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The right to self defense is so important that it is actually the first natural right Locke derives from the fundamental rights of life, liberty and property in his Second Treatise of Government (see sect 7). Basically, he states that rights are pointless if a person cannot prevent another from infringing those rights.

You don't have to read very far into Locke's Second Treatise of Government to realize that his theory of natural rights is the foundation of our system of government. Anyone arguing the 2nd amendment needs to be repealed is basically saying they want to fundamentally change our system of government. Granted, most of them probably just short sighted and think it's a "common sense" safety measure, but that just illustrates how poorly they understand what has made our system of government work as well as it has for 200+ years.

**Since OP is trying to pull another fast one and post really old videos out of context**

Just to make sure everyone knows. This is Vincent Cefalu. He was a whistleblower who helped bring down some serious ATF and government corruption. The guy is pretty amazing. He is not some random agent getting paid for nothing. You don't have to like the ATF but you should at least thank some people like him for taking a serious hit and trying to clean up corruption. Here is a copy of his book.

https://www.amazon.com/RatSnakes-Cheating-Explosive-Undercover-Changed/dp/1946885967

10 + 3 more actually, and 10 of them will be discussed during their conference this Friday. Here’s a tool to keep up with all these cases:

https://airtable.com/shrcrC5FsedZqIi3T/tblMclNyymYiklOOg/viwM47ZZsFWQo69Vf?blocks=hide

I fly and carry with Delta regularly. A couple of times a month. Most of the time the folks that are tasked with doing the zip ties are just as annoyed as I am. The solution is simple. Scissors. You are allowed to carry scissors on your flight. I carry THESE SCISSORS in my carry on. When I get my bag from the dude after zipping it up I pull my scissors out of my carry on and cut them off right in front of them. Usually I hand him/her the trash. I've never had one push back on me. There's nothing they can do. It's your property.

I think it's the same thing we see today - intelligence/LE sources feed the news organizations, the news organizations attempt to manufacture consent. I'm not sure Koresh wasn't a pedo, and his views definitely differed from my own religious views, but I wouldn't take anything the government said about the guy at face value, considering we know positively that much of what they said was a lie.

Good book by a good guy:

https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Wacos-Enforcement-wellesley/dp/1573921254

The UK has seen a huge spike in murders in the last few years. Most of these have been with knives. specifically plain old boring kitchen knives. At present you already have to be over 18 to buy any sort of knife in the UK. They are now pushing for no online sales. There is also talk about bans on any knife with a point and length limits. This would make most kitchen knives illegal. for example. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GRUNOC/ref=s9_acsd_top_hd_bw_b1DP7_c_x_3_w/144-7039686-3166857?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-4&pf_rd_r=NK0G8PBQM2HDACT0JEFW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=78067633-c290-5f30-9b97-4f364...

See the scary "assault point" and "mil spec length" in the product above.

I assume that after this has no real affect they will add background checks and a knife database, and finish with a ban on pants as they are the perfect strangling tool.

The whole thing is a text book example of how dumb things end up if you let anti's call the shots

Direct link to the study here.

> it is rare for offenders to buy from licensed dealers, and also rare for them to steal their guns. Rather, the predominant sources of guns to offenders are family, acquaintances, fellow gang members—which is to say, members of their social network. The CCJ survey makes it clear that where offenders' immediate connections are not able to provide them with a gun, they often turn to sources by which they are linked through a mutual acquaintance.

So, not gun shows. Not Armslist or Gunbroker.

I don't think Yablon's done any TV appearances. He's a Twitterina who seems to have spent most of his career as an intern. I find it ironic that his job description at New York magazine is listed as "fact checker."

iphones & android phones camera can be disabled remotely.... i'm guessing that is what holedurr want's for firearms?

Naomi Klein outlines this for capitalism in the book "The Shock Doctrine" but it still works for tragedy, and it goes something like this:

1. A person, business, or cause outlines what they want done.

2. The group crafts bills in a way that allows for easy passage, framed in a way to take advantage of a shocking event.

3. The group crafts and explores rhetoric meant to exploit tragedy, while pushing their bills as the "solution" to the problem.

4. A tragedy occurs. The group immediately gets in front of the messaging and pushes their legislation as the "solution" whether or not it would do anything to actually solve the problem.

5. The shocking and emotional response reduces critical thinking of the electorate and because the group's legislation is "first" in their minds they push for passage. The bill would not pass without this boost, but it stands a better chance immediately after a tragedy.

6. The bill is passed, and work begins on the next thing on the list the group wants, waiting for the next tragedy.

Now, this process improves for the group if the legislation doesn't actually help the problem. If it did, they would have fewer events to exploit for gain.

This is also why they're crying "we need to politicize these shootings." Because if they wait, the window of opportunity is lost and the bill will very likely fail.

It's naked and disgusting exploitation of tragedy to push bills through that wouldn't pass otherwise. It works better if the bills don't solve the problem causing the tragedies, but seem like they might, and are sold as if they will.

> Eventually, they'll get around to going door to door. Similar to what they're doing in CA right now with the APPS program. First, they'll politely knock and as you to hand them over.

And after that, they'll confiscate by force. It's been done before, too.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=new+orleans+katrina+gun+confiscation&t=iphone

Alright, so I've got a VPN (Private Internet Access) set to NZ. If I use an IP locating website it says I'm in Auckland, NZ. But when I try to submit a form () it blocks me and returns the message, " At this point the ability to submit forms from overseas is not enabled. We are working on a method for you to communicate with us. "

Any ideas on what I can do to access the form? I've totally got prohibited weapons in New Zealand that could hurt someone if I don't turn them in.

