Month: June 2026

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firearms youtube

Youtube Deleted A Video Without Providing A Reason

I’m going to say right up front – this shit is lame as fuck.

Yes, they can make their own policies, but they should be expected to acknowledge their own policies and also follow them. They should not be allowed to pretend there’s a violation when there’s not a violation.

Removing content without providing a reason is bad – how are folks supposed to learn if they’re not provided the information to improve? It’s like slapping a 7 year old because they did something wrong but not explaining what they did wrong. It’s abusive.

What happened? I posted the Attila “table top” video, the exact same video as posted here:

Maybe a month or so after I posted it to Youtube, I got a warning that the content was a policy violation. The notice didn’t say what was violated.

Watch the video. Now read the YouTube firearms policy. Show me where there’s a violation.

The appeal process is a straight-up joke – they don’t allow you to ask questions, and in this case, the appeal was denied immediately, almost as if it were automated. You also are only allowed one appeal – they ignore all subsequent appeal attempts.

The warning notice states to read their firearms policy, which I did. I then rewatched the video. I didn’t see a violation.

They do not tell you the exact violation but insist that a policy was violated. They also state that you can take a quick training course to remove the warning – why do this is there was no violation? I will not take that training. They also state that if you get another warning within 90 days of the first warning, you get a channel strike. It’s like they’re trying to force you to take the training, which is a joke if you’ve not violated a policy.

Youtube also provides timestamp of the violation (but don’t share details on what policy was violated). In my case, it highlighted a portion of the video where I pulled the firearm out of it’s pistol case (the gun was shipped in that case). This portion of the video, timestamp 3:45, is what was flagged.

They give you the opportunity to remove the timestamped area that they highlight and also give you the opportunity to resubmit. In this case, I removed what they thought was a violation and the resubmittal was denied – they said what was removed was insufficient. WTH. They pointed to the timestamp, I removed, that portion, and they then changed up and said what I removed wasn’t enough.

Everything I tried was rejected but no details were given.

I suspect that their AI didn’t like the fact that the gun had a tag. That tag isn’t legible (I obfuscated the text before I posted the video). I didn’t mention any websites within the video and there are no web links attached to the video. The video is age-limited. I was not selling any guns – that’s clearly apparent in the video. How does a fucking illegible tag that is attached to a gun equate to me selling a gun?

I went to X.com and asked TeamYouTube for a manual review (I did this on 6/7/2026). They replied and said they’d look into it and asked that I follow them so that they could DM me for additional details (which they never did), and then they promptly forgot the request. I reached out to them publicly on 6/19, asking them for a status. They tried to make it seem as if I missed a DM, and I replied, saying that I didn’t miss anything – they never reached out to me between 6/7 and 6/19. They sent me a DM 20 minutes later stating that, “Unfortunately, the video violates our firearms policy” and referred me to the policy. I informed them that I read that policy on 6/7 and it didn’t suffice, as I’m unsure of what portion of the policy was violated. I also told them that I still do not understand what portion of the policy was violated. They pretty much ghosted me after their DM.

I think they use DM so that folks can’t see how badly they’re handling these. I also think that they may be purposely being obtuse so that they can quickly remove and/or shut down channels. Some of this may be AI, but even the humans are being super shady when folks reach out to them for support. There’s a LOT of folks that have been adversely impacted by YouTube staff members being insensitive and purposely unhelpful.

Also, I’ve said this before – Rumble IS NOT A SOLUTION to the issue of YouTube being tyrannical. A small majority of internet users are using Rumble, small enough to not really be a good tool to advocate for firearms usage and education. Most of my Rumble videos have very little hits. Most of the more popular guntubers have very little visitors to their Rumble channels when compared to their YouTube channels. It’s quite clear that Google/YouTube has an unfair monopoly as far as social media is concerned.

At one point, the government was pushing for more transparency from YouTube – what happened with that? Nothing at all.

