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Saddam Salim is a Liar and a Racist
The author of the current 2026 Virginia assault weapons ban is Saddam Salim, and he published an article in the Falls Church News-Press explaining why he wrote it. The letter is full of lies. Let’s first go through all of the lies that Sali...
After Action Report: Bridging the Divide
I saw something profound on the final day of the Bridging the Divide on Firearm Policy initiative that I must share: I saw a former chief counsel and VP of legal at the Brady Campaign announce that he’d spent 25 years professionally represe...
More ICE Shootings
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The last HWFO article on the last ICE shooting closed like this:
It really is surprising it took this long for a protester to get shot. It was predictable, the markets should have taken bets on when and where, and the Danse Ma...
Shiri’s Police Shooting
To be honest, I’m surprised it’s taken this long for an ICE protester to get fatally shot. All the parameters pointed to it happening before now, and there have certainly been some close calls. This moment is the culmination of three decade...
HWFO Reading List, September 2025
Setting his murder aside for a moment, Charlie Kirk was a kind of Scissor Statement Savant. He could say a spicy phrase, and would say it in such a way that it would be interpreted to mean entirely one thing to the reds and an entirely diff...
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Civil engineer and father. Staff writer at RECOIL Magazine and Open Source Defense. Personal writing at HWFO.substack.com. Guns, egregores, culture war analysis, media criticism, game theory all the things.
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