The Study That Backfired
The attempted refutation strengthened the defensive-use case
The GOAL Podcast - Official Podcast of Gun Owners' Action League
Sep 11, 2026 · 43 min · 8 segments
Big updates in Massachusetts cases over suitability and licensing delays, also reviewing updating the defensive gun use study data, news, and more.
We've got some headlines.
Pardons.
Immaterial.
He has issued, to my mind, a couple of pretty good pardons in this last week.
This guy, we did like a whole segment on him a couple years ago when he got convicted.
This is the case of the U.S. Navy sailor who spent years in jail, like four years in jail on...
Added parts and made modifications and made them so that they could like fire one shot and then charged him and convicted him with transferring illegal machine guns and all that stuff.
And it was like even some anti-gun people were like – The lengths they had to go to
were a
little bizarre.
And there were – There were toy guns.
They were demilled.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of historical and even when we put the bunny clutch on military-style arms and stuff, that's perfectly legal to own as long as they're rendered inoperable.
Sure.
We had some in my high school, believe it or not.
Where you can't restore them.
Yeah.
We had
drill rifles that were plugged.
Exactly.
We've got some headlines.
Pardons.
Immaterial.
He has issued, to my mind, a couple of pretty good pardons in this last week.
This guy, we did like a whole segment on him a couple years ago when he got convicted.
This is the case of the U.S. Navy sailor who spent years in jail, like four years in jail on...
Added parts and made modifications and made them so that they could like fire one shot and then charged him and convicted him with transferring illegal machine guns and all that stuff.
And it was like even some anti-gun people were like – The lengths they had to go to
were a
little bizarre.
And there were – There were toy guns.
They were demilled.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of historical and even when we put the bunny clutch on military-style arms and stuff, that's perfectly legal to own as long as they're rendered inoperable.
Sure.
We had some in my high school, believe it or not.
Where you can't restore them.
Yeah.
We had
drill rifles that were plugged.
Exactly.
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The Study That Backfired
The attempted refutation strengthened the defensive-use case
The State Cannot Have Both Ways
When dismissed charges return, justice loses meaning
What Is The Court For?
If allegations erase rights, courts lose purpose
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