Notes from the Resistance
I put this together on ChatGPT to illustrate a point raised in my last article.
Who thinks the Bill of Rights would have been ratified if “except for prior restraint background checks, waiting periods and purchase/carry permits” had been tacked on right after “shall not be infringed”?
Poland surpasses 1 million registered guns as Poles continue to arm themselves [More]
Based on old numbers, it doesn’t seem out of line to speculate there are half again as many unregistered one.
Firearms manufacturers that closed down operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2025 included SCCY Industries LLC, whose assets were seized by the Volusia County Tax Office of Florida at its Daytona factory on March 11, 2025, for non-payment of tax debts of almost $250,000… And now, struggling firearms maker and dealer Custombilt Firearms Manufacturing LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after battling the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over its license in 2023 and 2024. [More]
So, unlike Big Rock, they’re both being shut down by governments headed by “pro-gun” administrations…?
[Via Jess]
Republican women are 14% more likely to own guns than Democrat men. [More]
That may not be a fair metric since one party knows how to define genders. Still, it’s telling.
And it also illustrates why new gun owners are nothing to crow about.
In terms of total numbers, I wouldn’t be starting any civil wars if I were that outgunned…
“‘The Matchless Enfield’ tells the story of the No. 4 sniper rifle and how it was developed and used,”… [More]
Every once in a while I break with tradition and actually talk about guns…
We talked about this here. Now we see:
How is this not a gun grab? [More]
Perhaps it’s a clever trap?
[Via WiscoDave]
Gun that killed Charlie Kirk… [More]
Words have meaning. Does “conservative” Fox News really not know any better?
…is WWI-era rifle that may be untraceable…
Before serial numbers were a thing…? So “ghost guns” had always been (and still are!) “in common use at the time” until treasonous prohibitionists started defecating all over “shall not be infringed”…?
Kennedy’s health commission leaves guns out of its 20-page report [More]
I agree with critics that it should have mentioned guns, but not for the same reasons: If it purports “to help parents improve their children’s health,” it ought to include resources for development appropriate firearms training.
[More]
Sig limiting who can reply is not a good look and invites a Streisand effect response.
[H/T 2A White Rook]
I want to take a minute to talk about a funky loophole in the NFA that the folks at Shockwave were able to figure out… [Watch]
And I want to take a minute to remind readers who figured it out first.
[Via Andy M]
All in all, there is hardly any evidence that handgun waiting period laws make a difference in homicides or suicides… As far as suicides are concerned, they have no effect on either gun suicide rates or total suicide rates. [More]
Another prohibitionist bit of calculated misdirection, that is…
Everybody here is totally aware of Gun Facts and relies on it as a go-to resource, right?
New York Jets’ Sauce Gardner Goes Gun Shopping for AR-15 and Other Firearms [More]
He doesn’t appear to be a knee-jerk “liberal.”
[Via bondmen]
Now, the question is why? Plenty of gun companies have a page for “the only ones”, but those are typically companies like FN and Daniel Defense and others which offer select fire AR15 variants and in FN’s case, belt fed machine guns as well. But why Glock? They only make pistols. Pistols aren’t NFA or Hughes Act regulated (infringed). [More]
Because they’re suck-ups that will never pull a Barrett.
“The industry” has proven time and again what they’re interested in is their bottom line, from NSSF’s “partnership” with ATF, to the Rose Garden sellout, to Bill Ruger’s throwing other semi-autos under the bus.
Fact is, most firearms innovations have come from outside the government. [More]
Which is why “in common use at the time” can go from being a winning strategy in some circumstances to a trap more fundamental ones.
Face it: Every new idea starts as a monopoly.
Why our “gun rights leaders” seem deliberately indifferent to that is something you’ll have to ask them.
Their legal arguments are heavy on self defense and light on the militia, too.
[Via Michael G]
Herschel notes more P320 Blues… [More]
President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree Wednesday broadening gun rights in the country by allowing Argentine civilians to purchase and possess semiautomatic weapons for the first time in 30 years. [More]
It’s not uninfringed, but it’s a damn sight better than it was.
[Via bondmen]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
The US government skyrocketed the USAID budget for Brazil while Bolsonaro was there. Not to help Brazilians economically, but to flood the political opposition in Brazil with money to try to take him out. [More]
[Via Michael G]
