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Investing in and writing about civilian defense.
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The most important metric for foiling public acts of violence: time to effective resistance
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"It's dangerous that accurate sights are common" is one of the stranger talking points. Even the people who say it haven't really thought about it. If they did, they'd realize the implication — "guns should have more randomness to where the bullet lands" — is silly.
WATCH: CNN's "chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst" John Miller fear-mongers about "laser sights" on pistols in the wake of the Brown University shooting. "One of those firearms, we are told, was equipped with a laser sight device. This has significance, because
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Failures of groups are failures of leadership.
@NBC10 Video from 6:21pm at the Prince Engineering building— as search for Brown University gunman continues.
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The same people believe you should go to prison for 10 years for lending your friend a suppressor.
Insane story. The CIA once hauled a plutonium-powered “portable nuclear device” up a Himalayan peak to spy on China… then a blizzard hit and they left it behind. It’s likely still buried in a glacier feeding the Ganges — a river system that supports ~600 million people.
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On spiking the football about gun rights in the US.
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@opensrcdefense Read Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
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In practice, the main effect of stories about infringements abroad is to distract you from infringements at home.
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Lest we focus on what’s in our neighbor’s eye: reminder that under 18 USC 922(g)(5)(B), it is a federal felony for anyone on a tourist visa (or any non-immigrant visa) to touch a firearm unless they have a valid hunting license or personal permission from the Attorney General.
An IT consultant was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US 👇 https://t.co/3FxqGCRWiu
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OSD 353: Everything is a gun now, by @opensrcdefense
https://t.co/yZf8qk41Uf Try to do anything in the physical world — start a company, develop some land, replace the windows in your house. In the digital world, everything is permitted unless it’s forbidden. The physical world
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This week’s newsletter branches off of Peter’s observations. The good news about the overregulation of guns is that it’s a legible tyranny. But building anything in the physical world is ruled by tyrannies so well-hidden that most people don’t know they exist.
My lobbyists are very nervous about me posting this, but over-regulation is working against us all. The costs are astronomical to us all, but hidden. So, I'm taking a risk, and sharing my stories from Charm and Revoy: https://t.co/UsaltST5gJ
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We need more summary reversals in Second Amendment cases. Not everything needs full review, and frequent reversals are the only thing that may make the antigun circuits finally behave. Duncan would be a great one to start with.
The Supreme Court grants no new cases for merits review in today’s orders list, but it does summarily reverse two lower court rulings in criminal cases. Here is the orders list: https://t.co/f3ydMBH8IV
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Kostas is correct as a descriptive matter. But the whole reason Congress made the NFA a tax is that they agreed it would be unconstitutional otherwise. Now DOJ's case is that it's legal under the Commerce Clause — the very idea rejected by the Congress that passed the law.
I disagree that it's a legally insane take. Sadly, the commerce clause has been distorted beyond all recognition in the last century, so this is par for the course. It SHOULD be an insane take, but it isn't. It may be true that we could do well with a favorable judge, though. I
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6A: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial." 95% of state and 98% of federal guilty verdicts never see a jury, because you only enjoy the right to trial if you: - Survive a multi-year pretrial process that costs,
Also noteworthy that he wasn't convicted by a jury. Like almost all guilty verdicts, this one came via a guilty plea. He pled out because the case was in its third year ($$$$) and they threatened him with 25 years in prison if he had the temerity to go to trial.
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@MorosKostas I wish X would let us share Torrent files, because this would be the perfect thread to include our library of 3D gun scans. That's what we've been doing about 3D printed guns.
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Also noteworthy that he wasn't convicted by a jury. Like almost all guilty verdicts, this one came via a guilty plea. He pled out because the case was in its third year ($$$$) and they threatened him with 25 years in prison if he had the temerity to go to trial.
This case is outrageous. He gets 4 years for an unregistered gun, but the person who attacked him was out and about after 15 arrests since 2004. They decllined to prosecute for the self-defense, but threw the book at Foehner over not registering the revolver he used to defend
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