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On November 1, new laws go into effect in Oklahoma that make it legal to carry a switchblade knife. Last April, Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law the HB 1911, the Switchblade Ban Repeal law, that removes switchblades and other knives that open automatically by hand pressure to a button or spring from the list... [Read More]

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In preparation for the state’s 2016 legislative session set to begin in January, Florida lawmakers have pushed a campus concealed carry bill through that passed both the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee and Senate Criminal Justice Committee on September 16, 2015. This bill was one of the first two measures passed by any legislative committee in... [Read More]

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Over the past few months we have covered hemorrhage control in great depth. We have kept the subject matter and treatment in line with the equipment supplied in our blowout kit that we learned about as well in those previous articles. All of the tools in our blowout kit that pertained to hemorrhage control were... [Read More]

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Boulder, Colorado teenager Kai Kloepfer took it upon himself to try and prevent mass shooting following the incident at a nearby Aurora movie theater in 2012.  He soon recognized, however, that he would not be able to keep guns out the hands of dangerous people, so he decided to design a gun that would reduce... [Read More]

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Law Shield thinks a federal bill misleadingly labeled the “Good Neighbor Gun Dealer Act,” introduced by U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Robin Kelly (IL-02), is chock full of bad ideas, and we hope — and expect — that it will go nowhere in this Congress. The legislation purports to address the relatively small number... [Read More]

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At Texas Law Shield, we note that the Battle of Gonzales occurred 180 years ago today, October 2. It’s important to us because we believe in the same things as the early “Texians” (as they were called back then) — the desire for self-government, individual liberty, the frontier necessity of self-defense, and the rule of... [Read More]

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Law Shield has former prosecutors among our program lawyers, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that district attorneys have to deal with the worst of the worst in their prosecutions — as we all know, many dangerous, unstable people get tried for crimes. And it’s part of the job that DAs routinely receive threats... [Read More]

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Law Shield wishes there weren’t crazy gun laws that negatively affect regular folks, but sad to say, there are plenty of draconian, misguided, nutty gun regulations out there — particularly in New Jersey. A gentleman named Danny Burt is caught in a New Jersey Catch-22.  In 2013, Burt was the target of a temporary restraining... [Read More]

The post In New Jersey, Collectible Carbine Is An ‘Assault Weapon’ appeared first on U.S. & Texas LawShield.

Law Shield members might like to know that the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that BB guns are firearms in that state. We bring this to your attention because different states treat firearm-like products differently in a legal sense. David Lee Haywood was charged with possessing a firearm as an ineligible person. Haywood was... [Read More]

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A new poll recently released from CNN and ORC International makes it clear that a majority of Americans staunchly support their Right to Keep and Bear Arms. To conduct the poll, ORC International contacted 1,012 adult Americans by telephone September 4-8, 2015. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is... [Read More]

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Law Shield wants our NFA members to know that a novelty item made by X Products LLC — The Can Cannon, a patent-pending launching device for soda cans and other heavy, thin walled objects, has been ruled by BATFE to be a short-barrel rifle when the launcher is mounted on a rifle receiver and an... [Read More]

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Every year, Guns & Ammo Magazine ranks what it deems are the “Best States for Gun Owners,” and the majority of G&A’s readers’ comments focus on state laws relating to concealed carry. Since 2013, G&A has also ranked the “Best States for Concealed Carry,” and those latter rankings are now available here. Our home state... [Read More]

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