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YouTube Accelerates Crackdown on Gun Publishers

December 20, 2017December 15, 2017 by Dan Zimmerman

YouTube cracking down on gun-related content

YouTube began starving many gun-related publishers this summer. All gun-related content was initially restricted, requiring each publisher to request a review of each video after seven days. Following the resultant hue and cry, some of the more prominent content creators were excluded from the new censorship regimen. But YouTube’s community censorship guidelines are as clear … Read more

YouTube Begins Deleting Videos Featuring Bump Fire Stocks

October 6, 2017 by Dan Zimmerman

Our friends at the Military Arms Channel have discovered that Google-owned YouTube (remember: don’t be evil) are memory holing anything to do with bump fire stocks. In case it’s too hard to make out from the screen grab above, here’s the first part of YouTube’s explanation of why a video titled ‘SSAK-47 Bump Fire Stock … Read more

It Should Have Been A DGU: Ballistic British Brewskis Edition.

January 31, 2014 by

The proprietor of a Bargain Booze store in Manchester, U.K. had the intestinal fortitude to throw a barrage of beer cans at the robbers who looted his till at gunpoint. Clearly, it should have been a DGU . . .

Question Of The Day: Who’s Your Favorite YouTube Gunny?

January 27, 2014 by

image courtesy youtube.com

We tend to give a lot of credit to the Call of Duty franchise, but the now-ubiquitous YouTube has probably done a lot more for Gun Culture 2.0 than any video game ever did. Even abcnews.com has taken notice of this phenomenon, and published a nicely well-balanced article last week profiling the demigods of the YouTube Gunny pantheon . . .

Caracal C: How Quick Are ‘Quick Sights?’

April 8, 2012 by

Pretty damned quick. I’m only 100 or so rounds into the gun and I’m still working on the review, but this video was just too cool to sit on until the big review is done. I may have pulled one or two shots, but I think the Caracal and I had a very enjoyable first … Read more

Sunday Morning Funnies: The Professionals

July 18, 2010 by

Ah, the wonders of AlGore’s InterWeb thingy. No, I’m not talking about Mr. Global Warming’s failed attempt at creating a television network “for the rest of us.” No, I’m referring to the fact that the web has allowed just about anybody with a camera, a laptop, a broadband connection and a dream to write/direct/produce their own shows, and distribute them on the web for all to see. Of course, the one, tiny little problem with this plan is it’s virtually impossible to make money on it as a content developer, but, what the hey…we can make it up in volume, right?

YouTube Pulls Video for “Excessive Violence”

April 27, 2010 by

Apparently, calling an M.I.A. video “controversial” is like calling the Pope “Catholic.” No duh! M.I.A. (nee: Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) is a British songwriter, record producer, singer, rapper, fashion designer, visual artist, political activist, and artist of Sri Lankan origin. He’s also an aficionado of the Tamil Tigers, as well as their separatists efforts to create a Free Tamil. She made it onto the list of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people, for her “global influence across many genres”. Funny I’ve never heard of her before now.

How NOT to Teach Your Wife About Handguns

March 24, 2010 by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ13IdvRBkU Not sure how much you need to say about a video like this, but I feel compelled to make the following observations… Don’t try this at home. At least, don’t try this at home if you want to stay married. Or if you’d rather that she not shoot you. What in the HELL did … Read more

Are the NRA’s Pants on the Ground?

October 9, 2011March 19, 2010 by Robert Farago

Despite fears that the Obama administration would usher in a new era of gun control, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is having a banner year. On the meta-level, the U.S. Supreme Court looks set to strike down Chicago’s 28-year-old handgun ban—and with it every other such handgun ban in these United States. Even if the Court punt’s the Windy City’s firearm ownership restrictions on a narrow basis, the ruling could put the impetus on state and local municipalities to show why a citizen shouldn’t have a gun, rather than make them prove that they should. Meanwhile, the Open Carry movement is gaining momentum, concealed carry laws are breaking out all over and various strictures (e.g. Virginia’s “one gun a month” law) are being rolled back. It’s got the point where The Miami Herald headlines “NRA may be running out of targets in Florida.” So . . . we recently heard that the NRA website is only getting 200 thousand unique views per month. Is the NRA losing its mojo with the next generation?