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OSD 394: Surveillance and gun ownership are getting waymo complicated
You can’t even wave your AR-15 around in a taxi anymore.
From SFGATE:
Two young people were arrested last week in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood after allegedly being caught in a Waymo with a loaded assault rifle, authoriti...
OSD 393: Where is my flying gun?
Alex Tabarrok put an updated spin on Frédéric Bastiat’s classic essay “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen”:
regulation that raises gasoline prices makes people angry but when regulation prevents an industry from ever existing...
OSD 392: Guns and murder are surprisingly uncorrelated
Jeff Asher’s murder rate analyses continue over at his Substack:
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When Will The US Murder Rate Catch European Rates?
The US had the largest one-year drop in murder ever recorded in 2025. That followed the largest one-year dro...
OSD 391: Alibaba and the $40 gun
Rolex clones are getting incredibly good. This guy took a “super clone” to Rolex’s flagship boutique in London, and the service tech there didn’t spot that it’s a fake.
A real Rolex Submariner retails for $10,050. The super clone costs $50...
OSD 390: The dog that caught the SCAR
This was a wild week. The recap of the core facts is:
- On August 5, a federal district court judge in the northern district of Texas struck down the National Firearms Act with respect to items whose tax stamp is priced at $0. That cove...
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