Hayden Panettiere's Death Sparks Hard Conversations About Child Stars & Fame
PDS Published 08/17/2026
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Hayden Panettiere, his death knighting major conversations around what happened, protecting child stars and mental this reckless Ben. Troubled teen facility situation was already crazy.
But then we got a wild update while doing today's You've got the scandal at a Cambridge just getting bigger and bigger.
and you've got what might be a political troll actually deciding control of the US we're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show.
You daily dive into the news, starting with this. need to start today off by talking about this.
Just very tragic news around Hayden Panettiere dying at just 36 years You had her dad confirming her death in a statement, is with profound sadness that we shared the tragic passing of her beloved
saying she was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought a measurable love and joy to all who knew her into the millions who watched her on and we're still learning about the circumstances of her death,
she was reportedly found by a friend inside of a South Carolina home, and emergency medical service workers responded to a call about a person in cardiac
you've got places like people magazine calling this an apparent overdose, the cause of death has not been officially determined in fact, an autopsy is actually happening But this death, it sparked a
Are you ever fans, people who grew up watching Heroes or Nashville or Ice Princess mourning or and because she's someone who's been acting since she was 11 months old.
One, she has a lot of fans, but also two, that's brought a lot of conversations It's led to a lot of speculation, which we're really not going to dive into here.
But it's also led to a lot of conversation, especially because as an adult, she's become a very outspoken voice in the mental health you had her being open.
About her serious struggles with fame, alcoholism, depression and abusive relationships.
you also had her speaking out about giving up custody of her daughter, Kaya, amid her battle with addiction. It was the worst.
Signing those papers was, like, the most heartbreaking thing I've ever, ever had to do in my life.
you even had her talking in detail about those topics in her memoir, This Is Me A reckoning, which came out last and actually, that same month, she went on Jerry's podcast on purpose to promote it in a bittersweet interview where she buried her soul about those hardships.
But also she expressed optimism about her I have shaken off all of this, this darkness and this negativity.
And that means that I've closed one door, and another door is opened I can feel all the possibility, all the possibilities, all the exciting possibilities.
I've. I feel like I have a lot more life to right.
In Hayden's memoir, she wrote about several traumatic incidents that happened specifically because she was a young woman in this claiming that when she was 18, she was taken onto a yacht by someone that she trusted, escorted to a small room and placed next to an undressed, quote, very famous you had her saying that.
She quickly realized she was in danger, and she fled the room to go that lion in me, that fire and my
hair stood on, on and and I became ferocious as like, this is not happening.
But I had nowhere to hide and I bolted and I, I hid wherever I could think of to hide on, on a boat, on a boat.
There was no jumping off and swimming away, and there was nobody who was going to.
I realized that there was nobody who was going to be empathetic to my situation, that this was nothing new to you also had Panettiere
claiming that an Oscar winning actor once exposed himself to her during a party when she was just 19, and that an NBC executive kissed her on the lips in 2008.
So with all this, you had many feeling like her story and honesty about various struggles.
It opened up a much needed conversation about how young stars are treated and how that can affect them in the long are people like Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, Aaron Carter, David Chase, all of them.
They struggle with some form of substance abuse, and many also allegedly dealt with sexual abuse on top of now with Panettiere.
You have a lot of people saying this is especially heartbreaking because it felt like she was turning a again, I want to be clear.
We're not actually going to know why she died until the autopsy is But what I would like to do with you here is to end this segment by sharing a moving message Panettiere gave at a recent book signing about how she'd like to be remembered.
So many people have come up to me within the industry and outside of the industry and share their stories with me and said,
because you've talked about your mental health, it gave me the courage to to be honest about mind and get myself help.
And you saved my life. And I was like, this is this is worth it.
I can hopefully leave the world a better place than I found with all this, I am wondering what will you remember most about which of our projects or interviews
really stuck with then also, what does it say about or how can we keep working to make the entertainment industry safer for young stars and But then from that, let's try and switch gears to another piece of news that's out there.
