Since I was away this week we didn't record a show.  Instead I'm publishing this ACP Blooper Reel for all to cover the gap.   Be Warned, these do contain adult language!

Hello Internet!

In This Episode:

• Weer'd tells a story of automotive woe that he apparently caught from Erin;
• Oddball talks about the many uses of a Raspberry Pi;
• David explains how ammunition cartridges are made;
• and Weer'd fisks Virginia Delegate Mark Levine and his love of "assault weapon" bans.

Show Notes

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• Cartridge Manufacture by Douglas Hamilton
• Ammunition Making By George Frost
• Starline Brass Manufacture
• Cartridge Making (1940)
• Sellier & Bellot - Making A Round
• A Look Inside The Federal Ammunition Factory - American Shooter S1, E4

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• Making the Case for an Assault Weapons Ban in Virginia
• NRA Mocking Levine
• Suspected Virginia Beach shooter used legally-bought gun suppressor
• Virginia Feral Hog Population Becoming a Major Nuisance
• Studies Find No Evidence That Assault Weapon Bans Reduce Homicide Rates

Hello Internet!

In This Episode:

• Erin and Weer’d talk about a hilariously inaccurate tweet by David Hogg and what happened next, and then give an update on the Operation Blazing Sword "Spread the Love" Fundraiser'
• Oddball recommend knives for young children;
• Weer'd brings us part two of his fisk of Dick's Sporting Goods' CEO starring some special guests;
• and one of those guests is Michael Bloomberg,whose Super Bowl ad deserves a topic all its own.

Show Notes

First Topic:

• David Hogg's tweet
• No, David Hogg, Minority And LGBT People Did Not Start The Anti-Gun Movement
• The David Allen Wright III "Spread the Love" Fundraiser

Oddball Corner Pocket:

• Victorinox Classic SD
• Victorinox Tinker
• Victorinox Cadet
• Case Sodbuster Jr
• Opinel #6
• Buck 112
• CRKT Pilar
• Leatherman Micra
• Leatherman Squirt PS4
• Mora Basic 511
• Buck Bucklite Max II

Weer’d Audio Fisk:

• Corporations and guns: How companies are reshaping the gun control debate
• Dick’s CEO Says Anti-Gun Policy Shrank Company by a ‘Quarter Billion Dollars’
• Bureau of Justice Statistics: Guns Used in Crime (PDF)
• Walmart plans to dramatically step back from ammunition sales after ‘horrific’ shootings
• Newly Unsealed Documents Show Top FDIC Officials Running Operation Choke Point
• There's no downplaying the impact of Operation Choke Point
• Wells Fargo says it will keep lending to gun industry
• Dicks Ed Stack Flirts with 3rd Party Run

Second Topic:

• Michael Bloomberg Superbowl Ad
• Suspect sought in Richmond murder case
• Fort Bend County murder suspect acquitted of murder charge after 5 years
• Michael Bloomberg's Claim About 'Children' Killed by 'Gun Violence' Is Off by 73%
• Here's every school shooting since Trump took office | Mike Bloomberg 2020
• Bloomberg's latest stats on school gun violence ignore reality

Hello Internet!

In This Episode:

• Erin and Weer’d talk about the importance of checking your spare tires;  an Operation Blazing Sword fundraiser born from hate that is spreading love;  and an anti-gun doctor who was the "victim" of a suspiciously fake-looking "hate-crime";
• David brings us part two on his series about magazines, where he explains their history and manufacture;
• and Weer'd brings us the first part of a fisk (not a fist!) on Dick's Sporting Goods and their bad-for-business embrace of gun control.

Show Notes

Main Topic

• Blue Collar Prepping: Check Your Spare Tires
• Smallest Minority: Two is one and One is None
• The David Allen Wright III "Spread the Love" Fundraiser
• Anti-gun activist Surgeon goes full Smollette/Hogg for victim credit
• Hopkins surgeon, gun violence prevention advocate takes to Twitter to report ‘death threat’ left on his car
• Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 047: Honestly Bad For You
• Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 048 Take 2: Technical Incompetents
• Tim Pool: Leftist Anti-2A Activist ADMITS To Staging Photo Of Threat Against Him

Gun Lovers and Other Strangers:

• Single Stack vs Double Stack Magazines
• Single Feed vs Double Feed Magazines
• Mag Slick
• Wolff Gunsprings
• Early Double Stack Magazine Patent
• Brownells Magazine Tools
• Two Tone Magazine
• Drum Magazines

Weer’d Audio Fiks:

• Gun Crime in the UK: 'My kids don't see this side of me' - BBC News
• How helpful are CCTV cameras
• London's murder rate now tops New York City's
• Murder rose by 8% in NYC in 2019
• How many homicides go unsolved in California and the nation?