Month: July 2017

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

Jennifer Williamson, Floyd Prozanski, Ginny Burdick, and Tina Kotek seem to be completely void of any ethics or morals. With the help of one turncoat republican, Oregon democrats pulled every shady trick in the book to ram through what is being tabbed as an “extreme risk protection order”, which would allow a family member or

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

“…the British gun control program that precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events that changed a situation of political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides

Gun owners are right to resist handing over their lawfully purchased high-capacity magazines. As of yesterday evening, all that stands between the state of California and the criminalization of thousands of previously law-abiding state citizens is the opinion of a single federal judge. In a 66-page order, Judge Roger Benitez temporarily blocked a new California

There was a lot of celebrating going on last night for those in California who follow gun rights litigation and the prospect of complying or not complying with upcoming laws. The NRA and CRPA won a preliminary injunction against the state, temporarily barring CA from enforcing laws against gun owners that would have required them

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a voter-approved California law that would have forced gun owners to get rid of high-capacity ammunition magazines by this Saturday. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who is based in San Diego, issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that found the law was likely unconstitutional because it prevented people from using

California’s ban on the possession of “high capacity” magazines goes into effect on July 1, and Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko made clear he has no plans to send deputies out to collect them. Bosenko said, “We’re not going to be knocking on anybody’s door looking for them.” According to the Sacramento Bee, Bosenko said the new