The Truth About Guns

Fully-armed IRS agents also raided a Montana FFL. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/irs-confiscates-tens-of-thousands-of…

Ah! I was wrong; you are right. It was called a 'silencer' by its inventor. (He also called his car mufflers 'silencers'): http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/04/jeremy-s/guns-for-beginners-s… Its worth noting though: back then cars were called 'horseless carriages'. Which is pretty much an obsolete term. So maybe we can let 'silencer' die too.

Massad Ayoob recommends against [0] using a defensive firearm with, say, a modified trigger due to potential liability. [1] This situation seems similar. [0]: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/01/brad-kozak/the-massad-ayoob-c… [1]: http://www.royblack.com/files/Alvarez.pdf

one of the best articles with interesting commentary on the subject: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/01/robert-farago/marine-223-may-…

"If I'm in highly populates area,the use of AR rifle can result in lots of collateral damage if not handled well." Use hollow-point rounds instead of full metal jacket rounds to decrease penetration. But the problem is usually overstated anyway. See [1][2] below. "It is also very impractical to carry, especially if your job is not in military or security." Get an AR-15 "pistol". [3] You should be able to fit one in a decent-sized backpack. Some of them have barrels as short as 7 inches. If that's still too big, separate the upper and lower receivers. You'll just have to spend a good 30 seconds reassembling the weapon before loading a magazine. "but just realistically what kind of potential attackers one would expect to stop with it?" Looters attempting to destroy your business and livelihood, for example [4]. And that's not a problem restricted to the US; violent looters are a worldwide problem. Rural farmers being lynched for ethnic or economic reasons in Africa would probably love to have a semi-automatic weapon to even their odds against numerous attackers armed with (presumably) edged weapons or pistols. [5][6] The perpetual problem we see with gun control advocates is that they extrapolate from their experience living in metropolitan areas with far higher law-enforcement densities, push for laws that affect EVERYONE, and then end up depriving people in rural areas from the tools they actually NEED to be responsible for their own safety and…

Cardboard boxes aren't subject to leaked electronic keypad codes. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/liberty-safe-changes-its-policies-af…

Pretty much everywhere, but mostly at Wild West thad had no central government like Europe. Read this essays, it covers my point: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-democratization-of-violence-why-… Similar moment could be invention of printing press, or raise of Internet (vs libraries).

Chicago 500 homicdes for 2022 doesn't count non fatal crimes https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/chicago-blows-past-500-homicides-in-…

"This is a curve-ball on par with the CA judge that overturned the mag ban recently." Wait, what ? I had no idea this was the case ... fascinating. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/03/john-boch/breaking-nra-legal…

My impression from what I'd read is that nearly anything that's got enough impact energy to penetrate clothing, soft flesh (denim & ballistic gel) and the hard bits of thorax, is going to get through perpendicular drywall very easily. Here's the lightest round in common use, 22LR, holing 8 layers of drywall sequentially. This is 1/12th as much muzzle energy as .223: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ME3IEYoQXc Here's pricy specialty frangible rounds designed not to go through walls... still going through walls in a test: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/09/daniel-zimmerman/shootingtheb…

I wonder if he took his grooved cylinder design from the Cobray Pocket Pal[1] or the earlier Mauser C78 “Zig Zag” revolver[2]. He's definitely wrong about it being the "first functional 3D-printed repeating firearm that has been printed using a consumer 3D printer", though. In May 2014, a Japanese man made a pepperbox revolver[3], and an even earlier metal-lined-barrel pepperbox revolver was built in September 2013 [4]. [1]: http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/gunsfs/cobray.html [2]: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/11/jeremy-s/history-mauser-told-… [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_zag_revolver [4]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprringer

There are some serious methodological issues with that paper. http://www.tbuckner.com/KELLERMANN.htm http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/01/william-c-montgomery/editoria… http://www.guns.com/2015/08/24/kellermanns-gun-ownership-studies-after…

Luggage locks were never really meant to secure your baggage. They were mostly just to keep the luggage from opening accidentally. If you want genuine security on your luggage, get a starter gun and go through the checked firearms procedures. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/expensive_camer.html http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/08/matt-in-fl/more-on-flying-wit…

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/05/robert-farago/breaking-tracki… It looks like tracking point is closing up shop.

