladwin Guns and Ammo in Merced, California. He claims that Paypal, Stripe and Square online payment processing companies are violating the California law known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act and Gladwin has filed three class action lawsuits, one against each of the businesses. If you are in the business or even the hobby

Republicans on Capitol Hill last week introduced bicameral legislation that aims to drop all federal regulation of suppressors and silencers. The Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing Act, backed in the Senate by Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Mike Crapo of Idaho, and in the House by Iowa Congressman Steve King, would mandate that suppressors be treated

Editors Note] A friend of mine over in Manila is an avid practicer of Filipino Knife Fighting wrote this article and asked me if I’d share it with our community (Keep in mind that these aren’t my views and I am definitely not a trained knife fighter).  It’s definitely got some interesting points and I thought you guys and

In Harwinton, Connecticut, in the back room of a law office nestled between the Liquor Lady and a plot of weathered gravestones along sleepy Burlington Road, Rachel Baird and Edward Peruta cohost a live-streaming internet talk show at 7 a.m., Mondays through Thursdays. For the edification of their 251 subscribers, they parse the minutiae of

From today’s decision in Fields v. City of Philadelphia(reversing a trial court decision that I blogged about and criticized last year): This case involves retaliation. Richard Fields and Amanda Geraci attempted to record Philadelphia police officers carrying out official duties in public and were retaliated against even though the Philadelphia Police Department’s official policies recognized that “[p]rivate