In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss:
  • an open letter from a former NRA president to its members about the organization’s impending doom;
  • New York being sued for stating that a concealed carry permit applicant will have to wait three years to have his fingerprints taken;
  • the ATF’s published ruling that bans stabilizing braces on pistols.
• Next, Matt from Geeks Gadgets and Guns brings us an overview on long-range optics;
• David tells us how he built a backyard range;
• and finally, Weer’d has another Patented Audio Fisk of the Brady Campaign, this time talking about how the Founding Fathers really did support gun control.

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Show Notes

Main Topic:

• The Late Great National Rifle Association R.I.P. by Former NRA Director Rocky Marshall To NRA Members: IT IS OVER!
• New York Giving 3 year wait for fingerprinting
• Giambalvo v. Suffolk County (PDF)
• HERE IT IS! ATF Clock Starts 1/31/23
• Federal Register: Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached Stabilizing Braces

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• NRA Range Services
• A Complete Guide To Building Your Home Shooting Range
• Rapidfire Rachel Home Range Build Out! (YouTube Video Warning)
• Building a Home Shooting Range
• Build A Home Indoor Shooting Range
• Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 190
• Brena Bock Author Page
• David Bock Author Page

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• 186: Brady in Brief: We Respond to Common Arguments Against Gun Violence Prevention
• GAGV initiative
• 13 states have backed the Mexican government’s lawsuit against a group of US gun manufacturers
• Mexico’s $10bn lawsuit against US gun makers dismissed by judge
• The Brady Campaign told an Aurora shooting victim’s parents to file a hopeless suit against a gun dealer. The result was bankruptcy.
• Safest and Most Dangerous States in America
• Here’s How Bad the TSA Is Failing at Airport Security. It’s Time for Privatization.

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In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss:
  • the amicus brief that Operation Blazing Sword – Pink Pistols and others filed opposing Oregon’s Measure 114;
  • a mass shooting in California, and what it tells us about gun control;
  • a judge putting a hold on Illinois’ Assault Weapons Ban — sort of;
  • a discovery about pistol braces and 922(r) compliance;
  • and Alec Baldwin being charged for the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.
• Weer’d interviews Clark, a gun store employee in California, to talk about a new pistol just added to the restrictive CA Handgun Roster — and it’s a SIG P320!
• Weer’d also interviews Logan Metesh of High Caliber History to talk about a chilling change on the NRA bylaws that allows the liquidation of the guns in the NRA Firearm Museum for any reason.

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Show Notes

Main Topic:

• Gundies: Top Voices of the 2A
• Press Release: AC Brief Filed Against Oregon Measure 114
• Erin talks smack about Bloomberg
• Police seek motive after 10 killed, 7 hospitalized in Monterey Park mass shooting
• Judge puts partial stop to assault-style weapons ban in Illinois
• Foreign made braced pistols + 922(r) x ATF = gungrab. See p247 of Final Rule
• Alec Baldwin’s Criminal Charges Driven By Legal Facts And His Own Public Arrogance
• Bad Boys star, Will Smith, swiftly points out gun safety on movie set

Clark Interview:

• Second Amendment Zone P320 Single Shot Pistol Pre-Order
• California AG: Recently Added Handgun Models
• Reno May: P320 ON THE HANDGUN ROSTER! – Franklin Armory CA320

Logan Metesh Interview:

• Wayne LaPierre Could Sell NRA Museum Guns
• High Caliber History

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In This Episode

It’s an ACP Round Table! Join Weer’d, Erin, David, and Oddball as we discuss:

• The ATF has their new ruling on Pistol Braces, and it sucks!
• The ATF and the FBI have a watch list of people that alerts when they buy a gun.  (We already knew this, but it’s good to see evidence.)
• Erin found an amazing tool that shows defensive gun use as it appears in the media aggregated in an interactive map.
• Last week we talked about the pending Illinois Assault Weapon Ban, and in the time it took to publish that show, the thing passed.  Thankfully, most of the state has chosen not to cooperate!
• A Federal Judge blocks the New Jersey anti-carry laws.
• Another Federal Judge allows the same in New York,  but it isn’t all bad.
• We discuss a Canadian Mountie who broke the law, and made out pretty well because he’s law enforcement.
• Finally, Wells Fargo is becoming more anti-gun, this time cancelling the business account of a gun shop in Florida.