> where you've gotten your facts about this intent For example: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/09/daniel-zimmerman/second-amend…

I would put a very large amount of money on any randomly chosen civilian CCW holder outshooting any randomly chosen NYPD cop. This is partially the fault of the cop, CCW holders tend to spend more time at the range than cops, but to a certain degree it isn't: The NYPD has foolishly required all of their (normally single-action) guns have a 12lb trigger pull on all trigger pulls (http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/08/foghorn/nypds-choice-of-firea…

They can, but the expense of using this as a mfg process is generally prohibitive. I've read there are some advanced aerospace parts such as turbine blades w/ complex hollows or internal parts that require very advanced castings that it actually makes sense to use SLS as a build method. A good example of part-strength is the 1911 Solid Concepts in Austin printed late last year[0]. They used a EOSINT M 270, a pretty advanced and expensive SLS printer. [1] For reference, that 1911 ran about $600k in build cost. yeesh. [0] - http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/12/robert-farago/gun-review-soli… [1] - http://gpiprototype.com/services/eosintm270.html

There's no legal definition per Congress. Generally speaking, braces are intended to stabilize a pistol against your arm [0], whereas a rifle stock is meant to stabilize against your shoulder. However, braces can technically be "misused" such that the rear of the brace fits against the shoulder, meaning it is used as a stock. Likewise, the distinction is so small something as simple as a sling attachment to the stock could make it a brace, or an articulation that could be used as a cheek rest turn a brace into a stock, converting a pistol into a rifle or vice versa. For awhile, the only way to know the difference was for the manufacturer to submit an NFA and hope. The ATF has been in court (and lost) quite a bit [1] over this. [0] there's a nice picture and writeup here of a pistol brace being setup https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/gear-review-sig-sb15-pistol-stabiliz… [1] a brief rundown of the 2023-2025 legal rulings https://www.fflguard.com/atf-pistol-brace-rule/

> Look at rifles like the SV98 or AW series. These are both bolt-action rifles. The purpose of assault-weapons bans are to reduce the likelihood of a single, mentally-unstable person from killing large numbers of people with a semi-automatic rifle. > you can evade pistol grip laws by making butt stocks with holes that provide the same effective hand positioning Not in California. That grip is considered a 'feature' and is not allowed in conjunction with detachable magazines on a semi-automatic rifle. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/california-legal-ar-15/ > You only need one .223 centre mass or in the intestines to require immediate surgery. Center-mass is on-target. For an inexperienced person working their way through a school or office-building, they are trying to increase the number of on-target shots, and reduce the number of magazine reloads. > The fact that some commit heinous crimes is mentall illness, not the fault of the gun or even more so the fault of legal gun ownership. We can't ban mental illness, so the purpose of the laws is to reduce the likelihood of certain weapons systems from falling into the hands of people with mental illness, or those with an ideological grudge and the motivation to carry out an attack. This has worked out pretty well in the state of California so-far. > mounting a good infrared scope on a hunting rifle helps hunters place humane one-shot-stops rather than blindly causing suffering. If a hunter needs an infrared scope to…

there a problem with wearing a ballistic vest etc. and that is if you are not LEO or an agent, a prejudicial stance appears. it was the case that "your looking for trouble" if your a normie and wearing a vest. you see its harder to make people scared of you carrying a gun when they wear ballistic vests, so this has to be delegitimized, as in normal civilians dont need vests as they have LEOs to engage the bad guy, this is compounded by mass shooters wearing ballastic gear during recent events. It isnt the guns its the weapons, so getting rid of guns is a red herring. The problem is motivation. just like a disease or other demic problem there is a cause or set of causes that lead to mass shootings, mass stabbings, mass bombings, mass vehicular homicide etc. having homicidal motivation and only an [axe] as your means will likely culminate in [axe] murder, etc all that being said , FIELD EXPEDIENT ballistic shielding and some reads like below. https://www.xdtalk.com/threads/field-expedient-bulletproofing.201919/ https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/budget-body-armor/ http://soldiersystems.net/2017/02/27/bullet-proof-origami-shield/ a good buck knife can help you hack a chunk of drywall plastered in ceremic tiles and assist in hassling bullets trying to do thier job and mantling the bodys kill points from the more discerning shooter. the mass shooters heuristics are important, not entirely evident for public consumption yet but there is a reason why mass shooters pick a…

From http://www.gunsholstersandgear.com/2015/09/18/more-delays-remington-r5… "Hot gasses escaping the chamber were essentially flame cutting the top of my hand" "Problems keeping the magazine in the gun" "The slide action was very rough, and the rear sight was loose in the dovetail" "An Idaho man was accidentally shot while loading his R51 pistol. According to court documents, the man did not press the trigger, nor did he depress the grip safety. Yet, the gun allegedly fired and struck him in the abdomen when he inserted a magazine." From http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/02/foghorn/gun-review-remington-… "The left side of the R51’s slide rail contacted my hand when the gun cycles" "The R51’s trigger had no perceptible reset" "Disassembling Remington’s carry piece is almost as challenging as changing an M1 Carbine’s extractor... When you re-assemble the R51 you must slip a small tab on the slide stop of the gun underneath this little spring. You must insert it perfectly parallel to the slide. If you tilt the slide stop upwards by as little as a 1/16th of an inch, if it rides above the spring, the gun will malfunction" (Note, they did fix this in the second version of the r51) "Even when the gun is absolutely 100% assembled correctly, it still fails to fire, fires out of battery, and fails to feed with alarming regularity"