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Gossimer retweeted
10 November 1775, a legacy took its first breath.
A fighting spirit found its name.
A new breed of warrior was born.
For 251 years, the Marine Corps has been fighting and winning our Nation’s battles. Happy Birthday, Marines.
Gossimer retweeted
I promise this new ad wasn’t my idea… but where’s the lie 👀
We need someone who’s concerned about how to make life in West Texas more affordable, not about what’s on the menu.
This ad goes live in #TX23 today 🔥
Gossimer retweeted
One of the only existing groves of American Chestnut trees is scheduled to be destroyed next month to make room for a datacenter. I made an entire video about what this tree meant and the efforts to bring it back that have lasted decades. Consumption knows nothing of sacrament.
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The comments on this are as divided as the nation itself.
The hour is later than even I imagined.
The overarching message is painful yet clear:
Americans no longer have faith that their elections will do anything positive anymore.
And that should horrify us all.
Nevertheless, I refuse to just do nothing and watch it burn. I’ll still vote. So should you. You do you I guess.
I do find it odd that people who can’t even be bothered to vote seem to think they’d be bothered to fight to the death.
Direct your hate accordingly if you must but remember who the real traitor is in a civil war: whoever you’re shooting at.
Exhaust every peaceful option before you get froggy like that. Because once you jump into the abyss, there’s no going back.
BEFORE YOU BURN THE HOUSE
I keep hearing people talk about civil war like it’s weather coming over the ridge. “Burn it down! Let the whole thing break! Start again in the ashes!”
Reckless words from folks who still have a ballot sitting on the table.
Before you speak of rifles, use the piece of paper men once crossed oceans and battlefields to earn. If you curse the Republic as dead, make damn sure you showed up while it was still breathing.
There’s nothing martial or noble about surrendering early.
A warrior doesn’t abandon the wall because the night is long. He holds until holding is impossible. He also spends every round before drawing the blade. And exhausts every lawful avenue because once blood answers politics, nobody controls what comes next.
Honor demands you MUST vote. Not because voting is sacred. Because war is.
If the darkest hour comes, let your conscience be clean enough to say you held the line until the line itself was gone.
War is the last argument of a people who have already spent every other word.
So, have you?
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⚠️Unfortunately, there are 2 false statements & 3 misleading statements in @ATFDirectorRC's post about the FBI's warrantless "NICS Monitoring" program⤵️
1️⃣ "[NICS Alerts] are NOT used to monitor lawful gun purchasers." FALSE.
Think about what this means: If a person passes NICS and the transaction proceeds, the person is, by definition, legally permitted to make that purchase. So how can the federal government claim NICS Alerts are not being used to monitor lawful gun purchasers? Either lawful purchasers are being monitored—or the government is allowing firearms to be purchased by people it believes are prohibited from possessing them (and is gunwalking firearms… again). It can't be both.
2️⃣"The NICS program is managed very well by the FBI." FALSE.
Under President Biden, the FBI weaponized the background check system—which was designed to check if a purchaser was prohibited from possessing firearms and if not to immediately delete all personally identifying information—into a gun purchase spy program that alerts your local police department. Examples included, monitoring people: because they spent too much money, or because they bought the same guns as their roommates, or because they were at the Capitol on J6, or because they might violate California’s “assault weapons ban.” And while the ATF under this administration has scaled back its requests, the NICS program continues to be used in ways that violate sections in federal law which:
❌Prohibit a NICS registry (34 U.S.C. 40901(i)),
❌Require lawful gun owners’ names to be deleted (18 U.S.C. 922(t)(2)(c)) &
❌Require lawful names to be deleted within 24 hours (118 Stat. 95).
3️⃣"[NICS Monitoring] is NOT a secret program." MISLEADING.
While the program is public now, "NICS Monitoring" was a secret until an ATF whistleblower told GOA and @AmmoLand about it—and the employee was subsequently disciplined and indicted for having shared the existence of the program with us.. Since then GOA has submitted several Freedom of Information Act requests, but to no avail. On this issue, the ATF and FBI have ignored repeated FOIA requests and took 400+ days (and a subpoena threat) to respond to @SenRandPaul's request for records.
ATF even obtained and is currently enforcing a GAG ORDER that restricts GOA from releasing certain documents we obtained about this secret program. GOA is appealing to the D.C. circuit and is backed by every major newspaper, including @NPR, @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, @Reuters, @WSJ, @washingtonpost, @politico, @axios, @propublica, @Forbes, @FACoalition, @theintercept, @TheMediaInst, @MediaNewsGroup, @NFOIC, @PressClubDC, @NPPA, @newsalliance, @newsguild, @ONA, @RTDNA, @sejorg, @spj_tweets, @SPLC, @voxdotcom, & @rcfp.
