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Texas Law Shield members should be happy to see that according to one demographic ranking firm, the state’s cities are well down the list of most dangerous nationally. In a compilation of the top-100 most dangerous cities in the country determined by using FBI data from all 17,000 local law-enforcement agencies in America, NeighborhoodScout developed... [Read More]

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Law Shield has taken note of a peculiar — but important — gun-rights suit in Pennsylvania: an Amish man filed a federal lawsuit because he wants to buy a gun without the required photo ID. The hang-up: Getting that photo ID would violate his religious beliefs. According to the civil-rights suit filed in the U.S.... [Read More]

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The FBI recently released the 2014 edition of Crime in the United States, and it revealed that the estimated number of reported violent crimes decreased 0.2 percent when compared with 2013. Homicides with firearms in 2014 were down 3.9 percent on a year-over-year basis. Consistent with previous years of this ongoing work, the vast majority of... [Read More]

The post FBI Stats Are In: Crime in the U.S. Fell Again in 2014 appeared first on U.S. & Texas LawShield.

Law Shield wants to remind all our members across the country not to travel to Los Angeles with any 10+ magazines after Nov. 18, 2015 — unless a suit to stop the City’s newest magazine ban is successful. California outlawed the manufacturing or selling high-capacity magazines in 2000, but the new Los Angeles ordinance makes... [Read More]

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One of the questions our members often ask us is how far their employer can go in limiting their possession of firearms. Can an employer fire you just for owning a gun? Are policies that prohibit employees from carrying a concealed handgun on the employer’s property enforceable, and if so, what can the employer legally... [Read More]

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Dozens of current and former sheriffs from counties around the state are continuing with their lawsuit to repeal stricter state gun laws put in place in 2012.  Those laws limit the capacity of ammunition magazines and expand background checks on gun purchases in Colorado. Sheriffs like Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario say they are committed... [Read More]

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Florida is one of only five remaining states where the open carry of handguns is routinely banned.  That would change if it was up to the father-son duo of Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Don Gaetz. Both legislators have filed matching bills that would let Floridians with concealed-weapons licenses openly carry their handguns.  On Tuesday,... [Read More]

The post Is Florida About to Become Number 46? Open Carry Legislation Moving Through Committees appeared first on U.S. & Texas LawShield.

We’ve all had that sinking feeling when we realize that we missed or are about to miss an important deadline, like renewing our driver’s license, or our car insurance, or even paying that seldom-used credit card bill.  But what if your “weapons carry license” is about to expire and you don’t want to go defenseless... [Read More]

The post Oh No! I Just Realized My WCL Expires in a Week! appeared first on U.S. & Texas LawShield.

In 2005, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a law granting immunity to gun stores for the way their buyers used their products.  Its purpose was to prevent lawsuits against gun retailers and manufacturers for injuries and deaths resulting from the use of their product. On October 13, 2015, a... [Read More]

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Several GOP senators have backed a purported upgrade to the federal background check system on firearms purchases in the country — Texas Senator John Cornyn’s S.2002: “Mental Health and Safe Communities Act of 2015.” We previously reported on the bill here. In mid-October, the bill received the backing of Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, Missouri Sen.... [Read More]

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The headline above is the title of a Washington Post Wonkblog item that purports to calculate — actually, the author makes estimates from estimates — that the number of guns per household has doubled in the last two decades, even as overall firearms ownership has declined or stayed static. The angle on this story isn’t... [Read More]

The post The Average Gun Owner Now Owns 8 Guns — Double What It Used To Be appeared first on U.S. & Texas LawShield.

Law Shield notes the unusual outcome of what police have called a failed robbery in Memphis. According to WMCActionNews5.com, Jamal Swift was shot by a man whom Mr. Swift was trying to rob at gunpoint — except Mr. Swift’s gun didn’t fire during the encounter. Backstory: According to police, Mr. Swift tried to kill someone... [Read More]

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