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Show Notes

• Erin Rants About the OGL 1.1 on Geeks, Gadgets & Guns
• WebP / Avif image converter
• Shot Tower
• Politician’s Syllogism
• Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces”
• ATF Wait Times
• Why Are Short Barreled Rifles Actually Regulated in the US?
• EXCLUSIVE: Documents Show FBI and ATF Warrantless Surveillance Through Gun Background Checks
• Defensive Gun Uses in the U.S. tool
• The Essential Second Amendment Ebook
• In Defense of the Second Amendment
• Backlash against  Illinois weapons ban grows
• Federal judge blocks key provisions of NJ’s gun law
• U.S. Supreme Court allows New York to continue to restrict guns in ‘sensitive places’ — for now
•  Cop Breaks The Gun Ban, But Gets No Record In Sweetheart Deal — A Lawyer Explains
• Strathmore Mountie spared criminal record for unlawful firearm possession
• Wells Fargo Cancels Prominent Florida Gun Dealer’s Accounts, Implies it Won’t Work With Gun Companies

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In This Episode:

• Things are backwards so we start with Oddball with a review of the Cold Steel Espada
• Erin and Weer’d then discuss the news of the new year:
  • We now have a 25th Constitutional/Permitless carry state, and maybe soon a 26th!
  • Shannon Watts is leaving Moms Demand Action, and we speculate what her reasons might be.
  • A woman in Philadelphia defended herself with a lawfully carried gun, and that’s not even the most interesting thing about this story.
  • Illinois is attempting to ban “Assault Weapons” and further restrict the Second Amendment to residents.
  • The ATF is further cracking down on 80% Firearms.
  • A friend of Erin was shot in Chicago!
  • And saving the best for last, the Bumpstock Ban has been declared unconstitutional by the 5th Circuit!

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Oddball’s Corner Pocket:

• Navaja Knife
• Espada, basic version
• Espada, fancy version
• The Cold Steel Espada XL Pocketsword: The Full Nick Shabazz Review
• What’s in Lynn Thompson”s Pocket at Blade Show West 2022?

Main Topic:

• The Gundies: Top Voices of the 2A
• RSVP Just Ducky Floating Tea Infuser
• New Year marks end of Alabama law requiring concealed carry gun permits
• Permitless concealed carry, legal marijuana among bills introduced in Nebraska Legislature
• Shannon Watts to Step Down from Moms Demand Action
• Woman with Concealed Carry Permit Shoots Philadelphia Attacker on New Year’s Day
  • Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 185: Good Job, Pennsylvania!
• Illinois House approves assault weapons ban, bill heads to state Senate
  • Text of Illinois Bill
• Biden administration takes new action to crack down on ‘ghost gun’ sellers
  • 0% Billet AR-15 Lower Receiver
• Kenneth Hite shot in Chicago
  • Hyde Park shooting: Man shot during attempted robbery on South Side, Chicago police say
• Bump Stock Ban Regulation Isn’t Authorized by Federal Law, Says Fifth Circuit En Banc
  • M1 Garand “Assault Weapon”
  • Cajun Machine Gun
  • Interesting Factoid On Cargill Win
  • IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY CAMDEN VICINAGE
  • Andrew Namiki Roberts gets his Honolulu CCW

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In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss:
  • Erin’s nomination for a Gundie Award;
  • A man who broke the law to save lives in a horrible blizzard;
  • New Jersey doubles down on the anti-NYSRPA carry laws;
  • Time Square had a terrorist attack with a machete;
  • If you aren’t listening to The Reload Podcast, you should;
  • and we recount The Saga of the Serbu Buttmaster!
• Next, Weer’d brings us his latest fisk of the Brady Campaign, as they attempt to claim that a good guy with a gun rarely if ever stops a bad guy with a gun;
• and finally, David responds to a previous episode’s discussion of a Stop The Bleed class with a segment on tourniquets.

