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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 25, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: If I’d have held off on posting a bit, the title might have been “Cops Kill 19 Kids and 3 Adults in Uvalde, TX”. So much info has come out putting cops in a bad light here, preventing not just parents entering but even preventing a border...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith, WorldExaminer.com
Ukraine has replaced COVID in the news and it hits me personally because my wife’s entire family lives in eastern Ukraine. A nephew over there is like a brother to my daughter, due to the many summers she spent there as a child. Vigano Spreads False Russian...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
It’s February 2022 and Ukraine has replaced SARS-CoV-2 as the focus of all news media. My wife is from Ukraine so for many years I blogged on Ukraine on my old World Examiner blog here. Recently I repurposed the WorldExaminer.com domain to point to a page on...
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 | Mar 29, 2020 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
The federal Department of Homeland Security has declared gun stores and shooting ranges to be part of our nationwide “essential critical infrastructure workforce” in sharp contradiction to what many localities are doing in shutting down gun stores...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 1, 2020 | News & Commentary
This should not surprise anyone who understands violent criminals don’t painstakingly follow gun laws, but California, the state that highly restricts gun ownership and use and serves as a lab for crazy new restrictions, also topped the list for mass...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 23, 2019 | Family Protection, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
New Puerto Rico law, Act No. 168, greatly expands gun rights in the US territory effective next week on January 1, 2020. The law adopts a “shall-issue” type of concealed carry permit issuance and cites specifically the need to comply with Supreme...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 14, 2019 | News & Commentary
Less than two hours after today’s shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, which at this hour has resulted in the deaths of two students, SLO Tribune published this article using the tragedy to pitch useleess gun control that would not have helped...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 18, 2019 | News & Commentary
FBI’s 2018 crime report shows a big drop in violent crime, despite enemy media’s attempt to conflate homicides with the much larger problem of suicides. More analysis here: All methods of murder dropped by 7 percent in 2018, and gun murders fell by...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 17, 2019 | News & Commentary
The interesting thing about this case is that under federal law you cannot carry a gun in a post office parking lot, or even have it in the trunk of your car — even if you have a carry permit. An Andrews woman was stabbed Tuesday evening during a dispute...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 17, 2019 | News & Commentary
From NRA-ILA: Governor Newsom signed seven anti-gun bills into law — continuing the assault on our Second Amendment rights in the Golden State. These new laws pile onto the hundreds of existing laws and, like the others, will be equally ignored by criminals....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 17, 2019 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Florida now joins several other states in allowing teachers to carry. Smart teachers will step up and do so. Smart school districts will make it a job...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 17, 2019 | News & Commentary
Couple of local knife attacks made the news. Santa Barbara sheriff says Tarzan actor Ron Ely’s wife was killed by their son — stabbed multiple times. And just down the street from us, according to SLO sheriff, an Arroyo Grande man barricaded himself...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 4, 2019 | News & Commentary
Concealed carry permit holders now number almost 19 million, nationally — over 1.4 million more permit holders than last year. Women and minorities lead the way in growth. Article...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 1, 2019 | News & Commentary
FAIRFAX, Va.– The National Rifle Association of America declared victory in San Francisco today, after Mayor London Breed formally disavowed key provisions of a municipal resolution that signaled the blacklisting of contractors linked to the Second Amendment...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 17, 2019 | News & Commentary
“Get down on your knees!” It’s not something a teacher ordinarily would shout during a summer training program, but this is no ordinary program. Story...
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 | 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 | Apr 6, 2019 | News & Commentary
https://youtu.be/lXGgI2E5JUw Have you heard that the US is #1 in mass shootings? I...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 18, 2019 | Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 4, 2019 | Estate Planning, Estate Tax, News & Commentary, Property Tax, Tax Planning
While the estate tax is a perennial boomerang, Warren’s wealth tax tomahawk chop flies in the face of the Constitution’s prohibition on unapportioned scalping: The Constitution prohibits federal direct taxes that are not apportioned by population,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2019 | News & Commentary
Cackling Kamala Ringtone UPDATE: When i first posted this almost six years ago, of course i had no idea Harris would ever be running for president. Now traffic has surged for this post, especially after Biden’s Final Debate. I hope she fails in her bid for the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 22, 2019 | News & Commentary
Apparently a LOT of folks at Google, based on the number of upvotes for the following employee complaint, feel it is inappropriate to use the word “family” in a way that assumes there are children in the family: This is a diminishing and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Commentary
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Why, to qualify for fruit cup? “We just want to make sure we’re representing the people that are in our community,” he said. But Alexander told the Bee that the “stupid” questions offended her so much that she has considered withdrawing from the program,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Hungary is defending its nation by defending its families: The Hungarian government wants to reverse its own demographic decline the old fashioned way: by making it easier for the nation’s own citizens to have bigger families. To this end, Prime Minister Victor...
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 | Nov 1, 2018 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, News & Commentary
Sounds like a good idea, possibly for inclusion in incentive trust planning: “I want to make a promise to myself and to God that I will stay pure until I get married. “I don’t have to have sex to know that I am loved.” The Purity Movement preaches...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
While the estate planning bar is a little hot under the collar over they handle trusts, at least this is some good news: Wells Fargo bucked corporate gun control by issuing $40 million in credit to Sturm, Ruger, & Co. Bloomberg reports that the $40 million...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
SAF has defended the Second Amendment rights of resident aliens before, with success. Riverside should back down on this. The Second Amendment Foundation has joined in a federal lawsuit challenging Riverside County, California and Sheriff Stanley Sniff over the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2018 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Someone pulls out and activates a chainsaw on BART while verbalizing a threat of massacre, and you respond by posting a video on Twitter? and BART finds out about it because of your hashtag #BART, apparently because no one else called 911 either? #SMH! “I...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 25, 2018 | News & Commentary
American minds prove resilient after temporarily almost succumbing to media brainwashing a year ago: 57% oppose banning semi-automatic guns; 40% favor a ban Opposition is up after 2017 reading in wake of Las Vegas shooting Democrats more than twice as likely as...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 24, 2018 | Blended Families, Dying Embarrassed, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
There are lots of ways to die embarrassed. Bad estate planning is one example; see the category above for others. Nothing can top being trampled for eternity while listening to bad puns! Seriously, have you given thought to the ultimate disposition of your remains? Do...
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 | Oct 18, 2018 | News & Commentary
Huge increase in CCW’s issued nationwide, and that’s great! But how often are those with permits actually carrying? One of the advantages of open carry is that you know which neighbors meet their duty of carrying, and you can see if they are doing...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 26, 2018 | Family Protection, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
https://youtu.be/wHfoUWg3zw0 You can tell Brett Kavanaugh’s “virgin defense” is effective — just look how it’s belittled by all the media right now, on the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee showdown planned for tomorrow. The fact is,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 8, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
We all love and R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha for her work and wisdom about life, but she “died embarrassed” in at least one respect: no estate plan! There is so much potential to harm family when one fails to plan properly. She clearly had time to plan, and was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 7, 2018 | News & Commentary
A people trained to arms would be laughing hysterically at this: Feinstein next took issue with a dissent that Judge Kavanaugh had written in a case that upheld a D.C. “assault weapon” ban similar to the expired federal law. Specifically, she chided him for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 25, 2018 | News & Commentary
Birds of a feather flock together, socialist rats travel in packs… ROME, August 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — What you are about to read is an explosive testimony of the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, implicating Pope Francis and several senior...