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Nearing the end of his term, President Barack Obama pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others. These efforts roughly doubled the amount of pardons and commutations granted over the past eight years. For many, this information merits a shrug of the shoulders. However, it’s not uncommon for other people to have incidences... [Read More]

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Meet Austin Davis Can the subject of defending yourself from armed criminals be entertaining, informative and funny? If you are Austin Davis, former police officer, and standup comedian, then the answer is yes. Davis is the creator of Comedy Defensive Driving and has opened for entertainment acts as diverse as Jay Leno and Wayne Newton.... [Read More]

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  New Orleans resident John Ford is one citizen who believes in his right to self-defense enough that he was willing to take the city to court — just so he could carry a stun gun within the city limits. His actions stand as an example of what individuals can do when they’re willing to fight for their unalienable... [Read More]

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The human right to self defense predates modern culture by hundreds or thousands of years, but some modern commentators believe the right to individual self protection a) doesn’t really exist; and b) is unnecessary in these safe and modern days. However, Members of Texas & U.S. Law Shield know that the need for self-defense and... [Read More]

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A Democrat State Representative from San Antonio, Diego Bernal, has set his sights on Penal Code sections 30.06 and 30.07, the laws that govern the current requirements for written communication in the form of signs for property owners to post to prohibit firearms. These signs are commonly referred to as “30.06” (concealed carry) and “30.07”... [Read More]

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The next legislative session for Texas lawmakers commences on January 10, 2017, but the period for pre-filing bills for consideration began on November 14, 2016, and over four hundred of bills were filed the first day alone. Democratic state representatives wasted no time in taking aim at law abiding gun owners and their rights by... [Read More]

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  The next legislative session will commence in just over a week — January 10, 2017 — and one of the bills pre-filed ahead of the session’s opening was HB 259, authored by State Rep. Rafael Anchia, (D-Dallas). Under the proposed measure, it would become a crime to sell a firearm at a gun show without using... [Read More]

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  Last spring, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proposed new guidelines to make it easier to obtain a firearms license in the Garden State.  Gov. Christie wanted expand access to handgun carry permits by changing the state’s strict gun-permitting regulation that required a showing of the almost impossible standard of “justifiable need” in order to... [Read More]

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  On December 19, the Social Security Administration (SSA) issued the final version of a rule that will classify unknown numbers of law-abiding, vulnerable disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients as “mental defectives,” and strip their Second Amendment rights in the process. The Social Security rule is the final version of a proposal... [Read More]

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