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Legal Considerations When Selecting Self-Defense Ammunition
An Interview with Network President Marty Hayes
Interview by Gila Hayes
eJournal: Thank you for joining us in the studio this afternoon, Marty. The topic on the board today is one on which we get a lot of questions, both from members and non-members. It’s also a topic on which you have considerable depth of experience both as an expert and from other aspects of your life’s work. We entitled this Legal Considerations When Selecting Self-Defense Ammunition. Members, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcEYiExS2LI for a more casual version of this conversation.
Marty, why don’t you start by tell telling us how you began studying the question of what ammunition is best for self defense?
Hayes: In 1990, I was a fledgling firearms instructor, and I traveled to Concord, New Hampshire to attend the Lethal Force Institute. At that time, we would go back to the LFI office after class where we could shop for all kinds of cool stuff that they had there for us to buy – including CorBon ammunition. Now, I had heard Massad Ayoob talk about CorBon and why he was using it. At the time, I was using a 9mm self-defense pistol, and I was happy to get my hands on some CorBon ammo. It was really the first of the specialty “hot” self-defense ammunition.
President’s Message
Legalities of the Byrna
by Marty Hayes, J.D.
This is a message I have been wanting to do for some time, ever since the Byrna pepper gun came on the market. In fact, you cannot listen to conservative radio without hearing advertising for the Byrna. Those ads are well done, but in my opinion, somewhat misleading. Why?
First, the Byrna is not all that effective. It is only as effective as pepper spray, and the delivery systems of a good can of pepper spray is much better than the Byrna. I went on YouTube and looked at a few Byrna videos, and do not see the disabling effects of Byrna, as I see after a good shot of OC-10.
Attorney Question of the Month
Recently, a Florida sheriff’s officer wounded a man during a traffic stop while pulling a legally carried .45 caliber Glock from the man’s inside the waistband holster. Florida law imposes no duty to inform law enforcement about weapons one has during police contact, but the motorist had volunteered the detail. See https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2024/12/14/gun-unexpectedly-fires-while-jso-officer-tries-to-remove-it-from-mans-waist-during-traffic-stop-police-say/
The episode raises concern, both for residents of states that impose a duty to inform, as well as armed citizens who live where there is no statutory requirement to inform police you are armed.
Book Review
FlexCCarry℠ Solutions:
A Positive Guide to Off-Body Carry
Launch Pad Publications LLC, Oct. 3, 2024
Paperback – 80 pages, 6x9 inches $24.95
Heavily illustrated, color
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJKVXDTY
ISBN-13: 979-8991672405
By Vicki Farnam
Reviewed by Gila Hayes
I read a book about concealed carry this month that is short on superfluous words and fluff and long on specifics. Addressing the contentious topic of off-body gun carry, longtime firearms instructor Vicki Farnam asks, “What is more important? Where a handgun is carried for self defense, or if a handgun is carried for self defense? If a handgun is carried for self defense, can it only be carried on a waistband belt with a holster attached to it? Or, can it also be carried in a dedicated pocket in a FlexCCarry℠ Daily Go Bag with a strap attached to the upper body, above the belt?” Put that way, the answer seems obvious, and I was intrigued to learn more.
Editor’s Notebook
Ay, Caramba!
by Gila Hayes
I always enjoy the Friday Deals and 2A Updates that hit my email inbox from Ammo.com every week. I would probably be richer if I didn’t open and read it, but there’s something comforting about having several cases of carry ammo tucked away against shortages and ever-rising prices. I also scan the three or four little news bits with which the fun folks at Ammo.com lead their 2A Updates. A recent edition caught my eye with a study of deaths from “stray bullets.”
The wounds and fatalities attributed to celebratory gunfire are pretty sobering. My imagination serves up a scene from an old Western movie, when the outlaws gallop out of town hooting and hollering and shooting into the air. Today, police and medical reports show that New Year’s Eve continues to be marred by injuries and death and property damage from celebratory gun fire, not only in South America and the Middle East, but in the good old U.S.A., too.
About this Journal
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