‘Guardian’ program trains armed teachers to stop an active school shooter
“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...Funding a Buy-Sell Agreement with Life Insurance
As a partner or co-owner (private shareholder) of a business, you’ve spent years building a valuable financial interest in your company. You may have considered setting up a buy-sell agreement to ensure your surviving family a smooth sale of your business...Drive-in theater manager kills man who beat her with bat
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...14-year-old girl fires gun to save sisters from intruder
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...Return of the Gun Trust: AB 1292 Eases Estate Planning for California Gun Owners
UPDATE: See link below this article for updated analysis. *** When Governor Newsom approved AB 1292 on July 12, he made estate planning easier for California gun owners. Why would Sacramento Democrats make death easier for us? I can only speculate, but I’m guessing...Orange County Boy, 11, Strikes Burglar with Machete
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...Officer Shot, Armed Citizen Comes To Her Rescue
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...It Pays to Be Ruthless When Killing GRATs
Using quantitative analysis, we’ll show that the grantor’s choice is almost always clear: If her two-year GRAT is funded with marketable securities and is underwater at all prior to the first annuity date, she should cut her losses and start a new GRAT. That...Succession Planning for Wineries and Vineyards
With enough lead time, it can be possible to eliminate estate tax, or at least to minimize and defer the payment of such tax. With the estate tax rate a significant 40 percent, this can make all the difference in allowing a business to remain family-owned, for...Share Your Cryptocurrency Passwords
For years, cryptocurrency owners have focused on coin security. Many of our clients protect their coins and accounts from online hackers through offline storage and complex passwords that are memorized but never written down. A recent Canadian bankruptcy filing...Nearly brain-dead woman survives after being removed from life support
UPDATE: Every few months I see a story like the one below, and I try to make the time to blog it. However a few months after posting the story below, I had a client in my office relating a very personal and emotional story at least as amazing as any other such story...Fake News study source of myth that US has most Mass Shootings
https://youtu.be/lXGgI2E5JUw Have you heard that the US is #1 in mass shootings? I...The Beneficiary Controlled Trust
Outright distributions, even if staged at various ages, signify outdated planning. The Beneficiary Controlled Trust, pioneered by my friend Steve Oshins and his father, fills the gap between outright distribution and extreme asset protection — very...Front Sight Handgun Combat Masters — List
Here is a list (current as of March 2019) of those who have passed Front Sight’s Handgun Combat Master skills test: 1. Dr. Ignatius Piazza (Glock 22)—Cert Date Unknown2. Mr. Mark Flinn (Glock 21)—21 Sept 19973. Mr. Lawrence (Lenny) Boulton (Glock 22)—21...Christchurch mosque shooting [warning: uncensored video, text]
This content is for members onlyBillionaire diamond trader, 65, dies during penis enlargement surgery
Not much time for blogging lately, but this one definitely belongs in our “Dying Embarrassed” category: A billionaire diamond trader has died after ‘suffering a heart attack’ during a penis enlargement operation in Paris. Ehud Arye...Warren’s Wealth Tax Unconstitutional
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,...How my classmate Kamala Harris rode Affirmative Action (LEOP, Willie, etc.)
