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Edge on Android (Samsung S24U Android 16).

The site I notice this the most on is Google. I'll sign into Google in Edge on the phone, do what I came to do, and then do something else. It does not seem to matter if I switch to another tab, close the tab, switch to another app, force-close the Edge or not. Randomly but frequently, the next time I go to Google in Edge on the phone it's signed me out of the site.

This does not happen on the desktop.

Got this from a Liberal Gun Club posting on FB. URL at the end.

Buy a suppressor this week on the strength of a YouTube video and you can do ten years in federal prison. The ruling everyone is celebrating covers almost none of the people celebrating it.

The ruling is real and it is now operative. At 12:01 this morning in Leander, Texas, two men walked out of a store with suppressors, no Form 4, and no entry in the federal registry, for the first time since 1934. The Justice Department let the deadline pass without asking anyone to stop it. What almost nobody is telling you correctly is how narrow this is, who it actually reaches, and why it happened at all.

Start with the record, because most of what you have seen has this wrong. This was not a Fifth Circuit ruling. It was a federal district judge in the Northern District of Texas, San Angelo Division. Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee. Sixty six pages. Entered August 5, 2026. The Fifth Circuit is where an appeal would go, not where this came from. That changes what it binds.

Now the mechanism. 

The NFA is a tax statute. Not a gun statute. A tax statute. Congress passed it in 1934 under the Taxing Clause, and the Supreme Court upheld it on exactly that basis in Sonzinsky v. United States in 1937. Registration was never the point. Registration was the collection machinery bolted onto a $200 tax.

Then Congress zeroed the tax out. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025, dropped the transfer and making taxes to $0 for suppressors, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons. Effective January 1, 2026. Machine guns and destructive devices kept the $200.

Under NFIB v. Sebelius, the essential feature of any tax is that it raises some revenue. Zero raises none. Judge Hendrix put it in eight words. Today's NFA "does not generate any revenue from untaxed firearms."

So the collection machinery is now bolted to nothing.

Here is the part that should stop you. The plaintiffs abandoned their Second Amendment claims at the hearing and won anyway. Ninety two years of Second Amendment litigation did not do this. An enumerated powers argument did, and it only became available because Congress cut a tax to help gun owners and knocked out the statute's own foundation on the way.

Structure beats sentiment.

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia wrote the tax provision. Section 70436 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. He wrote a price change and got a constitutional holding. He then led nearly fifty members of Congress in asking the Justice Department not to appeal the ruling his own provision produced, and he stood in the store in Leander at midnight to watch the first transfer. Whatever else that is, it is not an accident that surprised anyone on his side.

The government had two fallbacks. Both failed.

Fallback one: the registration system still helps enforce the $500 and $1,000 special occupational tax paid by dealers, importers, and manufacturers. ATF submitted a declaration saying so. The court ran the arithmetic on ATF's own figures instead. In 2025, ATF disapproved 691 applications over occupational tax problems. Set that against the millions of NFA transfers that moved through the system the same year and the theory explains a fraction of one percent of it. The government's own evidence sank the government's own argument. 

Fallback two: uphold it under the Commerce Clause instead. The court said Congress never invoked the Commerce Clause here. The NFA sits in Title 26, the Internal Revenue Code. The Gun Control Act sits in Title 18 and is saturated with interstate commerce language. Congress wrote commerce language into two NFA subsections and deliberately left it out of every provision at issue. A court does not get to hand Congress a power Congress declined to use.

Now the part that is going to cost somebody their freedom. 

Scroll this week and you will be told the NFA is dead, gutted, over, no longer applies. That is not overstated. That is wrong.

There are exactly two ways the National Firearms Act stops applying to you. Congress repeals it, which takes a bill, both chambers, and a signature, and nobody has filed one. Or the Supreme Court affirms this enumerated powers theory, which would mean the federal government is not choosing to hand suppressors to the states but conceding it never had the authority to take them in the first place. Neither has happened, and a decision not to appeal is neither one. It leaves a district judgment standing that creates no precedent, binds no other court, and protects nobody who was not a party.

And understand what a court actually did here, because the word being thrown around is struck down. Nothing in the National Firearms Act was struck, repealed, or removed. Not one word. A federal court does not edit the United States Code. Judge Hendrix held certain provisions unconstitutional and barred their enforcement against the parties in front of him. He did not vacate them. He did not set them aside. The statute reads today exactly as it read on August 4.

He also expressly refused to make it nationwide, citing Trump v. CASA. If you are not covered, every provision of the NFA applies to you this morning in full force, including the ones the judge found unconstitutional.

Louisiana is one of the fifteen plaintiff states. Read that carefully. It protects state agencies and political subdivisions. It does not protect you because you live here.

In nearly 22 years I have never once seen a client charged because he misread a statute. They get charged because they believed somebody who told them the statute did not matter anymore. That is what is being sold to gun owners this week, by people with no license to lose.

George Peterson can tell you what the other side of that line looks like. He ran a firearms business out of his home in Jefferson Parish. ATF found an unregistered suppressor in a closet safe. He was prosecuted in the Eastern District of Louisiana, sentenced to twenty four months, and reporting this week says he is still incarcerated. His case went to the Fifth Circuit and he lost. That is the same court that would hear any appeal here.

So before anything changes for you, confirm five things in writing. Save this post and work down the list.

One. TIMING. The stay lapsed and the injunction is operative. But the government's sixty day window to notice an appeal runs into early October. Nothing has been waived. Confirm the docket the day you act, not the day you read this.