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Because you have Reckless Ben actually back in the but it's actually for a completely different reason than you're probably expecting.
because, well, you have him saying that there is going to be a part for the bricks in minifig saga that's coming soon.
just dropped this new investigation and a new series with the target being Provo Canyon. It's a so-called residential treatment facility in Utah.
basically it's a place where troubled teens go to get straightened up until they turn 18.
and actually, if this sounds familiar, it might be because this is where Paris Hilton was sent by her parents when she was 16.
it's actually for years now she's been trying to get it shut down, releasing a documentary, organizing rallies, and even testifying before Congress about her time there.
I was forced fed medications and sexually abused by the staff.
I was violently restrained and dragged down hallways, stripped naked and thrown into solitary confinement.
I didn't breathe fresh air or see the sunlight for 11 months.
no Provo canyons defense and everything she just described is that it all happened under different ownership. If it did even happen at all. Right.
They claim that everything's on the up and up, but many former residents, they beg to differ.
into Ben made it his mission to get inside of the facility using his signature methods lies, deception and spy cameras.
ends up actually being kind of funny because when he got in there, one of the first things they told him was that they recently caught a private investigator with the spy cam, whom they suspect was hired by Paris Hilton.
That's corporate sponsors that he was hired by periscope. but for his undercover. Ben, pick someone much less professional. His friend Sheldon. But he's a guy who never graduated high school.
He once stole a car, and he was actually arrested by Utah police during the Lego saga.
All of which should disqualify someone from working with children at a place like Provo Canyon.
But that is also exactly the point and wanted to see if he would get hired anyway. according to Ben, the job interview consisted of one question. What would you do if you saw two kids fighting so?
Sheldon was like, I guess I try to break them up the interviewer going, yep, pretty much. You'll have to get your hands a little bit dirty. just like that, he got the job.
and so then the next step was training.
And from what he recorded on his spy camera, the staff appears to have said some wild shit.
one person said almost all the kids had made real and serious attempts to end their lives.
another person said they restrain kids extremely frequently, including physical restraints like ties as well as chemical restraints like a tranquilizer injection.
Guess how many restraints we averaged in 50, 100 or 300? There you go. Really?
250 to 300 restraints since they average a month. How many kids? 140. the next.
You've been saying, Sheldon, to take a state medical exam to work as a mental health professional.
but also in the video, the test proctor at Provo Canyon not so subtly gave them all the answers by coding the multiple choice. ABCd is apple, banana, cantaloupe. Dogs.
67 year old man Down Under sponsored not breathing down a post who did? Somebody like Kendall. I kind of like Kendall.
I'm just saying you don't have to listen to that. It's up to First. The person giving chest compressions is not allowing for complete chest recoil.
We've kind of like dogs.
I love dogs, then Sheldon started working and he said the high rope scores and swimming pool and the ads, they weren't real. The the food was terrible. And the classes consisted of brain rot. TikToks.
also the solitary confinement described by Hilton appear to still be a thing with him saying one kid tried to escape and he got put there for two months. Another stole a bag of chips and got two weeks. right.
And then it was actually only at this point that Sheldon says that he was notified about his background check coming back, and of course, he failed, but he said that they just let him keep working there anyway.
Oh my God.
The HR manager said it was a rough situation and no one has talked about dismissing you. Dang.
meanwhile, you'd been wanting to see things from the kid's perspective, so he decided to admit himself to Provo Canyon. now obviously he is not a teen boy. He's a 30 year old man.
But he figured they might not look that hard.
and he got someone from Craigslist, opposes his dad, and then found a conversion therapist who was willing to sign a note recommending treatment for sexual identity confusion.
then, just for good measure, he died, his hair red to look rebellious. And apparently, that's all the facility needed. or. Well, they also then wanted a $50,000 deposit.
but then he just gives them a credit card.
The declined pretended to call his bank and promise that the money would go through in a couple of days. and so for the time being.
He was in and he said he spent 30 days in solitary confinement and then got put into a classroom where a teacher told him. over here is going to be kind of.
I was going to be embarrassing. So really? Yeah. now, eventually did get a break outside and was apparently told this. All right, so here's the deal.
I want everyone to do some sort of what is a physical activity?
Don't sit not don't sit in there and just look at the sun or let the thunder look at you. I'm not fucking around. Just pace. Ben. Just pace around. Go pick up a basketball.
Dribble it around. Not because I think you're a bit wet. Because I want you to waste your energy. So I don't know how to deal with your goddamn hyperactivity.
