{"id":3375,"date":"2015-11-16T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T05:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2015-11-16T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T05:18:05","slug":"reading-between-the-lines-of-firearms-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reading-between-the-lines-of-firearms-law\/","title":{"rendered":"READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF FIREARMS LAW"},"content":{"rendered":"

The six-day Legal Eagles seminar continued on Sunday with a powerful all-day presentation by attorney Mitch Vilos, author of \u201cSelf-Defense Laws of All Fifty States.<\/a>\u201d Mitch specializes in firearms law and has done a hundred or more such cases himself as trial lawyer, and has studied hundreds more such cases for research.\u00a0 He has discovered the epiphany almost every attorney experiences in the courtroom:\u00a0 law school teaches you the law, not trial tactics.\u00a0 The latter is something that is learned on the job, or in specialized in-service training known as CLE (continuing legal education).\"M_Vilos\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mitch is smart, he\u2019s funny (in a good way), and he\u2019s a voice of experience. He pointed out that the defenses-with-firearms which seem to cause the least trouble to the good person with the gun are those involving home defense, interdiction of mass murder, and fighting off armed robbers.\u00a0 The least <\/em>defensible are those in which the defendant might be seen as \u201cthe initial aggressor,\u201d or those in which the defendant was doing something illegal at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

Some of those epiphanies are counter-intuitive. Mitch, like veteran defense lawyer Jim Fleming who spoke the day before him, has found that cops make wonderfully favorable jurors in self-defense shooting cases.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just the tiniest sample of the experiential wisdom for which the dozens of attendees are paying a well-spent $3,000 over the course of this six-day seminar. It wouldn\u2019t be right for me to give it all away here.<\/p>\n

Let me share another bit of Mitch Vilos\u2019 wisdom. I am not exactly the world\u2019s biggest fan of pastel pistolas. <\/em>However, Mitch revealed that his current concealed carry pistol in his stomping grounds of Salt Lake City is a purple-color SIG-Sauer.\u00a0 Mitch, like others of us in this business, has seen more than one case where someone has claimed the defendant pulled a gun on him when he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Mitch likes the idea of being able to say to the investigating officer, \u201cAsk the complainant what color the gun was that he says I pulled on him.\u201d\u00a0 If the liar doesn\u2019t <\/em>say \u201cpurple,\u201d Mitch has a strong reinforcement of the truth that the guy never saw a gun at all and is making up a story.<\/p>\n

Damn\u2026live and learn.\u00a0 That\u2019s the first good reason I\u2019ve come across for carrying a handgun of a non-traditional color.\u00a0 And learning, of course, is what I came for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The six-day Legal Eagles seminar continued on Sunday with a powerful all-day presentation by attorney Mitch Vilos, author of \u201cSelf-Defense Laws of All Fifty States.\u201d Mitch specializes in firearms law and has done a hundred or more such cases himself as trial lawyer, and has studied hundreds more such cases for research.\u00a0 He has discovered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-legal-issues","9":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}