> In Washington state, OFA supporters and volunteers teamed up with partners on the ground to support a ballot initiative that would expand background checks for gun sales.

>And even though the NRA and other groups did what they always do—spend millions to defeat us—our side won.

And yet, from the most liberal of rags on the Intertubes, MotherJones (Archive.org link), it seems that Everytown spend $5 million in WA, whereas the NRA only spend about 1/10th of that, $485,000.

Here is Oregon's murder rate compared to the overall US rate

Oregon doesn't and did not have any type of purchase permit and the murder rate trend followed the overall us trend almost exactly.

You keep bringing up this single data point as if it proves something. It doesn't prove anything when you can easily compare murder rates for all 50 states for the same period of time and see different patters all of which don't seem to correlate with purchase permits since the vast majority of states don't have those.

Edit: Also notice how Oregon's rate went up between 2007-8 and then back down. MO's rate in 2009 also dropped back to the 2007 level, so it seems that 2008 was a weird year. However, Mo's murder rate has not reached that rate since and there have been a couple of other larger swings as well (2009-2011).

I don’t agree with his politics, but he was heroic in his investigation of Willowbrook. Not only did he save lives with that piece, he changed investigative journalism forever for the better.

>on whether or not suicides should be taken into account, consider how many of those 2/3 of all firearms suicides involved another dead body on the floor at the guy's feet just before he blew his own brains out. it's a lot of them.

None of them?

A permit to purchase a handgun, a waiting period, a universal background check, open and concealed carry, and stand your ground have absolutely zero bearing on suicides, thus there is zero reason to actually include those numbers in your stats. Why? Because they will just purchase a long gun which doesn't have a waiting period.

That is, if people are even committing suicide with handguns they literally just bought, which they probably aren't. Suicide is impulsive, right? So how many people are going down to the gun store, which could be thirty minutes away, picking out a handgun, paying hundreds of dollars for it, filling out the paperwork, going through the background check, then buying ammo, then figuring out how to load it, and then driving all the way back home, just to shoot themselves in the garage? Yeah, pretty much none of them. Are you guys redefining 'impulse' as 'several hours' now too?

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/apr/27/van-wanggaard/no-evidence-waiting-period-handgun-purchases-reduc/

I'm still amazed at how you think everyone else is just going to fall for the same bullshit you did. You should try this.

Serious, albeit tangential question:

I regularly see references to the inclusion of silencers in the NFA tracing back to keeping poor people in the Great Depression from poaching. Trouble is despite some pretty rigorous googling I can never find an actual citation.

Anyone happen to have have one? It would make a pretty powerful counter argument with the casuals I find myself debating on a pretty regular basis.

Full disclosure: I'm still reading the paper. Apologies if it's in there and I just haven't seen it yet.

EDIT: read most of it now, specifically the part that starts on page 14 entitled:

B. How Suppressors Ended Up in the National Firearms Act of 1934 but Pistols and Revolvers Did Not

In a nutshell the NRA pitched a shitfit when congress started talking about banning handguns, but nobody really spoke up about silencers. True, there were some early, especially batshit writings that called for them to be banned because suddenly poor people, blacks and Italians (?) could afford firearms.

But wait there's more!

So I've started digging into some of the references of the paper, and in 84 See J. DAVID TRUBY, THE QUIET KILLERS 18 (1992) found this note:

Of course, not everyone fell instantly in love with the Maxim invention. Crusader W. T. Hornaday, one of the alarmists of his day, called the Maxim invention a “break for every assassin.” He also held that strike breakers would be able to pop off strikers more easily. In fact, there may have been an element of truth in that, as a few Maxim silencers were used to quietly settle labor-management problems during a steel strike in 1909. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, two young men used silenced rifles to kill 6 horses on a farm, then demand an $800 ransom for their promise not to silently kill others. Police caught them and their Maxim silencers. Police in many cities banned silencer use.

Yes. I bought it for camping and first resort in my home so I'm not spraying toxic gunk everywhere. This is what I have

Oddly enough the one I used to buy off amazon is gone.. but fuck off amazon

Start with "The Art of War", standard military field manuals and things like the 48 laws of power.

They aren't bibles, they are instructions with general ideas, allow them to adapt and work as needed.

The idea of interrupting supply chains and removing the will to fight is as old as war itself.

I am leaving Facebook forever. I am awaiting a temporary ban to end so that I can tell some friends goodbye and let them know how to contact me outside of Zuck’s platform.

I’ve gone so far as to set up a Pi Hole in my house to permanently block any Facebook trackers. I’m an IT guy and I’ve created DNS black holes like this years back, but this one is so easy to set up that I would encourage anyone to consider it with a little planning.

I can’t completely kill Google just yet, but I’m denying them everything possible.

There are still a number of cases that SCOTUS has heard, is scheduled to hear, or is considering hearing.

See Court Case Tracker

The court often looks for the "best case" on which to provide a ruling. I think they still have several good ones to choose from. And if they're going to make a landmark decision let's let it be on the right to carry outside the home for law abiding citizens vs one for those convicted of crimes.

