Open Source Defense
@opensrcdefense
Investing in and writing about civilian defense.
What ATF did wrong during its fatal raid of Bryan Malinowski. Why ATF killed a 53-year-old airport executive who had never committed a crime. tinyurl.com/4t6whf6j
2A. We don’t need everyone to have guns but just a sufficiently large number of the population to have guns.
Well said. Anything that requires expertise is always going to have a ceiling on adoption. There are two ways to mitigate that: 1. Enough people become experts that they can cover the laypeople. 2. Invent things that don't require expertise to use. Let's do both.
I appreciate this article from @opensrcdefense. It's a good read. But self defense is never going to be "mainstream." The hardware could be as easy as a thought and you'd still have far too many people buying whatever tesla-gun gizmo and never training to use it under stress in…
What a time to be alive.
Full Dagger in FDE for $200. No excuses.
Part of the widespread lethality from drones is introducing capabilities via COTS which previously could only he done by highly regulated technologies such as missiles. Ironically, the amount of people who default to regulation as the solution is still the current majority.
Anything the police can have, you should have too.
OSD 153, the "haram-to-halal theory of gun ownership", is instructive in this regard. There's also an unstated wealth/inequality aspect whereby people like Newsom implicitly believe in a system of waivers, fees, and private security forces favoring the 1%, while simultaneously…
The way he says "we exempt law enforcement from these laws", you can tell he still thinks that's a selling point. Dead giveaway that he has a broken mental model of gun rights supporters. "You can't have it, but don't worry, the police can" doesn't hit like it did in 1994.
@ShawnRyan762 questions Newsom’s opposition to concealed carry, which opens up a whole new wave of falsehoods. Saying California “allows” concealed carry after a review process is generous at best. Multiple lawsuits are ongoing because the process can take years, and several…
We totaled a car to show you the truth about "car holsters." Video release scheduled for August.
Hey. Here's like 4,000 words from half a dozen legal experts on the new lawsuit against the National Firearms Act.
Analysis: Legal Experts See Tough Climb for New Lawsuit Against the National Firearms Act [Member Exclusive]
My buddy @TheToastFPS who I went to Center Point with last week is hosting a fundraiser on Twitch for TEXSAR. Please consider giving, sharing, and amplifying this fundraiser. We’ll be back out there this week. twitch.tv/charity/toastf…
"In all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself."
Everyone forgot about how much SBRs and AOWs are going to change because of tax stamps going to $0.