Month: September 2017

Can you be charged with crime for wounding or killing a home intruder? The law may surprise you.

For defensive shooting, there’s no question that a good athletic stance, generally squared off to the target, is the better way to go. One of the most important things in defensive shooting is recoil management, so you can fire fast follow-up shots and get the threat stopped quickly.

The owner of Holdheide Academy in Woodstock, Georgia, is defending a recent parent-approved preschool field trip to a gun range. School owner Tammy Dorsten said the students were studying Annie Oakley, and the gun range — High Caliber Firearms — has a 1984 version of the very kind of rifle Oakley would have used. WSBTV reported that “parents

Three Oklahoma teenagers were killed last week when they broke into a house and were met by a homeowner with an AR15. Now the grandfather of one of the teenagers is speaking out about his grandson’s death. According to KTUL-TV, Leroy Schumacher, grandfather of 17-year-old Jacob Redfearn, believes the death of Redfearn was unjustified because the

While participating in a Force Science Institute class recently, we got on the topic of handgun stopping power. What came out of that discussion was the understanding that handguns don’t really have stopping power. What really ends a fight is that the person you are shooting decides to stop shooting. In most cases, the wounds

In an effort to reduce gun violence, Sacramento city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve $1.5 million to pay criminals over the next three years not to commit crimes. The money — matched by private foundations — will fund the program Advance Peace, which will pay participants up to $1,000 per month for clean living and

This Article chronologically reviews the British gun control which precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gun powder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gun powder, from individuals and from local governments; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events which changed a situation of rising