Sure, I think a non-violent person should be able to get their rights back, but in terms of helping the overall case for gun rights a law abiding person is better than a convicted criminal.

And they can, and may still hear a lifetime ban case as Mai v United States is still pending a decision on cert. Perhaps the pro-2A justices think this is a better case than the others to give a ruling they want to give setting a new precedent.

Again? This is, what, the 4th time? How many times is the Brady Campaign going to try this?

For those just tuning in, they lost their lawsuit against Lucky Gunner in such spectacular fashion, they left the people they conned into being plaintiffs holding the bag.

Switch your DNS servers. It's unlikely all NJ ISPs block based on the site's current IP. Let me know if you need help and we'll get you back in business, one way or another.

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I hope that you listen to Colin Flaherty. His podcast exposes the “denial, deceit, and delusion” that “black crime is caused by relentless white racism everywhere, at all times, and that explains everything.”

Colin recently was talking about the fact that even the NY TIMES, when their researchers studied the subject, found that 75% of mass shootings (not necessarily the ones that result in high body counts) are committed by black people.

Here’s a link to his podcast on I Heart Radio.

Colin Flaherty podcast

Yep, it's her self-invented meme. It sounds better than "gun control," and it's easy to print on the side of a coffee cup.

The rejiggering of language started after Sandy Hook. Jonathan Alter of the Washington Post wrote this editorial:

> Doing so requires reframing the debate with new language, always an essential weapon in politics. That means retiring “gun control” (the “control” part is threatening to gun owners) and replacing it with “gun safety,” “anti-violence regulation,” “military weapons for the military only” and — on every occasion — “common sense.”

Shannon ~~Troughton~~ Watts claimed she was an "accidental activist" and an amateur to this whole political thing. She's a liar. She ran public relations cleanup for BP, WellPoint, and Monsanto. None of those credentials would endear her to liberals, so she did a bit of an identity change.

She took Alter's advice to heart, and she knows how to manipulate the debate.

I actually went and looked it up, even though I'm staunchly pro-choice... there are approximately 3k abortions per day in the U.S. (http://www.worldometers.info/abortions/)

There are between 16k and 18k indoor ranges in the U.S. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_ranges_in_the_United_States)

As we know, not all indoor ranges allow rifle calibers. In fact, in my experience, MOST don't.

But, here's the thing: if only 25% do, that's about 4k ranges.

If only ONE person shoots an AW at each of those every day, which we all know would be the case if we looked, then AW's are in "common use" MORE than abortions are.

And that's obviously without considering the THOUSANDS of OUTDOOR ranges where I'd bet most AW's are shot.

So, Mrs. Feincunt, if you want to ban AW's because they aren't in common use then we should be banning abortions for the exact same reason. Abortions are in fact in FAR LESS COMMON USE than AW's if we count those outdoor ranges.

> The power of the sword, say the minority..., is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.

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> The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but where, I trust in God, it will always remain, in the hands of the people.

Tench Coxe - American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788-1789 - Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

This idea that the right to keep and bear arms is a right of the people--rather than some sort of privilege to be granted and regulated by federal or even state governments--is not novel. These are published words of a member of the Continental Congress during the period of time in which the Bill of Rights was written and later ratified.

There's no confusion here about what 'militia' or 'well-regulated' means. How could this possibly be any clearer?

There's been little discussion of the ongoing war on encryption, or war on math depending on how you look at it, with government demanding "back doors".

Biden is also anti-privacy, or anti-4th Amendment depending on how one looks at things:

> In the early 90s, Biden added a few words to the anti-terrorism bill Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act (SB 266) so that it would allow American authorities to snoop on people's online communication. At this time, this basically referred to email communication.

It's sad, really: a career politician, who swore to uphold the Constitution, habitually ebbs away at it.

> We've relied a little too heavily on the courts lately

But we've had some big wins. Heller, McDonald, Caetano, Wren.

Other recent wins are the states that had to back down on closing gun stores under the pandemic claims or that actually lost rulings in court.

> currently waiting to see if SCOTUS picks up one of the 10 2A cases on their docket.

There are actually 11 that went to conference today and a 12th petition has recently been filed.

> If they decline all 10 we'll have our answer.

Not entirely.

While I'd be disappointed there is some calculation that needs to be made. We know there are 4 that would vote for cert, and that's all that's required. But even though Roberts voted pro-gun in Heller and McDonald, and presumably in Caetano (but we don't know); there is no guarantee he'll vote that way in any of these cases. And the 4 know better than we do. They may choose not to grant cert if they think Roberts will vote anti and saddle the 2A with a bad ruling.

They may choose to wait out the election and see if Trump gets reelected which increases the odds of another appointment (or two) in the next 4 years and that would almost certainly guarantee 2A victory.

So while I'm anxious to have 2A rights affirmed, if we have to wait a couple of years that would be better than having a bad ruling that might not be overruled in my lifetime.

Yep. That was my rationale for mentioning Zeronet -- https://zeronet.io -- and I2P (eepsites).

People should get used to learning more about cryptocurrencies as well and how to accept various crypto payments. Example: https://www.coinpayments.net/

Tom Tomorrow is one of the few cartoonists who saw the I_Am_Silly.jpg critique of political cartoons and thought to himself it was too subtle.

It's not even just guns, with every issue he takes arguments to an extreme so preposterous it makes Kelly from the Onion look like moderate conservatism and not obvious satire.