4️⃣"[NICS Alerts] are NOT used to enforce state gun control laws." MISLEADING.
GOA has proven that @ATFHQ helped California enforce its "assault weapons" ban during the Biden administration. ATF Director Cekada is only correct insofar as the system is not currently being abused (1) in this manner (2) by ATF (3) right now. What will happen as soon as we get another anti-gun Democrat president in the White House?
5️⃣"Only 61 ATF NICS Alerts remain active today." MISLEADING.
While this may be true about ATF NICS Alerts, ATF is not the only law enforcement agency using the FBI's NICS Monitoring program. GOA uncovered thousands of NICS monitoring alerts that were set up in the past by @USMarshalsHQ, @SecretService, and even @USArmy. We are grateful that @ATFHQ has limited its use of this unlawful FBI system since GOA exposed it. The Trump Administration should not downplay the abuse of the program under the Biden Administration or the current extent of its use by other agencies.
Also, the Director revealed an important piece of information: These are “bonified [sic] NICS alerts.” In other words, the ATF is receiving real-time notification when lawful purchasers buy firearms. The obvious questions are: What statutory authority permits this monitoring? And what judicial authorizations—aka, warrants—are required before the government can monitor a person’s otherwise lawful firearm purchase?
The NICS program is managed very well by the FBI. This is NOT a secret program. I publicly issued the policy governing and narrowing ATF’s use of NICS alerts in April of 2025.
🇺🇸 14.6 MILLION lawful firearm purchase/transfer checks were processed by NICS in 2025.
🔎 Since that date, ATF utilized 343 bonified NICS alerts under the new policy.
🔎 Only 61 ATF NICS Alerts remain active today.
14.6 MILLION NICS purchase/transfer checks processed vs. 343 NICS Alerts. Keep that in perspective!
Every ATF NICS alert is tied to a specific, documented federal investigation involving straw purchasers, firearms traffickers, or other serious federal crimes.
They are NOT used to monitor lawful gun purchasers.
They are NOT used to enforce state gun control laws.
My focus as Director is straightforward:
- Protect lawful gun owners.
- Target firearms traffickers.
- Hold violent criminals and those who aid them accountable.
Gossimer retweeted
I was just subpoenaed in an anti-gun lawsuit...for being a guntuber. Link to the lawsuit is below. The case is Roberts v. Smith & Wesson, and it's the same playbook, almost copy+paste, of the Soto v. Bushmaster "Sandy Hook" lawsuit against Remington, which put them out of business.
This one arises from the Highland Park July 4 shooting, where the killer used an M&P15. The plaintiffs are of course attempting to blame S&W for the incident and the theory, you guessed it, "negligent marketing." They say S&W appealed to young men interested in militaristic imagery and that this influenced the shooter to select the M&P15, and that this more or less was a cause of this incident. Insanity.
Now they are reaching beyond S&W and into firearms media. I was served with a subpoena demanding years of info and analytics from me about S&W and reviews I've done. The part that should concern my fellow gun reviewers: Their subpoena defines an "Advertisement" to include even unpaid organic social-media content. In other words, by the plaintiffs' definition, even an independent review of a lawful product is "advertising," and they think they are entitled to any info that touches on essentially any YouTube video about the M&P15 during the relevant period.
This is EXACTLY the end-run around the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act that led me to draft what became the PLCAA Clarification Act. The PLCAA was enacted to protect manufacturers from lawfare over crimes committed by third parties. Plaintiffs have increasingly pleaded around that protection after the Soto case by using "negligent marketing" as a loophole, which defeats the purpose of the PLCAA.
Versions of the PLCAA Clarification Act I wrote have now been enacted in West Virginia, Montana, and Kentucky. I've been told Kentucky has already dismissed a frivolous lawsuit with it. Consider contacting your legislators and looping me on on the email so we can keep the PLCAA Clarification Act passage rolling.
Illinois obviously is not going to pass it. But Congress can. And whatever your politics on guns, there is a larger issue here: If a manufacturer sends a journalist or creator a product to independently test, that does not magically transform the resulting review into advertising. Treating independent editorial coverage as corporate marketing merely because someone reviewed a lawful product is a dangerous theory that reaches far beyond the gun industry.
One final note for people in the gun media space: if you receive one of these subpoenas, do not ignore it and do not start deleting anything. Feel free to contact me and we can discuss whether I can assist with your response or coordinate with appropriate local counsel.
