Jason Armstrong

Happy 75th Birthday USAF! At the time of my retirement, my career coincided with ~30% of the USAF's existence as an independent service. I'm proud of my decades in service to our great country.

@JDLuckenbach @AaronParnas @RonFilipkowski Individuals have been able to mail long guns via USPS for decades, and your one example (a dealer doing the mailing BTW) is from 63 yrs ago. What is changing is to expand the rules to include handguns as well. If this was an issue there'd be significant nbrs of examples. Its not

@AaronParnas @RonFilipkowski Huh… if I remember right, that’s how Lee Harvey Oswald got his guns.

NEW: The Trump Administration is quietly trying to change gun regulations in America to create a legal framework that would create an "Amazon for Guns." Guns may soon be mailed directly to your doorstep. The President's son stands to benefit. meidasnews.com/news/donald-tr…

@ImaginaryBaron @MorosKostas Agreed. Awesome! A couple years later a pair of real-life bank robbers in North Hollywood attempted a reenactment of this firefight. It didn't go well for them.

@MorosKostas One of the best movie firefights ever

What going to get groceries will be like because the ATF simplified the 4473.

@davidyamane @Ruger_Firearms @wapo The part about what employees want from an employer is spot on and it seems from the people interviewed Ruger is meeting/exceeding expectations. The comments by WAPO readers I read were mostly disappointing to me. A lot of ignorance displayed IMO.

TIL that @Ruger_Firearms relocated its headquarters from CT to Mayodan, NC on 1/1/26. Which made me wonder, why Mayodan, NC, which is in the middle of nowhere 45 miles north of me? I found an old @wapo story about how they're building firearms there! 🎁🔗wapo.st/4dzLuLn

@davidyamane @Ruger_Firearms @wapo Thanks for the gift. I mostly enjoyed it, though it got a bit tedious having the authors mention a few horrific crimes involving specific models of guns as if that is the defining characteristic of the model. The nbrs of AR's Ruger manufactures tells a completely different story.

@davidyamane As I read the chapters, I can't help but think is any of this unique to being shot or is this just a natural response to all sorts of trauma? Car accidents, work accidents, diseases or other illnesses to list a few examples.

And this on the effect of gun violence exposure on chronic pain, even among those who are not actually shot. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41612324/

2nd of 3 virtual book club meetings on THE WALKING WOUNDED is tomorrow at 6:00 pm EDT. Not easy to read these stories of trauma, but important to understand. Registration link for book club is: davidyamane.com/welcome-to-vir…

@LaneBriscoe1 @NRA @JustinDavis207 @GovPritzker @ChicagosMayor You don't have to use USPS if you don't trust them. Just drive to the gun store of your choice to pick up your gun instead. This will open up options for other people who do trust them to deliver.

@NRA @JustinDavis207 @GovPritzker @ChicagosMayor Gun control laws always fail! They only hurt law abiding citizens! But in the current state of the USPS I do NOT TRUST them to get a Birth Day card delivered correctly!🤨

"Chicago is a prime example of how gun control laws have failed." - NRA's @JustinDavis207 Despite some of the strictest gun laws in the country, violent crime continues under @GovPritzker and @ChicagosMayor. The new USPS proposal isn't the problem; criminals are.

@CamEdwards You know the answer Cam; not with any frequency and any person with a felony conviction (prohibited person) dumb enough to try it will get caught by LE. See similar example here. justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/man…

You can already ship long guns through the USPS. Any evidence criminals are using that as a "loophole"?

@RexxSimian @StephenGutowski They should've avoided Assault Rifle too. The rifle has to be select-fire, chambered for an intermediate power cartridge, and be relatively light and compact to meet the technical definition of assault rifle. See DIA pub DST-1110H-394-76 Section III. Assault Rifles for details.

@Jasonarm92 @StephenGutowski Funny thing is, the AP style guide suggests that journalists avoid the phrase “Assault Weapon”.

@StephenGutowski I think you need to educate your media colleagues from Reuters re: picture captions in their scenes article. Shotgun not rifle, semi-auto rifles not assault rifles (which are select fire rifles). reuters.com/pictures/scene…

@2aQueer @MorosKostas I think your assumption is the "interrupted" ppl and the ppl that complete suicide are exactly the same (wrt the motivation/desire to end it). I don't think that assumption is a valid one.

@Jasonarm92 @MorosKostas That's how it goes most of the time. Most people, if interrupted, don't continue later.

While the facts remain unclear, this appears to be a domestic family annihilation case. What gun laws stop that? Are you calling for a full gun ban? California has had plenty of these too. Also, the NRA is not "buying politicians." You are thinking of Bloomberg/Everytown, which just spent a fortune in Virginia, and Giffords, which writes most CA gun laws. That line is dumb, but Newsom counts on the ignorance of the antigun side.

@2aQueer @MorosKostas Didn't want to get hit by a car, but wanted to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge to commit suicide? IMO, the person in this example really didn't want to complete the suicide in the first place.