You can see this with The One Rich Guy left which would make your typical Occupy Wallstreet supporter roll their eyes. Then his argument about the water pollution scandal by a corporation gets lost on itself and I can't tell what he wants. Does he want the NSA to interrogate people for being close to a water source? Even when people are different from the norm he disagrees with, they are over the top stupid. Only Tom's penguin avatar is allowed to be the voice of reason.

I'm sure he's a fun person at thanksgiving conversation.

People should try Bitchute, there's plenty of firearms content over there. The site isn't perfect, but the more it gets patronized the more it will improve. YouTube user Styxenhammer666 says he just broke 1 million views on his Bitchute channel and he's doing 2A advocacy vids.

Regarding contributing to content creators, you can send them tips directly right in the video player, or people can do like Cody Wilson and set up direct payments using cryptocurrency. This allows you to send creators money directly and avoid anti-free-speech middlemen.

Personally I'd like to see totally decentralized peer-to-peer social media with no central authorities that can ban content they dislike, but that will come soon enough. I would say that in response to calls for legislation against the current social media sites that if we do that it will kill the incentive for developers to create better options, and although it might provide a solution in the short term new problems will crop up in the future which will require more government intervention. If you're a skeptic of government like I am then asking the government to regulate the internet isn't a good option. The best thing to do is to migrate to more decentralized platforms and promote them.

Also have a look at Mastodon for an example of a fairly decentralized social networking platform.

Dunk them in cosmoline and bury them. There's no good reason to get rid of them according to you.

Or use this stuff, it's almost the same.

CRC 06026 Heavy Duty Corrosion Inhibitor, 10 Wt Oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LRHF9VY/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_GYM57JYS8C3BZR6N4MJ3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

you ever notice how mass shooters show up with several guns, hundred of rounds of ammo and like 8 people die?

Michael Moore did.

I wish I could get a clip of that, but I know it'd be nuked from orbit by publishers if I screengrabbed it.

It's episode 9 if you want to pay the $2

Granted I don't know the quality but I see a bunch of programmable CNC machines online for $250-$500, is there a huge difference between something like this and the GG unit?

Peep hole video camera... $40 bucks. https://www.amazon.com/AREBI-Camcorder-Activated-A10-Plus/dp/B07GB2T125/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=peephole+camera&qid=1597093012&sr=8-6

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Chain or chains on your door; or a foot stop to let it open only 2 or 3 inches.

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How about a locked screen porch ( if your house has a porch in front of the front door!). Keep em at the outside about 6, 8 to 10 feet away from your door anyhow... ( Locked in screen porch also keeps your toddlers from wandering away from the open front door!).

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Finally, more cameras... so you can see the sides of your porch/ front door area; to include behind the bushes or other approaches to your front door 6 foot danger area!

Router level black hole. Pi-Hole is a decent option. I've got it native on my router if you're up for a slightly more technical approach. But one of the easiest ways is the Pi-Hole. Bonus is that it works for everything on the network.

Apologies -- I had intended to reply to the comment above yours.

And I agree wholeheartedly with your position on this matter.

The game is rigged. A constitutional convention under the present circumstances of propaganda and censorship would no doubt end in draconian disaster.

For the time being, we had best "stick to our guns", as the saying goes.

Not a bad idea...u/Sand_Trout wadda ya say to adding the link to the 2A case tracker to the side bar?

(Summaries is a whole different thing)

x-post from here.

https://theintercept.com/2014/07/23/blacklisted/

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/?p=2936

Some interesting factoids from the second link:

NICS "hits" are considered ENCOUNTERS and categorized as TERRORISM INFORMATION (even if later the firearm purchase is approved) (page 64)

Other categories of TERRORISM INFORMATION include "Gun show applications, firearms license, concealed weapons permit, shooting club memberships (page 68)

The time-release melatonin is where it's at. I used to take regular instant release melatonin and it did nothing but make me groggy in the morning. If you want something stronger that's over the counter (but potentially habit-forming due to valerian root), check out Luna.

I'd like you to expand on why you think lock-boxes are weak.

Hornady makes a $30 lockbox. Yes, if someone puts it in a bench vice and uses a crowbar they will be able to pop it open in about 10 seconds. But then it's not really intended for that kind of protection. Honestly few safes are.

What it is designed to do is stop kids (and adults unwilling to use tools to destroy the box) from getting access to your gun, and it does a great job on that.

There are many other products in that same price range

https://www.amazon.com/Hornady-Lock-Large-95200-Black/dp/B07KCRKDD7/ref=zg_bs_4200861_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FWCVQTCGBBKQD14HZPNE

Wife and I use HomeBudget. You can sync cross-platform on multiple devices as you enter transactions, which is really nice. Mac, Windows, iOS and Android versions available.

>We are losing the culture war unfortunately and I feel like we are becoming a smaller and smaller minority every year.

This.

Im gen-z who lived in AZ my entire life, I've single-handedly seen this state over the last 20 years go from red to blue and an entire generation of people my age become the generation of participation trophies and pathetic sadness (literally, somehow we're the most clinically depressed generation?)

I had to sue my university for a first amendment violation and my lawyer (shoutout to TheFIRE.org for literally saving my degree and providing me with free legal representation, and also fuck my corrupt university for violating my rights, and fuck my power hungry professor who tried to get away with it).

That said my lawyer gave me a free copy of a book he helped edit called The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.

