by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
Heard about this story yesterday, while I was in a remote part of NEVADA firing off THOUSANDS of rounds with my wife and daughter: APPLE VALLEY (CBSLA.com) — The FBI on Tuesday continued to investigate an incident in which 17 men were detained for reportedly firing...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 30, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
Riveting decision nails aerospace employer: Despite the clear language of Mississippi’s law, numerous employers have for years openly defied it. They insisted that because the legislature did not expressly provide for a remedy in the law, they could still continue to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 28, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today won a major victory when a federal judge for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) declared the commonwealth’s ban on handguns to be unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Source: FEDERAL...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 26, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
But we still recommend having an estate plan because left to their own devices everyone else will do dumb things with your stuff while you are off enjoying eternal life, and more importantly, as a good steward you will want to use that stuff to transmit the wisdom you...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 26, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
I support this. You can sign the petition here: RECOGNIZE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO OPEN CARRY FIREARMS AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION AT THE QUICKEN LOANS ARENA IN JULY 2016 Source: Petition · Quicken Loans Arena: Allow Open Carry of Firearms at the Quicken...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 26, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
The new law allowing open carry in Texas requires a carry permit, and I suspect that is the main reason for the surge. Open carry is just a lot more comfortable in hot weather, often more practical and perhaps even safer, depending on the circumstances. He says the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 26, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
10.994 because of Montana which is not permitless in urban areas (in Montana that is basically one town with a bit too many cud-munching Dems): In March this year, West Virginia also adopted Constitutional Carry. You can now carry concealed without a permit...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
FAIRFAX, Va. – The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) applauds Gov. Butch Otter for standing up to New York City billionaire Michael Bloomberg and signing SB 1389 into law. This important piece of pro-gun legislation allows...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2016 | News & Commentary
This may be helpful to some older people I know. If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
View More: Politics News|Live News|More News Videos MARCH 25, 2016, 8:14 AM|There is a new twist on some classic fairy tales, courtesy of the National Rifle Association. On the NRA Family website, the organization is sharing new endings to “Hansel and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2016 | News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 23, 2016 | News & Commentary
First off, remember the Supreme Court can only hear a tiny fraction of cases submitted. Second, this may not be the best time to have this case heard. Granted, the ban on post office carry is a long-standing irritation to concealed carriers — high time it was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 23, 2016 | News & Commentary
…You haven’t met the estate planning tax attorneys in California, and you oughta pray you never do. If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
Here in California, we have our own two-legged and four-legged hazards (coyote, occasional deer and mountain lion) and in some cases a sidearm may be helpful. Maybe if Indian villages were armed, things would be different: India is home to 29,000 wild elephants, about...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
Yesterday SCOTUS vacated and remanded a case (Caetano v Massachusetts) where the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upheld that state’s ban on stun guns. The Court’s short per curiam decision begins with this quote from Heller: The Court has held that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
“How is life in Brussels today?” The Left doubts while terrorism sprouts. An ad campaign by Brussels’ tourism department mocked the idea of a terrorist attack in the city with waffle jokes just two months before Monday’s massacres inside the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
As Californians are well aware, gun control advocates are working several different angles to destroy law-abiding gun ownership. They have rewritten the definition of a firearm several times, gone after ammunition, given the California Department of Justice authority...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 22, 2016 | News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
Give the libs an inch and they will take a doggone mile. New York, Washington State and now San Francisco is following suit by mandating all rifles and shotguns be either locked or dismantled. Maybe Democrat Supervisor Mark Farrell – author of the proposal – missed...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 21, 2016 | News & Commentary
Gas stations are a higher-risk venue: The woman suspected to have pulled the trigger in a gas station shooting seen in high definition surveillance video has been arrested Source: Suspect arrested in gas station shooting caught on high-definition surveillance video...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 20, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
KOAA.com | Continuous News | Colorado Springs and Pueblo COLORADO CITY -Students at Craver Middle School in Colorado City spent the past two days learning everything about safely handling guns — where they’ve come from, why we have them, and how to shoot...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 19, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 19, 2016 | News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 18, 2016 | Family Protection, News & Commentary
Except in a very few states (like California), shall-issue rules for concealed carry permits are old news and no longer exciting. The new trend is to allow permitless carry, open or concealed: If you’re not aware of the movement underway across the United States to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 16, 2016 | Family Protection, News & Commentary
The massacre of Christians continues, often with guns. What if Christian parents actually shot back? Suspected al Qaeda terrorists shot dead a five-year-old boy who fell to his knees and prayed for his life during a terror attack on a tourist resort in Ivory Coast,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 16, 2016 | News & Commentary