We understand so knowing that he'd get kicked out anyway for not paying, he decided to jump the fence and escape, I kind of ball. I'm in the ball.
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with him appearing to run all the way to the city, hide in a restaurant bathroom, and rendezvous with Sheldon. or with Ben and flying back to California.
And two days later, he says that he got a call from Provo Canyon, which thought it was calling his dad.
while you might assume that they were calling to tell him that his son escaped or something like that. No, turned out that his credit card was declined again. And they wanted the money. Now.
So we need to get something worked out today.
As I told you before. I want to call your bank and have them see what the issue is, but it is declining.
according to Ben, they waited until a few hours later to call him again and say, oh, by the way, your son is missing. with Ben, then saying two months later, he called them back and was like, hey.
And he updates on my missing kid. But apparently they had other priorities. Hello. I'm just calling to see if you guys were able to find my son. Okay.
And we're calling on a balance on the account.
Well, I'm calling because I like my. I guess you guys lost my son, and I was just wondering if you ever returned.
So, yeah, there's just a balance on the account. Did you want to take care of that and that was pretty much it. Right. The the video ends kind of abruptly. Ben teases, part two is coming soon. But then here's the thing.
according to news reports, Provo Canyon has already been shut down.
with the state revoking its licenses, or both campuses ordering them to close their doors by August 6th and 16th. there will be clear. It does not appear.
I will say we do not know right now that what Ben did, appears to have anything to do with this specifically.
where the state seems to have been provoked into doing something by the Disability Law Center, which reported violence, self-harm, inadequate medical care and chronic staffing shortages at the facility.
the for his part, and skeptical that Provo Canyon is actually gone for good.
the only bad news is when I first called Jordan the fan who told me about this idea. This is what he said to me. What these places do is that they'll have some sort of controversy happen.
They will shut down the program and then they will open up under a new Bri branded program.
They avoid any sort of accountability by just rebranding and just acting like they did nothing wrong in the first place. It's really crazy.
but regardless you saw this news being a relief for Hilton and also everyone else who was allegedly victimized. Do you feel vindicated? Do you feel heard by this decision?
I definitely feel heard, and so do all the survivors. To hear this news is incredibly healing.
but and I have to be a wet blanket here.
This is also, importantly, only one facility out of many that have been accused of abuse and neglect.
that's actually why when Paris Hilton led a rally against Provo Canyon several years ago, she was joined by people who suffered similar experiences across the country. I was taken to Lucile, Mississippi, to a place called Bethel Boys Academy.
I was sent to a wilderness program in southern Idaho. I went to Iowa and view residential treatment center. It's in Syracuse, Utah, not too far from here.
I have problems being touched.
They actually shaved my head because my hair wasn't to their clothes staff on student group cuddling.
This $23 billion a year industry sees this population as dollar signs and operates without meaningful oversight.
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but then jumping from that. We've got to talk about this crazy news coming out of Cambridge.
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And then diving right back into the news.
We've got to talk about plagiarism, fake qualifications, and a fabricated back story, because those are just a few of the allegations that led to a Cambridge professor's resignation.
And then days later, he turned up dead. Right. So I'm talking to you about Jason Day. if you're not familiar.
He was hired as the youngest black professor in Cambridge history back in 2023, when he was just 37 years old. His field was a sociology of education. And his background is pretty incredible.
was a child of immigrants from Ghana, diagnosed with autism as a kid, nonverbal until he was 11 and illiterate until 18.
several medical conditions throughout his life, including epilepsy, testicular cancer, and a brain tumor. raised millions for charity.
And he said, you have been an insane athlete, even at one point running 600 miles in six days.
that's on top of being with many considered a once in a generation academic with his research being some of the best in the world. According to the head of the Faculty of Education at Cambridge.
now you're seeing a whole flood of people saying that's all bullshit, Right. Because what? Jason, you've been battling plagiarism allegations for years.
