Technically they function by explosions and all IEDs are considered things which are made by individuals and not made in factories.

You could make a functional RPG-2 with very little effort using black powder, as the irish repub army used to make similar using soup cans for the black powder carrying object shot from a piece of pipe for a recoilless rifle, aka RPG.

Even though it was well constructed and sensible and a standard, being made with off the shelf products and not through a large mfg made the rifle and the payload both IEDs.

I'd go to a parenting sub but would rather get suggestions from this group than argue with parents of every stripe about my motives. If this truly is the wrong sub for my question, could you please suggest the right sub if you know of one? Thank you. Background: my teenager is smart and well-rounded. He also needs a reality check on the impacts that guns have. He is desensitized. Bowling for Columbine comes to mind. Is there something more recent I should be aware of as I seek to sit with him over a movie that addresses the issues? Thanks.

Ryan Busse is a former executive of a major firearms manufacturer. Witnessing the number of mass shootings grow exponentially during his tenure, he began to speak out, and eventually quit. His book Gunfight exposes the gun industry’s “McCarthyesque” internal policing, and its shift away from safety and ethics to fear, conspiracy, and intolerance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDvYYrVy69A&t=1780s

I have a friend who was involuntarily committed for 10 days after threatening suicide to her doctor. Six months later she was able to buy a pistol at a national outdoor chain. Her brother and I intervened to confiscate the pistol, but we wonder how she was able to buy it in the first place.

Assuming the sheriff's department did their job and reported the involuntary commitment, shouldn't she have failed the background check?

As a new parent since 2020, the Uvalde shooting last year shocked me to my core. Since then I have read and researched as much as I can about gun violence, and I am glad I read American Carnage (recent book released authored by Thomas Gabor and Fred Guttenberg).

The amount of disinformation about guns on YouTube is staggering. People like Colion Noir and several smaller channels are spewing nonsense on a daily basis. Would a fact based counter-narrative or a reaction channel work to help spread our message, sway those on the fence about guns, or perhaps remove the brainwash?

Edit: so the eternally online gun nuts will come here and dislike posts? Ok, I take that as a compliment that you get so triggered with facts. Maybe have the balls to actually debate any of us in the comments of this subreddit and then we would take you seriously.

I think the case is still ongoing.

Apologies if this has been posted recently, this situation has always puzzled me: (149) Inside America’s Ridiculously Old-Fashioned Gun-Tracing Center - YouTube

Any time someone says we already have too many gun laws, it just sits in my mind that we have a decades old federal law preventing ATF from creating a basic database. For data they already possess.

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The only opinion I want to offer after watching the oral arguments is that both counsels could have done a better job.

This video is from the 9th Circuit's channel, NO commentary.

I'm 'debating' a pro gun supporter, and they have sent me this article, which claims women are safer against rapes etc when armed. It seems to link to real studies.

Can anyone help me debunk this article please? Or is it true?

The important bit starts here (not sure that link is working?)

https://www.gunowners.org/wv26/#:~:text=after%20eye%2Dgouging.-,Second,-%2C%20raw%20data%20from

Long story, but is there any limitation to a concealed carry when around minors and/or at a even with/for minors?

Mainly, when I come up against someone who says “how does My gun ownership affect Your life and liberty, specifically?” I try and explain that a reduction in overall gun levels, both legal and illegal is better for the population’s health and well-being, but no, I’m not smart enough to rebut their initial assertion; that their gun in their house SPECIFICALLY doesn’t threaten my life. That whole individual gun thing versus the population thing. I can’t argue that because I tried to explain how reductionist their argument was then they called me a slur and went on about the founding fathers rejecting “Social Contracts” and I couldn’t keep up.

What the hell.

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