Archive - Open Source Defense

October 2024

OSD 297: You can’t fake gun knowledge

Last week a candidate for U.S.

Oct 28

OSD 296: NRA! They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.

The NRA is irrelevant in the same way that jazz is irrelevant.

Oct 22

OSD 295: Military industrial context

Lucas Botkin tweeted this last week:

Oct 15

OSD 294: Self-reliance as community service

After Hurricane Helene hit the southeastern US, reports started coming out that some government officials were blocking self-organized locals from…

Oct 8

September 2024

OSD 293: How big a magnet do you need to stop a SWAT team?

Stop door kickers with this one weird trick.

Sep 30

OSD 292: For whom the pager tolls

On centralization spirals.

Sep 24

OSD 291: Who controls the gats controls the future

Last week, a local legislator in New York City introduced legislation to require city gun stores to display cigarette-style warning posters:

Sep 16

OSD 290: Sins of the father

An unsatisfying look at whether parents are guilty of their children’s crimes.

Sep 9

OSD 289: Freedom is in the dictionary

Repealing laws through innovation.

Sep 2

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