AR-15 Saves Girl Chased Up Tree by Alligator
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...Family Business Succession Planning: Communicate Now, or Never Rest in Peace
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...Pastor Shoots, Kills Gun Wielding Carjacker In Walmart Parking Lot
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...Tumwater, WA: Carjacker dead outside Walmart after 2 citizens draw arms
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...Two armed citizens fatally shoot Oklahoma restaurant mass shooter
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,...ARMED domain jacking: webmaster shoots jacker with jacker’s gun
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...Selling a Closely Held Business – Part 1: Exit Planning
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...Front Sight Private Training Notes 20180523 and 24 (2 days, Tactical Handgun)
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...Helicopter Children: Adults Control Elderly Parents
  Due to medical advances keeping us alive longer, kids increasingly need to take control over declining parents. Your kids may have to take your guns away from you, for example. How will this be done? Make sure this is done how you want, and by whom you...Good Guy with Gun Stops School Attack
School attack fizzles due to quick action by good guy with a gun: As school systems across the country debate arming staff, state and local officials praised the actions of the school resource officer who fired at a gunman at Great Mills High School. “He...Homeowner’s son kills three would-be burglars with AR-15
Not much detail but it does illustrate the effectiveness of AR for home defense: Three would-be robbers were shot and killed Monday when an Oklahoma homeowner’s son opened fire on them with an AR-15, authorities said. Story here.Life Insurance Planning After Tax Reform
In addition to changes in life insurance purchase reporting requirements and basis calculation, the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act brings the following changes to life insurance planning: The doubling of the estate tax exemption will eliminate the need for most...Armed Citizen Saves Mom & Daughter from Violent Dad
Officer Simon Drobik says that a 34-year-old good Samaritan, who is not being named since he has not been charged with a crime, saw the attack unfold and intervened. “Once he started walking up, he saw that there was a male violently pistol-whipping a female in...This is Spinal Tap: Gang Steals Spinal Fluid from Women
Why is it that Muslim countries seem to figure so prominently in black market organ trafficking, and human trafficking in general? Non-consensual spinal tap — more reason to have a good health care directive these days. Pakistani police have arrested four...Laguna Woods Shooting: client tells realtor he wants to shoot contractor, realtor shows up next day with blueprints to calm him down (Lessons Here)
According to an LA Times article here, a top local realtor figured prominently in the recent Laguna Woods shooting: CBS2/KCAL9’s Stacey Butler spoke with Jennifer Heflin, who said the shooting was prompted in part by an argument over remodeling plans. Heflin,...4-Page FISA Memo, Bigger Than Watergate — Read it!
If they can do this to our President, they can do it to your family — READ: FISA memo, page 1: FISA memo, page 2: FISA memo, page 3: FISA memo, page 4:FPC 20180327: Property Tax Reassessment
One of the hidden costs of cheap estate planning is the unexpected and very unpleasant surprise of property tax reassessment. We’ll focus on this topic at our Family Protection Clinic (aka estate planning seminar) lunch meeting on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. (Our...FPC 20180320: Legacy of Firearm Training
Legacy is ninety percent training. What could be more important, under the American concept of ordered liberty, than a family with a legacy of firearm training? We’ll focus on this topic at our Family Protection Clinic (aka estate planning seminar) lunch meeting on...FPC 20180313: Flexibility to Avoid Taxes & Gun Control
When it comes to taxes and gun control, it’s hard to keep up with Sacramento and DC. One way is to have your estate planning attorney on speed dial. A smarter way is to have that attorney draft with flexibility in mind, so you can have peace of mind. We’ll focus...FPC 20180306: Health Care Directives
When you are down for the count, who will be calling the shots for you? You can control what happens, if you know about advance health care directives. We’ll focus on this topic at our Family Protection Clinic (aka estate planning seminar) lunch meeting on...FPC 20180522: Family Power & The Catholic Second Amendment
The second item in our Bill of Rights is actually a very Catholic Second Amendment. This may surprise, since although the Catholic Church has a reputation for defending a number of aspects of Family Power, our bishops are not exactly known as big gun rights...FPC 20180220: Incapacity
Cheap trust mill planning rarely plans adequately for incapacity, which is the inability to make your own decisions or manage your affairs. While medical advances are keeping people alive longer, that also means that more of us are living a long time in an...FPC 20180213: Blended Families & Remarriage
Often when I meet with blended families, they already sense the need for special planning due to their situation but are not aware of the many alternatives. Traditional families often overlook the very significant possibility, even probability in many cases,...FPC 20180206: Family Protection
The term “family protection” is used in many different contexts. For example, in insurance planning it often refers to the concept of “income replacement” for a family bereft of its primary breadwinner. What should “family...FPC 20180130: Asset Protection
You’ve heard a lot about asset protection in recent years — why so much talk about asset protection? We’ll focus on this topic at our Family Protection Clinic (aka estate planning seminar) lunch meeting on Tuesday, January 30, 2018. (Our weekly seminar...FPC 20180123: Inherited IRA Protection
For many families, a large portion of the estate rests in a retirement plan which, on its own and without further planning, is essentially a separate estate plan with assets left completely unprotected. How do you protect and preserve the inheritance of retirement...FPC 20180403: How to Select Trustees & Trust Protectors
One of the most important (if not THE most important) considerations in estate planning is: how to select trustees. Compounding this concern is the new need for trust protectors (no, they are not the same) — how do you select them? can, or should, you select...2017 #ManoftheYear: Former NRA Trainer Who Ended Texas Church Attack
