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Self Defense in the News

The Armed Citizen
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  • Latest Update
    News about the Righthaven lawsuits is spreading like wildfire online. This is partly a result of new victims being added (the total is now over 100 lawsuits) and partly because the blogosphere is the quickest way to spread any news. A quick search of Google News reveals multiple news sources covering the story, and the Righthaven [...]

  • Appeal For Funds
    We are going to fight this outrageous lawsuit–and we’re going to need some money to fight.  The latest lawsuits filed against other parties involve copyright infringements based on “four paragraphs,” properly attributed and linked back to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Will you be allowed to quote two paragraphs?  One paragraph?  One sentence?  Please: not only for [...]

  • Lawsuit Update
    First things first. Lots of people want to know what’s going to happen, whether we will settle or fight. We don’t know. To be honest, neither of us have firmly decided one way or the other. When people start using the law in unorthodox ways to bully or extort from small nonprofit blogs, you don’t want to [...]

  • BREAKING: “The Armed Citizen” Closes – Site Named in Infringement Suit
    On July 21st, The Armed Citizen received an indirect and informal notice of a lawsuit against this website and its owners, David Burnett and Clayton Cramer. The suit, reportedly filed in US District Court on July 20th, alleges that The Armed Citizen and its owners “willfully copied” and infringed on original source content from the Las [...]