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OSD 399: Graylark range day
“Post a picture of a gun” hasn’t been a reliable strategy for going viral since about 2009. Unless you’re a startup founder in San Francisco, in which case it turns out to still work quite well! Daniel Heinen of the startup Graylark went vi...
OSD 398: Integral suppressors are coming
Having ridden in a bunch of Cybercabs over the past few weeks here in Austin, Texas, the most striking thing is how much the design of a car changes when you can really lean into it being a self-driving taxi. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of...
OSD 397: The market for weird PDWs just got 100x bigger. So PDWs will get weirder.
The Department of Justice has chosen not to appeal a court ruling that effectively struck down the NFA’s registration requirements with respect to items that have a $0 tax stamp (silencers, short-barreled rifles or shotguns, and any-other-w...
OSD 396: Non-guns are becoming pretty gun-like
When a journalist is looking to get a rise out of their audience, there’s a go-to article template that looks like this: “<Legislator> introduces bill to <do crazy thing>”. Legislators introduce all kinds of bills all the time. So there’s a...
OSD 395: Guns suck, Jake Paul edition
posted an interview with Jake Paul, who apparently has been reading OSD:
Jake: The 2nd Amendment was made so that if the government was doing ridiculous things to us and controlling us in harmful ways, that the citizens could upthrow the...
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