While investigating recording techniques recently, I came across an interesting tidbit about stereo recording. I had assumed that the XY and mid-side (MS) stereo recording techniques would produce essentially the same stereo image, if the mid-side levels were adjusted properly. Both are coincident techniques, and they seemed to be interchangeable, aside from the ease of…

A brief filed yesterday by the plaintiff in Hollis v. Holder revealed an approval letter that demonstrates that the ATF allowed the registration of a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986, in apparent violation of federal law. The Hughes Amendment, passed in 1986 as part of the Firearm Owners Protection Act and codified into…