Personal Defense

Woman With a Gun Holds Would-Be Oregon Arsonist Until Police Arrive

Courtesy Kat Cast and Facebook You’ve probably been reading about the plague of fires throughout the west that are due to — what else? — climate change. Well it turns out that plenty of the…


3 Lessons Every Gun Owners Needs to Know to Avoid Legal Trouble

Shutterstock By Edwin Walker As an attorney, I’ve had a lot of experience dealing with what gun owners have done to make their situations more complicated and difficult before, during, and after using force or…


Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Model 69 Combat Magnum

Virgil Caldwell for TTAG Several thoughts come to mine when you examine the Smith & Wesson Model 69 Combat Magnum. The old truism, ‘carried much and fired little’ is one of them. A gun for…


Personal Defense: Rioters are Damaging My Car…What Can I Legally Do?

Shutterstock By Emily Taylor You’re walking out of the grocery store and heading toward your car. To your surprise, you see that a violent mob has descended on the parking lot and is vandalizing vehicles….



BARELY ‘PEACEFUL’ THANKS TO GUNS: Back the Blue in Bloomington sees harassment, arrest

Threats accompanied harsh, profane words and intimidating posturing from anti-police protesters at the recent Bloomington, IL Back the Blue rally. Images by John Boch. An armed society is a polite society. Robert Heinlein offered those…



Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lawyers Release a Thorough Self-Defense Narrative

Twitter screen grab Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men last week in Kenosha during the height of the rioting in that city. Now, his new legal team, headed up by John Pierce of Pierce Bainbridge, has…



Wood: Armed Self-Defense Videos Instill a Dangerous, Unrealistic ‘Sheepdog Mentality’

(Adam Rogan/The Journal Times via AP) The [self-defense shooting video] channels are not sinister in themselves. [John] Correia combines old-fashioned moralism—including regular reminders that you are accountable to Jesus and the law for every round…