Would recommend, its a great book and outlines how we've failed an entire generation.

The concept of free speech predates the US constitution and your implication that it only applies to the limitations placed on the US government for US citizens is intellectually dishonest. I am sure that more people in this thread than just myself are familiar with Voltaire and a long litany of free speech advocates that predate the USA.

This mealy-mouthed bullshit of "corporate censorship of the public square is good, sweetie!" is in direct ideological opposition to the concept of free speech. You are clearly here to argue in bad faith.

>Christofascism

Laughable hysterics. I have looked through your post history. You are ideologically aligned with the literal father of fascism and yet you spew your religious dogma as if anyone here is interested in your lies.

Brave browser gives the option to block ads, or you could set up a pi-hole to block ads across your network. On mobile, there's a couple apps you could try. I use baconreader, it has some ads but it doesn't give reddit the ad revenue.

The Russian revolution is a terrible historical analog for what might happen in the USA. Culturally, the USA today is the polar opposite of late 1800s Russia, whose peasants had never known private property or individual rights, and lived under ABSOLUTE monarchical Tsar.

If someone is making that analogy today, they have a fundamental misunderstanding of Russian history. Source: https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Revolution-Richard-Pipes/dp/0679736603

OP: you don't know what's going on in the courts right now, or why.

First thing you need to do is go read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Rights-Creation-Reconstruction/dp/0300082770/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=7KGKZ4QQ7BPB&keywords=the+bill+of+rights+creation+and+reconstruction&qid=1656444023&sprefix=the+bill+of+rights+creation+and%2Caps%2C297&sr...

Cover to cover. That book triggered the Heller, McDonald and Bruen decisions. Until you've read it you can't fully understand what's going on.

Next, read the Heller decision:

...the McDonald decision:

Timbs v Indiana (including and especially the concurring dissents):

...and then read Bruen:

Don't read the cases until you've read the book first.

These rape alarms are interesting, the emit a 140 decibels sound and a bright strobe light to temporarily disable/daze an attacker and call for assistance from nearby people. So unlike a chemical attack which could be used silently by a rapist against the victim these rape alarms seem to be pure defensive and they have high reviews on Amazon buy UK citizens who seem to find them satisfactory as a defensive tool. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Police-Preferred-Personal-Attack-Alarm/dp/B01BFDYTD4&ved=2ahUKEwj5-ovEm5f5AhU5D0QIHW7aChsQFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0rDpTImfVjI-d2m_XBTmTj

Ender 3 v2: $189

Upgraded springs: $5

Comgrow bed: $18 https://smile.amazon.com/Creality-Ender-Glass-Upgraded-235x235x4mm/dp/B07RD6D2ZQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?crid=1NQVK86ITN20H&keywords=comgrow+bed&qid=1654131135&sprefix=comgrow+bed%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGV...

Esun PLA+: $22 per roll

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Read that guy's book. He was in a shitload of gunfights and died of old age just recently. I had the pleasure of learning pistol craft from him.

Winston must have been assigned the task to "correct" the double plus ungood stats that contradict the party narrative.

Don't know what I'm talking about? Read all about it here:

https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf

They're the wrong kind of black voices, see. They don't want black people (or whites) to hear how black people want to be armed. See this Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-Gun-Black-Tradition-Arms/dp/161614839X

Not exactly.

The only active case on carry at the SCOTUS level is NYSRPA v Bruen and that only directly applies to residents of NY and does not explicitly address the issue of reciprocity nor even the ability of a non-resident of NY to apply for NY permit.

However, it's not without hope that the court will rule that NY must remove their "good cause" requirement and go "shall issue" AND that the court will order that they must allow non-residents to apply as well. This was done in the Wren v DC case, albeit not at the SCOTUS level.

There are a number of cases at lower court levels that can be viewed here but without going through each one, and probably spending money to buy documents on PACER, I can't say if any address the issue of reciprocity or non-resident permits.

At what point is it a suppressor? It is currently "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for the use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication."

But that can include any length of steel, aluminum, copper, or PVC piping.

is a Maglight flashlight considered a suppressor? it shouldn't be. But it can be converted to one with barrel adaptors, baffles and endcaps. But alone, none of these things reduce the noise signature.

it should be "Devices that reduce the noise signature of a firearm". But honestly it shouldn't be controlled at all.

I came here to recommend the chris derose book "the fighting bunch"

Indeed. And with the SPDI stuff that has been passed into law in Wyoming, it means anyone with an Corporate / business account in one of those organizations with an SPDI now can ensure their gun business won't be discriminated against by the financial organization while your business accepts crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, etc.) or fiat (U.S. dollar, euro, etc.)

Here's the skinny on the first financial organization to set up a crypto-fiat bank (SPDI) in Wyoming:

https://blog.kraken.com/post/6241/kraken-wyoming-first-digital-asset-bank/

Business account sign up process:

https://www.kraken.com/sign-up and ensure you are following the Business account option.

The second one to get a SPDI (crypto-fiat bank license) in Wyoming is called Avanti. No doubt more to come soon!

I use a router that's flashed with OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/) firmware and an adblock plugin along with it so I don't have to worry about DNS settings on my individual devices. I know a lot of people have good experiences with Pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net/) but I've never used it myself.

Well, why’d they go and get a criminal history first?! They burned themselves and then complain that they have no choice but to be criminals because of their criminal history preventing them from getting decent jobs? That’s some bullshit right there.

