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[Gun Advocate 🇺🇸 @GunAdvocate]

@BasedTorba Always
Be
Carrying
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[Andrew Torba @BasedTorba]

Fun fact: White Christian men carry a ceremonial gun at all times.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.

Thank you @AustinScottGA08 for cosponsoring HR 645, the National Constitutional Carry Act.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

This 💯

[Gun Advocate 🇺🇸 @GunAdvocate]

What the Flock…

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Anonymous American @American_Anon_]

I think in spirit of Americas 250th birthday the federal government should give us all musket

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Countries with the most civilian-held firearms per capita

Wait until you see where the U.S. lands 🇺🇸🔥

[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

Just because a tool is useful to the police does not justify that we sacrifice our liberty and privacy for it. #stopflock

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child.
#RubyRidge

Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1992. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home.

You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why.

The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly.

All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate.

Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property.

After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy.
They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip.
But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother.
Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

I’m not a gun person. I was raised among leftist gun haters.

So when I first heard about @JohnRLottJr’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” I was skeptical.

But he was right. Here he explains why government ignores many examples where guns SAVED people:

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.

Thank you @RepChuckEdwards for cosponsoring HR 645, the National Constitutional Carry Act.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today.

Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

[Gun Advocate 🇺🇸 @GunAdvocate]

Give a follow to these 2A patriots— support the National Constitutional Carry Act 🫡🇺🇸

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Pictured are Erich Pratt and Aidan Johnston of @GunOwners; Dustin Jones of @DeryaArms; Kara Boesenberg of @HiPointFirearms; Adam Ruonala of @CenturyArms; Bob Faxon of @Faxon_Firearms; and Benjamin Hyun Sanderson of Gun Owners of America.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.

Thank you @Rep_Davidson for cosponsoring HR 645, the National Constitutional Carry Act.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Today I met with a great group of 2A industry leaders. America’s firearms manufacturers help keep the Second Amendment strong.

We discussed my National Constitutional Carry Act and how tariffs are affecting gun manufacturing. Thank you @GunOwners for organizing the meeting.

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

Right now: Pro-gun activists hand out free 30-round AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of the likely signature of a bill that would ban the sale of these magazines in the state.

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

Live: Gun owners gather at Virginia State Capitol against new gun control measures https://t.co/vD2HLvXrb1

[Among the Wildflowers @deaflibertarian]

The first time I went to a gun range to see if I could hire one of their instructors and sign up for membership, they turned me away. Liability. Because I was deaf.

Just months before I was brutally assaulted during an home invasion and left for the dead.

I didn't argue. I said nothing.

I waited in my car to mull over the MapQuest papers I had printed to make sure I could get back, and someone approached my window. He had written a note.

"Come back. I will teach you." It was a different man, but I recognized him as one of the other employees.

Pride was yelling, "Fuck them! Assholes, all of them!" Humility quietly whispered, "Share Grace."

He gave me some pointers by mostly using gestures. He showed me the proper grip and stance.

His face was clearly surprised when I gave my target some holes. He had assumed I was a novice shooter. Out of practice, yes, rusty, yes, needed to improve techniques, yes, but a novice shooter, I was not. I had not shot a gun in several years. I had gotten too comfortable with the illusion of safety.

I've been shooting since I was 6 years old. For fun, for hunting, for "just in cases." But this was different than a coyote or a bobcat in the woods who are likely to run away. I was a victim of one of the most awful crimes that can happen to anyone, and I needed confidence to know I can protect myself and my baby. If he had started to criticize or make sexist comments during that fragile period of my life, I think it would have shattered the little dignity and confidence I had. I needed guidance, reassurance and strength. That instructor had no idea what happened to me, and I never told him. Words carry power, sometimes more power than a gunshot.

[Gun Advocate 🇺🇸 @GunAdvocate]

@AAGDhillon Well done— each session at the range will improve your handling and accuracy.

[National Association for Gun Rights @gunrights]

REAL Constitutional Carry NATIONWIDE!

No permits, no fees, no permission slips!
Sea to shining sea!