Hell NO! I Will Not Compromise on Second Amendment Rights! 

In an obvious attempt by the zealots at Gun Control, Inc. to characterize their gun bans as working towards solutions to gun violence, they have formed yet another fake coalition group with “gun owners” to show how reasonable they are. All of this to convince firearm owners how sensible it is to voluntarily give up more of their rights. 

The article from The Epoch Times and the link to the resulting policy page are listed below. 

Let’s keep in mind this is only the latest of MANY efforts by gun control groups to include firearm owners in their plans to restrict Second Amendment rights. By including people who are willing to sign off on more infringements, more restrictions and more ways to permanently separate law-abiding citizens from their firearms, it is supposed to add credibility to their unconstitutional efforts. At best, it’s propaganda. 

This supposedly unbiased project is called Bridge the Divide on Firearm Policy. It was led by a Tuffs University professor who has published highly prejudiced “research” for the gun control lobby for years. The Second Amendment side was led by someone who has already gained a reputation for selling out to the gun control lobby. 

In short, the “compromise” they came up with was eight proposals. 
Background checks 
Explanation: Universal background checks and state level NCIS equivalent agencies. 

Child firearm access prevention and safe storage
Explanation: Mandatory “safe storage” at home, distribution requirements for firearm dealers. 

Community violence intervention
Explanation: Funding for state level ineffective “violence intervention” and social programs. 

Dealer regulation and gun trafficking
Explanation: State level licensing, regulations and inspections of firearm dealers on top of ATF regulations.

Extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws
Explanation: No due process confiscation of firearms based on an ever-growing list of people who can file. 

Firearm injury prevention education
Explanation: State developed anti-gun biased firearm risk education.

Firearm suicide prevention
Explanation: Voluntary surrendering of firearms by those who deem themselves at risk. 

Prohibiting factors for firearm purchase and possession
Explanation: New state level misdemeanor laws to permanently remove firearm rights. 

Would I support any of these? Absolutely not! Although they all contain a sham “Protection of Gun Rights” section, they are nothing more than a way to add more regulations, more fees, more red tape, more restrictions and more ways of eliminating your Second Amendment protected rights. 

Did you notice anything missing from these proposals? It’s the compromise from the gun control side. What would an actual compromise look like? It would be giving something from both sides. Something the gun control zealots demand the Second Amendment side to do, but never, EVER does themselves. 

Other than the obvious constitutional infringements being proposed, my biggest rejection of this and all the other so-called ‘collaboration’ groups are based on the flawed premise of guns being the problem and as a result, they must be further restricted. They also fail to acknowledge this is merely the current compromise list, not what they are going to demand next time when all their new gun laws inexplicably fail to do anything to reduce crime and violence. 

Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.

I want to be very clear about this. There is no such thing as a gun violence problem. What we have is a criminal problem. Criminals use violence to obtain their goals and use whatever tools they can to do it. Laws primarily targeting law abiding citizens will never have any impact on crime. 

Why do we have a crime problem? We have prosecutors who refuse to charge those who have committed crimes. We have judges who refuse to convict and impose appropriate sentences. We have legislatures who pass laws minimizing the consequences of crime, eliminating what qualifies as crime, and preventing law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves. We have governors who pardon or commute the sentences of those who have committed the most heinous crimes imaginable.  

The result is more crime, more violence and a helpless population more dependent and more willing to accept further restrictions on their liberty in exchange for the false promise of “safety” from government agencies. 

How do you deter crime? The same way it has been done for centuries.  You ensure the penalties for crime are swift, certain and severe. The three essential elements eliminated in the name of a more progressive, and useless, ideology. 

How do we get that again? We certainly don’t get it by voluntarily negotiating away our rights. We get this by being strong, independent, capable of defending ourselves… and making better choices at the ballot box. 

Bob

Epoch Times article: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/opposing-sides-of-gun-debate-pen-compromise-public-safety-policies-5995715
Bridging the Divide: https://bridgethedividenow.org

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Breaking Gun Control News FAILS AGAIN! 

The anti-gun fanatics of Gun Control, Inc. have released yet another biased “Got ya!” metric to support their unwarranted claims of lawful firearm retailers being rogue gun runners and must be regulated at the state level as well as at the federal level. In reality, they only display their own ignorance of the firearm industry and the cluelessness of the people who feed on their lies. 

Moms Demand & Everytown, part of the vast privately funded Gun Control, Inc. network said, “Did you know that 96% of recovered crime guns were traced back to a purchase from a licensed gun dealer?”  Umm.. No duh? 

First let’s understand why they are pushing out this garbage. After failing to get the unconstitutional gun control restrictions they wanted at the federal level, the anti-gun zealots have been targeting individual states. Bills titled something to the effect of “Firearm Dealer Responsible Business Practices Act” (as it appears here in Maine) seek to impose significant new regulatory and so-called “safety” regulations on Federal Firearm Licensees (FFLs). These include new state level mandates for everything from site security, video recording, required signage, store procedures, employee training and background checks, additional record keeping and state level inspections. 

Keep in mind the firearm industry is already one of the most highly regulated in the country and subject to random inspections by the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives). The proposed new laws not only duplicate federal regulations but add additional state level administrative and reporting requirements and non-compliance fines. They essentially establish a state level ATF clone with its own licensing, fees and penalties. 

