by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
12-year-old boy saves father in Wisconsin bear attack by shooting the bear! Story here. Owen knew he had to do something to save his father’s life. “I saw him (the bear) knock him to the ground, and I just saw the black outline and shot over the dog’s back and hit the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
John Lott reports: The just-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) shows violent crime has soared under Biden-Harris. If you look at rape, robbery, and aggravated assaults (the NCVS doesn’t measure murder),...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
This is a brave dad who should be commended for quick action to save his son: The victim was treated for his injuries then released, but had to return to the hospital after experiencing complications with wounds to his eyes. His current condition is not clear, the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
This shocking story is a reminder that not all threats appear as Darth Vader: Police in Minden, Louisiana, revealed on Monday that an 11-year-old boy confessed to the murder of former Mayor Joe Cornelius Sr., age 82, and his 31-year-old daughter, Keisha Miles....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary
The CRPA on September 19, 2024, petitioned for en banc review of the Ninth Circuit panel’s decision regarding preliminary injunctive relief in May v Bonta (written by Judge Graber aka Grabber) oppressively curtailing the right to bear arms in California. En banc...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 7, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Health Planning, Honor, Life
The Ninth Circuit panel in the May and Carralero (“May v Bonta”) sensitive places cases yesterday issued its opinion, written by Judge Graber (i promise to refrain from adding another b to her name), which, if not soon corrected by en banc ruling (either...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: Gov. Noisome signed AB 262 into law on 9/22/24.] AB 262 is an innocuous sounding bill providing for the study of safety regulations relating to children’s camps. Yet given California’s recent history of attacking gun culture, we can expect this...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
The Massachusetts Supreme Court in Commonwealth v Canjura has struck down a ban on switchblade carry as violating the Second Amendment. Following Bruen analysis, the Court could not find any historical analogues from the time of the Founding, or ratification of the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
The Ninth Circuit in Nguyen v Bonta has reversed its stay on a preliminary injunction against California’s “1-in-30” ban on purchasing more than one firearm in a thirty day period. After only one day of oral arguments, it was clear the State could...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary
After correcting massive errors found in FBI reports, Dr John Lott reports that at least 35% of mass shootings from 2014 through 2023 were stopped by private armed citizens. (I’m intentionally using the term “mass shooting” even though the studies,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
The stream of reporting continues on knife attacks in gun free Europe. I don’t know if that’s because the frequency of these attacks has increased, or if this is just due to increased media attention, but it’s always interesting to note the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 4, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, Punishment
Documents produced by Morro Bay city clerk on request for public records: 3_ccw denial response to mbpd 1_Duringer Denial Letter draft.doc-redacted Response to your PRA request.html-redacted Re Safety.html-redacted Re Response to your PRA request.html-redacted RE PRA...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Kamala Harris, in a recent speech to the American Federation of Teachers, mocked as “extremists” those who would arm teachers for classroom defense: “While you try to create safe and welcoming places where our children can learn, extremists attack our...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Breitbart reports on CNN report that more Americans are now armed for self-defense than ever before. The report cited data from Injury Prevention journal, which revealed the percentage of gun owners that cited “personal protection” as the reason for getting a gun...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life, News & Commentary
Ominous report from San Diego: Border Patrol agents took three suspected Palestinian terrorists into custody earlier this month after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico into California, the New York Post reported. One of the men reportedly had a “salacious...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
About a month ago the video at left was posted by Mark Smith of the Four Boxes Diner channel who, like me and quite a few other attorneys, is a member of the US Supreme Court bar, a fact I know only because he actually introduces himself as such in the first few...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 21, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
The US Supreme Court today released its 8-1 decision in US v Rahimi, holding that: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary
An FBI memo sent shortly after the Covenant School shooting urged police not to release the Nashville shooter manifesto to the public. Reasons given: future mass attackers would learn and copy methods; such “legacy tokens” are often misleading and not...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
A few days ago (June 14, 2024) in Garland v Cargill, the US Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled that bump stocks are not machine guns. Actually, the Court ruled they are not “machineguns” and the Court uses that single word throughout the opinion as that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 16, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Although most research finds that concealed carry reduces violent crime, several recent studies claim to show that concealed carry increases violent crime. In a new study linked here, Professors Lott and Moody analyze three possible causes for the supposed increase,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 6, 2024 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, Probate Admin, Religious Faith, Trust Admin
Here is a quick overview of seven major types of gun trusts: Trust Mill NFA Trust: This is a “simple” (sometimes shockingly simple) “cookie-cutter” type boilerplate trust designed for purchase of firearms and/or suppressors regulated under the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Federal Judge Roger Benitez in the case of Fouts v Bonta recently ruled California’s longtime ban on billy clubs (defined vaguely and potentially including many types of objects, for example any stick intended as a weapon) as an unconstitutional infringement of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary
Is violent crime really falling? Police have their hands full depriving you of your right to bear arms. Do you expect them to arrest real criminals that fight back? Not lately, and that is why there is a huge drop in the reporting of violent crime. No point in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
More evidence that so-called “standard capacity” is not at all standard, and that so-called “high capacity” is actually standard: NSSF’s Detachable Magazine Report (1990-2021) found an estimated total of 963,772,000 ammunition magazines in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
Mass stabbing at Sydney shopping mall. Australia severely restricts the natural right to bear arms, and the result is what you would expect: six killed, many more injured. Stopped by a female police officer’s gun, but not in time to prevent horrific death and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life
An 85-year-old Idaho mother, after an intruder apparently gave her a bloody strike in the head while she lay in bed and then handcuffed her to a chair in her living room, dragged herself (along with the chair) back into her bedroom to retrieve a .357 magnum revolver....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life
