Self-Defense Laws in Nevada

Nevada has a stand-your-ground rule. A person is not required to retreat before using deadly force as provided in NRS 200.120(1) if the person: '(a) Is not the original aggressor; (b) Has a right to be present at the location where deadly force is used; and (c) Is not actively engaged in conduct in furtherance of criminal activity at the time deadly force is used' (NRS 200.120(2)). Justifiable homicide includes killing in necessary self-defense or defense of a person against one who manifestly intends or endeavors to commit a crime of violence (NRS 200.120(1)). A bare fear is not enough; the circumstances must be sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person (NRS 200.130).

Justifiable homicide includes killing in defense of an occupied habitation or an occupied motor vehicle against any person who manifestly intends and endeavors, in a violent, riotous, tumultuous or surreptitious manner, to enter it for the purpose of assaulting or offering personal violence to anyone inside (NRS 200.120(1)). 'There is a rebuttable presumption that the circumstances were sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person' if the killer knew or reasonably believed the person killed was unlawfully entering or attempting to enter an occupied habitation or occupied motor vehicle and was committing or attempting a crime of violence, and the killer did not provoke the person (NRS 200.130(2)). Civil: a person lawfully in a residence, transient lodging or motor vehicle who uses force intended or likely to cause death or bodily injury against a person committing burglary, invasion of the home, or grand larceny of a motor vehicle with a deadly weapon is presumed to have had a reasonable fear of imminent death or bodily injury, rebuttable only by clear and convincing evidence; such force is immune from civil liability for personal injury or wrongful death if justified under NRS chapter 200 (NRS 41.095).