With criminals, I have found that the saying “a leopard can’t change its spots” is often spot on. There are a lot of repeat offenders out there, especially when it comes to gun crime. I’m not just imagining things. The United States Sentencing Commission studied recidivism rates in federal defendants and found that gun offenders […]
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Obey your mother…unless she asks you to help her with a retaliatory shooting. Yes, that’s really what happened in this case from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. After mom got into a scrap at the park over an ex-boyfriend (which lead to an initial shooting), she left and got her son.
Summer 1997. I walked into Pam’s No. 1 (IYKYK). I walked out a member of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. I’ve belonged ever since. Even as a retiree. (Yes, that’s my real ‘new member’ notice from FLEOA in 1997, and a copy of my original ‘creds’!) Over the course of my career, I dealt
I joined Chris Jansing today to discuss potential leads investigators may be following in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Terrible situation. My heart goes out to the family. You can watch the story here.
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The Ninth Circuit: “DON’T do it for Johnny!” A few weeks ago I wrote an Outsiders-themed post about switchblade knives and the Second Amendment. In that case, the government filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit defending the constitutionality of the Federal Switchblade Act. Well here’s another one. Last week, in a different case involving
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Assassinating a CEO is violent. Stalking the CEO so you can shoot him is not (or so says this court). I’ve written a lot about the difficulty federal law has in saying what qualifies as a “crime of violence.” See, e.g., this Yoda-themed post, this Pickles-themed post, this ‘O Brother Where At Thou’ themed post,
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Americans have been making guns for a long time. What does the law say about it? On February 20th, I’ll explain “The Law of Making Firearms” in a webinar presented by the University of Wyoming College of Law’s Firearms ResearchCenter. Register here. You can also find details on the Center’s website here.
This was a really cool event. (See the University of Wyoming’s Firearms Research Center post here.) It was awesome of the ATF to offer its time, insight, and expertise to give a bunch of Second Amendment law profs practical exposure to what it sees everyday in the real world. Huge tip o’ the hat to
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We covered a lot in this 90-minute podcast. —ATF and its politics, and why I think the acronym could stand for “America’s Toughest Feds”;—How meeting Scott Pickett was one of the luckiest things to ever happen to me;—The importance of leadership to policing and how it is evolving;—The importance of mentors;—Why the men and women
Perhaps the best two dollars I ever spent at Walmart was on a “No Soliciting“ sign. (And I’ve spent a lot of money at Walmart!) I just don’t like strangers knocking on my door. The sign worked like magic. They’d walk down my driveway and just as they reached the front porch, they’d see the