Two. BOTH SIDES OF THE COUNTER. This is the part almost everyone has wrong, including some lawyers. Your membership makes you a person ATF is enjoined from prosecuting. It does not make your local dealer able to sell to you without a Form 4. The dealer has to be covered too, meaning a commercial plaintiff or a commercial member of a plaintiff association. Both halves have to line up in the same transaction. That is precisely why the two men in Leander were association members buying from a named plaintiff. It was not belt and suspenders. It was the requirement. Do not be angry at the man behind your local counter who tells you to file the form. He is right.

Three. CATEGORY AND CHANNEL. Is the item a suppressor, short barreled rifle, short barreled shotgun, or any other weapon? Machine guns and destructive devices are untouched. And the relief runs to qualifying commercial transactions only. It does not cover privately manufactured suppressors or short barreled firearms, it does not cover private transfers between individuals, and it does not cover every NFA item you already own just because one purchase qualified.

Four. ENTITY. If the item is held by a trust or an LLC, that entity is the registrant, not you. Whether your personal membership travels to it is not resolved on the face of the judgment, and two separate legal analysts have flagged that gap. Do not assume.

Five. STATE LAW. Suppressors remain flatly unlawful in California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia. A federal injunction against federal registration does nothing about a state ban. And the court left the Gun Control Act, prohibited person law, dealer licensing, the 4473, and the interstate transport offense fully in place.

Miss one and you are not covered. You are charged.

Send this to the person you know who already told you the NFA is dead nationwide. It is not, and the difference is a felony.

My read: the Justice Department did not miss this deadline by accident. Career staff wanted the stay. Somebody above them decided the political cost of defending a registry with no tax behind it was higher than the cost of losing it. But nothing has been filed. No waiver, no dismissal, no order. Until that sixty day window closes in October, every person acting today is relying on an administration's word rather than on a document, and the people celebrating a permanent win are watching the wrong branch. The fight moves to Congress restoring a one dollar tax, not to the Fifth Circuit. Tell me where that read is wrong.

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I have Google Maps set to show both the speed limit and the current speed. It does show both on my phone, but inly if navigating and not merely showing. But in AA, it never ever shows the current speed.

I'm getting massive slowness, partially loaded pages, and 404 Page Not Found errors. The main BOTC web site is up.

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EDIT after 20 minutes:

It seems to be mostly working now. Still a little bit of a load delay, but it's all there.

Most of us already know this.

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Is there any way in Google Messages to only alert with a sound if the message is from a saved contact? I get so much political spam from random numbers across the country and the spam filtering only blocks about 10% of them despite repeated "Block And Report As Spam" actions (and they all follow the same templates with the same keywords).

I have over 260 saved contacts... setting the default notification to silent and then manually adding a sound to 260 contacts is not going to happen.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kia/comments/1umvi26/part_of_this_makes_no_sense/

I've been paying closer attention over the past week or so, the few times I've actually driven. I now think it is the tires and most of the timing symptoms are coincidental.

Today, I turned the other direction out of my building's lot and things were good, all at lower speeds. Then I got on a ~40mph road and I was getting vibrations, a bit of wobble on speed changes, and the vibration went up/down with the different speeds. Tires were at operational temperature by then, and TPMS showed pressures of 38 or 39 PSI. I was not in Sport Mode, windows were up. I was paying more attention to the traffic than my speedo, I think this was happening at a speed range between a bit more than 30 and up to about 60.

Thinking back, when I bought the car (used) it kinda felt like this so the dealership replaced the tires and all was good.

If it is the tires, could the car sitting in one place for several days in a row on a regular basis be the cause? I telecommute 4 days a week, so the car generally stays in its parking spot 4 or five days straight. And is there any way I can check, without a lift or tools, if my tires are uneven?

I'm looking for a health tracker, not a fitness tracker.

I use a Samsung Galaxy S phone, and I was using Samsung Health but they have been enshittifying it to the point where it is no longer usable for what I need. What I do not need are workout stats, step counter, calorie counter, how much water did I drink, etc. What I do need is something I can log my blood sugar, my blood pressure, my weight, and track various symptoms. And I want it all in one place, not scattered across multiple single-purpose apps.

Google Fit, Google Health, Samsung Health, none of these do what I want need.

Yes, we know. Samsung has discontinued their Messages app in the US. We've known it was going to happen for almost an entire YEAR. And Samsung has been pushing (again) that it's going away periodically for the past two months.

You've had months if not an entire year to either switch to Google Messages or find something else instead. Crying about it now isn't going to help anyone.

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I've noticed a pattern that fees like a problem, but it also appears to be very specific and part of it makes no sense. (Flair for which Kia I have.)

When driving up one specific street when the car has been on for less than 5 minutes and in Sport mode, it feels wobbly and there is a pulsing boom sound like driving at near highway speed with only the front windows down (allowing the entire back 2/3 of the car to overpressure that then releases with a boom as the air forces itself out the open front windows).

The feel is like the tires are low or the wheels are loose But the car's TPMS shows tire pressure is good all around, a quick visual inspection of the tires by me when the car is parked look OK and I had the tire shop do a torque check and that's all good.

Once I'm off that street, it's good. If the car has been running for a while, I can drive the same street the same way and it's good. If I'm not in Sport mode it's good.

I'm trying to figure this out before taking it to a shop because I don't want to spend $150+/hour for diagnostics that might show nothing's wrong.

(It's the Sport mode that makes no sense, because that does nothing to the suspension.)

Trying to swap out the backstrap on my P07 and it feels fucking IMPOSSIBLE to put back together because the hammer spring plug, whose pin also holds the backstrap, is fucking ROUND. No matter how carefully I align it with the holes it fucking twists as I push it in and cannot get the damn pin back in.

I've been at it an hour, and I'm losing my mind, and I've already lost the plug and spring once.