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Law Shield would like to alert our members that Remington Arms Company, LLC is voluntarily recalling Remington Model 700 and Model Seven rifles with X-Mark Pro (“XMP”) triggers, manufactured from May 1, 2006 to April 9, 2014. If you own these Remington models, stop using your rifle until you’ve determined if it’s in the recall.... [Read More]

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Looking for a great way to spend the next 7-8 minutes?  This is a powerful presentation recently gone viral as “The best 7 minutes of gun control speech” Now keep in mind, this does not showcase a real congressional meeting, but many of us might believe that this is what a congressional meeting SHOULD look... [Read More]

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Law Shield would like to pass along a shooting tip from Beretta instructor John Chapman, who discusses the importance of training for unusual situations. In this video (3:07), he focuses on the skill of shooting while on your back, for when events knock you off your feet and you need to defend yourself without shooting... [Read More]

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Law Shield recently learned from Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), that he had found two cases within a couple of days where concealed-handgun-permit holders stopped robberies. In the first case, one customer was killed, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been... [Read More]

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Law Shield would like to alert our members that two bills have been filed in the Texas state house that would have the effect of nullifying many federal gun-control measures in the state, according to Michael Boldin at the Tenth Amendment Center. The Tenth Amendment Center identified the bills as House Bill 422 (HB422), introduced... [Read More]

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Law Shield wants to alert our members that the reliably anti-gun Washington Post is promoting a new study on gun usage and crime as research that is said to debunk economists John Lott and David Mustard’s landmark 1997 study, “Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns.” The 1997 Lott/Mustard study has been important to the gun-rights... [Read More]

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Texas Law Shield would like our members to know that Magpul Industries Corp. has purchased a stand-alone building in western Austin, Texas to relocate its corporate headquarters from Colorado. Executives have credited outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for attracting the company to Austin after Magpul threatened to leave Colorado when more restrictive gun laws were... [Read More]

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Click here for video. Law Shield was shocked — but not surprised — to watch a press conference in which Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derrenda announced that his agency will dispatch officers to collect guns that belonged to recently deceased pistol permit holders. Fox News reported that under state law, when a permit holder passes,... [Read More]

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Law Shield members have plenty of reasons they need to carry, such as protecting themselves like one woman in Louisville, Kentucky. A homeowner in Louisville, Kentucky used her concealed-carry handgun to stop two people from burglarizing her home, reports WAVE 3 News. According to police, when the homeowner returned to her home on Nov. 19,... [Read More]

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Law Shield is pleased to report that The City of New York has agreed to pay $7,500 to a falsely arrested knife owner, according to a release from Knife Rights, which supported the case. According to the Knife Rights release, “The embarrassing settlement shows that the city would rather pay than try to justify its... [Read More]

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Law Shield is not surprised to read that while Washington, D.C., has been accepting applications for concealed handgun permits, D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan will appeal a judge’s ruling requiring D.C. to issue concealed-carry permits. In his July 2014 ruling, Judge Frederick Scullin Jr. wrote that “there is no longer any basis on which... [Read More]

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Our Florida members may not be aware of how active a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization in the state has been in defense of the right to keep and bear arms. Florida Carry was organized by a group of Florida gun-rights activists to lobby the state legislature and to provide a legal entity capable of filing... [Read More]

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