by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 7, 2016 | News & Commentary
Will Everytown for Gun Safety please stop this, right now? Their video is an effective propaganda piece, eliciting a negative emotional response to guns. But the reality is quite different. Look at just two recent cases — one in Arizona, and one in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 7, 2016 | Firearm Training
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 | Feb 5, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Funny story — read it: “He said, ‘I want your car,’ I said, ‘so do I.’” Source: Woman thwarts robbery 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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 5, 2016 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
“Welcome to the life of dating Chloe, who is more of a man than some men sometimes.” Beautiful actress, off to a great start. I’m thankful she is in Hollywood. Now if we could just get her to remember to call that thing she pulls back a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 4, 2016 | News & Commentary
If gun control works anywhere, shouldn’t it work on an island? New figures show that the number of murders and manslaughter deaths increased by 14 per cent last year bringing the annual total to 574, or 11 deaths a week. Source: Violent crime jumps 27 per cent...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 4, 2016 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
Add drunk coyotes to your list of things to be frightened about: In Canada, coyotes build snowmen. Source: Coyotes staring down drivers may be high on mushrooms | Fox News If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 4, 2016 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
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 | Feb 4, 2016 | News & Commentary
Matthew Hay-Chapman's account of how he first noticed the pris…The man in this video is Matthew Hay-Chapman. He is the homeless man credited with helping San Francisco police capture two Orange County jail fugitives last week, and he could now possibly...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 1, 2016 | News & Commentary
Fellow Second Amendment activists, remember when one of Sheriff Hutchens’ underlings surreptitiously spied on the Board of Supervisors using security camera access, capturing Chris Norby’s notes on the dais and Janet Nguyen’s texting, during those...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 1, 2016 | Firearm Legacy
Florida gun trust colleague David Goldman reminds us again not to believe everything we hear on the internet, in this case the myth that no engraving is required when a NFA item is made for personal use under a Form 1. Mr. Goldman explains the difference between...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | Tax Planning
After years of lambasting other countries for helping rich Americans hide their money offshore, the U.S. is emerging as a leading tax and secrecy haven for rich foreigners. By resisting new global disclosure standards, the U.S. is creating a hot new market, becoming...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
Homicides per 100,000 population: Caracas, Venezuela – 119.872. San Pedro Sula, Honduras – 111.033. San Salvador, El Salvador – 108.544. Acapulco, Mexico – 104.735. Maturin, Venezuela – 86.456. Distrito Central, Honduras – 73.517. Valencia, Venezuela – 72.318....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
“The citizens need to know they need to be able to protect themselves because if they call 911, we can’t guarantee we’re going to get there in time to help you,” says Police Protective League President Jamie McBride. Source: Only On 2: LAPD Officers Say More Patrol...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 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....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
Terrified Germans are looking for firearms for protection against incoming migrants, but the law requires them to jump through bureaucrat hoops just to obtain gas cartridge guns or signal pistols. German specialty weapons shops are allegedly selling three times as...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Multiple running gun battles, weapon hung up on holster (get kydex and dry practice!) but had the wits to seek cover in cooler until he could get the weapon out. Third robber waiting outside but after the shopkeeper, Bunthan Te, fought back, all robbers ran AWAY from...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Observant citizen, legally armed, notices cop struggling with bad guy trying to take his gun. Armed citizen persuades bad guy to stop. This is how it’s supposed to work, folks. “I think it’s important to note, with the uproar that we have on gun laws, that had...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
This short FBI drone video excerpt, only 41 seconds long, captures the shooting of Lavoy Finicum by law enforcement up in Oregon. The death of this father of eleven is a tragedy, but it does appear he MAY have been reaching for a gun. It all happened so fast. Perhaps...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | Firearm Training
Don’t mess with old guys, they’ll just shoot! Disparity of force ==> less rules: In a nutshell, the concept of victim/subject factors allows a victim to attempt to stop an attack by using more force sooner than another person in similar circumstances,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
In exchange for Herring withdrawing last month’s state reciprocity cancellations, Republicans agreed to legislation that states anyone with a permanent protective order for a domestic violence offense will be banned from carrying a firearm for the two-year life of the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 29, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
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 | Jan 29, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed: A South Korean man has died after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks. Source: BBC NEWS | Technology | S Korean dies after games session If attacked, do you want to be...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2016 | News & Commentary, Regulatory Compliance
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 | Jan 28, 2016 | News & Commentary
This is why crime is falling now in Australia: Australians own as many guns now as they did at the time of the Port Arthur massacre, despite more than 1 million firearms being handed in and destroyed, new research reveals. Source: Gun Amnesgties Fail to Cut Arms |...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2016 | News & Commentary
Second Amendment advocates are firing away at a decision by Honolulu officials to destroy $575,000 worth of perfectly good handguns in a move one critic called the “height of anti-gun stupidity.” Source: ‘Anti-gun stupidity’: Honolulu destroys $575G worth of police...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
Robert Farago over at TTAG asks whether Ted Cruz is correct in asserting this: United States – (AmmoLand.com)- Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz recently told a rally that rape soared in Australia after gun confiscation. The anti-gun left jumped into full...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2016 | Archived, News & Commentary
