(Part 2) Top products from r/gunpolitics

I would overwhelmingly recommend a book named _Shoot: Your Guide to Shooting and Competition by Julie Golob. It goes over a lot of basics about pistols vs rifles vs shotguns and gives a good overview of different shooting sports and techniques. It’s available on Kindle, but the real book itself is great quality.

If you’re at all interested in hunting, The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game_, vols., 1 & 2 by Steven Rinella are a great place to start.

This world of guns is a deep rabbit hole filled with fun activity, technical detail, skill building, nerdiness, history, collectibles, legalities, philosophy and inevitably, politics. You can deep dive into any one of these areas and there are nearly endless resources for all of them. Literally too many to recommend a good single one. But reading everything you can is a must, IMHO. If something is particularly motivating you, more recommendations would be happily given.

i loves me some booze, so don't take this the wrong way but...actually Prohibition kinda did fix some serious social ills. and for all the gangsterism that arose in the big cities from the resulting illegal booze trade, most historical assessments i've read agree that from a strictly harm-vs-benefit standpoint that P as a public policy was almost certainly to the good side.

on another note, if you're interested in a seriously engrossing read about Prohibition's cast of characters (nothing to do with the above), highly recommend picking up a cheap used copy of Thomas Coffey's The Long Thirst.. it begins with his dad ritualistically taking him out for his first beer when he's 13, which is the day P was repealed in 1933. just a really fascinating book you won't be able to put down. plus i love that his name is Coffey, works on so many levels.

This whole line of thinking that OP is selling here is complete nonsense and is thoroughly contradicted by a straightforward reading of US History.  First, read the US Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 "The Militia Clauses":    
>"The Militia Clauses  Clause 15. The Congress shall have Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.
Clause 16. The Congress shall have Power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress." 


Next, read about how in the early 1790s Congress passed laws that strengthened the President's role of Commander-in-Chief by clarifying his power to take command of the state militias, especially to put down insurrections such as The Whiskey Rebellion...     


And then go back and refresh yourself on the Whiskey Rebellion where President Washington federalized 12,000 state militiamen to put down an armed insurrection. 

Beyond the fact that by then the Founders were unanimously in favor of granting the President the power to federalize state militias, it's important to understand the lasting national effects of how President Washington handled the Whiskey Rebellion.  The effect was to reassure everyone that presidents would be judicious about their power to wield the state militias, and fears of a tyrannical king-like president began to fade away when we saw the massive upsides of a strong federal govt that could reimpose the rule of law whenever threatened.  

All of this is really just freshman year American History and a 20-minute review of it over a cup of coffee should be enough to convince anyone in doubt that OP's idea here is complete rubbish.  The Founders never, in any way, meant to support, or encourage, or even leave room for, armed insurrection against government in the US in any way whatsoever.  It's purely a fantasy of relatively recent vintage that's been ginned up by the gun lobby to justify selling some higher-profit margin products that look a lot like what soldiers use.  

How about this propaganda book on Obama's childhood, that was made before the election was over. It's almost like a book issued to the children about the Glorious Leader.

It's goes back even further. Go read or listen to some Podcasts on the War of Independence. It's fascinating to hear the Founding Fathers debate gun rights, gun control, voting rights and how our National Government should be formed and most importantly States Rights vs Federal Rights vs Individual Rights. A great book I just finished is......

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735224714/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vTvMBbPFTBQK5

There is a book which I am beginning to read that addresses this, I believe.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Debate-Edmund-Burke-Thomas/dp/0465050972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415980568&sr=8-1&keywords=The-Great-Debate-Edmund-Burke-Thomas-Paine-and-the-Birth-of-Right-and-Left

. . . or at least I hope addresses it. It holds up France as one pole and the U.S. on the other.

This is another good read on the subject:

https://www.amazon.ca/Will-Shoot-Back-Resistance-Mississippi/dp/1479886033/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=we+will+shoot+back&qid=1558704997&s=gateway&sr=8-1

I read this book back in early 2007 right before I joined the Corps and the writer's CO had the call sign "Dark-Side Six" and I've always like it. So I kind of stole it. Not sure if there's any connection to your FOB

You might want to read this.

