by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 31, 2024 | Blog, Life, News & Commentary
I’ve posted several times before on the occasional mountain lion attack in California, but bear attacks are less common here. (A few years ago this young California lady was attacked while taking a nap in her backyard near Los Angeles; of course Canadians see...
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 Maintenance, Family Protection, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
Elon Musk blames the “woke mind virus” for robbing him of his son whom he considers basically dead at this point because of the transgender cult. Call it cultural marxism, woke, whatever, I have definitely seen a trend among colleagues on estate planning...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment
John Lott has some examples here of recent Hollywood propaganda using anti-gun scripts. This is a longstanding problem I’ve posted on for many years, particularly on bad gun handling. Lott notes (with examples) such shortcomings as failing to portray successful...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Life, News & Commentary
John Lott reports here that the CDC is showing an increase in homicides despite the FBI reporting a sharp drop in murders. Lott has previously criticized FBI data in recent years. One major problem is the large drop in police department reporting to FBI. The only...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
UPDATE: To quell out-of-control rumors and riots resulting from the information vacuum, British judge has released information about the suspect in custody even though he is a minor, a few days short of his 18th birthday. Turns out the suspect is a migrant from...
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 17, 2024 | Blog, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Honor, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
Elon Musk announced yesterday he is relocating headquarters for both SpaceX and Xitter from California to Texas, due to concerns over bad new laws and escalating crime in California. In particular, Musk cited concern over Governor Noisome’s signing of AB 1955, a...
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 20, 2024 | Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Probate Admin, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
In a major unanimous decision (Connelly v US) sure to cause revision of many business succession plans, the US Supreme Court earlier this month on June 6, 2024, rejected use of a corporate redemption obligation as an estate deduction. While the Court pointed out in a...
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 19, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
A new Pew poll finds that Trump voters are FAR more likely (59%) than Biden voters (19%) to say that society should prioritize marriage and having children. That the rate is higher among Trump voters should not surprise anyone. I’ve definitely noticed a...
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 5, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
UPDATE 9/28/25: While Bonta appealed, the Ninth Circuit has not yet taken up the appeal (pending other cases) and may not take it up. As for now, the injunction remains in place and is considered permanent. Federal Judge Roger Benitez in the case of Fouts v Bonta...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
Increasingly, young adults are choosing permanent sterilization. Your estate plan can punish them for doing so. (Or reward them, whatever.) Not talking about transgender surgery. Big sterilization issue there obviously, but that was the subject of another recent post....
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 4, 2024 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
California men who undergo transgender surgery (removing male genitals and replacing with something else) double their risk of suicide. How long will we continue to allow this demonic, macabre nonsense? Most children confused about what sex they are, grow out of that...
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 | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Income Tax, News & Commentary, Property Tax, Tax Planning
My daughter, Ayn, will be heading for law school this Fall! She was offered a very nice package covering most expenses of attending the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Most estate planning attorneys like me, especially those of us...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 4, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Creditors & Predators, Entity Formation, Fortune, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Venture Protection
National Small Bus. United v. Yellen, No. 5:22-cv-1448-LCB (N.D. Ala. Mar. 1, 2024) On Friday, March 1, 2024, in National Small Bus. United v. Yellen, Judge Liles C. Burke of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled via memorandum...
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 | 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 | 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? This video is the best way for gun owners and attorneys who help them to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 5, 2023 | Blog, News & Commentary
The sharing plugin I use (icons visible on this page, top of post and floating bar on left) recently added Truth Social to its premium version, which you can learn about here. For WordPress blogs, this is the only option I know of that includes Truth Social. Gab has...
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 “exciting” incident where I held up a piece of plastic: The video below shows a couple of idiots saying they were terrified when I held up a piece of plastic. You can skip the email input, but if you do that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, News & Commentary
RECENT COVID FASCISM NEWS Higher use of Covid mRNA shots correlates with a small but notable increase in all-cause mortality, according to a new paper from a Dutch researcher. Story here. A recent report from The Washington Free Beacon suggests the Centers for Disease...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, News & Commentary
CULTURAL MARXISM NEWS Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults reached all-time high in 2021. Story here. Regular cannabis use in people’s mid-20s can cause permanent damage to brain development and legalizing the drug has WRONGLY presented it as...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 3, 2022 | Blog, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
MORRO BAY, CA — At long last, the fate of the Morro Bay Power Plant is decided. Public support for Vistra’s Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) wanes with every new exploding Tesla, undt der Fuhrer Biden deems public support important, especially since...
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 28, 2022 | Blog, News & Commentary
Quick recap of the latest family power news: Vaccines A Toronto-area casket manufacturer has seen a dramatic rise in orders for smaller-sized coffins since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Children are dying in record numbers. But there is a silver lining: you can...
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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, News & Commentary
Last Friday, one day after the Supreme Court’s landmark NYSRPA v Bruen decision (analyzed fully here), California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta rushed out a bizarre letter offering inept guidance to various state officials involved in issuing concealed...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
In the case of Kennedy v Bremerton School District (slip opinion), SCOTUS today ruled in favor of a high school football coach who was terminated for kneeling and praying mid-game on school grounds, in violation of his First Amendment rights to free speech and to free...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
Now that I’ve read the full majority opinion and concurrences, I have a few comments and predictions to make regarding NYSRPA v Bruen (I’ve omitted citations, so please just go to the actual opinion and use CTRL-F if you need to find something). I ignored...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
The Supreme Court of the United States, a few minutes ago, released its opinion in Dobbs v Jackson overturning both Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, thus returning the issue of abortion to the People and their elected representatives. The decision is either...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 23, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
In a blockbuster decision released minutes ago, the Supreme Court of the United States has held with a solid 6-3 majority in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, that New York’s statutory restriction against bearing arms...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 21, 2022 | Blog, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
In an opinion released today, the US Supreme Court struck down a Maine tuition assistance program assisting parents of kids located in districts without a secondary school to help them send their kids to private school. However, the program was for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 1, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
59% of Ukrainians who took part in a poll through the Dіia application are in favor of allowing all citizens to have a gun and carry it in public places. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov announced this on Facebook, Ukrainian...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 1, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
This month, June of 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of NYSRPA v Bruen, will hold that you have a fundamental individual right to carry a firearm for self-defense outside of your home, in public. Not that you don’t already have that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 25, 2022 | Blog, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
[UPDATE — POLL RESULTS: 59% of Ukrainians supported right to carry gun in public] The Ukrainian application “Diia” (digital documents and government services) launched a survey on the attitude of Ukrainians to the legalization of weapons for...