Archive - Open Source Defense

OSD 311: The courts will never protect your rights

Freedom means never having to say certiorari.

Feb 4

January 2025

OSD 310: How to take a newbie to the range

The most effective thing most people can do to make new gun owners.

Jan 27

OSD 309: You can’t ban things that have hit escape velocity

Popular things are popular.

Jan 21

OSD 308: Instagram matters more than gun laws do

A mischievous genie appears and gives you one wish.

Jan 14

OSD 307: Don’t waste your life on reacting

On the perpetual rush to opine on the Current Thing.

Jan 7

December 2024

OSD 306: 2024 in review

The top OSD newsletters from the past year.

Dec 30, 2024

OSD 305: Drones are the frontier of the Second Amendment

What should gun rights people have done before 1934? Today is the pre-1934 moment for drones.

Dec 23, 2024

OSD 304: The copycat effect and that which must not be named

How to discuss something that it's a bad idea to discuss.

Dec 17, 2024

OSD 303: Why isn’t there more violence?

Dec 9, 2024

OSD 302: The gun emoji, and other opportunities to reset what is normal

Won’t someone think of the children?

Dec 3, 2024

November 2024

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