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    The LAV’s Name Rings Bells In Russia

    Larry heads to Moscow to an awesome small arms archives at the central armed forces museum:

    Saw-Puppet-BicycleHoly, the vid is sure awesome, I don’t know what was with the color it was like watching SAW haha.  I thought Larry was going be told by a puppet on a tricycle “I want to play a game”, then Larry would wake up in a bathtub with an empty can of beans beside him and commence farting glass shards while a timer counted down.  He’d have to assemble 15 very rare AK variants from a pile of random parts, and only then would he receive a handful of gas-x pills to stop the pain.

    I could see how gun collecting if you were very rich could get extremely out of hand.  Wanting to acquire variants like those would always be like a dangling carrot in front of your face.

    Thoughts?

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    Win A Book – I’m Trying Out A New Giveaway App

    Win a copy of The Trident by Jason Redman!

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    An inspiring story about Jason Redman who served as a US Navy SEAL.

    From his grueling SEAL training to his search for a balance between arrogance and humility, Redman shares it all in this inspiring and unforgettable account. He speaks candidly of the grit that sustained him despite grievous wounds, and of the extraordinary love and devotion of his wife, Erica, and his family, without whom he would not have survived.

    Vivid and powerful, emotionally resonant and illuminating, The Trident traces the evolution of a modern warrior, husband, and father, a man who has come to embody the never-say-die spirit that defines the SEALs, one of America’s elite fighting forces.

    I’ve been giving away stuff on Instagram for a bit now, and I wanted to extend that to the blog to make it easier for people to enter. The above contest is for one book (I have 15 total to give away thanks to the awesome people at Harper Collins / William Morrow!)… if the app works as I hope it will I will be running all future contests in this way. I even have a GunBox giveaway coming soon!

    As you can see, entering gets you on the ENDO Apparel mailing list. If you don’t want to be on this mailing list (for whatever reason) but still want to potentially win a book just unsubscribe after the first email you receive from being on the ENDOapparel list, it’s not a huge deal. You will not be re added to the list unless you re-add yourself.

    If anyone knows about any other giveaway options / apps that are automated like this, please let me know in the comments and I’ll look into them.

    Thanks guys!

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    Australian Comedian Jim Jefferies On Gun Control

    Jim Jefferies be like “I’m all for the 2nd Amendment BUT”:

    I really wouldn’t expected that to go over as well as it did with the crowd, they were cracking up.  He’s in Boston though, so that might have something to do with it.  I know I don’t have to point out the flaws in his “comedy” with you guys, because they are extremely obvious.

    Holy that was a long 16 minutes.  Please don’t waste part of your lunch break watching the video, then get pissed off at me that you’ll never get that time of your life back.  haha, but if you have it on while you’re supposed to be working like most of you will… I suppose that wont be as big of an issue.

    I have to admit the “you’re bringing guns to a drone fight” and the musket joke at the end made me laugh.  Not enough to make me want to download all this douchebags comedy and binge watch it though.

    constitutionThoughts?

    Hat tip: Weerd

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    Gun Violence Is A Public Health Issue

    Brady Campaign on the pathology of gun violence with a snazzy presentation:

    3:45 – THE GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE!

    So basically criminals and people with mental health issues are the problem, which we already knew.

    7:19 – Preventing (the criminal’s having guns and murdering people with them) problem is, and I quote “straight forward as keeping guns out of criminal and dangerous hands, which points us to some straight forward solutions.”

    Here are their SIMPLE solutions to prevent criminals having guns:

    1. New policy in Washington like expanding background checks etc… –  YAWWWWWWWWWWNNNN so in other words more laws criminals won’t follow?  Cool story bro.
    2. Legal action!  – Oh noes, crime guns from 1% of gun dealers.  Sure that might be a problem but these guys can still easily get a gun from numerous other places.
    3. hahah “technology”.  *tell me more meme*

    Now they talk about the 300 million guns owned by law abiding citizens.  Suicide (2/3 of all gun deaths), and accidents (negligence). Their solution to this part of the problem is marketing (guns are bad and dangerous) because it worked so well with smoking (did it though?) and drinking and driving, and of course “technology” again is another solution.

    Brady-Campaign-Center-GunViolinsIt really is pure gold that smoking, obesity, and alcoholism continue to kill more people than guns, but everyone is like “meh, light my cigarette pass me the fries and get me a cold beer” and the media isn’t freaking out about that on a daily basis like they are about guns.  It’s definitely because getting shot is a lot more bloody and dramatic and quick than those other three, therefore viewers love that stuff and the media can sell more advertising etc…

    Thoughts? Smart guns for everyone?! :P

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    High Speed Low Drag Russian Disarm

    I have zero context, and if these guys are actually Russian or not. I’m just going by the video description:

    HSLD-Operator-Rio-Police-OfficerMeh.. not bad I guess.  There are so many disarm videos and theories out there, that it seems like the best thing to do is just try SOMETHING rather than potentially getting executed.  I wonder if they were practicing with live rounds in the video?  Foreigners have been known to do some crazy shit in training… way more derptastic than putting photographers downrange on a live range.

    Hat tip: Krystian

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    Instructor Zero Addresses If Operational Experience Is Required

    This is a few weeks late, but since Ja Rule wasn’t available we hear from Instructor Zero:

    Instructor Zero is an authority on a lot of topics now.  This is hard to listen to as usual, but according to the general consensus in the comments he essentially talking about the Cory07ink operational stolen valor shenanigans that happened.

    I turned on auto subtitles just for kicks, and naturally YouTube had no idea what the hell was going on:

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    Instructor-ZeroYea I don’t know wtf just happened.  He literally could have just read the dictionary and I would have got about the same amount of useful info from it.

    Thoughts?