My problem is with one video removal. My worry is that if YouTube isn’t being forced to be transparent and forthcoming with “policy violations”, they can do this with every single video I own, and my channel is small – I’m making no revenue from YouTube. There are folks that depend upon YouTube revenue (that are not even providing firearms content) that have had their revenue pulled because YouTube insists they’re violating a policy that whey won’t share in detail. That is bad.

What’s crazy is that there’s videos on YouTube of folks showing their camel toes and such and that’s OK to share as content, but this particular video isn’t allowed because it contains a firearm being shared as educational/sporting content.

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.223 9mm AR-15 Glock handguns rifle

More Mags Ordered, Ahead of VA Ban Deadline

Although I’ve a fair amount of mags, I went ahead and ordered more, mainly because I’ve very little for my AR15. I also bought more Glock 17 mags.

I ordered 5 AR15 mags and 3 Glock 17 mags. They should arrive approximately 6/24.

I hate ordering online because shipping prices are always high. I attempted to order them from one shop but couldn’t find a shop that had both mag types with reasonable prices. Shipping for both orders totalled $40 (WTF).

I’ll be heading to the range today and will check to see what mags they have there.

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ammo Cabelas range range ammo steel-cased

I’ve More Ammo Now – Steel Cased Magtech!

I’d been feeding my range money for their range ammo – I’d been buying ammo from Cabelas, but there’s no need of Cabela’s ammo prices are similar to my range’s ammo prices.

Even so, I usually try to buy ammo in bulk (1000 rounds). I used to buy from Bereli, mainly because they included shipping fees in the ammo pricing, but their prices have dramatically increased, from $230/case to $295/case!

I ended up buying Magtech zinc-plated steel case 115-grain for $199, with $12 tax and $29.95 shipping, for a total of $242.

Why Magtech? Magtech is good ammo (made in Brazil). Why steel cased? Why not? I’ve used steel cased ammo without issue in the past – mainly Blazer and Tula. I’ll post up if I’ve issues, though.

Per Gemini:


Magtech uses zinc coatings on their steel-cased ammunition primarily to prevent corrosion and to improve reliability. The zinc plating acts as a slick, protective barrier that ensures smooth feeding and ejection while leaving less fouling in your firearm’s chamber compared to traditional polymer or lacquer coatings. [1, 2]

The main reasons for this zinc coating include:

  • Corrosion Resistance: Zinc plating protects the raw steel casing from rusting, even in humid environments or during long-term storage. [1, 2, 3]
  • Smooth Functioning: It creates a sleek, low-friction surface. This allows the rounds to slide smoothly out of the magazine and extract flawlessly from a hot barrel without the gummy residue left by lacquer coatings. [1, 2]
  • Cleanliness: It burns cleaner than traditional coatings, reducing the amount of carbon buildup and gunk in your firearm. [1, 2]
  • Easy Cleanup: Because the casing is plated in steel/zinc, you can conveniently use a magnetic sweep-up stick to quickly gather your brass at the range. [1]

Because of these benefits, Magtech’s zinc-coated steel rounds are highly favored as affordable training and range ammunition. [1, 2]

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1911 2011 9mm Alpha Foxtrot Attila double-stack

Thoughts To share Regarding Alpha Foxtrot and the Attila

I’m still in the process of shooting 1000 rounds through the Alpha Foxtrot Attila. I’m at 702 rounds, so far.

What I’ve been wondering is, why is Alpha Foxtrot not sending T&E Attilas to the firearms press (press and influencers). I think that’s odd, because they’ve been doing it with their other guns – the Romulus and AF S15.

I wonder if they’re having issues with this gun, to the point that they’re not sending the gun to influencers to review. If things were that bad, you’d think they’d not have them within public circulation. I’m not sure things are that bad, but AF not sending out test guns is odd.

As well, there were no YT entities reviewing guns that they actually bought, which I also think is odd.

Another oddity is that AF’s product page for the Attila is bare of details. That page has no gun stats and no indication that the gun is in public circulation.

I have the honor of being the first non SHOT Show reviewer of this gun, but the second would be GBGuns on YouTube.

