by Dave Duringer | Feb 27, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
Officer Simon Drobik says that a 34-year-old good Samaritan, who is not being named since he has not been charged with a crime, saw the attack unfold and intervened. “Once he started walking up, he saw that there was a male violently pistol-whipping a female in the...
by Dave Duringer | Feb 9, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, Firearm Training, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
According to an LA Times article here, a top local realtor figured prominently in the recent Laguna Woods shooting: CBS2/KCAL9’s Stacey Butler spoke with Jennifer Heflin, who said the shooting was prompted in part by an argument over remodeling plans. Heflin, who...
by Dave Duringer | Jan 25, 2018 | Archived, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
Legacy is ninety percent training. What could be more important, under the American concept of ordered liberty, than a family with a legacy of firearm training? We’ll focus on this topic at our Family Protection Clinic (aka estate planning seminar) lunch meeting on...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 29, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Stephen Willeford was at his home on the morning of Nov. 5 when his daughter informed him of gunshots being fired at nearby Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church. A man had opened fire on worshipers and was murdering them in droves. Willeford, disregarding his own...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 29, 2017 | Archived, Firearm Training
Apparently a recent policy change has some alarmed: A miscommunication on an Orange County Sheriff’s Department web page sparked a small panic in one of the county’s fastest-growing clubs — people who hold concealed weapons permits. The web page, entitled “CCW...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 28, 2017 | Archived, Firearm Training
Share this post with your friends! Front Sight advertises this course at $1000 and we cover that tuition in full, plus we pay for your background check and gun/gear rental! [If you are interested and satisfy the below conditions, go to www.guntrust.org and complete...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 26, 2017 | Firearm Training
If you shoot through car doors, Critical Duty may be just the thing for you: With their Critical Defense line of ammunition, the engineers at Hornady realized that most citizens looking for ammunition for their concealed handguns aren’t likely to be shooting through...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 23, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Shortly after 2 a.m., a 27-year-old man was pulling his vehicle into a back yard lot in the 9100 block of South Blackstone when another male approached and pointed a weapon, according to Chicago Police. The 27-year-old, who has a concealed carry permit, opened fire,...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 23, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Religious Faith
Thomas Aquinas and his treatment of self-defense in his great work Summa Theologiae should be a part of any debate on use of lethal force in self-defense (online here): Question 64. Murder Article 7. Whether it is lawful to kill a man in self-defense? Objection...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 23, 2017 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
From NRA-ILA: With 42 states and the District of Columbia now recognizing the Right-to-Carry, California’s retrograde may-issue Carry Concealed Weapon licensing regime is atypical. However, a recent state audit of three of California’s CCW license issuing...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 21, 2017 | Death Tax, Estate Planning, Firearm Training, Tax Planning
The expected new Tax Cut and Jobs Act (not the official title anymore, but i’m sticking with it) doubles the applicable exclusion amount for estate tax but reverts to current law on January 1, 2026. That sunset provision reminds me of this funny old video...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 13, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
This and other examples of kids using guns in self-defense...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 10, 2017 | Archived, Firearm Training
Now approved by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to provide training for the California license to Carry a Concealed Weapon (CCW), we have set January 20 as the date for our inaugural class and, as with all of the firearm training we offer, this class is...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 9, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Starnes says the father isn’t facing charges and that he “really saved the day and protected a lot of people.” Story...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 27, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Another (yawn) mass shooting stopped by a good guy with a gun — this time at a Costco. Anyone else shop at Costco? Good people shop at...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 24, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Horror Stories
I would hope most people by now know that the Texas church massacre was stopped by a good guy with a gun, Stephen Willeford, and that the gun he used to stop the attack was the oft-maligned AR-15. Some on the Left are so crazy they actually say Willeford should not...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 5, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
UPDATE: The Texas church shooter (who BTW preached atheism) was dishonorably discharged, had a history of domestic violence, so would seem to have been prohibited from possessing firearms. Bottom line, he criminally broke existing gun laws even before he murdered....
by Dave Duringer | Oct 3, 2017 | Firearm Training
A few brief comments on the horrific attack in Vegas — brief because so early in a shooting like this, there is a lot of false reporting. For example, it was initially reported that Vegas police broke through Paddock’s door just ten minutes into the...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 2, 2017 | Firearm Training
Seems like everyone these days is hawking self-defense products, and not all of these salesmen are friendly toward gun rights. The sad reality is that many of these purveyors of pepper spray are pacifist-aggressive, anti-gun activists, intent on spreading propaganda...
by Dave Duringer | Sep 26, 2017 | Firearm Training
Story here. Videos are rather shocking to watch. Granted, the officer did not have much time to react and may have confused the item taken from his belt (which does appear to be a magazine) for something more lethal or perhaps the officer didn’t realize it was...
