Gun Nation: The Rise of Child Gun Influencers
Fred Thrasher doesn’t see his children as social media content creators, even if they run in those circles. “They’re not […]
Fred Thrasher doesn’t see his children as social media content creators, even if they run in those circles. “They’re not […]
Guns are necessary, but while we iterate on the Model T and make it better, we should also be pushing the industry forward and trying to invent Teslas. That’s the only way that self-defense will truly go mainstream.
The reality of being a liberal gun owner, especially in the United States, is that you are going to have to buy from company who’s [sic] beliefs [do] not align with yours.
Many companies are active in the nascent 3D-printing industry, and it may prove difficult to achieve industry-wide reform. Legislation may be necessary to ensure that there are no printers on the market that can be utilized to produce DIY guns.
That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an unarmed population—see “Cuba, socialist state of.” But in a democracy, the maxim holds firmly.
While gun rights advocates are calling the legislation the “Glock ban bill” because Glock manufactures popular pistols that can be
“it just really makes me think that we on the left have let our high opinion of our alleged intelligence and sophistication lead us into the sheepfold. We are comfortable only when we are vulnerable to harm and peremptorily aggrieved and oppressed, apparently.”
Chevron’s fall didn’t just weaken the ATF — it shook the foundation of how regulation works. Now, every gun rule must be spelled out. Until that happens, loopholes remain open.
Think about a society where there are 50x as many silencers and SBRs. That’s a different planet than what we’re used to. It’s where we’re headed. And it can create the kind of momentum that could be used to take these things out of the NFA altogether.
It seems that as states began to expand consumers’ legal right to have, carry, and use handguns for self-defense, the industry seized on the opportunity to sell the idea of armed self-defense to what was still a relatively untapped market of women.