If you want to see where this came from and why they want this in other states, look west to California’s Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Firearms (BOF). The DOJ BOF is a second layer of state licensing and control over all FFLs. They prescribe all manner of business operations such as licensing, security, record keeping, employee training, purchaser testing/training and mandatory signage ALL adding significant costs and fees to doing business as a firearm retailer.  

As if the fees, fees and more fees aren’t bad enough, they also set additional legal traps for retailers if they make even the smallest of administrative omissions with the byzantine and constantly updated rules and regulations. 

The result is exactly what you would expect it to be. Small firearm retailers are unable to absorb the significantly increased costs of state level regulatory compliance and forced to go out of business. This all leads to increased costs and less choices for consumers who have fewer and fewer options on being able to exercise one of the very core elements of Second Amendment protections, being able to purchase a firearm. 

The worst part is none of these so-called “safety” regulations have anything to do with preventing or solving crime or anything remotely resembling safety. They only punish those who are already following the law. 

Why the DUH? The Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968 enacted numerous changes on how firearms were manufactured and sold in the country. In short, manufacturers, distributers and retailers were all required to be licensed as a FFL and keep records of firearms. It also required all firearms to be serialized, something many but not all did at the time. 

Since 1968, when a firearm comes to market in this country, in goes from the manufacturer to distributor to the retailer, where it is purchased by the end consumer. Firearms from outside the United States come in through importers (also FFLs). All are commonly jumbled into the term “gun dealers”.

Understand what this means. Starting with the GCA, from the time of manufacture until it is first sold, every firearm in this country is now fanatically and legally documented. 

So when do good guns turn to crime guns? Firearms are stolen in burglaries and in transit anywhere along the line from manufacture to retail. They are also stolen from the person who legally purchased them. As durable, long-term items, they are commonly traded and shared in criminal use. Some are purchased by a person who eventually commits a crime, or has it stolen by a family member. EACH ONE can be traced from the manufacturer, distributor and retailer to the first purchase or to where it was stolen. IF you live in a state with Universal Background Checks, each sale and transfer is recorded and thus, ‘registered’ and traceable. 

What isn’t traced back to the FFL? Firearms illegally smuggled in from one of the 194 other countries in the world and self-manufactured firearms. There are still a large number of pre-1968 firearms out there without serial numbers and they are perfectly legal to own and sell, but they may or may not have been recorded in a FFL’s books. Even firearms illegally obtained through a straw purchase are still traced back to that first, original buyer who bought it from a FFL. 

What this boils down to is Gun Control Inc’s bombshell reporting about 96% of crime guns being traced back to a licensed gun dealer is about as insightful and useful as saying cow’s milk comes from a cow. Where the HELL else would it come from? 

Oh, here’s a fun side note for you. The next time Gun Control, Inc goes off on the incredibly high percentage of self-made/3D printed guns being used in crimes, you can ask what part of the 4% of total number of non-FFL traceable firearms this makes up.  You can’t claim traceable and non-traceable firearms are both the majority of crime firearms recovered. 

If only this was the last foolishly misleading metric they’ll come up with. If only. 

Bob

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More Gun Control Lies with Statistics

Every so often you run across something from the anti-gun “research” folks that just defies all logic. While they usually try to stitch together something from completely disassociated metrics, the implied association of so-called “ghost guns” to an increase in suicide rates is purely laughable fiction. In the gun control world, association does not imply causation has no meaning. 

As reported by the gun control mouthpiece The Trace, for every 20 “ghost guns” recovered, the state firearm suicide rate increased by 6%. To be fair, since I first read their story, they updated it to include “The study found that for every 20 ghost guns recovered per 100,000 people, the firearm suicide rate increased by about 6 percent across the state.” Sadly, this doesn’t add any more legitimacy to their story. 

One of the most glaring omissions was if the “ghost guns” were the actual firearms being used in the suicides. In the directed result research world of gun control, that’s a gargantuan jump in logic. Are they? No, but this so-called “research” heavily implies it even though it doesn’t reflect any reality on the ground.  

According to their numbers, between 2017 & 2021 around 18,500 “ghost guns” were recovered in California.  California population in 2021 was roughly 38 million. That would have been an astronomical increase in the statewide suicide rate during that time. You can understand why they updated the story with a new qualifying metric. Keep in mind this study was done only on data from California, the most heavily gun controlled state in the country. 

Digging a little deeper into this nonsense, you find this tidbit. “For every 20 ghost guns recovered per 100,000 people, there was an associated 6.4% increase in firearm suicide rates in the following year.”  Recovered “ghost guns” in year one and there is an increase in the suicide rate in year two… NOW it makes perfect sense (sarcasm implied). 

Among the factors for their case of why “ghost guns” are bad is: “[They] can be acquired without background checks or waiting periods, bypassing the very safeguards designed to create a pause between intent and action”.  

