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Justified or Jail… Can You Protect Your Property in Texas?

Ever wonder if the use of force or the use of deadly force is justified if someone is on your property and stealing your car or your belongings inside?

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Fire a Warning Shot and Go to Prison? | Colorado

Doug Richards for U.S. LawShield of Colorado. I want to speak today about firing warning shots. The quick advice on that is: don’t ever do it. There is no law or authority in Colorado that justifies you firing a warning shot at another person. What ends up happening is you have a situation that’s heated... [Read More]

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Fire a Warning Shot and Go to Prison? | North Carolina

We’ve probably all seen it in movies and on television shows: the use of a warning shot to get the bad guys to back off. Seems like a good idea, right? In real life it isn’t. If you reasonably believe that someone intends to kill you or inflict deadly harm upon you, you can either... [Read More]

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Top 10 Stories from 2016

  As we look forward to great things in 2017, let’s take a quick look back at our 10 most popular Law Shield blog entries in 2016. Did you read them all? If not, click each item’s headline to open the story and see what you missed. 1: The Legality of Body Armor (August 17)... [Read More]

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