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New video on the Buffalo Public Schools Sexual Assault/harassment comes out tomorrow. AND an insane update on how their “internal investigation” may have been doomed to fail before it began.
Woo, my @drinkEchelon order arrived, but unfortunately, @FedEx apparently hires people who can't read or understand what "FRAGILE HANDLE WITH CARE" fucking means.
Thankfully, only a few dented cans, and nothing ruptured.
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My baby is in a grave, she will NEVER come home Senator.
The reckless policies you championed and defend helped create an environment that enabled a person who never should have been in our country to kill her.
And this despite an awful background and serious infectious health issues Illinois failed to identify or help treat.
Is that your definition of compassion, Senator?
Any consideration for Katie Abraham and other innocent law abiding citizens like her, or is your compassion only selective and political?
Your “compassion” is as selective and inauthentic as @GovPritzker
And exactly how is this bettering our nation Senator?
Gossimer retweeted
Take 3 minutes of your day to sit down, put some headphones on, and just EXPERIENCE Halo 2s Reclaimer. I use the word experience very specifically because for like the first minute and 30 seconds, the song feels like a nonstop crescendo with no end to it
It’s INSANE
Gossimer retweeted
Activist: "You can graze sheep underneath solar panels. It's called agrivoltaics."
Farmer: "I've read the brochures."
Activist: "Best of both worlds."
Farmer: "The panels shade the sward. Productive species die back. What grows is what tolerates shade and compaction. Sheep won't finish on it."
Activist: "But the trials show it works."
Farmer: "The trials run three years and measure ewe presence. Not lamb growth rates. Not finishing weights. Not what the soil looks like in year fifteen."
Activist: "It's still better than nothing."
Farmer: "It's a 30% stocking rate, a steel frame I can't plough around, panel-cleaning chemicals running into the watercourse, and a 40-year lease I can't break."
Activist: "But you're getting energy AND lamb."
Farmer: "I'm getting a third of the lamb, a maintenance contract, and a field my grandson can't farm."
Activist: "You're being negative."
Farmer: "I'm watching a thousand-year-old way of feeding people get traded for twenty-five years of subsidised electricity. Negative would be the polite word."
Gossimer retweeted
🇯🇵 As a Japanese person, I am more than glad to lose all respect from leftists worldwide.
We don't want respect from communists.
We just want you to know that we don't like you.
Gossimer retweeted
Remember when @GeraldoRivera put out US troops battle plans in Iraq on Live TV? What a dope. Don’t forget to remind him TODAY, the anniversary of him being kicked out of Country. tiktok.com/t/ZP8bvMYL5/
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Illinois Gun Bills Would Add $1,600 Per Firearm and Shut Down Every Gun Store in the State!
Illinois lawmakers are pushing two dangerous bills—HB3320 and SB2279—that would fundamentally cripple the lawful firearm industry in our state.
Under the so-called Responsibility in Firearm Legislation Act, the state would extract nearly one billion dollars per year from firearm manufacturers. That cost doesn’t stay in Springfield. It gets passed directly to distributors, retailers, and ultimately to you.
When the math is done, this becomes an effective $1,600 excise tax on every firearm sold in Illinois.
That isn’t regulation. It’s a financial weapon aimed at the Second Amendment.
Gun stores in Illinois already operate on thin margins. Many are family-owned businesses serving their communities for generations. They cannot survive inventory that becomes unaffordable overnight. Manufacturers will stop shipping to Illinois. Retailers will lose access to products. FFLs will close. Jobs will disappear.
And the people hurt most won’t be criminals—they’ll be law-abiding citizens. Parents. Seniors. Veterans. Single mothers. Everyday Illinoisans who want the ability to protect themselves and their families.
The Second Amendment does not exist only on paper. It protects the practical ability to acquire arms. If the government can price that right out of reach, the right is effectively gone.
These bills do nothing to stop violent crime. Instead, they punish lawful commerce and impose collective financial penalties for actions manufacturers do not control. This is a backdoor ban dressed up as a “fee.”
Illinois gun owners must speak up now. Contact your legislators. Share this video. And stand with the Illinois State Rifle Association as we fight to protect lawful firearm ownership in our state.
Illinois State Rifle Association: youtube.com/watch?v=B2KXliVc…
Gossimer retweeted
You’re not supposed to sink enemy navy warships in a war
And if you sink the enemy warship you have to surface your state of the art top secret nuclear attack submarine to load up 100 hostile Iranian navy personnel in addition to regular crew
Please it’s called The International Law™️
