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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 16, 2018 | Estate Planning, Firearm Legacy
[UPDATE: For the last three years (since August 2016) I have not generally recommended the lifetime funding of gun trusts in California. Passage of AB 1292 in July 2019 has significantly enabled and clarified use of gun trusts — however, there are limits under the new...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 15, 2018 | News & Commentary
I call BS on this study — based on the number of “thumbs down” for the article! It’s no longer taboo to have a tattoo. More companies are shedding their prejudice against employees and job candidates coming in with tattoos, a smart move that’s giving...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 13, 2018 | Firearm Training
Get virtually unlimited free training at the world’s largest shooting school (often called the “Disneyland for gun owners”) simply by attending our free estate planning seminars. Here is mid-2018 status of construction (now fifty...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
“The psychological and emotional benefits of pet ownership are well-known among mental health professionals,” says Sweet. “Having a close bond with a domestic animal can boost ‘feel good’ biochemicals such as endorphins and oxytocin; which can make owners feel...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
This can happen anywhere but it certainly happens more around socialist cesspools. Never set sail without arming yourself. In April, for instance, masked men boarded four Guyanese fishing boats floating 30 miles off the coast of the South American nation. The...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
And “the father” happens to be the son of an imam linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. This has to be the most inept family ever when it comes to transmitting a legacy of terrorism: The father of a missing 3-year-old who was arrested at a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 24, 2018 | News & Commentary
Don’t start carrying openly yet — the decision only strike’s a Hawaiian law, and the decision may be overruled en banc although an en banc appeal by Hawaii seems less profitable now with SCOTUS turning more conservative. More litigation is...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 24, 2018 | News & Commentary
A bullet fired by the LAPD killed the Trader Joe’s employee who died during a hostage situation during the weekend, Chief Michael Moore said Tuesday at a news conference. Ballistics tests show that a Los Angeles police officer fired the shot that struck and killed...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 23, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
Hopefully there was some justification for shooting in the head (other than “I didn’t train enough”): Investigators said it all started when the man’s wife pulled into their driveway Tuesday night. Then the two armed suspects jumped out and tried to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 23, 2018 | Firearm Training
They bring up some very good points in favor of 9mm, but with our CA roster I was limited to .45 if I wanted a quality all-steel Wilson Combat CQB Compact. Suppressor bans are not the only form of gun control causing injury over time. (Have to say, though, that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2018 | News & Commentary
Apparently, nude vacation travel is a thing, at least among progs: It turns out, the “nacation” industry is pretty substantial. For example, a Florida-focused economic study conducted in 2017 by the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) and American...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2018 | News & Commentary
Amati said he smoked two joints of cannabis on the balcony, close to where the attack took place. He heard whispered voices after leaving a failed first date and wanted to sleep, but after smoking marijuana, the voices became louder. He took the second joint to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2018 | News & Commentary
Witnesses to the horror scene described seeing a woman screaming for help as a “skinny white guy” fled the shop. One shocked onlooker told the Daily Mail the mum was later seen with her head in her hands screaming: ‘My baby, my baby, what have...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 20, 2018 | News & Commentary
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Four states — not Kansas or Missouri — already have “trigger laws” that would automatically ban abortion if Roe is overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. Another 17...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
“I’m not attacking the transgender movement. But, I’m defending my right to freedom of speech, and freedom of belief,” said Mackereth, according to the UK Telegraph. “I don’t believe I should be compelled to use a specific pronoun. I am not setting out to upset...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
A multi-year lawsuit has come to an end in a settlement that will see the U.S. State Department back away from regulating most 3-D gun files. In May 2013, Cody Wilson, through his Austin-based company Defense Distributed, created the Liberator, a nearly...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
Unarmed — as in, has no arms: That Crenshaw is armless and paints using his feet probably has much to do with the attention he gets. But on Tuesday, just after midnight, Miami Beach police say that Crenshaw stabbed one of those tourists. Crenshaw, police...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
The helmets are said to be “almost guaranteed” to protect any Trump supporter from mobs at the local Whole Foods market, Starbucks, or other place generally considered to be unsafe for conservatives. As a disclaimer on the website reads, “While no helmet can...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 13, 2018 | News & Commentary
Evangelical leader Rev. Franklin Graham took to social media on Tuesday to forcefully denounce former Democrat President Jimmy Carter’s claim that Jesus Christ would embrace same-sex “marriage” and at least some abortions. Source: Franklin Graham: Jimmy Carter...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 12, 2018 | News & Commentary
Some think this was payback for pro-Trump statements on heels of Trump’s visit to the UK. Police say it’s just a couple of teeny boppers. Hmmm. Either way, not a good advertisement for British civility. Personally, I’d avoid London like I avoid...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 12, 2018 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Estate Planning, Limitation of Liability, Venture Protection
In at least one sense business succession planning is like planning for guns: you need to make sure beneficiaries are responsible enough to handle the asset. Plus a little asset protection might be a good idea. Putting aside the ultimate outcome of the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 12, 2018 | News & Commentary
Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s recent SCOTUS pick, has written that our Second Amendment rights, based on self-defense, apply on the street as well as in the home. And thankfully most states are falling in line with that view. But New York is different – you are...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 7, 2018 | Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
Here’s MY pick (though i like Barrett, too; Hardiman is also great on Second Amendment but i’m concerned about some of his rulings restricting Fourth Amendment and allowing claims for “gender stereotyping discrimination”): In his personal life,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 4, 2018 | Health Planning
Have you addressed this issue in your Advanced Health Care Directive? Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) differ from pacemakers, which control abnormal heart rhythms. Pacemakers prompt the heart to beat at a normal rate through electrical pulses, whereas...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 4, 2018 | Health Planning, Incapacity Planning
