Gun makers aren’t accessories to crimes
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides for a lot of protections for gun manufacturers. The most broad protection being that gun makers largely c...
Category: Second Amendment
Officers and civilians
Police officers have a bit more leniency under the law when it comes to use of force. And they do need it. In part to deter civilians from becoming vigilantes a...
Claudia Tenney seeks to commandeer the States
Now that the text of the bill is finally available, let’s go through this. Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24) introduced HR.373 as part of the 119th Congress, calle...
Risk perception, or why women are choosing bears
Now that the party has somewhat died down around the recent social media phenomenon of women saying they’d rather run into a bear in the wild than a rando...
Bump stocks and automatic operations
So according to the ATF and Sotomayor’s dissent in the “bump stock” case, Garland v. Cargill, these two operations are identical: and Yeah, ob...
Over-selling hand-to-hand combat
Article: I Carry a Gun. I Don’t Need That H2H Crap! Setting aside for a moment that directly hand-to-hand engaging an assailant is beyond stupid, hand-to-hand c...
Misunderstanding how insurance works
It’s pretty bad when a practicing attorney is far, far off the mark in how insurance works. So time to revisit firearm liability “insurance”, ...
It isn’t a right if it’s compulsory
In the United States there are several rights codified in our Constitution. And one concept about rights many seem to forget is they are entirely voluntary. You...
Firearm liability “insurance”
It’s a general rule of common or statutory law that insurance does not cover intentional actions. Yet, time and again, we see proposals for “gun lia...
Responding to a knife with a firearm
LA Times Letters to the Editor: “Why do police officers keep shooting people armed with knives?” Oh this is a good one… To the editor: I read ...