SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN PERUTA
Well, damn.
We’d all had hopes that the current Supreme Court of the United States would review and overturn the Peruta decision, in which the Ninth Circuit had upheld the right of California authorities to...
WHAT TO SAY AFTER A SELF-DEFENSE SHOOTING
Conventional wisdom has long held that after a self-defense shooting, the shooter should say nothing to police except, “I want a lawyer.” The problem with that is, it’s exactly what genuine bad guys say...
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN SPEAKS
Mark Walters’ nationally syndicated radio show and podcast, Armed American Radio, is one of my favorites. I’m a regular listener and an occasional guest. This past Sunday night, after Mark had completed one of...
WHY GUN PEOPLE NEED TO TRAVEL CAREFULLY
We who travel with firearms need to be careful not to run afoul of the fifty-piece patchwork quilt of United States gun laws. This goes double on commercial aircraft and triple when we travel...
AND NOW, FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT…
Among other things, regular readers here know that (A) I don’t usually host guest blogs and (B) as sort of the “resident cop” in the Backwoods Home writers’ stable, I frequently visit criminal justice...