I know, I know: “From my cold dead hands!” But isn’t it better to have a plan worked out with family — for guns, for long term care, for a bunch of things? Blessing had reportedly concealed two pistols in the pockets of her robe and then...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Certainly problematic for gun grabbers! (Each of the “Heller 5” majority justices was Catholic.) Who can forget the way she badgered Catholic Amy Coney Barrett during her 2017 judicial confirmation hearings? “Dogma and law are two different...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
A stubborn shop-owner has fended off a tomahawk-wielding attempted robber by arming himself … with tins of tuna and tubes of Pringles. Source: Brisbane shop owner pelts tomahawk-wielding attempted robber with tuna cans and Pringles | The West...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Girl could barely hold on to tree, she was up so long (half hour before 911 called). Why didn’t the mother have her own AR, or a pistol? According to the frantic 911 call made by the teen’s mother, there was more than one alligator involved. The...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2018 | Business Succession, Venture Protection
It may seem oversimplified, but communication really is paramount to successful succession planning, and it needs to begin when the founders are still in control. This paves the way for properly communicating the founders’s wishes and plans, and will also give...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
More on the Tumwater incident: “As a volunteer firefighter I have received active shooter training,” George explained. “I was sure what I heard was gunshots.” Police say 44-year old Tim Day went on a shooting and carjacking spree. He tried to carjack a couple...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | News & Commentary
Ireland’s Taoiseach, or prime minister, says even Catholic hospitals will have to start performing abortions. To my mind, slavery has never meant just the spectacle of bodies bent to hard labor in the fields. Free men and women also must toil. That is the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
A couple of weeks ago I took a class covering armed defense in carjackings: Advanced Tactical Handgun (or Driver’s Ed, Front Sight style). Two armed citizens were credited with taking action Sunday after a carjacking suspect went on a rampage in Washington...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Just imagine, if they’d been carrying their guns instead of having to retrieve them from vehicles, a little girl might still have her colon intact, and another girl might still have use of her hand. Gun control hurts little girls. Juan Carlos Nazario, 35,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | News & Commentary
Compared to people living in spousal union, the divorced, widowed or never married were 42 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and 16 percent more likely to have coronary heart disease, the study found. The risk of dying was likewise elevated for the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Handgun Combat Webmaster? Sherman Hopkins Jr, 43, broke into the apartment of an internet entrepreneur in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wearing pantyhose on his head, dark sunglasses, and brandishing a stolen handgun. He demanded that Ethan Deyo, 26, get on his computer...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 17, 2018 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business
More on this topic at our weekly seminar here. In closely held businesses, owners and managers are focused on operations and usually don’t have extensive experience buying and selling companies. However, advanced exit planning allows owners and management to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 9, 2018 | News & Commentary
All of the polls leading up to California’s June 5, 2018, primary consistently overstated support for the de facto pro-choice (no matter what he said on the campaign trail) Travis Allen, and understated support for the pro-life John Cox. Even with the results...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2018 | News & Commentary
Don’t ever underestimate the British capacity for combining the oppressive with the doltish. This week, the United Kingdom’s decades-long campaign against all things martial sunk to a fresh low when one of the Queen’s more domineering subjects floated a ban on...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2018 | News & Commentary
Watch this video, and you won’t want to rely on a taser for self-defense. Ditto pepper spray, etc. Instead, you should take advantage of all the free handgun training we offer, including free California concealed carry (CCW) training. Start...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2018 | News & Commentary
The island nation banned guns and gun crime persists, now they are banning knives and knife robberies are out of control. Do ya think disarming subjects and taking away their natural right of self-defense may have something to do with the rise of violent crime...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2018 | News & Commentary
‘Parallel societies, political Islam and radicalisation have no place in our country,’ Kurz told a news conference outlining the government’s decisions, which were based on that law. ‘This is just the beginning,’ far-right Vice...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2018 | News & Commentary
Something to keep in mind when shaking hands: “For the first time on record, a majority of Democrats (53 percent) say pornography is morally acceptable,” Gallup writes. Published Tuesday, their annual poll on Morals and Values found 43 percent of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 4, 2018 | News & Commentary
In the case of MASTERPIECE CAKESHOP, LTD., ET AL. v.COLORADO CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION ET AL., No. 16-111, SCOTUS has upheld the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, ruling in favor of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same sex...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2018 | Firearm Training
Here are a few notes from my recent couple of days at Front Sight — private training going over tactical handgun basics in preparation for Advanced Tactical Handgun (leaving for that class today). Shane is a great instructor (most Front Sight instructors...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 4, 2018 | News & Commentary
President Trump – Remarks at the National Rifle Association 147th Annual Meeting and Exhibit
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 1, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary
Hit-and-run crash deaths are rising nationwide, and pedestrians and bicyclists account for close to 70% of the victims, according to a new report, as more people cycle to work and motor-vehicle fatalities are at a near-decade-high level. The number of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
Despite advanced technology, far more murders go unsolved now than 50 years ago: The clearance rate has fallen from 91 percent in 1965 to about 59.4 percent in 2016. In the same period, the U.S. population increased by 54 million and the homicide rate per...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
As a rule of thumb, BMI is ok if waist circumference is limited to half of height. The five healthy habits were defined as not smoking; having a body mass index between 18.5 and 25; taking at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, having no more than one 150ml...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
Young people are far more likely than senior citizens to report being lonely and in poor health, a surprising survey of 20,000 Americans released Tuesday shows. …. Loneliness actually has the same effect on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, which...