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...Google Objects to Use of Word “Family” with Kids Implicit
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...FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs than with Rifles of Every Kind (and Knives Kill 5 Times as Many)
This content is for members onlyInsolvent Estates of Wealthy Decedents
Insolvent estates happen and are full of minefields for all involved: Begin With a Plan When faced with such an estate, the advisor should meet with the executor and together they should set out a plan for success. The plan should include a beginning inventory...California law forces Meals on Wheels to ask elderly recipients if they’re gay or trans
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,...Sixty-seven defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public over the past three months
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 CenterHungary plans to encourage, support ‘large, stable families’
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...Racist Mass Public Shooting at Louisville (KY) Kroger stopped by concealed handgun permit holder
[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...McDonald’s gunman killed by armed dad; dad & son injured
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...Guns and Dementia
This flawed article also makes some very good points, so i’m copying a good portion of it below. [Just note that gun ownership is NOT declining as the article states (see here, here, and here).] While discussions about guns and gun ownership are common political...12 Rules for Life
Highly recommend this book by Jordan Peterson. You have to read the book to really understand his 12 rules, listed below. While it goes off on a few philosophical tangents I’m not sure I agree with, the book is a treasure chest of ideas you might include in...Top 10 (11?) Dangers Facing Senior Citizens
Here is a great little slideshow on top estate planning priorities to avoid tragedy and missed opportunity (“Top 10 Dangers Facing Senior Citizen Clients”) which I summarize below (adding a little California-relevant detail of my own), with a link...Inside America’s Evangelical ‘purity movement’ where teen girls make pledges to their fathers to stay virgins until they get married
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...HEET Trust Can Avoid GST Tax Heat, Teach Grandkids How to Pack Heat, and Help the NRA too!
[UPDATE 30 September 2024 — The Fall of the Republic and likelihood of reduced exclusions from death tax are leading to renewed interest in this technique. While there remains little guidance, if used conservatively it should work for extremely large...Wells Fargo Bucks Gun Control, Issues $40 Million in Credit to Ruger Firearms
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...The real reason for shooting back | VolkStudio Blog
On the importance of dialing 1911 prior to 911: In modern times, we know that people shot with handguns have an 85% chance of survival, provided they get medical treatment. The chances are far lower with shotgun or rifle, but even then modern medicine can...SAF Sues Riverside Sheriff for Failure to Issue CCW’s to Non-Citizens
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...The Anti-Post-Mortem Suffrage Trust
Dead people voting is nothing new, but the phenomenon seems to be increasing. This is a problem if you are a conservative family sort, because dead people tend to vote Democrat. Our Anti-Post-Mortem Suffrage (Anti-PMS) Trust, a type of incentive trust, may be the...BART Rider Brandishes Chainsaws On Train
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...Gallup: Majority in U.S. Now Oppose Ban on Assault Rifles
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...Should An Aging Parent Transfer the House to Her Kids?
This Virginia attorney writes a very good article summarizing some of the problems of transferring real estate to a child as an alternative to actual estate planning. Capital gains tax due to loss of basis step-up, medicaid lookback (California’s medi-cal...Ash scattering at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion a regular spectre
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...FBI report left out HALF of 2014-17 cases where armed citizen stopped active shooter
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...Notes from Handgun Combat Master Prep
Here are a few notes from my first experience with Handgun Combat Master Prep (HCMP) in a 9/26-27 private training at Front Sight, having recently qualified to take it. (They require that you first take Advanced Tactical Handgun (ATH), and to take ATH you must...California’s new Uniform Trust Decanting Act brings Opportunity, Risk
California recently (9/14/18) joined a few other states that have enacted the Uniform Trust Decanting Act. A lot of states have decanting statutes, several dozen in fact, but they vary greatly and this uniform act is more restrictive than those in some of the more...Chicago rag: “One brave rescue of a Cicero cop doesn’t justify concealed guns”
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 —...Study: 17.25 million concealed handgun permits, biggest increases for women and minorities (as violence drops)
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...Virgin Brett Executes Hail Mary, Crushing Feminazi Snakes
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,...Aretha Franklin left no will or trust!
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...Can Courts Bless a Trustee’s Decision?
I hope the spread of this doctrine is halted in the US (it’s already popular offshore). The privacy and testamentary control of trusts is a vital bulwark of family power and therefore freedom. Giving courts power to “bless” is a camel’s...Feinstein claims millions of ARs not in “common use” and “hundreds of school shootings using assault weapons…in recent history”
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...Financial Planning in the Age of Dementia
This article is a good overview, written by a financial advisor. However, note that powers of attorney only deal with non-trust assets and are frequently rejected by institutions so be sure that your trust is funded and adequately plans for incapacity as well...
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