I knew it was on the horizon, but it was still a shock when I woke up to find out that a six year old Mail Call Mondays episode had received a “Community Strike” from YouTube. Apparently something in that video or the comments was deemed inappropriate for YouTube.

What does this mean for us? One strike is simply a warning. It disables our ability to live stream and serves as a black mark on our impeccable record for three months. If we receive another strike in that three months, then we loose the ability to upload videos for a period of time. If we receive a third strike, then our channel will be permanently deleted.

The unfortunate thing about this whole process is that we are still not sure what we did to warrant the strike. YouTube does not provide any guidance as to what policy was violated other than that it relates to firearms. This leads us to believe that YouTube isn’t interested in allowing us to comply with their guidelines in order to continue to use the platform. It truly seems that all they are interested in is harassing firearms centered channels until they fold and are driven off the platform.

We have received a ton of awesome support from you, our audience. For that, I thank you. This is pretty frustrating from our end because all I have ever wanted to do is to provide information on the safe and effective use of firearms. I don’t use my platform to start a rebellion or to push for political change. For those of you who are wondering, there is no legal recourse. YouTube is a private platform. They have the right to dictate what content is delivered through their platform. This is one of the reasons we have started to publish more of our content on Full30.com.

We will remain on YouTube as long as possible. The reach that we can gain on that platform is unmatched elsewhere. The non-gun people that we hope to pull into our culture are most present there. That is where the battle needs to be fought. Unfortunately we have very few weapons. We have to try to play the game by their rules, even though those change weekly.

In the end, I will do what I need to do to keep the videos rolling out. Expect to see more written content here on our website and on Facebook and Instagram, since those are platforms that have not turned up the heat on firearms yet and of course, we own the website and are free to say whatever we wish here.

Thank you again for the support, and “Get out and Shoot!”