But what does this mean in reality? Well, if you are going to buy a “ghost gun”, you’ll have to buy the components from several different companies online since a complete parts and tooling kits are no longer allowed. Once all the various components are shipped, received, and assuming you have the necessary tools and experience to complete a build, you’ve got anywhere from a few hours to a week to build your firearm. Best case you are looking at weeks to completion, longer than even the gun control gold standard California 10 day waiting period. That’s not exactly a spontaneous act – “intent and action” – the waiting periods are meant to protect you from. 

Of course, The Trace completely blew past the finding “ghost guns were not significantly associated with temporal changes in overall firearm death rates or firearm homicide rates.” Go figure. 

The truth about what is happening is The Trace is trying to frame home manufactured firearms as a new “public health crisis” similar to the way they have tried to frame violence acts while using a firearm as a public health crisis so they can justify unconstitutional emergency executive orders to restrict lawful firearm ownership and use. 

Suicide is a complex medical, psychological and societal issue. Countries around the globe struggle with high suicide rates despite having almost zero civilian firearm ownership. As with violent criminal acts, firearms are merely a tool used, and not the cause. 

If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, I urge you to call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or go online for chat at https://988lifeline.org. 

Bob

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Not Following the Rules

If you’ve noticed a decrease in the number of pro-Second Amendment/pro-firearm posts lately, it’s not by accident. Meta is once again clamping down on so-called “rules violations” to squelch anything to do with the Second Amendment or firearms.

Like many pro-2A/firearms pages, the Odd Stuffing page, along with my business page, received notice right after the first of the year saying “… didn’t follow the rules, so it isn’t being suggested to other people right now.”  The Meta Business Suite link for Odd Stuffing doesn’t show what post ‘broke the rules’, only a dead link following the “Your Page Odd Stuffing is no longer being recommended to others. Fix your Page now.”

At least my business page linked to two posts, one from December 2025 about the new Gen 6 Glocks and one from November 2018 showing the firearms to be used in a Women on Target training class. Pretty damn radical stuff. Since these “violations” linked to specific posts, I was allowed the generous privilege to appeal this action, which of course I did. Let’s just say I’m not holding my breath for a reply or repeal of the supposed violation. 

Did any of these posts violate the convoluted and ever evolving and restricting “rules” for firearms on Facebook? Of course not. But from the conversations I’ve seen regarding this from others in the industry, simply speaking positively about firearms is enough to evoke the wrath of a Facebook violation. 

Is not being recommended a huge hit? Considering I’ve been shadow banned for YEARS and can’t even reach those who have subscribed to my page, this isn’t a big deal. Of course, I COULD pay to boost my post and reach more people, that’s okay by them because it generates more income. And if you pay generously for ads, you can post all the things you can’t post for free. 

Facebook’s obnoxiousness and suppression of anything that doesn’t fit their narrow definition of “approved” thinking and speech is why many 2A and firearms pages have left all the Meta platforms. And that’s a damn shame. While restrictive and discriminatory, it still has a larger reach than the rest of social media platforms combined. Continually restricting, suppressing, suspending, demonetizing, deplatforming and silencing those who say or do things the self-proclaimed gods at Facebook don’t agree with further turns the platform into the echo chamber they want it to be. Think like we do and you are welcome. Think something else and you have no place here. 

If you argue Facebook is a private company and they can allow/disallow anything they want on their platform, you are correct. And unless you are paying them for ads, you are using their product for free. Of course, YOU are the actual product, and they make their money from all information they sell about YOU, but that’s neither here nor there. 

Facebook likes to say they are once again all about “free expression”, unless it’s something they don’t agree with or it’s something some local/county/state/federal government entity/NGO/special interest group doesn’t agree with and they tell Facebook to take it down on their behalf.  Kinda like what happened in the last administration. But I’m sure that would NEVER happen again. 

Why is this happening now? It could be little z has been reading his tea leaves and sees the midterms and general elections moving to the left and he wants to make sure he is in good graces with the next administration. After all, he needs to ensure his seat at the big table just like he did with the current administration. Right or left doesn’t matter, just tweak the algorithm to suit the current mood. 

Where does this leave those of us in the 2A & firearms industry? Like many others, I post in numerous places including on my own website, oddstuffing.com to not be completely silenced. Meta may own the majority of the social media world, but not the entire internet. At least not yet. 

Does it suck we don’t have the same freedom to post positive things about the Second Amendment or lawful firearm usage as those who promote violence against anyone not as extreme left as them or encouraging others to break the law in support of their own ideology? Yes, but that’s not what Facebook is about. The “new era” little z proclaimed at the beginning of this administration will undoubtably give way to an even ‘newer era’ of government approved thinking and terminology when the winds shift in the opposite direction. 

What this means is you may have to dig a little harder for your 2A/firearm content. The anti-gun lobby wants you to think they are winning over the hearts and minds of the country, and this kind of content is no longer needed or wanted. They are wrong. It survives and thrives because of you. Keep digging for the truth and for information you want. 

Bob

p.s. Apparently publicly questioning and discussing the policies/practices and discrimination of Meta companies is also a no-no. So maybe you’ll see something from Odd Stuffing next week or maybe you’ll have to seek it out. 

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Mandatory Firearm Serialization Comes to Maine

Maine’s LD 1126 goes into effect in January 2027. This means personally made firearms (PMFs) must now be serialized. Combine this with the ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F, and it is a significant change in the legal landscape for those who choose to make their own firearms. 

