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OSD 283: Where is danger still allowed?
Why are motorcycles legal? If they didn’t exist, and you invented one today, here are the problems you’d have to solve: Convince people to buy it. All…
OSD 282: Takeaways from the assassination attempt
When things are moving fast, it’s best to (a) not jump to conclusions and (b) maintain a crisp catalog of what you do know. It’s hard to do both at the…
OSD 281: New weapon? Lock it down until we can figure out what is going on.
The Supreme Court has been keeping us busy, so we’re a few weeks late to discuss Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness paper here.
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OSD 280: Catechizing the elites
A little while ago, Santiago Pliego made this observation: That’s a powerful concept. Let’s think about it. Way back in “OSD 110: What smart people are…
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June 2024

OSD 279: Text, histrionics, and tradition
What to take from Rahimi.
OSD 278: Bump stocks are legal again. Does that matter?
Breaking down the Supreme Court's ruling in Garland v. Cargill.
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OSD 277: The arms of a woman, part two
Bullshido by gender.
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OSD 276: The Supreme Court rules against Paulie Walnuts
On the ruling in NRA v. Vullo.

May 2024

OSD 275: What’s gun ownership like in Europe?
Let’s be international vibes dealers.
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OSD 274: What happened to every rifle other than the AR-15?
A couple weeks ago, Garand Thumb reviewed the FN FS2000:
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OSD 273: Estimating gun sales through Pittman-Robertson taxes
Every month, the NSSF publishes some data that looks like this:
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OSD 272: The state of the body armor industry
Where it's at today and what success in the future would look like.
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