In recent weeks, it blew up into a total media shitstorm about him, his background in his life's work.
it appears to have started with Nathan as a former Cambridge researcher who published what appeared to be significant evidence that Jason plagiarized significant chunks of his PhD dissertation from 2015, or with him
showing several passages that were, quote, identical or near identical to an earlier paper written by another researcher, which then sparked the British media asking more
and more questions, casting doubt on pretty much all of Jason's life and supposed achievements In addition to the academia stuff, people asking, did he actually run 600 miles in six days or raise any amount of money for charity?
then you got former classmates and get his claim of being nonverbal until 11 just isn't true.
saying that he was cracking jokes into an accent as a kid on the way to church, again, that's separate from the speculation about his research and career, which also led to Cambridge opening an investigation into how Jason was appointed.
Despite initially coming to his defense.
Because what you saw is that when the questions of plagiarism on his dissertation first surfaced, Cambridge stood by the review done by the school that gave Jason his PhD. but then you had them changing their stance.
Quote, following new information about Professor Ray's qualifications and honorary appointments.
and so that whole thing, it then sparked a lot of conversation about Cambridge's hiring practices, and this kind of surfaced in a number of different ways.
where you had many conservative commentators latching onto the frame, that this is a consequence of Dei hiring.
but there you had a number of people, including Jason's own supporters, pushing back, saying even if any of these claims had merit, the personal attacks that he's faced were absolutely rooted in racism. Right.
With British journalist and author Ash Sarkar saying on Twitter, Jason Day wasn't the first academic to be accused of plagiarism at Cambridge.
wasn't the first person to have made implausible claims about his life in an autobiography.
he was the first where those things became a front page story across multiple papers for days and days. right.
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Then there were also those who said that this whole thing, it was just a smear campaign from the beginning, with one of his friends saying the very day he got the position at Cambridge, he had a freedom of information request asking about his credentials.
had all the right wing people in America, in the U.K., writing in to see if he was credible, adding, some people didn't believe a black man could be in that position at Cambridge.
this whole situation, it ended up also being a match to a culture war powder keg. with that, it appeared to be taking a toll on Jason, even prompting him to resign.
and actually, in a statement, he said his decision should not be interpreted as a loss of faith in scholarship.
And he added, nor should it be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me, saying it is simply the decision of someone who has reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to endure.
then barely a week after submitting that resignation, Jason was found unresponsive in his home.
with the local first responders pronouncing him dead at the scene and those close to Jason saying he was seriously struggling in the days leading up to his death.
even had Cambridge Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the university's Autism Research Center, saying that he was in touch with Jason just hours before he died. it.
Saying Jason was, quote, being subjected to relentless scrutiny, including ridicule, discrediting absolutely every detail of his life and adding he wasn't coping with the loss of his career, the loss of his reputation, and he felt he couldn't go on.
or would you also had echoed by Jason's family in their statement, saying Jason was subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse for more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University by those who would leave no stone unturned in their quest to undermine him.
The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone.
while as of now, we don't know the specifics about how Jason died, what we do know is that the police have said that it does not look suspicious.
as his death is making headlines, but then also seeing this conversation about his life reaching even further.
or with some saying that this should prompt a complete overhaul of Cambridge's hiring practices.
and that, as others are, that Jason was pushed out, that Cambridge clearly isn't welcoming to people with different backgrounds.
and so for now we're gonna have to wait to see what comes or doesn't come from Cambridge. Is investigation.
but also I'll say it's unlikely that we're gonna see talk about this guy going away anytime soon because his memoir also just got released.
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but then bouncing from that, I want to talk about this different controversy that's happening back here in the States. We'll call it Dan Sullivan right.
This feels like just something out of Veep or Parks and Rec, because you have this bizarro battle playing out between two men by the name of Dan Sullivan, who could literally help determine control of the US
and that's because as Alaska voters head to the polls tomorrow to cast the primary ballots, all eyes are on the race for the seat currently held by incumbent Republican Senator Dan S
this race is an incredibly important one, because Democrats view it as one of their best chances to flip a Senate because while Republicans currently hold both of Alaska Senate seats,
the state has a very unique political around two thirds of registered voters are actually independents. and as far as the rest, Republicans make up about 23%.
And then fewer than 12% are Democrats.
actually back in 2022, the state elected Democrat Mary Tola to serve as its sole Congress member in the while she got voted out in favor of a Republican two years later, now you've got people running to oust Senator
at least the polls, they have them neck and neck right now for a very key important context here.