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Main Topic:

• Gundies: Top Voices of the 2A
• The Piecaken
• Weer’d World: I Thought I Threw this Away
• ‘I had to do it to save everyone’: Man breaks into school and shelters more than 20 people from blizzard
• New Jersey Legislature Passes Sweeping New Gun-Carry Restrictions, Insurance Mandate
• Rob Romano Tweet on Exceptions to Judges and Attornies 
• Suspect in New Year’s Eve machete attack on police near New York’s Times Square expressed desire in diary to join Taliban, die a martyr, sources say
• The Reload Podcast: Gun Violence Archive’s Mark Bryant on His Role in the CDC Gun Defense Drama
• Serbu Buttmaster Conspiracy Revealed 
• New York TERPO Law Ruled Unconstitutional

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• 186: Brady in Brief: We Respond to Common Arguments Against Gun Violence Prevention
• Weer’d World: Anti-Gun Talking Points Collection
• Tanya Schardt Resume
• ‘I would have shot him’: Joe Zamudio, other heroes recall stopping Arizona killer
• CDC Study Ordered by Obama Contradicts White House Anti-gun Narrative
• On One America News: More mass shootings in gun restricted states
• Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks
• Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After Gun-Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting
• Armed Woman Stops Career Criminal Shooting at a Birthday Party
• Indiana mall hero Elisjsha Dicken returned fire just 15 seconds into mass shooting
• Worker wounded and suspect killed in Amazon warehouse shooting in Arizona
• What we know, minute by minute, about how the Uvalde shooting and police response unfolded
• Hero who stopped Colorado gunman shot dead by police in case of mistaken identity
• Goebbels at Nuremberg — 1934
• BS Asymmetry Principal

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• ACP Episode 150
• SOF-T
• CAT
• CAT Vs. SOF-T Wide
• Stop the Bleed
• CPR Classes
• First Aid Classes
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• CAT TQ Application
• Fold and Stage a CAT Tourniquet
• SOF TQ Application
• SOF Tourniquet Flat Fold

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In This Episode

Weer’d didn’t want to have an episode this week, but Erin twisted his arm and gave us this free-form show (or, as Erin called it, “A Mag Dump without any potty words”). So join Weer’d, Erin, David, and Oddball as they talk about their Christmas/Hanukkah and reflect on what the new year may bring!

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Show Notes

• Donate to Operation Blazing Sword
• Judah Maccabot 2.0
• Extreme Max Lift Table
• How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
• How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler 
• Saints of Malta
• How Superman Defeated the Ku Klux Klan
• Brewstew – Seizure

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In This Episode

It’s an ACP Round Table! Join Weer’d, Erin, David, and Oddball as they exchange gifts and discuss these news stories:

• There was a mass shooting in Australia,  despite all the stories saying this never happens.
• There was also a mass shooting in Canada,  which they admit happens, but certainly not as much in America.
• In America there could have been a spree killing,  but a brave armed citizen shot the attacker.
• The CDC colluded with anti-gun groups to scrub defensive gun uses from data.
• Injunctions against Oregon and California anti-gun laws were made.
• And…  California Police are allowed to use lethal force with robots?

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Show Notes

• Wieambilla police killers obsessed with guns, father says
• Wieambilla police shootings
• Residents fearful of neighbors after Wieambilla cop shooting
• Mass Shooting in Toronto
• LBJ Quote
• Florida man arrested after writing ‘mass murder coming soon’
• Worker wounded and suspect killed in Amazon warehouse shooting in Arizona
• Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After Gun-Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting
• Analysis: CDC Deleting Gun Defense Stats Further Strains Fraught Relationship With Gun Owners [Member Exclusive]
• Judge refuses to place injunction on Road Island magazine ban
• Injunction Against Oregon Magazine Ban
• Operation Blazing Sword’s Press Release regarding Oregon Ballot Measure 114
• Judge Banitez beats up California over law against suing state
• San Francisco decides killer police robots aren’t such a great idea
• Bear sighted in downtown Knoxville garage

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In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss a Stop the Bleed event held by the Atlanta Pink Pistols chapter and funded by Operation Blazing Sword;
• Xander was hacked recently, and he brings us his Independent Thoughts on the aftermath and some of the things he could have done better;
• David’s segment on optics covers electronic sights;
• Oddball explains his love of expensive knives;
• and finally, Weer’d fisks Joe Biden’s speech at the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence.

