by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 2, 2020 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
[For other examples of kids using guns in self-defense, click here.] Kyle is being charged, purely out of political expediency, despite ample video evidence of valid cause for self-defense in each of the three shootings. Kyle is a lifeguard who showed up to help...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2020 | Defensive Gun Use
Next time some politician says you should block your kids from accessing your firearms, even if trained, consider this: Deputies arrived and found an adult male with a gunshot wound to his lower back. Deputies learned that the subject that had been shot was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 29, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training, FREE content, guntrust.org members
[The video of this shooting is disappearing from the internet so I am posting it for students — take advantage of my offer of virtually unlimited free firearm training for you and everyone at your California place of worship.] The shooting occurred today...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 22, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Training
I regret that i lack time to blog more Defensive Gun Use (DGU) stories, even some interesting ones, but i cannot let 2019 close without blogging this recent story about a woman eight months pregnant who used an AR-15 to defend her husband and 11-year-old...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 17, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
An attempted robbery suspect was shot to death after police say he beat a movie theater manager with a bat….. The manager reportedly pulled out a gun and shot and killed the man who was beating her. Story...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 7, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use
A 14-year-old girl fired a 9mm pistol at someone looking to break into her home, according to the Lawrence County Constable Association and confirmed by the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office. Story here. See our list of similar cases of kids using guns for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Not technically a defensive gun use, but kid commando gets even more bonus points for using close contact weapon: “You hit them in the back of the head with a machete?” the 911 operator asked after Braydon told the story. “Did you see if he was bleeding at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Trenton, MO, police officer Jasmine Diab, 24, a single mother of a five-year-old girl, was shot in the abdomen by a prisoner she was transporting. A small group of concerned citizens, one of whom was armed, was able to rescue the officer and subdue the suspect...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
And these are just the ones picked up by media: Source: Sixty-seven defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public over the past three months – Crime Prevention Research CenterCrime Prevention Research...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
[UPDATE AND CORRECTION: The article linked below is incorrect — due to some very unclear media accounts. Apparently there was an armed white guy who failed to respond, but story here indicates it was another armed citizen, who happens to be BLACK, that actually...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Good shoot: A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened fire. The unidentified father was leaving the establishment with...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 24, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
HALF!? This is far too great an omission to be accidental. This false report has been used to minimize the importance of carry (including at an “active shooter” class i took, given by an anti-CCW former cop). The utility of concealed carry is much higher...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 18, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Amazing. After decades of advocating gun control “if it saves one life” while ignoring millions of defensive gun uses, the leftist media actually inks a headline braying that one cop — saved by an armed citizen who joined the fray —...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 23, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
Hopefully there was some justification for shooting in the head (other than “I didn’t train enough”): Investigators said it all started when the man’s wife pulled into their driveway Tuesday night. Then the two armed suspects jumped out and tried to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Girl could barely hold on to tree, she was up so long (half hour before 911 called). Why didn’t the mother have her own AR, or a pistol? According to the frantic 911 call made by the teen’s mother, there was more than one alligator involved. The...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
More on the Tumwater incident: “As a volunteer firefighter I have received active shooter training,” George explained. “I was sure what I heard was gunshots.” Police say 44-year old Tim Day went on a shooting and carjacking spree. He tried to carjack a couple...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
A couple of weeks ago I took a class covering armed defense in carjackings: Advanced Tactical Handgun (or Driver’s Ed, Front Sight style). Two armed citizens were credited with taking action Sunday after a carjacking suspect went on a rampage in Washington...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Just imagine, if they’d been carrying their guns instead of having to retrieve them from vehicles, a little girl might still have her colon intact, and another girl might still have use of her hand. Gun control hurts little girls. Juan Carlos Nazario, 35,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Handgun Combat Webmaster? Sherman Hopkins Jr, 43, broke into the apartment of an internet entrepreneur in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wearing pantyhose on his head, dark sunglasses, and brandishing a stolen handgun. He demanded that Ethan Deyo, 26, get on his computer...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
School attack fizzles due to quick action by good guy with a gun: As school systems across the country debate arming staff, state and local officials praised the actions of the school resource officer who fired at a gunman at Great Mills High School. “He...