You talk about a “better public school system.”

We’ve been pumping many billions of dollars into the public school system particularly in urban inner cities, and it’s a fucking black hole for our tax money. It has not worked and it will not work.

These urban schools are hellholes, despite all the money we dump into them. Some of them have the highest expenditures per student in the country and are still hellholes. And why? Because of the depraved, corrupt, violent subculture of the students who go there—and it doesn’t take many of them to make attending such a school a living hell even for the kids who want to learn.

Liberalism has failed these schools and their students. Why do you think that teachers are abandoning them and record rates?

Here.

You really ought to get familiar with Colin Flaherty

“Well regulated” is right there in the fucking text, are you illiterate?

You’re referring to the unorganized reserve militia, which the Constitution explicitly does not cite. The Constitution cites the well-organized militia, which is not the “reserve” militia of any random guys of a certain age. Stop ignoring the words “well-organized.”

You’ve never even read the Constitution.

That isn’t a well-organized militia. You’re referring to the unorganized reserve militia, which the Constitution explicitly does not cite. The Constitution cites the well-organized militia, which is not the “reserve” militia of any random guys of a certain age. Stop ignoring the words “well-organized.”

A bunch of untrained shaky-hand bubbas would be fucking worthless at securing the state. That’s why the 2A refers to th well organized militia for the security of the state.

Yeah you’re wrong and you’re clearly too lazy or too ignorant to conduct basic research.

The US gun violence death rate is almost TEN TIMES that of Ukraine. It is easy to google, here is the source.

Must suck to be so ignorant and uninformed when facts are so obvious and easy to find.

Yea it's fucking stupid, I agree. A guy asked me about it at work. My personal opinion of it is..if there is a dude with a gun antagonizing (read it like the definition please) you, DO NOT ATTACK HIM.

But really, you can really see it play out. People are pushing a dumpster fire, another group of armed people, stop them to put out their fire. We all know why. Let's not pretend it was for safety. The militiamen WANTED to put out that fire whether or not the people pushing it wanted their help or not. They wanted to antagonize and found a probably legally gray way to do it. (We're stopping chaos)

Bad Link. This is what I saw on the page.

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There have been proven leftist instigators inside the capital building leading the way that day. I doubt it was totally right wing people.

https://parler.com/post/f6bad7d0295b40289bfeb16376439d79

There are FIVE CCW cases pending a decision on Cert. That's five out of 11 total cases. I don't see them dodging the issue. Possible, but unlikely.

There are TWO AWB cases pending cert and clear circuit splits at lower levels. And with Kavanaugh having written the dissent in the DC case that upheld their AWB I'm pretty sure he'll be arguing strongly to take an AWB case. If they don't take one it's clearly a political dodge and Roberts wants to avoid an appearance of being political so I think that one of the AWB cases will be heard.

> (can't be arsed to look it up)

Mance v Barr

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> I'm not sure if it can be GVR'd but if it is then it likely will be.

I don't think it can as there haven't been any decisions that would impact it. Had they decided NYSRPA v NYC on the merits and given some direction the this, and perhaps all of the cases, could have been GVRd.

Hopefully we'll know something tomorrow.

DOJ state inmate data from 2004 was used to estimate the % of inmates in for gun crimes in state jail and prisons across one particular 13-state cohort, and it was found that 60% of those inmates in for gun crimes were the legal owners of the guns they used at the time of their crime. Source.

It's a free PDF to download through Cato, enjoy.

Prepare for heartburn and consternation, because at points it's a rough fucking read.

If you enjoyed Radley Balko, I would also recommend Kristian Williams, with "Our Enemies in Blue" and the super rough-to-read "American Methods."

My friends convinced me to install this. It’s discreet and easy to use and keeps your toddlers from opening the door also. I have one installed near the top and bottom of the door

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> visual confirmation that they're police

[not that you can't fake looking like a cop](amazon.com/Dress-Up-America-Officer-Costume/dp/B001BPWJ7U) also many raids are done buy units only wearing a shirt or vest that says "police". Not all criminals are dumb, using the "we're the police" tactic is not that uncommon.

I'll see about finding a better medium. I may try Google forms next time I do one of these longer ones.

If you still have time, the survey is available here now.

EDIT: Please do not retake the survey if you have already done so.

UPDATE: Here's a second link, hopefully you can take the survey now.

I do know phrasing can be better. For those of you going "why would he ask this obvious anti-gun/pro-gun question?" it's because I am trying to get a sense of where people are at. This is quick and dirty so just take the statements at face value.

Seems to be pretty much a hypothetical about her black son potentially crossing paths with someone who might use the stand your ground laws that protect lawful self defense to unjustly hurt her son. I would say that those who walk a just and lawful path deserve to be protected if they don't want to back down from someone who walks an unjust and criminal path. I'm not insinuating that her son is a criminal, or that the law is colorblind, but stand your ground is about not being forced off your path if that path is just and lawful.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stpehanie-flowers-stand-your-ground-arkansas_n_5c831a1ae4b0d93616283236

>"I am the only person here of color. I am a mother, too, and I have a son,” Flowers said Wednesday during committee debate over the bill. “And I care as much for my son as y’all care for y’all’s. But my son doesn’t walk the same path as yours does. So this debate deserves more time.”