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Main Topic:

• Molon Labe, Oedipus swag:
  • T-shirt
  • Sticker
  • Mug

Independent Thoughts With Xander:

• “Weird Al” Yankovic – Virus Alert

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• Red Dot vs Reflex Sights
• M3 Infrared Sniper Carbine at RIA
• T3 Carbine
• Armson OEG
• Son Tay CAR-15
• “Both Eyes Open” Shooting
• Red dot sight
• Collimator sight
• Reflector sight
• Nydar Reflex Sight
• Reflex Sight: Past, Present, and Future

Oddball’s Corner pocket:

• CRKT Van Hoy Snap Lock
• CRKT Provoke
• Knifecenter’s exclusive line
• Sante Fe Stoneworks
• SOG Terminus SJ
• Spyderco Spydiechef
• REVOLT KNIVES S.U.L.U. (SLIDING ULTIMATE LOCKING UTILITY)

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• Biden speaks at National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence
• Some Uvalde, Sandy Hook families join Biden, Pelosi at vigil for victims of gun violence
• Pro-Gun Parkland Student and Victim’s Father Offer Perfect Solution to Gun Debate
• Suzanna Hupp
• From Luby’s to the Legislature: One Woman’s Fight Against Gun Control
• CDC 10 Leading Causes of Death, United States 
• FACT SHEET: The Biden Administration’s 21 Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence
• Hunter Biden’s Mother: How Did Neilia Hunter Biden Die?
• ‘SICK TO MY STOMACH’ Joe Biden lied about my dad being drunk in crash that killed his wife and daughter
• NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007
• Fix NICS Act of 2017
• Brady II: The Objectives of the Gun Control Lobby
• Studies Find No Evidence That Assault Weapon Bans Reduce Homicide Rates
• Darryl Glenn’s statement about increasing violence is mostly false: RNC 2016 Fact-Check
• How Columbine became a blueprint for school shooters

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In This Episode

• Erin and Weer’d discuss:
  • Shannon Watts playing both the sides of a self-defense shooting;
  • Oregon starting to regret the consequences of passing Measure 114;
  • a San Diego Sheriff’s Captain is in trouble for running a corruption racket which included accepting bribes in exchange for concealed carry permits;
  • several other bribery stories which show that corruption is common in may issue states.
• David continues his series on sights by explaining the parts of a scope;
• Weer’d interviews Stephen Gutowski of The Reload about his new gig with CNN;
• and finally, Weer’d fisks the Brady Campaign again, this time about “the right time to discuss gun control.”

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Main Topic:

• Shannon Watts- A reminder that Texas’ lax gun laws only apply to white people.
• Shannon Watts- This is What the NRA Tells you to do
• Shannon -Against Kyle Rittenhouse
• Oregon Admits All Gun Sales Will Stop on Thursday, Asks Judge to Temporarily Block New Law
• Oregon DOJ seeks delay of Measure 114 permit requirement
• Man Sentenced for Role in Former Sheriff’s Captain’s Corruption Scheme
• Former Police Officers, Ex-Brooklyn Assistant DA Arrested In NYPD Gun License Bribery Scandal
• The story behind the L.A. sheriff gun permit investigation
• Ex-NYPD Officers and Former Prosecutor Charged in Guns for Bribes Scandal
• Corruption case casts harsh light on NYPD handgun permits
• Only in New York: Bribing cops for a gun license
• Former Police Officers, Ex-Brooklyn Assistant DA Arrested In NYPD Gun License Bribery Scandal
• Former New York City Police Department Official Sentenced To 18 Months For Conspiring To Bribe Fellow Officers In Connection With Gun License Bribery Scheme
• Ex-cop: NYPD gun license division was a bribery machine

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• Bullet Drop Compensation Scopes
• First Focal Plane Vs. Second Focal Plane
• First Focal Plane or Second Focal Plane?
• The Basics of Riflescopes
• Telescopic Sight
• Reticle
• Minute of Angle 1
• Minute of Angle 2
• Deck the Halls but it’s War Pigs
• Twisted Sister – Oh Come All Ye Faithful (Live)

Interview Stephen Gutowski:

• The Reload
• CNN Slammed for Hiring NRA-Approved ‘Gun Nut’ Stephen Gutowski as Firearms Reporter: ‘Paychecks for the Price of Innocent Lives’

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• 186: Brady in Brief: We Respond to Common Arguments Against Gun Violence Prevention
• Brady Bio: Liz Dunning
• Charles Severance (serial killer)
• Massachusetts Assault Weapons Debacle: Schrödinger’s Gun!
• Colorado Nightclub Shooter Suspect’s Grandfather Identified As MAGA Republican Lawmaker Who Celebrated January 6 Capitol Riots
• Tucker Carlson hits back at liberal TV reporters who blamed HIM for Colorado shooting they said was a rightwing gunman
• Degrees of Murder
• Pro-Gun Parkland Student and Victim’s Father Offer Perfect Solution to Gun Debate
• Parkland shooting families reach $127.5m settlement over FBI inaction

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