Alaska has an open primary system where all the candidates appear on the same ballot, regardless of party with the top four advancing to a general election, where voters then use a ranked choice
But this race has also been complicated by the fact that another Dan Sullivan has entered the Just a few days before the filing deadline, a former United States Forest Service employee and teacher by the name of Dan J.
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Sullivan entered the race as a Republican.
also, for the rest of the segment, I'm just going to call him Danny J to avoid but immediately you had Republicans losing their shit, claiming that this was actually all part of some Democratic scheme
to confuse Republicans and split the vote so the people had a better chance at even had the state's Republican lieutenant governor opening an investigation in Danny J.
Arguing that there were credible allegations that he declared his candidacy in coordination with another candidate and campaign in order to confuse and manipulate
and you saw not long after that Alaska's division of elections announcing that they were removing Danny J. From the Right.
In in a letter, the head of the division argued that he had specifically requested to be listed on the ballot as Dan Sullivan, even though he had previously registered to vote as Daniel J.
Sullivan, then claiming that at one point Danny J had actually asked to be listed using the senator's name and middle Oh, wow.
The division said its records show that he had no affiliation with the Republican Party until he changed his affiliation two days before entering the Senate all of that,
on top of accusing him of mimicking Senator Sullivan's campaign website, while also noting that he worked as a consultant whose clients included some Democrats. but also very notably here.
The election director's letter did not mention any evidence of alleged coordination between Danny J.
And Portola or Democratic Party and to that point is repeatedly denied any connection to Danny J and Danny J.
Has repeatedly denied that his run is just a arguing that he was considering a run for a while, and the fact that he shares his name with Senator Sullivan is just a matter of regardless of what you or I think
it appears that the judicial system, they agreed with Because you then had a superior court judge ruling that Danny J.
Can't be removed from the ballot, arguing that the division of elections had abused its discretion.
then a few days later, the state Supreme Court upheld that then, despite all that, you had Trump chiming in on the election and he repeated the claim that this is some kind of Democratic conspiracy.
Trump making that lengthy post, and Truth Social, where he championed Senator Sullivan and then because of the trickery in the voting, the crooked radical left Democrats have put up another man named Dan Sullivan,
and they did this to take votes away from a great senator of the same Democrats are trying to trick Alaskans and treat Alaskan voters with
but again, while I cannot speak to why Danny J does anything that Danny J least right now, there's zero public evidence that this is some kind of Democrat led
you're both the Alaska Democratic Party and Potholes campaign telling ABC news that they have no involvement or affiliation with either Dan or is the plural of that.
Dan Sullivan like attorneys general, I don't know.
I'll let our friends in Alaska just like they're going to decide the fate of Senator Sullivan and the fate of Danny J. Right. Very shortly.
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We'll find out who makes the top then from that, before I let you go, let's cram in some more news.
You should know Starting with the fact that there have been big updates to the Luigi Mangini case since we last talked about because he's now played a guilty to two of his Right.
Admitting that he shot UnitedHealthCare exec Brian Thompson after tracking him down partly by posing as a health care investor.
and with that, the judge said that he should expect to serve at least 85% of whatever his sentence is for two federal counts of stalking resulting in right, in the max. There it's life.
But also with the guilty plea, you have many asking questions about the Gibson Go that was set up for legal fees.
That's already raised over $1.5 People have always been skeptical about the sport, has gone from the legal support to the manganese stars to all the prison
apparently, after he admitted to the crime, a lot of those critics expected the Gibson go to be taken but the thing is, he still has a murder charge to face in New York state court next so.
The committee that set up the donation fund said last week's hearing was the end of one chapter in Luigi's trials, but the saga is far from and give send go spokesperson confirmed
that it'll stay up because of those unresolved legal specifying that for them it's just about giving people access to lawful fundraising, not taking a position on the
and adding that hosting a fundraiser has never been an endorsement of a person, their actions or their public so now what you're seeing are the donations only growing along with the so it's going to be very interesting
to see how things go as he gets ready for the murder and that's actually if the murder trial even Because you have his legal team also trying to get that thrown out, calling double saying, quote,
the federal stalking in the state murder were all part of the same criminal you've got Manhattan's district attorney's office saying they're prepared to fight so for now, this is to be
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and then you got the news connected to how a few weeks ago, the president called communism the single greatest threat in American history. Worse than Pearl Harbor, worse than 911.
then this weekend, he sided with a communist dictator over one of America's closest allies.