> The power of the sword, say the minority..., is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for The powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress has no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but where, I trust in God, it will always remain, in the hands of the people.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tench_Coxe

Always remember that those who scream racist the loudest are frequently racists themselves. It's like the closeted gay politician constantly screaming the evils of homosexuality.

Secondly, democrats always have been oppressors of minorities. This is true then as it is now. Most anti-gun laws in this country exist because democrats wanted to prevent civil rights to blacks. Blacks used their second amendment rights to exercise their freedom of speech to obtain their right to vote. Without the second amendment black civil rights could have easily been repressed another decade by democrats.

"I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years." -LBJ, democrat, father entitlements

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society

public school teachers do it far more than catholic priests.

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/thenewamericanmagazine/female_teachers_having_affairs_with_young_boys_now_a_weekly_occurrence/#edit-3934849189

public school teachers do it far more than catholic priests.

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/thenewamericanmagazine/female_teachers_having_affairs_with_young_boys_now_a_weekly_occurrence/#edit-3934849189

<em>This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed,</em> by Charles Cobb. This one has been quoted a few times by Eugene Volokh and Stephen Halbrook.

<em>We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement</em> by Akinyele Omowale Umoja. This one isn't as well-known, but it's a great read.

Go over to r/CCW. Lots of helpful people there.

First, take a basic introduction to firearms class at a local range. Tom Givens had an excellent book on the subject, which I recommend without reservation.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1946267953/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_NTV0H51WKFJPKKBS27TS

>How do you accomplish “proper sex education” when that doesn’t include contraceptives

Bro. Amazon Prime. 2 day shipping on rubbers in your size and mine.

>How can you convince millions of American “Christians” that now somehow sex education is ok.

Am American Christian, am cool with sex ed.

With the papers will come "information flooding", much like we have seen recently over horse paste overdoses leaving gunshot victims to die outside hospitals

Lott spends nearly half of his recent book Gun Control Myths going over problems with botched gun studies. Well worth a read to help identify the shell game when you see it.

"Trust ~~the~~ in science" , in the scientific proces specifically. Academia has some serious problems we should all be talking about, not just members of this sub.

I've never been to Afghanistan or Iraq. I was an intelligence analyst when I was active duty Army back in the late 90s. I got a B.A. in History with a minor in Poli Sci at college. I've spoken to a fair number of Afghan and Iraq vets.

I've read a lot of books. This one by Peter Tomsen does a great job of laying out the tribal history of Afghanistan, Pakistani interference, and the cultural considerations in Afghanistan that are very difficult for U.S. foreign policy apparatchiks to understand. The D.C. bubble is very real, and a lot of people who go into the state department and intelligence agencies aren't noted for their creativity or penetrating insights.

Land, gold, and women. That's what matters in Afghanistan. If you can help your tribe get more of those, you're a good leader. If you can't, then you have nothing to offer and won't be a leader for long. If the Taliban might ally with a rival tribe and help them take your land, then you ally with the Taliban as well and go take some land from someone else instead. U.S. policy-makers never grasped that concept. That there were no higher ideals to appeal to there. It was just land, gold, and women.

One intentional squeeze, just applied against a bouncing trigger. Whether full auto or FRT, the user applies a constant force to keep firing. In full auto F >= weight of trigger return spring. With an FRT, F >= trigger breaking pressure and F <= the force of the auto-return. But either way you just apply a constant force to the trigger.

If the FRT isn't a machinegun, then a spring scale is all it takes to convert it into one. Just pull the trigger with the spring scale hard enough to break the trigger, and it'll fire, returning on reset with enough force to overcome the spring pressure, then succumbing to that pressure for the next shot, until the scale is released or the magazine expended.

So is that gun not a machinegun with just the FRT, and is a machinegun with the spring scale applied to it?

If the FRT-15 is not a machinegun, then is a trigger pull spring gauge a machinegun?

As I understand the forced reset trigger system, one of these could fire the gun repeatedly by applying enough weight to fire the gun once, at which point it would reset itself, and then fire again from the same weight/spring pressure still being held against it. One pull, multiple rounds. Definitely a machinegun.

So if the FRT-15 is not a machinegun, but applying the spring gauge to it converts it to a machinegun, surely the spring gauge must be a machinegun part.

> Have you read his new book Rise of the Warrior Cop?

Yeah, it's a good primer - however, I find his overall analysis super lackluster and laughably limiting in it's historical scope.

If this is a subject you're interested in, I would HIGHLY recommend Our Enemies in Blue and other works by Kristian Williams.

Williams demonstrates that the "warrior cop" mindset was developed in the East Indies by occupying English armies. At this time the English military developed the prototype "modern" law enforcement and defined the role of the London Police. This was the original nexus of military-police relationship in western society, offering a brand new take on what Gendarmerie-style forces ought to be doing to suppress insurrection. These English units developed the prototype Counter-Insurgency tactics that we still rely on today, and was only fundamentally revamped by General Petraeus. The tactics these units developed became the playbook for the American Red Squad and having police acting as civil intelligence agencies. When police history is viewed through the lens of cop's central role being Counter-Insurgency it opens up a more apt analysis on why cops today are so vested in things like "Counter-terrorism" and intelligence sharing with federal intelligence agencies. It also explains that the Drug War was simply an excuse to carry out additional counter-insurgency against blacks, mexicans, and later anti-war hippies.

This also explains, for example, why the DC Capitol Police might go along with a conspiracy with the FBI to coordinate the January 6th "insurrection" - all of this is to expand domestic surveillance.