DISCLAIMER: This is MY and ONLY MY interpretation of the laws, motivations and impacts. I strongly urge you to do your own research AND consult a qualified firearm attorney. 

ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F:  The SUPER SIMPLIFIED version of this is unfinished receivers are now considered actual firearms. It also dictates the content/format of any serial number applied by a FFL. It MUST be the FFL’s shortened number (8 digits) – plus a unique to-the-FFL number. The number must be recorded in the FFL’s A&D (Acquisition & Disposition) book. 

Prior to this new rule, serialization could be completed with the name of the person who ‘manufactured’ it, along with the city/state of manufacture, model, caliber and a unique to them serial number. The ATF didn’t like this and called them “fictitious serial numbers” since they weren’t officially registered.

Maine’s LD 1126:  Again, the SUPER SIMPLIFIED version says you may not possess an unfinished frame or receiver unless it has been imprinted with a serial number applied by a FFL. It also requires additional records be kept by the FFL on the firearms serialized.

Neither the ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F or Maine’s LD1126 require a 4473 and NICS background check to return a newly engraved ‘firearm’ back to the person who brought it in. 

Does having a serial number engraved on your PMF put it on a registry? No, but actually yes. 

The ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F now treats frames and receivers the same as commercially made firearms which can be traced from the manufacturer to the distributor to the retailer to the first owner. If Universal Background Checks are in place in your state, it continues on to the current owner. 

This means a personally made firearm is now traceable to the original owner since the first part of the serial number is the FFL who engraved it, and that FFL has the owner’s name & address recorded in their A&D book. 

By statue, the ATF is not allowed to create an electronic database of owners and their firearms. However, the ATF has already admitted to having done exactly this but claim to have put safeguards in place to prevent it from being used contrary to the statue’s ‘intent’, such as being able to look up a person and see all the firearms they own. You can believe that one if you’d like. 

Now combine this with a change in FFL retention rules. FFL’s used to be able to dispose of all 4473 records after 20 years. Now, they must retain them in perpetuity and turn them into the ATF when they go out of business. The ATF has also been copying 4473 and A&D records outside of any specific investigations during their normal inspections of FFL’s.

States like California already have their own firearm registry.

So… yes, serializing your firearm ‘registers’ it to you. 

Should you serialize your firearm/receiver/frame? 

One of the reasons many choose to manufacture their own is to have a firearm the government doesn’t know about. This goes back to the unfortunate truth; registration leads to confiscation. It always has and always will. There is no other reason for firearm registration to exist. 

But then there is the reality of life. Not everyone is willing to risk state or federal criminal charges for a self-manufactured firearm. Everyone must look at their own life, job, family, finances, community and myriad other factors to decide if they want risk a potential arrest, prosecution, fines, incarceration or potentially the loss of their Second Amendment rights. 

I offer no value judgements here. Everyone must do what they feel is right for themselves. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 

Personally, I believe both the ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F and Maine’s LD 1126 are unconstitutional overreaches and should be repealed. If our representatives and courts were doing their jobs and supporting the Constitution and all the sections of the Bill of Rights, this would never have been a problem. But this is what we have to deal with right now. 

ATF’s Final Rule – 2021R-05F – https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/definition-frame-or-receiver

Maine’s LD 1126 – https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0745&item=7&snum=132

Bob

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Measuring the Success of Gun Control

Two bits of information came out recently which illustrate the utter failure of gun control. Gun Control, Inc’s annual survey of the states’ gun control laws placed California in the top spot again with an “A” rating. We now also have the FBI’s report showing California had the most “active shooter incidents” for the five-year period from 2020 to 2024.  

Like most people I would trust many things (a drink from Bill Cosby, an email from a Nigerian prince, gas station nachos) more than I trust the FBI to accurately report just about anything, but this isn’t the first time they’ve reported California with the most active shooter incidents, previously putting them in nationwide lead from 2020-2023. Note: A “FBI Trusted Statistics” article coming soon.

But let’s start off with the anti-gun Gifford’s 2025 Gun Safety Grades Across the Country. Their annual scorecard ranks states based on their assessment of “gun safety”. #1 ranked California with an A score, is their shining example of what a gun safety means. Giffords says… “Policies are assigned point values based on how effective they are at reducing gun violence…”.

Here is a PARTIAL list of what California has implemented.  Universal background checks, strict limitations on the make/model/type of firearms available for purchase, a 10-day waiting period for purchases, minimum age restrictions, bans on so-called “assault weapons”, “large capacity magazines” and “ghost guns”, mandatory registration and state firearm sales record retention, safe storage laws, firearm dealer regulation and licensing at the state, county and local level, gun industry liability and responsibility laws, severe restrictions on public carry of concealed firearms by licensed individuals along with increased permit requirements, restrictions and licensing on conceal carry instructors, ammunition background checks, extreme risk protection orders (red flag laws), domestic violence gun laws, firearm relinquishment requirements, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed for classroom defense, funding for state sponsored community violence intervention and gun violence research. 