Here’s is review of the gun.

While I’ve had the gun a few months, I only had one of his issues with my gun.

He reported and demonstrated that only one of his two safety levers worked – the right-side lever worked intermittently. I had that issue, as well. Also, I know of two other owners that had the same issue. I detail stripped the gun (to document which internal parts are MIM) and noticed the ambi safeties were easy to remove (usually they are not easy), and that immediately grabbed my attention. I’m thinking that maybe the parts weren’t installed correctly because when reassembling the gun, it was difficult to align the two levers to install them, which is normal. The right lever was functioning.

His other issues were that the gun wasn’t accurate and upon further investigation, he found two issues: 1) the barrel and comp had exessive play, which would affect accuracy – a possible barrel lockup issue; 2) there were copper marks on the inside of his comp – they appear to be bullet strikes.

Another issue he had wasn’t with the gun but was with AF’s customer support. They initially said that they wouldn’t conduct warranty work on the safety since it was deemed an intermittent issue – that doesn’t even make sense, because a safety needs to work every time you enable/disable it. The also initially didn’t want to investigate it for possible lockup issues. They asked him to send a video showing the issue. He sent a portion of the review footage of him troubleshooting the issue and he thinks they noticed that he was a YouTube entity. They changed up and wanted to see the gun to remedy all of the issues.

This is both embarrassing to me and also quite hokey for AF.

I’m a GBGuns Patreon member. There are a bunch of us. We donate funds so that GBGuns can conduct his reviews. Every so often, we vote on guns for him to review. I was one of the members who voted for this gun. I’ve this gun, as well as the AF S15 and, since GBGuns hadn’t ever reviewed an Alpha Foxtrot, I wanted to see his thoughts on the gun. I never considered that he’d receive a bad gun. So, I felt bad. Now, rationally, there were like 40+ others that also voted as I did, so this isn’t something I needed to take blame for, but I consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable about the AF brand, so I was taken by surprise since I’ve rarely heard of this many QC issues with a particular verion of S15.

Also, I was somewhat shocked at how Alpha Foxtrot handled the situation. They only agreed to take the gun in for repair when they suspected that GBGuns was a YouTube entity. I could have issues with mine – would they refuse warranty work in such a case? I’m not a huge YouTuber or influencer. While I think I trust my particular gun, if I have issues with it, I’m doubting that Alpha Foxtrot would fix things – not after seeing what GBGuns experienced. And they still need to fix that gun’s issues.

As well, GBGuns said that manufacturers that do this are untrustworthy and that gun makers such as Bul Armory wouldn’t do such a thing. Yeah, well, they did with me – remember that grip safety issue that I have with my Bul Armory Ultralight? It was sent to them twice and the problem always recurred after 60 days or so. It happened a third time and I opted to not send it back – it’s obvious that they either refuse to fix it or are unable to properly fix it.

I’m sure there are other folks with similar CS stories regarding other brands, too. I say this because I think that all gun makers have times where they fail to get it right regarding warranty committments. I don’t expect every manufacturer to be perfect but I do expect them to support my request within the limit of the warranty. A good gun with bad warranty support = bad gun, in my opinion. If the gun maker comes off as sour or non-accomodating but eventually fully repairs your gun, that’s a bad gun. Having one very bad experience is going to sour the whole overall experience.

This is also the second time I’ve seen AF make decisions based on influencing. It seems as if they’d rather focus on appeasing influencers/entertainers than anyone else. Awhile back, I was speaking with one of their marketing folks in the AF subreddit – he said he wanted to help me and was considering sending me something but wanted to see my YouTube channel first. I wasn’t sure why he was asking, but I provided him the URL to my channel and afterward, he ghosted me. I’m sure he was going to offer to send me a T&E gun but saw that I’ve less than 1000 subscribers and decided that I wasn’t worth it.

AF has always had very weak CS. It made it difficult to advocate for them in the past.

So, I’m going to stop advocating for AF because I’m starting to see that they’re kinda shady.