Have I ever broken a law? I plead the fifth lol.

But in this particular instance I really don't think it's worth it for most people to potentially throw away their future. The fight is in the courtroom before it comes to bans and stupid anti gun laws. Not getting a mugshot. Most people are not lil Wayne, they can't go back to a rap career after copping an unlawful possession of a firearm charge. You enter the system and become a felon.

Highly recommend the book Arrest Proof Yourself. Even one charge, dismissed, can ruin your life. It's all fun and games until it happens to you then people realize the gravity of the situation.

https://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-Arrested/dp/1556526377&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj_6PvGqfzwAhUOV80KHTXPBlkQFjAAegQIBBAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw2AobIwMW07BZhdHDk2Qpne

If you haven't, you should read this

True, but the one I had my eye on was a bit more than 2, but under 3.

https://smile.amazon.com/Creality-Printer-Printing-Function-220x220x250mm/dp/B07FFTHMMN/ref=sr_1_3?crid=F6Z0CCNSSB7A&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=3d+printer+ender&amp;qid=1619013185&amp;sprefix=3d+printer%2Caps%2C194&amp;sr=8-3

Many new gun owners in the past couple years, but it's important to note that this isn't exactly a new phenomenon. Black Americans have owned and used firearms for self defense and hunting for centuries. Here's a history written by Nicholas Johnson, a law professor at Fordham University for those interested. https://www.amazon.com/Negroes-and-the-Gun-The-Black-Tradition-of-Arms/dp/161614839X/ref=cm_wl_huc_item

I’m in NY and was already connected to a NordVPN server in Buffalo, and it didn’t work. Switched to a vpn server in Montreal and it worked just fine. I was just having issue loading usnews and reports, surely enough when I tried it while connected to Montreal it worked. For shits and giggles I turned off my vpn and refreshed to that site and it would not load with my vpn off.

Three Felonies a Day, here’s a link, in case anyone is interested.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229

I haven’t read it yet, but it’s still on my to be read list, though it will probably just piss me off, without having much I can do about it.

Yes. I am intimately familiar with R.J. Rummel’s work and that of Democide (the word that he coined, effectively a broader “genocide” that refers to ANY mass murder perpetrated by government). Genocide itself is fairly limited in that it does NOT include what scholars call “politicide” or mass murder of persons of a particular political affiliation. The reason for this is that when Raphael Lemkin and the UN were coining the word in the 1940s, Stalin did not want the UN convention on Genocide to include murder of dissidents as “genocide.” So yes... I’m familiar with Democide asa concept and I feel it is very important, and would in fact love to continue to advance the research of Rummel. His book “Death by Government” is excellent by the way if anyone hasn’t read it. It is fairly expensive on amazon, but WELL worth a read. Death by Government https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1560009276/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_K8ltFbYWKM771

Right, assuming that a case even gets that far.

AND that there happens to be a liberty minded juror.

But what you describe is incredibly fcked up.

Most of us dont even give a sht. Why would we, we're not criminals. We dont care or have to worry about how those scum bags are treated.

Problem is, with so many rules, regulations and laws on the books, there are many innocent people who can very well end up in the exact scenario that you described.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

>We literally built a prison in Cuba just for this,

I agree. All of your examples are examples of government overreach.

Are you saying that it's OK to take away American's rights without due process?

>Never by people marching around with guns though that's just silly.

Ignoring the obvious 1776 example, here's a book that will knock your socks off - https://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed-ebook/dp/B00IHGVQNY

>Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as “an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored.

>
>In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these men and women were crucial to the movement's success, as were the weapons they carried. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the Southern Freedom Movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb offers a controversial examination of the vital role guns have played in securing American liberties.

Excellent, thanks dude! I think I might actually have a copy of that FM kicking around somewhere, but who knows where it's at, so maybe it'd not a bad idea for me to pick up another. Also, if we're sharing good sources of info, look into picking up a copy of Thomas Glover's "Pocket Ref", it's tiny enough to keep in your bag, and I promise once you flip through the pages, you'll know what I mean when I say it's impossible to suggest that buying it was a mistake.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1527599201&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=how+to+lie+with+statistics&amp;dpID=51zFExbOw9L&amp;preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&amp;dpSrc=srch

Master locks should not be used to secure it. Buy an American lock from amazon or your local locksmith. They are much more difficult to open non-destructively. Any baggage handling prick with bobby pins can get it open.

For the price, this one is great Link

damn, you got a good deal on old stock!

https://smile.amazon.com/Heller-Case-Gun-Rights-Affirmed/dp/188963221X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1501279515&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+heller+case+gun+rights+affirmed

the phrase assault rifle has meant different things in different eras. for instance in the 1980s, the gun industry used it in marketing copy to advertise semi-automatic sporting rifles. here's an example of this from 1982:

http://i.imgur.com/J1pnG4v.jpg

and here's the Amazon link to that for more details:
http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Ammo-Assault-Rifles-Sporting/dp/0822722348?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=1982%20%26%2334%3Bassault%20rifles%26%2334%3B&amp;qid=1464821980&amp;ref_=sr_1_2&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2

i hesitate to answer your request here since clearly there's no one set-in-stone definition of the phrase. even the gun advertisers have used it to mean semi-autos, so i for one certainly wouldn't claim to have the one true definition of it because there isn't one.