When seconds count, the courts are decades away.| Open Source Defense
There have never been more guns, and murder rates are at all-time lows.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
H1 2025 in review| opensourcedefense.substack.com
“Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” cuts both ways.| Open Source Defense
Suppose you need to drive to the grocery store.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
Two weeks ago we linked a piece called “Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism”, calling it “hopefully not prescient”.| Open Source Defense
We’ve spent so much time these past few weeks talking about the impending explosion in silencer sales (tldr we’re headed for a future where every gun has a silencer on it) that we, along with everyone else it seems, have forgotten about some other big news.| Open Source Defense
With the Senate Parliamentarian having ruled that suppressors can’t be removed from the NFA through the reconciliation process, it looks like possibility #2 from our newsletter a few weeks ago is happening:| opensourcedefense.substack.com
Until it was abolished 1983, a federal agency called the Civil Aeronautics Board regulated the interstate airline industry in the US.| Open Source Defense
Imagine you’re buying a new thermostat for your house.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a gas pedal — forever.| Open Source Defense
On barrel length laws.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
There are three pieces to this:| Open Source Defense
On the rumors about companies undermining NFA reform.| Open Source Defense
On the structural force of communication technology.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
On Active Self Protection and similar knowledge bases.| Open Source Defense
Guns are the worst option for home defense, except for everything else.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
On Palantir, and government competence tech vs. government empowerment tech.| Open Source Defense
An unsatisfying look at whether parents are guilty of their children’s crimes.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
In which we attempt to discuss OSD-relevant topics in Gaza while staying out of the politics.| opensourcedefense.substack.com
