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U.S. Law Shield of Virginia Independent Program Attorney Ed Riley tells Members what they should do if they unintentionally fire a weapon. Click below to watch the video.      

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  Perhaps you heard what recently happened to our friends at Full Armor Firearms in Houston. After 13 burglaries in five years, including one earlier this month, owner James Hillin asked two of his employees to stay overnight in the store. During the night, two cars pulled into the parking lot. According to the Houston Chronicle,... [Read More]

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  When Michael Ferre of Aventura, Florida, hailed Uber for a ride to the Fort Lauderdale airport on December 18, 2016, little did he know that this could have been his last ride ever. Shortly after 5 a.m., he was picked up by Uber driver Namique Anderson for the 15 mile ride to the airport.... [Read More]

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        Perhaps you saw the story on social media. Headlines proclaiming “Ex-Army Sniper Kills Neighbor’s Intruders” and the such. The story, quoted from a Seattle newspaper that one later discovers describes itself as “a news and entertainment satire web publication,” claimed a Texas Army veteran who just happened to be cleaning his sniper rifle at 1... [Read More]

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With less than two weeks left in office, President Obama’s solicitor general, Ian Gershengorn, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to review a September 7, 2016 decision from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. In the cases Daniel Binderup and Julio Suarez (heard together by the Court of Appeals), the appellate court ruled... [Read More]

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  If you have to display your firearm toward a threat, what should you do immediately afterward? U.S. Law Shield Member Ambassador Sherry Hale talks to Emily Taylor, an Independent Program Attorney for Texas Law Shield, to find out.  

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  KTRK-TV (Channel 13) in Houston recently reported on a retiree who opened fire on an intruder in his home, and the news channel turned to Texas Law Shield Independent Program Attorney Michele Byington for a legal understanding about the use of deadly force in that situation. From KTRK: Mike Colgin was asleep inside his... [Read More]

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  For nearly a century, the federal government has held that firearms and ammunition could be banned by executive fiat if they weren’t “for sporting purposes.” Perhaps that and other rules will be changing in the coming months. In June of 2015, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) sought to correct the “sporting purposes” interpretation by the... [Read More]

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We previously reported on a bill (HB110) pre-filled in Texas that would limit enforcement of federal gun laws by state agencies or political subdivisions, or any of its employees in Texas. Well, one lawmaker has taken it a step further. State Representative Mark Keough (R) introduced HB 99, The Texas Firearm Protection Act, that adds... [Read More]

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The current legislative session in Texas shall prove busy for lawmakers as they tackle more than three dozen different bills addressing gun control and restrictions as well as expanding the rights of the law-abiding gun owner. Once such bill to be considered by the 85th Legislature is SB104, sponsored by State Senator Bob Hall (R-Edgewood). Under Hall’s proposed... [Read More]

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