Trump ordered the Pentagon to substantially cut the big annual military drills at the U.S. runs with South Korea. he did it hours before there was set to kick off.
and he was Trump trying to explain it away saying it costs too much, saying they send a hostile signal to North Korea and Seoul. They weren't help him with the war against Iran.
with Trump seemingly more critical of South Korea than North Korea. He said that North Korea had been unthreatening and respectful.
but this is a country that test fired two ballistic missiles this month whose soldiers are fighting and dying for Russia and Ukraine right now. good Ole. Respectful. North Korea. and so you have Trump pulling back on a treaty.
I like to do a favor for Kim Jong un.
or the guy who spent years building nukes, saber rattling and hasn't wanted to talk since their last deal collapse in 2019. as far as the reactions, they're split.
Critics say that he just hung an ally out to dry and handed him a free win. supporters say, hey, this is good. Stop paying to defend rich countries that won't have our back.
But either way, one of America's oldest alliances just took a hit, and Kim didn't have to lift a finger. I guess for Trump, communism is the greatest threat in history. Unless it's nice to you.
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and then for your last story today, the Supreme Court just shot Trump down again in his Bush to get them to toss out $5 million court they decided that he owed her that money
after sexually assaulting and defaming her back in the 90s, and he's been fighting it ever since writing.
His latest play was to ask the court to reconsider the case after they had already denied his appeal earlier this and you would as lawyers claiming that a separate trial they're fighting with this, where they're arguing presidential immunity would sway their but apparently that didn't fly in as usual.
The court didn't even explain why they just left things where they stood.
And so for now this looks like the end of the road for Trump's team, at least with this with Carol's legal team saying, we are pleased that the United States Supreme Court has declined again to hear this case.
The jury's unanimous verdict is now final and cannot be challenged in any court. and then your final bit of news day actually involves this big question.
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did the Justice Department just quietly lay the groundwork to abolish one of the strongest gun laws in the country? And upend nearly a century of regulations?
because you got Trump's DOJ deliberately choosing not to fight a Texas lawsuit that challenged rules surrounding silencers, putting key parts of the national Firearms Act in legal limbo.
actually, to back up a bit, fully understand this, you need to know that the NFA is a key piece of legislation that regulates silencers.
Short barreled rifles and shotguns, machine guns, really any other weapons and destructive devices. for the last two think, wacky guns built into a cane and explosives, respectively.
it doesn't make those items illegal.
Instead, you need to pay a $200 tax and get a bunch more paperwork but last year in Trump's so-called big, beautiful bill, that $200 tax was removed.
And the Texas plaintiffs argued that without the tax, the bill was unconstitutional.
and the DOJ, they never really argued against it, leaving the Texas judge to strike down the provisions surrounding silencers and shorter guns.
well, at least in Texas, where people have already bought silencers without filing the paperwork with seemingly no issues.
then elsewhere in the States, there's still lawsuits that are ongoing or local state laws that prohibit these items anyways.
and the fact that the Trump DOJ just ignored the lawsuit, it's feeding the rumor that it really wants to push to formally abolish the NFA.
however, that would require an act to Congress, and it's tough to actually get them to do anything these days.
in the meantime, you've got pro-gun folks kind of ecstatic because the regulations in question here, they've long been characterized as not really increasing safety.
or the argument goes that regulating short rifles or shotguns is a uniquely American thing, and they're no more deadly than what's easily available already.
and as for silencers, a lot of countries that allow gun ownership often require them for safety.
they don't actually make a gun silent like an a movie and instead just kind of prevent you from going deaf.
but you've also got anti-gun folks are people that are more pro regulation shot to this decision arguing that it's going to make America far more dangerous. And it might open the door to deregulating other protections.
it's what the regulations around the most dangerous weapons covered by the NFA, they're still intact. So no easy access to bombs and fully automatic weapons. The worry is that's the next domino to fall.
But either way, this is one of the biggest shakeups to guns in America. And we might just be getting started. that my friends. You beautiful bastards, is the end of your Mondays Thank you for watching.
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