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Some of you remember the 2014 "Mises Media" torrent — a huge dump of Austrian books, journals, and lecture audio that's been slowly bitrotting ever since. I was the Mises.org webmaster for 12 years, and a few weeks ago I decided to turn that archive into something usable again.

The result: https://freecapitalists.org/

What's in it:

• 941 ebooks — plus NEW 219 EPUBs converted from PDF-only scans that never had an ebook edition (Rothbard, Mises, Hazlitt, older QJAE material, etc.).
• 12.4 million words of lecture transcripts, generated from Mises Institute audio/video with Whisper. Mises University lectures, seminars, conferences — searchable text next to the recordings for the first time.
• 22.2 million words of full book text as browsable per-chapter web pages, not just download links.
• The restored Mises Wiki at https://wiki.freecapitalists.org/ — the Mises.org discontinued it; I'm hosting it independently.

Everything is Creative Commons or public domain, same licensing as the originals. Torrents are reseeded here: https://freecapitalists.org/torrents/

If you notice a bad transcript, a broken EPUB, or a book that should be in here and isn't, tell me.

The law takes effect August 1, and the state's FSS application portal opens July 20 at 9 a.m. I went through every county sheriff's published materials this week to see who has actually said what they're doing about eligibility cards. Status as of July 9:

Counties with something published (5 of 64):

• Adams — $50 county fee, applications start July 20 at the sheriff's office (adamssheriffco.gov)
• Denver — $200 cashier's check or money order; the application packet requires you to submit a third-party name-based background check (denvergov.org application PDF)
• Weld — no county fee listed; in person at the Greeley administration building, weekdays 8–4:30 (weldsheriff.com)
• Garfield and Jefferson — information pages are up, but both describe the process as starting on/after August 1
• The other 59 counties have published nothing I could find. That includes most of the metro area.

(The $52 CPW course-record fee is separate from any county fee, per CPW.)

The state's list also changed on July 1. The final list removed 35 entries that were on the May 15 draft — including the Mauser M1916 and the Ruger 10/22 I-Tac — added 3, and reworded 79 others. 889 entries down to 858. The state published no per-entry explanation for the removals.

I put all of this on a reference site: a county-by-county status table, a changelog and lookup tool for the list, the purchase process with the parts the state hasn't answered yet flagged, and the active court cases. Every fact shows its source and the date it was checked. It's free — no ads, no affiliate links, nothing for sale. And to be clear on scope: firearms you already possess before August 1 are not affected by the law.

Two asks:

• If you want to know where a specific county stands, ask below and I'll reply with what's on file.
• The county table is only as good as what sheriffs publish or what applicants report. If your sheriff's office told you something that isn't on the page, there's a corrections form — tell me what they actually said and I'll publish it with a source note.

County table: https://coloradofirearmswatch.org/counties