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I once came across a cell phone video of the aftermath of a serious traffic accident in California. A hot dog in a Ferrari crashed into slower traffic. If I remember correctly, someone died. CHP responded but had one of the witnesses to the Ferrari driver's behavior make the arrest. For it to be...

It never does. That's what rentals are for.

There is a decades old movie, now a video, that demonstrates LAPD marksmanship. It contains a clip in which one officer uses a revolver to shoot a cigarette from the lips of another at a pretty good distance.

To quote from the article: "It’s been said that you don’t need a gun for self-defense in the UK because there are no guns. I’m not sure that would ring true to the single mom facing a 17 stone (238 lb) former boyfriend with a history of violence that invades her home with a crowbar." I've...

I don't know that from personally conducted legal research. I'm relying on the advice of Andrew Branca, author of The Law of Self Defense. According to Branca, every state has castle doctrine. Note that castle doctrine does one thing only which is to relieve the homeowner of the obligation to...

As a juror, I would have started the premeditation clock at the threatening phone call. Given that the victim left the safety of his residence to confront an armed person who had recently threatened him, this looks like mutual combat.

Every year, Ohio police officer Greg Ellifritz (activeresponsetraining.net) has a post whose title begins with "Lock Your Damn Doors". In the community he serves, most thefts from homes and vehicles come from ones that aren't locked. In the 2019 post, he says that, in years past, the culprits...

It's worth reading this Massad Ayoob article on the Backwoods Home website: https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/some-hopefully-timely-thoughts/ His ending paragraph: If you have panicky friends who think “Walking Dead” is about to become a documentary, tell them, “NO! At worst, it’s...

Premeditated murder was excessive. Voluntary manslaughter at most. Otherwise, any preparation to use force in self defense would qualify as premeditation. Let's go through Andrew Branca's elements of a self defense claim: Innocence. Regardless who provoked the argument inside the bar, it was...

That will depend on how many realize this won't be the last emergency and store their guns for the next one.

The 10/22 with a couple of 25 round magazines sounds like the best choice for her. The safest way to store it would be with an empty chamber but she would have to cycle the action to finish loading it. Are her nerves steady enough to get that right when a bad guy is coming at her? One of the...

A poor decision on the Good Samaritan's part cost him his life and left his wife a widow and his children fatherless. It's not just a matter of going unarmed to a gunfight. The bad guy was running away which meant his victim was no longer in danger. Had the Good Samaritan been armed and won the...

I expect carrying an old fashioned single action revolver with the hammer over an empty chamber became standard practice after a few accidents. There is a reference to it in John Wayne's last movie, The Shootist. He mentions loading six if necessary. What always amuses me is cocking the revolver...

Of the four candidates, the G19 will be the easiest to conceal. Because I'm small in stature, my personal choice would be something smaller such as a Sig P365 or even a pocket pistol like a Kahr CW380.

Talk about Dumb and Dumber. At the gun stores I frequent, the clerks verify that a gun is unloaded and hand it to me with the action open. I verify it again myself and still keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. Finger off the trigger unless I want to try it. I actually do trust that the...

Disability isn't a blank check to do whatever it takes to defend yourself. Recently, an elderly man was beaten on Chicago public transportation first by a pickpocket he caught in the act and then by a mob. Andrew Branca discusses the incident in detail on his website (www.lawofselfdefense.com)...

People say unkind things about Winchester white box but I've never had problems with FMJ in 9 mm or .45 ACP. According to one of ShootingTheBull410's YouTube tests, the 115 grain JHP isn't bad.

I'm sure "child in common' means a family relationship. The worst excesses of red flag laws could be controlled with four provisions: The subject must be granted a court hearing on demand within 24 hours, to include weekends and holidays, during which he can be represented by a lawyer, call...

I used to think a thin, flat, pocket semiauto carried in a holster inside the top of a boot was the ultimate in deep concealment. Then, my doctor ordered an ECG and the nurse told me to pull up my pant legs so she could attach electrodes to my calves. It could still work but you would have to...

Several years ago, ShootingTheBull410 did a series of ammo tests for .380 ACP pocket pistols. His summary video is here: Basically, he liked anything that shot Hornady's XTP bullet. Hydra-Shok was a second choice. The problem with most of the other JHP bullets was that they expanded too...