Here’s what one of the victims’ fathers had to say.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SW151TP?ref=dbs_p2d_P_W_instant_delivery_T1

You'll need this.

https://www.amazon.com/Cosmoline-Rust-Prevention-2-lb/dp/B00AA0OL64

>he doesn't realize just how many people he's offending.

He realizes it, he just doesn't care.

He's a billionaire who is use to being able to use his money to get people to do what he wants. He doesn't understand you can't just funnel money into something to get your way, you actually have to convince people who he would consider beneath his consideration. He's an elitist, basically the very type of person Sowell writes about in The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Hey you wanted an answer now you dont like it cuz "muh gun companies EVUL!"

Guess I'll go back to making improvised explosives and my own guns now. That help you feel safer since gun companies arent making profits?

https://www.armchairpatriot.com/Home%20Defense/Homemade%20Guns/Home%20Expedient%20Firearms%20-%209mm%20SMG.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1684112737/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

>U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook by Army

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1724856685/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

>Build Your Own Semi-Auto Handgun: A Step-by-Step Guide to Assembling an "Off-the-Books" GLOCK-Style P80 Pistol

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162914438X/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_10?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

>Advanced Gunsmithing: A Manual of Instruction in the Manufacture, Alteration, and Repair of Firearms (75th Anniversary Edition)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0913022004/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

>The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives

>An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine.[1][2][3][4]

[1] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/39165/assault-rifle

[2] C. Taylor The Fighting Rifle: A Complete Study of the Rifle in Combat

[3] F.A. Moyer Special Forces Foreign Weapons Handbook

[4] R.J. Scroggie, F.A. Moyer Special Forces Combat Firing Techniques

The UK has seen a huge spike in murders in the last few years. Most of these have been with knives. specifically plain old boring kitchen knives. At present you already have to be over 18 to buy any sort of knife in the UK. They are now pushing for no online sales. There is also talk about bans on any knife with a point and length limits. This would make most kitchen knives illegal.
for example.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GRUNOC/ref=s9_acsd_top_hd_bw_b1DP7_c_x_3_w/144-7039686-3166857?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-4&pf_rd_r=NK0G8PBQM2HDACT0JEFW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=78067633-c290-5f30-9b97-4f36402ed099&pf_rd_i=289857

See the scary "assault point" and "mil spec length" in the product above.

I assume that after this has no real affect they will add background checks and a knife database, and finish with a ban on pants as they are the perfect strangling tool.

The whole thing is a text book example of how dumb things end up if you let anti's call the shots

A very salient talking point, however such knowledge, while perhaps common place in the 1920s and 30's when dads taught kids about chemicals and explosives for fun, today even thinking of doing such a thing is irresponsible and evil, ergo people are woefully undereducated.

I used to think criminals were also pretty lazy which is why they preferred buying guns to making their own, but Ive been hearing about some homemade gun police hauls recently by criminals, so its possibly just a knowledge and tools block.

To the point that criminals dont even know they can make their own guns.

In a twist of irony, if this information became widely disseminated among the criminal class, it'd put the nail in the coffin of gun control forever.

https://www.amazon.com/Combat-Engineer-Department-Defense/dp/1601701306/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=combat+engineer&qid=1568070606&s=books&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Operations-Plus-Combat-Breaching/dp/1601709439/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=combat+engineer&qid=1568070606&s=books&sr=1-6

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Technology-Explosives-Paul-Cooper/dp/047118635X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=explosives+engineering&qid=1565833795&s=books&sr=1-3

https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Explosives-Demolitions-Handbook-Survival/dp/1616080086/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=explosives+engineering&qid=1565833795&s=books&sr=1-4

https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Explosives-RSC-Paperbacks/dp/1849733309/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=explosives+engineering&qid=1565833795&s=books&sr=1-5

https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry-Explosives-Prakash-Agrawal/dp/0470029676/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=explosives+engineering&qid=1565833795&s=books&sr=1-6

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0471186368/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=homemade+body+armor&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2