Some enterprising individuals in the US figured out you could print out your Venmo QR and stick it to parking signs to get people to just send you money

What are the other loopholes?

You generally have to pass a background check. You can buy guns in some states without one from a private seller but this is rarely how they’re acquired for school shootings, most of the population lives in states where this is not legal. Typically they either just didn’t have anything concerning in their background and were able to pass the background check (other than a ton of shit everyone around them ignored) or they had access to someone else’s gun which should have been secured better. There have been a few cases of parents buying their children guns which they then used in shootings though.

Most of the populous states are rolling various forms of safe storage requirements (you have to store guns in a safe your children don’t have access to), red flag laws (this person keeps tweeting about wanting to kill people don’t give them guns), waiting periods (so if you’re planning something dumb you have a few days to calm down), and raising age limits to 21 (so people in still in school can’t obtain them).

There’s conflicting info on if these work, it’ll take time for them to have an effect as compliance is complicated. The safe storage one in particular would probably stop a lot of shootings if it had widespread compliance.

The mag bans/ASW bans don’t seem to do much as the vast majority of shootings are a few rounds using common handguns.

To be clear, the flipper is just a Girl Tech IM-me with an NFC chip. If it lets people do a thing, that thing has been possible for decades. Just wait until someone makes a popular device based on a cheap fully featured wideband SDR like the AD9363 or LMS7002. Shit is gonna get fucking wild.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker

I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.

https://youtube.com/@LafayetteSystems

His logo leaves very little to the imagination

Yeah, but they used to be fairly obvious. Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested. I think it’s good they’re keeping this in the public eye.

Use LoRa instead of sim cards so they can’t tell who bought it though