Great thread over at Calguns. We’ve seen how women (including my wife and daughter) love AR-15’s due to the low recoil, and how light they are. Why not seniors, and for the same exact reasons? Seniors in general, like women in particular, face a higher...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 16, 2016 | Archived, Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
News reports like the video above portray Obama’s nomination of “centrist” Merrick Garland to fill Justice Scalia’s vacant seat on the Supreme Court as some sort of reasonable outreach by Obama to the Senate. “Above politics” indeed...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 15, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
The California State Sheriffs’ Association opposes “The Safety for All Act of 2016” gun control ballot initiative proposed by Gavin Newsom. Read CSSA’s letter here. If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 14, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
Killings in Los Angeles have surged by 27.5% so far in 2016 compared to the same period last year as the city continued to see a rise in violent crime, LAPD officials said Tuesday.The jump in homicides along with double-digit increases in aggravated assaults and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 14, 2016 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Good example of combat mindset. Stay in the fight! Israeli man who was stabbed multiple times Tuesday afternoon in a terror attack in Petah Tikva managed to remove the knife from his neck and use it to stab and neutralize his attacker, aided by the store owner, police...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 14, 2016 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
While the result might not be surprising to most, the children who didn’t touch the weapon were children whose families have guns inside the home and have explained the dangers and responsibilities of guns. Source: Experiment Shows Differences Between Children...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 14, 2016 | News & Commentary
Another careless cop with inferior training: Police said Johnson had a concealed pistol and wanted to see how it fit the shirt. They allege that he pulled the trigger, sending a bullet through his sweat shirt on a fitting room bench, and then abandoned both items of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 12, 2016 | News & Commentary
Nationally gun sales are on the rise, but that is not the only change the gun market is seeing. The National Shooting Sports Foundation found that from 2001 to 2013 the number of women target shooters increased by 85%. Source: Local gun store owner says around 30...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 12, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 12, 2016 | News & Commentary
Please share our graphic! Click on graphic to enlarge. A copy of the paper upon which this graphic is based is available here. Source: Share our new graphic: Do Background Checks on Private Firearm Transfers Help Stop Mass Public Shootings? – Crime Prevention...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 11, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary, Probate Admin, Trust Admin
BTW, there is no such thing as a “gun accident” — this was a negligent discharge. Stop a moment and think whether your family is trained at least in the basic rules of gun safety. I can tell you it is very common for family members with absolutely no...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 10, 2016 | News & Commentary
Pursuant to a FOIA request, ATF estimates there are a half million machine guns in its database, including 176,000 that are transferable (pre-1986). If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 10, 2016 | News & Commentary
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 10, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
With government and elites all arrayed against gun rights, isn’t it time your family planned seriously to carry on the firearm legacy? From the Entertainment Industries Council website: The following points for consideration were created as a resource for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 8, 2016 | Archived, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
In response to Obama’s executive orders restricting gun trusts, Congress will consider a “Family Firearm Protection Act” to preserve the firearm legacy by exempting transfers to family members. Responding to President Obama’s efforts to improve the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 8, 2016 | News & Commentary
This is a good example of lack of training on the part of both active shooter and the media. Aspiring mass shooter who lacked training (typical for criminals) tries to shoot up workplace but lacks training to clear malfunction quickly. Journalist who lacks training...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 7, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
SB 707, which took effect January 1 of this year, generally bans concealed carry licensees from carrying at school but has an exception for retired cops. Even cops can get caught up in our complicated gun laws, arrested by other cops! None of which helps in the fight...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 7, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
I hope the apparent thaw is real. In my interview for a CCW, I discussed the issue of widespread carry with a higher-level staff member and he was definitely against the idea. This certainly sounds like a different sheriff than the one who told me “Orange County...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 7, 2016 | News & Commentary
There is already a 10-day waiting period, and even that doesn’t do anything to prevent homicide. The only rationale for this is to stigmatize guns and gun owners and delay the inevitable normalization of bearing handguns long enough for their criminal friends to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 6, 2016 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Remember everyone, the purpose of gun laws is to improve working conditions for criminals: This website contains the complete research I conducted while writing a piece of investigative journalism titled “Safe Cracking Is Too Easy,” published in the September 2015,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 6, 2016 | News & Commentary
Here is a well-written article that for the most part seems to be a fair and honest attempt to analyze the gun issue. Yet look carefully at the final two paragraphs. Yes, I want to feel like I can protect myself when I am confronted by danger. But I also know that in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 6, 2016 | News & Commentary
Strange, considering how common suicide is in Japan, but according to this article end-of-life planning with living wills is a relatively new thing in Japan, not yet common: By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he...