@MorosKostas There's a story about a person being interviewed who was going to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, but didn't because he didn't want to get hit by a car. He then realized that that made no sense, and got help. Most of the time it's like that.

@EarnurHKG @EdwardQuince3 @RishiDevArya6 @Megatron_ron Combat Search And Rescue. He wasn't reading the Bible. He was reading something that came from military aviators that they created by modifing the Pulp Fiction lines to something that fit their jobs, CSAR. The Hegseth critics are a bunch of killjoys. Lighten up and enjoy life.

@EdwardQuince3 @RishiDevArya6 @Megatron_ron Yes what is ‘CSAR’? Maybe Come Sinners And Repent The pulp fiction quote has elements of Ezekiel 25:17 but it is manufactured. Perhaps Pete should only read from the Bible and not some movie script.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon. Comedy…

And in pic 20/26 bolt-action rifles not assault rifles.

@Williamsroad7 @NRA @jcommerford @FOX26Houston What is woke about this video interview?

@NRA @jcommerford @FOX26Houston N.R.A. should try to learn about its members and what they want before they don't have any. Go woke go broke.

Education, training, and firearm safety are at the core of the NRA’s mission. NRA-ILA’s @JCommerford joined @FOX26Houston to discuss that work while in Houston for the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, where those efforts are on full display.

@RobGreen1010 @bill_pelin At least its appealable. Hopefully it does get appealed and the CC can take into consideration the circumstances of the incident as described above. Also let's not crap on the base leadership, the policy they are carrying out has been around at least since G.H.W. Bush.

🚨Heavy Handed removal of retiree benefits: A retired LCDR was just banned from all Navy bases and facilities in the Hampton Roads area for accidentally having a personal weapon in his vehicle at the base gate checkpoint. The retired naval officer has a Concealed Carry Permit. He also followed all directions provided to him by base security while voluntarily discussing his CC permit and noting that he had mistakenly had the weapon in his vehicle. Security suggested he turn around and come back without the weapon. He did so gladly and immediately returned back through the same gate (without the weapon of course) while the same security guards offered apologies for the inconvenience. The subsequent ban was an unexpected shock and a grave heavy-handed response to an honest mistake. The JAGs and Commander at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek have unilaterally removed all retiree benefits (except retiree pay) from an honorable man. He can no longer attend base functions, work a job on the base, use MWR facilities, or the commissary (military grocery store). Based on Secretary @PeteHegseth’s desire to ensure Second Amendment rights are defended by our Institutions, and that those exercising these rights are not unlawfully weaponized against, I pray this ban is quickly reversed.

@MorosKostas @bill_pelin Go @AvaFlanell_ !

Hey Giffords, can you guys feature me in one of these posts? I feel like I've earned it. And yes, "gun violence" is a political term that shouldn't be used. There is of course gun-related crime, but it's nonsense to say "gun violence" when we don't say "knife violence" or "car violence." Especially when you apply that phrase to suicide, counting that as "gun violence" too. Nobody says "rope violence" for suicides by hanging.

@khalil_spencer Nope. I think the folks who run that Duke group are generally anti-gun types so any ruling that expands citizens' ability to possess or use guns lawfully is met with disdain and some tortured logic. "Bruen is unworkable", my paraphrase of this typical attack vector.

Kostas is spot on. I can't believe Duke U would use such a dishonest argument. Would Duke assert that modern high speed printing presses, radio, TV, and the Internet are not protected by the First Amendment?

@davidyamane What kinds of questions were you asked?

I had the opportunity to do some firearm cultural competency education for students at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (Go Badgers!). Here's a recording of the five essential observations I wanted them to see about guns in America. youtu.be/qLTW4V4xlfk?si…

@davidyamane I use to get a daily The Far Side desk calendar and that one was from Monday, October 29, 2007. BTW, I did not mean to imply your bow tie was obnoxious at all. What I wrote was poorly worded. Sorry about that. I actually like that you wear bow ties.

@Jasonarm92 Was a big Far Side fan myself back in the day. Don't recall this one.

Speaking without my script and slide safety blankets was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my career -- as evidenced by my waking up at 4 am with crazy cortisol spikes, popping antacids like candy, and being a bear at home (sorry Sandy!) for the past 3 weeks. Waiting in the wings to speak I could not remember what I was going to say and my time on stage was a blur. When I got to the concluding call-to-action it seemed like I hadn't been on stage long enough, so I worried I had skipped whole parts of my talk. So, I honestly have no idea how it went, though I did receive some kind comments afterwards. In a month or so, a recording will be available on the TEDx YouTube channel so we will see.

@davidyamane Better safe than sorry. Good thing your bow tie isn't as obnoxious as this salesman's tie. 😁 I love the Farside.

@Jasonarm92 It was also announced from the stage during my introduction as requested by University Police. Didn't want Winston Salem PD SWAT team to be called in. Seriously.