Stephen Willeford was at his home on the morning of Nov. 5 when his daughter informed him of gunshots being fired at nearby Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church. A man had opened fire on worshipers and was murdering them in droves. Willeford, disregarding...Sheriff Dept. message alarms fast growing group, concealed weapon holders
Apparently a recent policy change has some alarmed: A miscommunication on an Orange County Sheriff’s Department web page sparked a small panic in one of the county’s fastest-growing clubs — people who hold concealed weapons permits. The web page, entitled “CCW...Organizing FREE 2 Day Defensive Handgun Class at Front Sight (2/2/2018 – 2/3/2018)
Share this post with your friends! Front Sight advertises this course at $1000 and we cover that tuition in full, plus we pay for your background check and gun/gear rental! [If you are interested and satisfy the below conditions, go to www.guntrust.org and complete...Clawback Under New Tax Law
Under either formulation of purpose, that is, the “unified” approach or the “fairness” approach, in issuing its regulations, the IRS would be compelled to use the basic exclusion amount in effect the time of the decedent’s death for purpose of computing the...Jerry Lewis Disinherits Six Sons but Fails to Disinherit Bastard Daughter
Lewis had another child out of wedlock, who calls herself Suzan Lewis (née Minoret), whom he never acknowledged despite her parentage being confirmed by DNA tests. She isn’t mentioned among those disinherited, presumably because to do so would require Lewis to...The Ten Richest Families in America
Interesting background info: You’ve definitely heard the names before. It’s no coincidence that some of the most iconic companies in the world belong to some of the richest families in the world. Click through the gallery below to see who America’s 10 richest...Difference between Critical Duty and Critical Defense
If you shoot through car doors, Critical Duty may be just the thing for you: With their Critical Defense line of ammunition, the engineers at Hornady realized that most citizens looking for ammunition for their concealed handguns aren’t likely to be shooting...Was Hugh Hefner’s Trust More Conservative Than Yours?
Conservatives talk about family values, but from what i can see we fall short in passing on these values. For example, most gun owners cannot be bothered to pass on a legacy of firearm training beyond the grave — they merely want to pass on the hunks of...Would-be robber shot by man with concealed carry permit
Shortly after 2 a.m., a 27-year-old man was pulling his vehicle into a back yard lot in the 9100 block of South Blackstone when another male approached and pointed a weapon, according to Chicago Police. The 27-year-old, who has a concealed carry permit, opened...Summa Theologiae on Self-Defense
Thomas Aquinas and his treatment of self-defense in his great work Summa Theologiae should be a part of any debate on use of lethal force in self-defense (online here): Question 64. Murder Article 7. Whether it is lawful to kill a man in self-defense? Objection 1. It...Anti-Gun Audit of Sheriff CCW Issuance Backfires, Finds LA Violates Own Policy, No Prob with Sacto
From NRA-ILA: With 42 states and the District of Columbia now recognizing the Right-to-Carry, California’s retrograde may-issue Carry Concealed Weapon licensing regime is atypical. However, a recent state audit of three of California’s CCW license issuing...Ten Tips for Protecting Private Foundation Benefits
The end of the year means a drastic increase in philanthropic gifting. If any of your clients are considering charitable gifts this month through a private foundation, here are 10 precautions to advise them about: Article here.Do Zombies Pay Taxes?
Talk about “hand from the grave” planning: To date, no one has disputed that cryonics patients are, in fact, dead. In Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Inc. v. Mitchell, the California Department of Health Services refused to issue death certificates...Tax Act Signed — what does it mean for Estate Planning?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act((In both the House and Senate versions, the bill was called the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.” Due to a last-minute change in response to a procedural issue, the official title was changed to “To provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles...A modest proposal re estate tax: Get self-defense training!
The expected new Tax Cut and Jobs Act (not the official title anymore, but i’m sticking with it) doubles the applicable exclusion amount for estate tax but reverts to current law on January 1, 2026. That sunset provision reminds me of this funny old video...Teen shoots threatening mountain lion while deer hunting
This and other examples of kids using guns in self-defense here.Harvard: Millennials now biggest voting group in U.S., 2-1 Democratic
A new Harvard University poll Tuesday is blaring a loud danger signal to the Republican Party after finding that millennials are now the largest generation of voters and they are overwhelmingly Democratic, by a two-to-one margin. Article here. Maybe time for a little...Inaugural California CCW Class Set for January 20 is Absolutely FREE
Now approved by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to provide training for the California license to Carry a Concealed Weapon (CCW), we have set January 20 as the date for our inaugural class and, as with all of the firearm training we offer, this class is...Father shoots gunman threatening family at restaurant
Starnes says the father isn’t facing charges and that he “really saved the day and protected a lot of people.” Story here.Self-Harming Britain Killed its Militia Ethic, Now it Attacks its own Trust Ethic
America is more British than modern day Britain. British lords seized power from King John in 1215, forced him to sign the Magna Carta allowing a right to bear arms and the militia ethic was borne in the English-speaking world. But the Brits killed their own militia...Uniform Voidable Transactions Act may DOOM Asset Protection as we know it
UVTA is an attempt by trial lawyers and pointy-headed liberal law professors to resolve conflict of laws in favor of the state from which transfers are made, effectively ending asset protection as we know it. This is obviously not supported by our legal...Looks Like Aaron Hernandez Set Up Asset Protection Trust for 5 Yr Old Daughter
This should be an interesting case to watch, depending on the timing of the transfer to trust and his solvency at that time. Not sure, but i believe Massachusetts has yet to pass the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, a variant of which California passed...
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