You might think they’ve got every possible gun control law already in effect. Think again! In 2026 California bans so-called “machinegun-convertible pistols”. An online parts ban law targets everything from firearm components and accessories to tools, 3D printers, and even digital files and code. FFL’s face new annual mandatory training requirements for employes who handle firearms. Mandatory reporting of lost or stolen firearms expands to include “precursor” parts. A new three-firearms-per-month law comes into effect, even though courts have already ruled this is unconstitutional. Queued up for 2027, firearm barrels will be treated as a complete firearm requiring a background check from a dealer for sales and transfers. 

Where are the new and improved laws that will stop a criminal/thug/terrorist from using an illegal firearm in a crime? Nowhere. Because all the laws are focused on the law-abiding firearm owner, the ones who care to follow the law. Given the gun control’s focus on restricting and eliminating the Second Amendment protected rights of law-abiding citizens, the conflicting numbers are no surprise.

But let’s be honest here. Do-nothing-for-public-safety gun control laws don’t fail by themselves. They are aided by a political and legal environment that refuses to hold criminals accountable for their actions. Politicians create laws to release those convicted of crimes from incarceration and minimize any potential penalties for newly committed crimes. 

Soft-on-crime prosecutors using their ‘discretion’ refuse to prosecute wide ranges of crimes. Those who are arrested are immediately released and the very few who are convicted are given slap-on-the-wrist sentences. This leads to ever increasing lawlessness and violence in the communities as the criminals realize there is very little preventing them from escalating their crime and violence. 

Any why shouldn’t criminals commit crime and violence? Their intended victims have been conveniently disarmed by the state so they know they can act with impunity. So, the FBI’s numbers showing California leading the country in active shooter incidents make perfect sense. 

What do the numbers and rankings from Gun Control, Inc. mean? To be honest, absolutely nothing. Their in-house “research” is carefully manipulated and manufactured to make it appear the gun control laws they are pushing are going to keep you safe. Independent research, which is NOT paid for by the anti-gun lobby groups and Gun Control, Inc., show the opposite. The most violent, dangerous and deadly areas of the country are those with the tightest gun control laws.

By the way: In thirteen states the Giffords gun control group gave an “F” grade to have had no mass public shootings since 2010 — Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control. 

And California is a living, breathing – – – bleeding, suffering, dying example of this. 

Bob

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H.R.38 – Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025 – Again

Is the ramped-up opposition to the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025 from Gun Control, Inc. a good thing? Could the anti-gun zealots read of the room indicate we may see progress on national reciprocity this time around? 

Of note, the bill now with 189 Republican co-sponsors, up from the original 119, has passed a committee vote in the House of Representatives and could be placed on the calendar at any time. The President has said he would sign the bill if passed by Congress. 

If you haven’t read the bill yet, take a minute and do it now. It’s short. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/38

For those of you paying attention to the activities of Gun Control Inc, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in ads, so-called “research”, reports and opposition to HR 38. Most bear the same false claims they parade out with every constitutional carry proposal in the states. They claim it would be the “wild, wild west” and “blood would flow in the streets” and call it “criminal carry”. They are calling this version a “race to the bottom” that eliminates their highly restrictive state-imposed licensing. 

Let’s keep in mind what actually happens when states have implemented constitutional carry, violent crime has gone down. 

There are now 29 states where constitutional carry – carrying a concealed firearm without a state issued permit – is now legal. The last 13 being brought in since the current (as of 01/19/24) anti-gun administration began. That’s more than half the states in the country where 46.8% of Americans (157.6 million) now live in constitutional carry states, with 67.7% of the land in the country (2.57 million square miles).

Interestingly enough, the number of concealed carry permit holders, 21.5 million, has gone down as the number of constitutional carry states increased. The reason is understandable as people who once were required to get a government issued permit no longer need to, saving the time, administrative hassle and costs associated with obtaining and keeping a permit valid. Those who do obtain one generally do so for additional benefits such as expanded carry zones, reciprocity with other states and no duty to inform on interactions with law enforcement. 

In addition to the ad blitz, Gun Control, Inc. has gotten the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police to come out against HR 38, arguing that it could place officers in both legal and physical danger. This is of course unsurprising since these organizations are controlled by the agency heads of the largest law enforcement departments, appointed by the most liberal/anti-gun city councils in the country. In other words, politicians with badges. Taking their recommendations on safety for the general public comes with a large, and sad, grain of salt. 

What do the rank-and-file officers say? According to a recent law enforcement survey of working officers more than 91 percent of respondents support the concealed carry of firearms by civilians who have not been convicted of a felony and/or not been deemed psychologically/medically incapable.  A full 86 percent feel that casualties would have been reduced or avoided in recent tragedies like Newtown and Aurora if a legally armed citizen was present (casualties reduced: 80 percent; avoided altogether: 60 percent).

Let’s not forget there is already one conceal carry permit in the form of LEOSA (Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act). However, this applies only to qualified current, retired and separated law enforcement officials. It has also been summarily ignored by several anti-gun states even though the federal law has precedence over the state law. Properly credentialed LEOSA officers have been arrested and had firearms confiscated but released in the morning without charges. It’s the old cop saying, “you can’t take back a night in jail”.  This harassment of law enforcement officers carrying under federal law may preview how some states will treat those carrying under a new national reciprocity act. 

