Shapiro brought a binder of death threats to an LAPD concealed carry hearing, including an FBI-confirmed assassination plot. The response: the plotter was arrested, so he didn't qualify. If the plotter weren't arrested, the threats weren't credible enough. There was literally no scenario that qualified.
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A new California law effective July 1 bans gun dealers from selling new Glock handguns by reclassifying them as machine guns, on the theory that they can be illegally modified with aftermarket conversion devices. Shapiro dismantles the logic: a machine gun fires continuously while the trigger is depressed; a Glock fires one round per trigger pull. Blaming Glock for what an illegal aftermarket add-on might do, he says, is like banning car sales because a buyer might attach a bazooka to the bumper. The same political coalition pushing the gun ban also advocates abolishing prisons — releasing the very criminals who perpetrate gun violence — which Shapiro calls straightforwardly backward. [1] — Ben Shapiro "Shapiro brought a binder of death threats to an LAPD concealed carry hearing, including an FBI-confirmed assassination plot. The response: …" 1:06:00 He then shares a personal anecdote: after receiving a binder's worth of death threats, including an FBI-arrested assassination plotter, he applied for a concealed carry permit with the LAPD. He was denied because the plotter had been arrested, meaning the threat was neutralized. If the plotter had not been arrested, the threat would be insufficiently documented. The system is a deliberate Catch-22, he concludes.
A new California law effective July 1st bans firearms dealers from selling new Glock handguns by reclassifying them as machine guns due to their potential to be modified.
California's July 1 Glock ban reclassifies a standard semi-automatic pistol as a machine gun because it can be illegally modified. Shapiro compares it to banning Ford dealerships because a buyer might theoretically attach a bazooka to their car. It's the most popular handgun in America, owned legally by millions.
Ben Shapiro recounts being denied a concealed carry permit by the LAPD despite presenting a thick binder of death threats, including an FBI-arrested plot against his life.
As of the episode, prediction market CalShe has Gavin Newsom at approximately 24% odds to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is currently valued at 10% odds on prediction markets for the Democratic presidential nomination, a number Shapiro believes will rise.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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