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Over 86% of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs Support National Concealed Carry Reciprocity

Imagine if your driver’s license was not officially recognized in USA states other than your own. That would mean every time you drove across state lines, you’d be violating those states’ laws. Now imagine if some states accepted your state’s license, but they added on traffic laws that your state didn’t have. That would mean you’d have to know each state’s particular laws as you drove through them, or you could be ticketed or jailed.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Important Judicial Decisions Regarding Self-Defense Law ]

That’s the current state of affairs in the lawful act of concealed carrying of defensive firearms. The USA consists of a complex patchwork of concealed carry legislation state-by-state that unsuspecting responsible law-abiding armed self-defenders can easily be ignorant of and in danger of unwittingly and innocently violating.

2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community

The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment is the US Intelligence Community’s official, coordinated evaluation of an array of threats to US citizens, the Homeland, and US interests in the world.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Terrorists Call for Attacks on Christians ]

A diverse set of foreign actors are targeting US health and safety, critical infrastructure, industries, wealth, and government.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, New Edition of Hostility Against Churches Report Shows a Doubling of Attacks ]

State adversaries and their proxies are also trying to weaken and displace US economic and military power in their regions and across the globe.

Practical Situational Awareness Training: Prepare for the Ambush

Situational awareness is often described by suggested methods of observation in color-coded categories of perception: observing surroundings to avoid trouble; locating exits in a room to quickly escape trouble; or achieving advance knowledge of travel routes to change course in the event of sudden trouble.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Jeff Cooper’s Principles of Personal Defense ]

The familiar color-code is White for “totally unaware,” Yellow for “relaxed but aware,” Orange for “potential threat identified,” and Red for “threat verified, engage self-defense action.”

[ Read the SemperVerus article, A Simple Chart for Situational Awareness ]

Professional firearms trainer, author, consultant, and executive director for PersonalDefenseNetwork.com, Rob Pincus, identifies one area that might too often be overlooked; he calls it the “fantasy of situational awareness.”

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Posted on 03/25/202505/27/2025

US Circuit Judge Video Records Expert Gun Tutorial Dissent to Anti-2nd Amendment Court Ruling

US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke The San Fransisco-based US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 7-4 March 20, 2025 to uphold California’s ban on standard-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 cartridges.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, 20 Reasons to Concealed Carry a Defensive Firearm ]

The case was a Second Amendment challenge to California’s 2016 law that bars possession of such magazines.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Senior US District Judge Declares Gun Magazine Capacity Limits Unconstitutional ]

The US Supreme Court in 2021 remanded the lawsuit back to the Ninth Circuit following the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, US Supreme Court Affirms Right to Carry Arms in Public for Self-Defense ]

The Ninth Circuit’s latest ruling says California’s ban does not violate Second Amendment rights because such magazines are not “arms” within the US Constitution’s meaning, nor are they protected accessories.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Important Judicial Decisions Regarding Self-Defense Law ]

But US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke demonstrated the logical reason for his dissent by video recording himself handling several personal handguns and explaining their mechanisms to educate viewers on why his judicial colleagues wrongly upheld the California law.