One of the objections noted by the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police was the potential HR 38 could pierce law enforcement’s qualified immunity. Based on the way the anti-gun states treat officers from other states, you can see why the provision is in the bill. 

So why not get a concealed carry permit in the other states? Well, thanks to the diligent efforts of Second Amendment supporters, non-permissive states have been forced to offer their coveted concealed carry permits to out-of-state applicants. This in addition to being forced to offer them to their own in-state applicants. However, it’s not without considerable cost or burden. Non-permissive states have dragged out applications and approvals for months past their statutory limits with no recourse for correction other than the courts. 

One individual I am aware of has spent over $10k for him and his wife to be able to carry in 46 states plus D.C., with four more states to go. Is this the kind of access a constitutionally protected natural right should have? How many people could afford the time and money to chase this around the country? Concealed carry permitting, and now especially out-of-state permitting dramatically discriminates against those who cannot afford the time and cost of their licensing schemes. 

So, what will happen with HR 38? With only 189 co-sponsors and the Republican to Democrat split in the House of Representatives at 220 to 213, this bill could potentially pass IF the majority stuck together, an unlikely proposition. The prospects in the Senate are much less appealing. With a 53 to 47 Republican majority, there are not enough to get to the 60 votes necessary to pass it as the Democrat side would never allow it. 

The anti-gun side is pushing hard to stop this. We need to be pushing back even harder. 

This means it’s up to us to let our federal representatives in the House and Senate know our support for these bills. This is especially true for those of us, like me, with RINO representation. They represent US, and we need to remind them of that. 

Bob

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Concealed or Open Carry? 

I am fortunate to live in a constitutional carry state which includes open and concealed carry as well as strong preemption laws, at least for now. This has remained true despite the state’s best attempts to lean hard left with every do-nothing-for-safety gun control law proposal from the zealots at Gun Control, Inc. As such, the defense of concealed and open carry becomes very important.

I firmly support concealed and open carry, but I also believe some people need to make better choices for the location and situation they are in. 

Constitutional carry I’ve written about before. While the gun control folks ALWAYS claim it will be “the wild, wild west” with “blood running in the streets” if passed, the exact opposite has ALWAYS occurred. Violent crime goes down in the states where constitutional carry is passed. 

The reason behind this is crystal clear, at least to everyone except the anti-gun extremists. When the civilian population is armed, criminals are less inclined to attack them. Criminals it turns out, aren’t stupid, they are just criminals. If someone has the ability to stop them, they will move on to someone who doesn’t. 

Carrying a firearm for your own protection and the protection of your family, while out in public is not just a good idea, but a responsible choice. The more people who do this, the safer everyone is. But how you carry is just as important. 

With open carry, your firearm is out and visible to everyone around you. The plus there is it provides a visual deterrent to anyone who may wish to attack/rob/rape/kill you. It’s also a lot quicker and easier to draw from an open carry holster. The downside your firearm is out and visible to everyone around you. It makes you, and your firearm, a target of theft. Beyond that, it also tends to cause unnecessary concern for others who do not understand or support civilian firearm ownership or open carry. 

While there isn’t a huge body of evidence on grabbing open carry firearms, it does occur. Notably off-duty officers in NYPD have been targets of firearm theft with exposed firearms. There are of course the anti-gun social media warriors who proudly proclaim they will ‘pepper spray and snatch the gun’ from anyone they see open carrying. I’m not aware of this happening anywhere since most people agree this would be a really, really bad idea. 

This brings up HOW you open carry. Sadly, far too many choose the cheapest, one-size-fits-none padded Uncle Mike’s, or similar ill-fitting/non-safety holster for their carry option. While it may work, it’s not a good choice. Holster technology has come a long way, and secure civilian options are available. Paired with an appropriate belt, this would be a far better choice. 

But it doesn’t end there. Making the choice to open carry a firearm ‘should’ mean taking a little more responsibility for the safety and security of the firearm. This means not only traditional firearm training, but also firearm retention training. 

I can tell you based on my own experience and that of the officers I know and have known, the vast majority of law enforcement officers have not had sufficient training in firearm retention. It just isn’t a priority in most departments, until a tragedy occurs. The civilian market is far, far worse. Training is available, but it’s not commonly offered. And that’s a damn shame. 

Bear in mind I’m referring to what I call appropriate open carry. There is also what I call “inappropriate” or stupid open carry.  You’ve probably seen one of these folks at some point in your life. Two, three, four – or more – handguns in holsters in various positions on the body, along with multiple back up mags for each, along with knives… lots of knives. Just… no. 

The same thing applies to those who strap an AR or AK pattern rifle on their back and decide to go to Starbucks or “patrol” their neighborhood in their finest downrange camo. HELL no! 

Some argue if you don’t exercise a right then you lose it. While I agree in principle, that concept doesn’t apply to those who do foolish crap just to see how much attention they can attract. There is a time and place for obvious Second Amendment displays, and rarely do they attract negative attention. Choosing when and where you open carry is as important as how you carry. 

