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Dugan Ashley of CarniK Con Arrested On Explosives Charges - Ammoland.com
Jordan Derrick (known online as Dugan Ashley or from the YouTube channel CarniK Con), age 40, was charged in a federal criminal complaint on May 12 in the Western District of Missouri. Authorities charged him with engaging in the business of manufacturing explosive materials without a license, unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device, and distributing information relating to the manufacture of explosives.
Derrick was a well-known figure in the firearms, reloading, and “guntuber” communities. He ran a channel called CarniK Con before leaving YouTube on March 27, 2015 (the CarniK Con channel was removed on September 7, 2017).
“Pulling the plug on CarniK Con, effective immediately,” Derrick wrote on Facebook. “Leaving Soc. Med. up, am available for hired work, [email removed]. May or may not upload the most recent video to YT at some point, but won’t be making new posts. This is probably the last one. #out”
CarniK Con is widely considered to be one of the first successful YouTube channels for gun content. He returned to YouTube a few years later, launching a podcast called Dark Light Dugan with co-hosts Dark Mavis and Light. He later left the podcast, and the YouTube channel continued with only the remaining host, Dark Mavis, before rebranding as DLD After Dark.
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
AI Could Turn ATF’s 4473 Stockpile Into the Gun Registry Congress Banned - Ammoland.com
American gun owners should be up in arms over any federal gun registration scheme. The threat of artificial intelligence only makes the danger worse.
For decades, Second Amendment supporters have warned that ATF’s growing stockpile of firearm transaction records could become the national gun registry Congress explicitly banned in 1986. ATF’s excuse has always been that its records are not searchable by a buyer’s name. That was never much comfort. In the age of AI, it is almost meaningless.
That is the warning at the center of a new Firearms Research Center paper by Del Schlangen, titled “Congress Banned a Gun Registry; AI Inference May Render the Prohibition Obsolete.” The paper argues that the long fight over ATF’s digitized firearm transaction records may already be behind the technology curve. The old question was whether ATF’s database is “searchable.” The new question is whether artificial intelligence can make that excuse irrelevant.
AmmoLand readers know the background. We have been covering ATF’s out-of-business dealer record stockpile for years, including the agency’s 920-million-plus record holdings, the digitization of those records, and the obvious concern that the Bureau is sitting on the building blocks of a national gun registry. AmmoLand previously reported that ATF acknowledged holding 920,664,765 firearm records, with almost all already scanned or digitized.
That number has only become harder to dismiss. In 2026, AmmoLand covered Senate testimony warning that ATF has nearly one billion firearm records, with 94 percent already digitized. GOA’s Erich Pratt told senators the system is “not a registry in name only” but “a confiscation list waiting to be used.”
ATF’s defense has been just as familiar: the records supposedly cannot be searched by purchaser name. That was never good enough. Now, in an AI world, it borders on absurd.
Click the link to read the whole article: AI Could Turn 4473 Into Registry Congress Banned
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