Guns are synonymous with violent crime in the minds of many. Why? Constant anti-gun propaganda. People are brainwashed. The reality is that 92% of violent crime does not involve any use of firearms in the commission of the crime. Guns are what violent criminals fear...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Despite all the leftist rhetoric against arming teachers, there has never been a school shooting at a school where armed teachers are allowed to carry a firearm for defense of themselves and students. This should not be surprising to anyone who follows mass attacks,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 27, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Firearm Legacy
Another large shipment of books arrived! Clients who participate in our Client Maintenance Plan get my “Estate Planning Strategies” book free. And my maintenance plan itself is free if you pass the handgun skills test using the free training i provide....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 28, 2024 | Blog, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
Last week the Ninth Circuit denied en banc hearing in Junior Sports Magazines, Inc. v. Bonta, saving youth gun training from destruction by a leftist attack on gun culture. While there has not yet been a decision on the merits of the case, denial of en banc let stand...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 3, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life
[UPDATE: For some reason, this post still gets a ton of traffic. For an update on the federal preliminary injunction against SB2, you might want to click here.] Does California State Parks allow licensed concealed carry (CCW) of a firearm at state parks and beaches?...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: Ninth Circus issued a stay today of the injunction by Judge Benitez. Not totally unexpected, but this particular circus is fast losing credibility. The State has ZERO chance of winning on the merits under the text/history test mandated by Bruen. Furthermore,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 21, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Pet Protection, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith
How does all of this make you feel about relying on politics and the courts to protect your family? How can the government be so fickle with your right to life? Maybe it’s time your family takes control, with a F.I.R.S.T. Family Trust? [GOOD NEWS 01/06/2024: On...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 29, 2023 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life
What is your stance on stance? A prominent local CCW instructor saw me using my favorite default shooting stance — Modified Weaver — and told me “no one” uses it anymore. He runs large classes and apparently teaches only Isosceles, the stance...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, Limitation of Liability, Regulatory Compliance, Venture Protection
After failure to pass a similar bill last year, Gov. Noisome recently signed into law SB2, which makes a concealed carry license more difficult and expensive to get, and basically worthless once you get it. But there is an upside for some: new opportunity zones for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, Religious Faith, WorldExaminer.com
[UPDATE: Gun sales and license applications are now surging in Israel. Imagine that. Almost like LA, the day after a riot. Does the same thing happen with fire extinguishers?] Israel gun ownership is only 2%. By contrast, over half of Americans own guns. It is not a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 26, 2023 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, Probate Admin, Trust Admin
The March/April 2023 edition of the bimonthly magazine “California Firing Line”, published by the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA), includes an “Information Bulletin” at pages 19-24 entitled Firearm Estate Planning —...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: Sen. Graham warns that if there is no presidential immunity, Biden could be prosecuted for murder of girls recently raped by illegals.] New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says Republicans should thank her for all the fundraising they are able to do as...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 17, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center recently compiled evidence (here) showing that the FBI is massively understating the number of active shooter incidents that are stopped by private armed citizens. Dr Lott points to systemic reasons why this might be...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Life, News & Commentary, Probate Admin, Religious Faith, Trust Admin, WorldExaminer.com
Presentation by Attorney Dave Duringer clears up confusion over California Gun Trust Planning. What is a Gun Trust? Is a Gun Trust Effective? Is a Gun Trust Necessary? Is a Gun Trust Recommended? YES! Every California gun owner should have one! A regular trust might...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, Trust Admin
Last year I wrote this scathing review of Michel & Cubeiro’s 2022 edition of their popular book “California Gun Laws”. Actually, my harsh criticism was limited to the portions touching on estate planning. As far as I knew, the rest of the book...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life, News & Commentary
You can skip entry of your email (but then you’ll miss out on some really great training): Morroans of all political stripes are shocked when they learn about Morro Bay Ordinance # 644, which requires that all guns at home in Morro Bay be locked up and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 15, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
This 30-second video below shows the famous incident where I held up a piece of plastic. You can skip the email input, but if you do that you’ll miss out on some important news and great training: The video below shows a couple of idiots saying they were...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, WorldExaminer.com
RECENT SECOND AMENDMENT NEWS Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as violence rises. Story here. Errors in Associated Press, the Washington Post, and the New York Times articles on how rarely concealed carry permit holders stop active shooters. Story...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 18, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
UPDATE: SB 918 is dead, for now at least. Do you take psych meds for anxiety or depression? You’ll be happy to hear Governor Noisome is about to sign SB 918 approving a fantastic “best of” list of choice mass shooting venues throughout California!...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 26, 2022 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
Breitbart reports: Japan has some of the most “restrictive” gun controls in the world – legal provisions that appeared not to prevent the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at the hands of an apparent lone gunman on Friday. It was a homemade shotgun....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 17, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Life, News & Commentary
Federal law unconstitutionally bans the sale of handguns to adults less than 21 years of age. Yet this 22-year-old hero, Elisjsha “Eli” Dicken, was alone able to take out a mall attacker armed with a rifle, who had already killed three and injured two....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 13, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith, WorldExaminer.com
California just enacted AB 2571 to restrict the ability of gun owners to transmit gun culture to their kids. This blatantly unconstitutional act bans advertising that may attract minors to firearms and the penalties for violation are huge, up to $25,000 per...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
The Supreme Court today (order list) issued “GVR’s” — granted certiorari, vacated judgment, and remanded to lower courts for reconsideration in light of NYSRPA v Bruen — in four cases that had upheld bans on open carry, magazines, and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
If you have a California CCW, or if you have applied for one, then you were doxed yesterday and today by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his merry band at DOJ. “Doxed” means a great deal of your personal, confidential information was released to...