Our interpretation of the various laws, regulations and restrictions pertaining to survival, self-reliance and self defense. Please note that we are not lawyers, and this is NOT legal advice.
Castle doctrine laws are those that affirm a citizen’s rights to defend themselves, their homes and everyone in it from attack without any obligation to the state to attempt to retreat or withdraw from such a situation, possibly risking even greater injury or death. Castle doctrine laws are important because everyone should have the expectation …
Pepper spray is one of the very best defensive implements that a person can carry as part of their daily accoutrement. Pepper spray is unique and that it offers a highly effective ranged tool that sits neatly between the use of bad language and more substantial lethal or non-lethal force. Except in the rarest instances, …
North Carolina is a state with generally amenable laws for pepper and other defensive sprays. It does have a fairly restrictive capacity limitation, but other than that you can carry any kind of spray you want be it made from natural or artificial ingredients. Additionally, only people who are not convicted felons may possess pepper …
Maryland is another state with generally permissive pepper spray laws, although this is one state where you can have only legitimate pepper spray, not tear gas and not a blend of any other defensive spray formulations. The law is quite specific concerning the formulation of such sprays and its ingredients must be derived from actual …
North Carolina is a remarkably sane state when it comes to self-defense laws, and their stand-your-ground provision, though nominally written in a way more restrictive compared to other states, is in practice highly effective and a stalwart defense for armed citizens. So long as a person is in any place they have a legal right …
Washington is a state with surprisingly good laws covering self defense, and though the state lacks a codified stand-your-ground statute interpretation of case law has time and time again upheld citizens’ rights to hold their ground, and meet a threat with force wherever they happen to be so long as they are there lawfully. Obviously, …
Contrary to what is sometimes reported, Colorado does not have a true stand-your-ground law. What stand-your-ground provisions they have in the law is really a sort of halfway version of Castle Doctrine, where defenders have a right to defend themselves against someone who has illegally entered their home, but only so long as another crime …
Tennessee has self-defense laws, including a stand-your-ground provision, that might be described as largely standard for laws of this type. Tennessee’s self-defense law is entirely sturdy, well-rounded and strongly on the side of the individual citizen who is attacked, especially if they are attacked in their home, business, vehicle or any other place they have …
New Mexico is something of a unique case when it comes to stand-your-ground laws. Though New Mexico is regarded as a decidedly self-defense friendly state, it does not have a true stand-your-ground statute according to the now typical standards of the day. Instead, New Mexico relies on specific jury instructions that notify jurors a defender …
Since a recent overhaul of the state’s self-defense laws occurred, Montana now proudly boasts one of the most pro-citizen set of stand-your-ground laws on the books anywhere in the nation. Montana allows citizens to meet the unlawful use of force against themselves or another with force of their own with no attendant obligation to retreat …
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