This is an open letter to Yankee Marshal, a Left-Leaning Pro-Gun YouTube Presenter Yes, the title is clickbait… welcome to the internet. Join the conversation on Odysee, a censorship-free video platform. TLDR: I’d like to come on your show and have an intelligent discussion. Yes, I’m allowed to disagree with Yankee without being disrespectful. Hey Yankee, I actually met you awhile back at a 2a rally in Salem, OR. I’m writing because I partially disagree with you and your positions on what you seem to style as profit-motivated fear-mongering on the Right and the recent Statist rhetoric from some right-wing outlets. What I think you’re saying: If I understand you, it seems like you’re calling out the gun-community for flip-flopping from […]
Articles
I Lost All My Guns In A Voting Accident
At this point, most gun owners have seen the ubiquitous “I lost all my guns in a boating accident” memes, or made jokes to friends about what you’d do in the event that “they” finally do “come for your guns”. And, while at first this might seem like hyperbole, there have been numerous politicians promising future gun bans, confiscations and harsh criminalization of citizens who currently own firearms legally. To many in the general public who are uneducated about firearms, a politician’s promise to “get guns off the streets” might seem reasonable at first. However, the pandemic of 2020 combined with recent high profile examples of police brutality and racism have led to civil unrest, mistrust of law enforcement and […]
Adjustable Gas Block or AR15 Buffer Weights
Overgassed AR15 An overgassed AR15 is when the gun cycles too fast due to an imbalance of too much gas pressure acting on the mass of the bolt carrier group, buffer weights and the tension of the buffer spring. Gas operated firearms like the AR15 redirect some of the high pressure gases released by firing the gun to cycle the bolt in order to automatically remove the spent cartridge and load a new cartridge. If too much of that gas is redirected to cycle the action, then the firearm is said to be overgassed. Symptoms of an Overgassed AR15 The most obvious sign of an overgassed AR is that the firearm will fail to properly cycle, aka jam. You may […]