My preference is for concealed carry. The plus here is your potential assailant doesn’t know if you are or are not armed. The downside is the visual deterrent of an exposed firearm isn’t there, until such time the firearm is justifiably and lawfully needed. How do you mitigate this downside? By being alert and aware of your surroundings. By not being focused on your phone or some other distraction, you become less of a target in the first place. 

New concealed carriers often struggle with the whole concealed concept and are constantly adjusting and rearraigning themselves. For the most part, it’s unnecessary and it just takes a little getting used to. But carrying concealed also comes with some drawbacks such as how and where the best place is to carry on the body. The good news is there are hundreds of options available, and most people will try a number of them until they figure out what works best for them, their wardrobe, body and situation. 

The other big drawback is drawing a firearm from under whatever you have concealing it. Warm weather is one thing, but in parts of the country where numerous layers are needed in the winter, it can be a challenge. Here again is where your personal responsibility for adequate training comes in. Drawing from a concealed position is not the same as from an exposed holster. It takes practice and close attention to the fundamentals of safety. 

One last thing. If you’re going to lawfully carry, always carry. Make it a part of grabbing whatever you grab before you leave the house for the day, every day. Your safety and the safety of your family is 100% YOUR responsibility. Nobody else is going to protect you. 

Bob

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Sig Sauer & the Uncommanded Discharge 

Despite Sig Sauer’s best efforts to deflect, delay and deny, the issues with their P320/M17/M18 handguns have not gone away. Incidents of “uncommanded discharge”, the politically correct way of saying the firearm fired on its own, continue to come in. A new recent unmistakably clear video showing no manipulation of the trigger, yet it still went off. 

There is an update to the incident involving a Sig Sauer M18 which claimed the life of a US airman. One airman, who it appears later took his own life, was charged with manslaughter for negligently pointing his firearm at the victim and firing. Two other airmen in the room also lied about the incident. NONE of this should have happened and those who remain deserve all the scorn their betrayal to the Air Force and their fellow airmen this brings with it. 

While THIS incident was resolved in Sig Sauer’s favor, it does not erase the injuries and lives lost going back around 10 years now. Numerous lawsuits have been filed, the most recent this past week, involving thirty-four (34) P320 owners-plaintiffs across 23 states. From everything I have seen, there are hundreds of victims around the country. 

The State of New Jersey has also sued Sig Sauer demanding they stop selling this firearm and recall them. At least 10 New Jersey residents have been injured in shootings involving the P320, according to the suit, including the death of a police detective. 

Other lawsuits from around the country have had mixed results. Some resulting in victory against Sig Sauer and being awarded multi-million-dollar monetary damages, others have failed. One officer in Massachusetts did win with the federal court ruling the Sig Sauer P320 pistol was defectively designed and caused him injury when it unintentionally discharged while on-duty. However, he will not receive monetary damages after the jury agreed with Sig Sauer that the officer “voluntarily and unreasonably used the P320 pistol knowing that it was defective and dangerous.” 

I suppose any victory is a victory, but I can’t imagine the moral gymnastics of arguing they weren’t responsible for damages because the victim knew it was “defective and dangerous”, while also arguing the firearm is not defective. 

Also note this year New Hampshire based Sig Sauer successfully lobbied the New Hampshire legislature to provide the company immunity from additional lawsuits concerning these claims. 

Still, the fallout for Sig Sauer has been significant. While their military contracts remain intact, law enforcement agencies around the country continue to drop Sig Sauer for other duty firearms. Training companies and ranges will not allow Sig Sauer P320/M17/M18 to be used in their classes or at their facilities. 

Gunsmiths are refusing to work on them, and respectable firearm retailers are no longer willing to sell them. Some retailers are taking them in on trade, at a HIGHLY discounted price, and locking them away in back of the vaults under the belief that someday Sig Sauer will step up to the plate by admitting the flaw, issue a mandatory recall to repair them and return them to the expensive and sought after firearms they have always been. 

At the same time, two of the company’s top professional shooters & brand ambassadors have recently ended their relationship with the Sig Sauer.  There has been no connection to the current issue made by the shooters or the company, but it certainly doesn’t help their image. 

Sig Sauer continues to be defiant and denies their firearms have any issues. Keep this in mind when you realize they also quietly updated their P320 user manual to include: “THE MOST EFFECTIVE SAFETY IS TO CARRY YOUR PISTOL WITHOUT A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER, AND TO LOAD A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER ONLY WHEN READY TO FIRE”.

Other than the tragic and unnecessary loss of life, as well as the pain and suffering of those injured, the worst part is damage this is doing to the overall firearm industry. All firearm manufacturers are under the microscope of the coordinated and unlimitedly funded Gun Control, Inc. just waiting for one of them to make a big enough mistake or simply blink. 

Glock is desperately trying to keep their access to the civilian marketplace due to new misguided, partisan regulations and activist backed lawsuits, all due to highly illegal so-called “Glock Switches” they don’t make and definitely don’t sanction. 

Sig Sauer’s defiance just adds fuel to the anti-gun fire by making it look like ‘another’ evil gun company doesn’t care about the safety of the military, law enforcement, civilian consumers or the community at large. It’s a bad look for Sig Sauer, and a bad look for the firearm community. 

Bob

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The Future of Glock?

