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Changing What’s Normal
From Open Source Defense:
To say that the cartoon depiction of a gun is unacceptable to display in-text on any modern tech platform is actually pretty radical. It means that the mere sight of a gun — a cartoon gun — is an inherent obscenity. And purely from a software engineering perspective, disregarding the Unicode standard to enforce that was unprecedented.
For six years, we lived in that world. Today, at least on X, we don’t. But imagine that Elon hadn’t bought X and we were stuck with water pistols for the long haul. Most people using a smartphone today remember when a pistol was a pistol. But after about two decades, the collective memory would have faded and the water pistol would seem utterly normal. The real pistol would seem aberrant, and as a result there’d be no hope of bringing it back. There’d be a new status quo, and going back to the old one would seem radical.
What Would A Modern American Citizen Militia Look Like?
From Speculative Future Gun Culture:
As a dissident, I think that the idea of a re-established American militia deserves study, especially given the present seemingly unstoppable state of decay in the national government and its infrastructure and capabilities. Therefore, I have done a short, very casual study of what a futuristic American militia growing out of a recognizably-modern society might look like from the perspective of force size. To be clear, I am thinking of a grassroots / general service national militia, not the much-maligned voluntary associations of private citizens which sometimes represent themselves as being elements of the Unorganized Militia.
Calls For Trump To Nominate Pro Gun ATF Director
From The Truth About Guns:
Gun rights groups have already started making requests to President Trump, abolishing the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention being among the first. Unsurprisingly, it looks as if that request has already made its way onto a checklist, as one of President Trump’s goals this time around is to trim some of the proverbial bureaucratic fat. Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, seems to agree that a good place to start is where taxpayer dollars are being spent on efforts to erode their own freedom.
Christian Ethics On Self Defense
From American Greatness:
Ultimately, Zmirak’s goal in No Second Amendment, No First is “to show that the Christian view of the person, correctly understood, demands broad rights of self-defense for ordinary citizens—against both illegal violence and the prospect of tyrannical governments.”
Zmirak warns that we need to fight back against “impatient innovators [who] kick aside the tenets of Natural Law, Christian morality, the dignity of man, and the rights of the individual.”
Notes On A Horrible Firearms Class
From Swift Silent Deadly:
I hate to write a bad review, but the tipping point for this one was safety, which we’ll get to. In addition to at least one egregious safety violation, there was all around bad instructional methodology throughout. My purpose in writing this is to tease out some lessons-learned, rather than just complain.I have also tried to provide some good, real-world examples of instructors who do a great job in these areas.
Before we get into it: one important note: I am not going to name this instructor here. I grappled with this decision, and reached out to a couple other, more experienced bloggers for their opinions, because I don’t want you to spend your money on him, but I also don’t want to fuel drama in the gun industry. If you think you may be attending one of his classes, contact me and I may confirm or deny the instructor’s name. I reserve the right to make a case-by-case decision on this, however.
Gun Advocates Need To Support Culture and Entertainment That Is Pro Gun
From Bearing Arms:
About a year and a half ago, I reviewed a graphic novel here at Bearing Arms. It’s not something we normally do because, well, we’re a gun and Second Amendment site. Why would we be reviewing glorified comic books?
But Black Tide Rising was and is a little different. Based on a series of novels by John Ringo, it was an interesting case of a story of survival during the zombie apocalypse outbreak being written by someone who actually thinks your right to keep and bear arms is valid and incredibly useful for such an occasion.
It was only the first volume of a series of graphic novels that didn’t even fully cover the first book. Now, a crowdfunding campaign has kicked off to bring about volume 2.
ARs Becoming Popular With Hunters
From The Truth About Guns:
Hunting with AR-style rifles, also known by some as Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) and others simply as ARs, has seen a remarkable increase in use in the field by sportsman over the past decade. This is according to recent research from the Outdoor Stewards of Conservation Foundation (OSCF). A survey conducted by Responsive Management for OSCF found 41 percent of hunters now use AR-style rifles for hunting, up from 25 percent in 2014.
Citizens Sue State Fair of Texas With Texas AG
From The Truth About Guns:
On October 29, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and three fairgoers challenged the policy with an updated lawsuit against the State Fair of Texas and the city of Dallas. New plaintiffs Maxx Juusola, Tracy Martin and Alan Crider joined the lawsuit, State of Texas v. City of Dallas, claiming the ban violated a state law that restricts most government bodies from prohibiting weapons on their properties.
The Importance Of Armed and Organized Citizens
From Ammoland:
In fact, militias were used as late as the War with Spain in Cuba and the Philippines. Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were a volunteer militia that was formed in part by Theodore Roosevelt. A standing army had been around for many years; however, militias were still very important to the security of the United States.
Mass. Gun Law Ruled Unconstitutional
From Bearing Arms:
… a municipal court judge in Boston recently ruled that an applicant for a license to carry was wrongly denied based on “suitability” concerns. A Boston man named Jordan Lebedevitch sought an LTC (which is required to both own and carry a handgun and some long guns in Massachusetts) as part of his job working in security, but Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox and the Boston police rejected Lebedevitch’s application based on a 2023 police report in which his then-wife told officers that he had threatened to kill himself.
The Battle Of Agincourt And The Origin Of An Armed Populace
From Don Shift:
The French expected an easy win but underestimated the English, especially their devastating longbows. The English longbow was a game-changer, capable of penetrating armor and hitting targets hundreds of yards away. English archers held off the French cavalry and thinned out French infantry from a distance before they even reached the English lines.
Gunman Stops Vehicular Homicide
From The Truth About Guns:
According to the San Antonio Police Department’s (SAPD) preliminary investigation, the so-called victim was reportedly causing a disturbance in the parking lot of an after-hours club, with witnesses saying he threatened to shoot others and attempted to run over people with his vehicle. In response, a man, described as being in his early 30s, pulled out a firearm and shot the man in the car in self-defense and defense of others—both legal defensive claims in the state of Texas.
Hawaii and Michigan Create Stasi-like Tip Line
From Guns.com:
In Hawaii on Thursday, Gov. Josh Green (D) announced the state Department of Law Enforcement has established a confidential “Gun Tip Line for people to make anonymous reports of illegal gun ownership and gun crimes.” Tipsters seeking to “drop a dime” can do so either via a call or text to a phone number or via the DLE’s website. Further, there is a downloadable app where tipsters can go so far as to submit photographs and videos to back up their report.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed House Bill 5503 this week. The measure, an education funding bill, allocated $1 million in School Aid Funding to support a tip line for students to anonymously report “improperly stored firearms.”
The bill also mandates the state’s Department of Education will develop educational materials related to improperly stored firearms, including the use of the tip line to report them, and distribute the materials to school districts statewide.
Why You Should Be Armed When You Vote
From Bearing Arms:
An Afghan national allowed into the US shortly after the Harris-Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was charged Tuesday with plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day terror attack.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was living in Oklahoma City on a Special Immigrant Visa as he took steps to stockpile AK-47 rifles and ammunition to carry out an attack on US soil “in the name of ISIS,” according to the Justice Department.
Media Admits Washington Gun Law Not Working
From Bearing Arms:
Washington ranks ninth in the country for gun-law strength, according to Everytown for Gun Safety this year, making it one of the strictest states. The Legislature passed a law earlier this year which requires gun owners to report stolen firearms to law enforcement within 24 hours or face a fine of up to $1,000.
Yet despite Washington’s relatively strict gun laws, children are still obtaining guns.