Costa Mesa isn’t alone in its crime bump. All eight of Orange County’s cities with populations over 100,000 saw double-digit jumps in serious crime through the first half of 2015, according to FBI data. Some cities, such as Garden Grove, Orange, Irvine and Santa Ana,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 28, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Police say a dispute erupted between the victim and someone with the seller. The dispute escalated when the victim was punched in the head, causing him fall onto the pavement.The men then robbed the victim of his cellphone — at which point he pulled out a gun...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | News & Commentary
What is it about Open Carry that causes cops to go nuts? Is it the Deterrence that could put them out of a job (including whatever bad cops do when they moonlight)? Is it the Education that revives the militia ethic? As I like to say: Open Carry is Ultrasound for the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | News & Commentary
Indeed, and while the experts are doing whatever it is they do “over there” we must fight smart at home. That means getting trained to defend soft targets if necessary because the experts cannot be everywhere. Nor should they be. Meanwhile, we have reports...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | News & Commentary
No charges despite injuring 7 homes, 9 vehicles, and 2 ladies (shooting the 71-year-old in the back)! PLEASE, at least retire them so they can save us from mass shootings with their larger magazines: When one of the women threw a newspaper onto the pavement in the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed
At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed: Jimi Heselden, owner of Segway, Inc., was killed when he drove his Segway off a cliff and fell 213 feet into a river, apparently backing up to allow room for a dog walker. Source: Jimi Heselden –...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
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 | Jan 27, 2016 | News & Commentary, Regulatory Compliance
Though he acquired a C&R in 2014, this collector’s license does not allow one to deal in guns as a business even if they meet the ATF’s test for being a curio or allow one to be “engaged in the business” of selling more modern firearms. In effect, when selling a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | Firearm Training
This is GREAT advice, for anyone actually. Get friends and family trained, and let them buy the gun that is right for them — AFTER they are trained: Don’t get me wrong: Giving someone the gift of self-protection is a wonderful gesture. But overall, those great...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | News & Commentary
The Air Force on Wednesday said its review of “active-shooter incidents across the country” found that many ended without police intervention because someone present with a weapon stopped the shooter. Source: AF Reminds Commanders: Authorized...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
According to Louisville Metro Police Department spokeswoman Alicia Smiley, a woman was sitting in her vehicle in the parking garage near the intersection of 5th and Jefferson Streets when a man with a knife approached her then demanded money and her purse,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2016 | Archived, Dying Embarrassed
At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed: Michigan State Police officials report that Jones became “distracted” while watching the film and lost control of the car, which overturned. Jones, who was not wearing a seat belt, was partially...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 26, 2016 | News & Commentary
Some lessons here, this is exactly what liberals and some libertarians want. I think we’re turning Japanese, I really think so: Japan is well known for many things, and its obsession with sex is one of them. And yet nearly half of singles in Japan have no...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 26, 2016 | News & Commentary
Amazing. What are the chances of a retired cop “being there” compared to a regular citizen? Maybe they can help out with extra after-action report-taking, interviewing of witnesses, but they are not going to “be there when it counts” any more...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 25, 2016 | Health Planning, News & Commentary
Something to think about when filling out that trust mill health care directive: They’d be just like … ice cream trucks. Source: British Columnist Katie Hopkins Wants ‘Euthanasia Vans’ Because There Are ‘Too Many Old People’ If...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 25, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Don’t ever come between a mom and her kids. These two armed carjackers are very lucky she was not armed: Armed carjackers picked the wrong mom to mess with Monday evening. Surveillance footage from the Tom Thumb service station in Hialeah, Florida, shows...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 25, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Tough to know what to do in a situation like this, especially with so many kids present. My only criticism, based on very few facts and perfunctory analysis, is that if possible the guy with the shotgun should have been taken out first and perhaps there should...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 25, 2016 | News & Commentary
I love it when clients bring their guns. These guys don’t–Happy Recession to them: Starbucks Target Chipotle Chili’s Sonic Panera Bread Whataburger Source: 7 Companies That Don’t Want Guns In Their Stores If attacked, do you want to be Victor...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 25, 2016 | Firearm Legacy
Blast from past Minuteman days: http://daveduringer.blogspot.com/ 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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 24, 2016 | Estate Planning, Horror Stories
File this under “Estate Planning Horror Stories”: Lots of things can go wrong when parents transfer real property to children outright instead of in trust. Here is just a quick example from a colleague posting on an attorney listserv (see these frequently,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 24, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use
Though victimized, more in Albuquerque decided to be victors by defending themselves. Justifiable homicide rate spiked to 15% (normally is around 5%). Note that one of the cases involved famous CNN anchor Lynne Russell: Throughout 2015, similar scenarios played...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 24, 2016 | News & Commentary
UPDATE: The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of three accused felons who escaped from the Orange County jail, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutch Source: UPDATE: U.S. Marshals offering $30K reward as dragnet...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 23, 2016 | News & Commentary
Sorry to be blunt, but she should be thankful she didn’t get what she deserved because she deserved more (shots): An out-of-town teacher who publicly railed against gun violence was shot in the shoulder by a masked gunman as she tried to save her 20-year-old...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 23, 2016 | News & Commentary
The linked article also provides a list of previous school shootings in Canada, a country that historically loves gun control: “Right now, La Loche is devastated,” said an emotional First Nation chief after at least four people were killed and a suspect...