{"id":38364,"date":"2016-12-23T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=38364"},"modified":"2016-12-23T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T22:52:24","slug":"self-defense-law-expert-andrew-branca-joins-the-best-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/self-defense-law-expert-andrew-branca-joins-the-best-defense\/38364\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Defense Law Expert Andrew Branca Joins The Best Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AndrewBranca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AndrewBranca.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AndrewBranca-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>Andrew F. Branca will be a regular legal expert on the new season of The Best Defense which premieres on Outdoor Channel on December 28, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Branca is an internationally recognized expert on American self-defense law. Now in his third decade of practicing law, Andrew also nationally consults for other lawyers in high-profile self-defense cases, teaches self-defense law at the SigSauer Academy in Epping, NH, is frequently a featured speaker at law school gun law symposia around the country, and provides legal expertise for such news outlets as the Wall Street Journal and NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew began his competitive shooting activities as a youth in small bore rifle, and has for 20 years been a Life Member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and a multi-classification Master-class competitor in the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA). He has for many years been an NRA-certified firearms instructor in pistol, rifle, and personal protection, and is a life-long absolutist for the right to carry firearms and the Second Amendment generally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-the-best-defense-aftermath-communication-with-police\/38359\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the preview of the first episode of The Best Defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/lawofselfdefense.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.lawofselfdefense.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branca will be a regular legal expert on the new season of The Best Defense which premieres on Outdoor Channel on December 28, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":38365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,1],"tags":[3747,252,3746,14],"class_list":["post-38364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-featured","tag-andrew-branca","tag-self-defense","tag-self-defense-law","tag-the-best-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}