Glock recently and abruptly announced the cancelation of almost all their Gen 3 – 5 pistols along with the upcoming replacement “V” line. While there has been no official statement on the reasons why, it is widely believed to be in response to ongoing litigation from multiple states as well as California’s new law banning ‘cruciform trigger bars’ found in Glock and Glock clones that make it “easy” to convert to fully automatic. 

The first thing to know about this is these so-called “Glock Switches” are themselves illegal. They are federally classified as a machine gun part within the NFA (National Firearms Act) and hence, illegal to own nationwide. A handful of cities and states have also made them illegal there to because, you know, making something doubly illegal will make criminals think twice before breaking the law! 

Where did these switches come from? The design was patented by a Venezuelan man in 1998, who claims he invented it in 1987. His intent was to sell these to police and military around the world to convert their standard Glock pistols to full auto. The first reported appearance in the United States was in 2002. In 2019 thousands were recovered after being imported from China. Since 2021 they have been widely self-manufactured with common 3D printers. 

Who can we credit for the rapid proliferation throughout the country? China or another foreign interest?  Or maybe even from within the false flag department of our own three letter agencies working to curtail the legal firearm market. Previous ATF “advisories” on the switches are undeniably detailed enough so even a novice 3D printer could create one from the drawings. 

Glock itself only made one fully automatic pistol, the Glock 18 and it was designed specifically so parts could not be used with the company’s semi-auto Glock 17, or any other Glock pistol. 

But facts don’t stop the folks at Gun Control, Inc. from putting out propaganda falsely claiming Glock intentionally flooded the market with guns they knew were easily converted into illegal machine guns for over 40 years. 

Not wanting to be left out of the latest gun ban craze, California enacted a “Glock Ban” law, AB 1127, calling them “machinegun-convertible pistol[s]” (MCP).  While the law does not mention Glock by name, it targets the type of mechanism Glock developed, the “cruciform trigger bar”, and the easy replacement of the slide backplate that “interferes with the trigger mechanism”. The new law does not (yet) outlaw the possession of these firearms but makes it illegal to sell at retail going forward. Except for law enforcement officers, naturally. 

As with any popular firearm, there are MANY Glock clone manufacturers who use the same type of mechanism and are compatible with Glock parts. None of these will be able to be sold in California either. Not that a lot of them CAN be sold in California due to the requirements of their Handgun Roster. 

But now, fresh off Gun Control Inc’s victory of getting Glock out of the California market, they have started going after the clone manufacturers. As is their usual tactic of going after the largest manufacturers first hoping the small companies will fall into place themselves, they have targeted Ruger for its ONE Glock clone, the RXM, even though there isn’t a single documented case of a switch being used with an RXM. 

With the new Glock V models already shipping, numerous pundits have taken them apart and evaluated the changes. Again, while not explicitly stated by Glock, the changes are clearly designed to defeat the now common “after-market accessory”. 

But guess what, within a couple of days of the new V models hitting the street, images were being posted on the internet of new and improved Glock switches attached to the V slides, including videos of them successfully being fired full auto. What hasn’t been disclosed if they were able to do this with just a newly designed backplate attachment of if they had to perform other modifications or to the firearm frame or slide itself. 

California’s new Glock Ban law does allow a manufacturer to resubmit a redesigned firearm for testing to be added back to the Roster, but that will be pointless for Glock. Their ONLY previous models were the discontinued Gen 3 models and the new V models are all based on the Gen 5. They also still contain the ‘evil’ cruciform trigger bar. And let’s face it, with the V’s already being converted to full auto, Glock has effectively been locked out of California, their third largest market. 

And I’m pretty sure that was the intent. Gun Control, Inc. has pulled off a major coup here. Instead of focusing the enforcement, prosecution and legislative efforts around the country on those who create and use the illegal switches, they went after the LEGAL firearms and customers. With this they can take out one of the most popular line of handguns in the country.

They did this by getting all Glock pistols reclassified into the newly crafted and decided evil “machinegun-convertible pistol” category and pulled from the consumer market. While this is currently only in the People’s Republik of Kalifornistan, you can be sure every other nanny gun control state is queuing up a similar law for their next legislative session. And you can absolutely count on a federal NFA ban coming with the next Democrat controlled Congress and White House. 

So, what about all those pre-existing Glocks in California? They are currently “grandfathered” in and remain legal to own. But as with all grandfathered laws, it should be considered a deferred ban. Deferred until such time the legislature decides to eliminate the “dangerous loophole” in the law and get those too-deadly-for-civilians-to-own “machinegun-convertible pistols” off the streets. 

Is anyone talking about this yet? No, of course not. Gun Control, Inc. never talks about next steps in gun control. They only talk about the small, incremental “common sense gun safety measures” in tiny pieces they know they can get past the populus without much resistance. How do you think people would respond if they came out and admitted their goal was to eliminate the private ownership of all Glock pistols? 

The first step is already complete, no new sales of Glock or Glock clone pistols. Then the ban will include party-to-party sales or transfers. Then no passing them down to descendants. Then an outright ban to close the “dangerous loophole” once and for all. And since all handguns are already registered in California, the mandatory government buy back will be MUCH easier to do.  

Think I’m wrong? Time will tell. 

Bob

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