October 6, 2010
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Mark Koernke discussed firearms maintenance, customization, and preparedness on Weapons Wednesday, October 6, 2010. The episode focused extensively on the 1911 pistol, covering topics including ammunition selection, gunsmithing through K.T. Ordnance and the American Gunsmithing Institute, camouflage techniques for weapons, and the Thompson submachine gun with detailed information on spare parts and maintenance. A caller provided technical expertise on Thompson variants, magazine compatibility, and sourcing parts from suppliers like SARCO and Numrich. The show concluded with warnings about foreclosure actions in Flint, Michigan, and references to preparedness concerns.
- 1911 pistol
- weapons wednesday
- .45 acp
- k.t. ordnance
- american gunsmithing institute
- thompson submachine gun
- h-block
- firearms maintenance
- gun customization
- camouflage
- preparedness
- flint michigan
- foreclosure
- night vision
- ammunition
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Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave. O sons of the republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free and home of the free? I'm Donald Fetter. We're also on AM and FM micro stations, CB Bay stations, Hi to Channel 27 and Channel 29 guys. I got to do that every once in a while. You people have been running now for 19 years nonstop. Channel 27, mid Michigan. Yo, hey, everybody out there. The soybean fields down there listening to us right now. Cool. A fact that can be found on Well, the alternate, both east and west in Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. And we're on the hallmark network from the top of Maine, bottom of Florida, bottom of Florida, close to the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, all the way over to the Texas, and up to Nebraska, and many other places beyond high, to North Dakota, but the Dakota you got a package on the way. Wyoming, you guys have packages on the way, a whole bunch of them, so watch your mailboxes. Florian just went out through three different locations here today, so you got mail. And then back over. I can listen to 100 different micro stations all carrying the intel report. Thank you. Back over, the Golden Spike brought hold of the Smokies. The restaurant crew, the Grammat teams, and the OK team is doing their part to get the job. Today's date is? Market is the sixth. Again, October's beautiful, intermittent cloudy sky. But again, the sixth of October, that bag sounds like this. One in the chamber, the slide to battery, the magazine is in the well. the perimeter is secure and I have confirmation on that mark it is Weapons Wednesday. Isn't that one of those 45s? You know what you guys if you were listening yesterday on a communication to communicated that particular chronological event of so you know that just reinforces the thought that it doesn't have to be Weapons Wednesday to get your gun out good reasons why you know it's like Carl Malden you know that in his name I was going to say from the great great big bank that you shouldn't leave home without But, you know, much like you're better off not leaving home these days. And again, on a weapons Wednesday, we're going to touch on that. Now, that 1911, I do like my 1911, you know. I'll tell you a story about one. I have a friend that could tell you his name and you'd recognize him. Yeah, probably from coast to coast, even into Canada, don't you know. He used to go shooting. When he was really young with his father, even his father would deny the name. They went shooting and even hunting and went and shot this and that and the other thing. About the time my friend turned 14, my friend's father turned around one day and said, I'm a 1911 here, this is yours, boy. Here, take this, son. I don't remember exactly what he told me. One of those, you know, a thought line like that, buttered into, this is yours, boy. Gee, Pop, I don't think I could ever shoot anybody. And my friend's father just said, OK, boy, just lay it upside their head. Now, when you're talking about a 1911, you can do that and get away with it, and it'll still work. It imparts a particular impact. Why? Because it's all metal and it weighs old. Even though what I mean, it's like mass in motion. Now, let's take that out there. Give me just a second, because you know what? It has been on particular types of days, like heavy humidity, and some of you older folks that have seen this in the jungle will know what I'm talking about. You can see. in particular times of day and light and humidity. You can see that 45 bullet going through the air. You don't actually see the bullet, but you see the trail behind it. And much like you say, Mark, that heavy bullet, you hear the muzzle crack, but you don't hear a personic crack downrange. The gun reports once, and unless it goes through the air sizzling past, you know, the only point you have is the, you know, we can go up to 230, 205 grains, and I can look up there and see from 185 up to almost 250 grains in three different boxes up there and there are different flavors. We're going to talk about that a little bit. We know that. Powder down to get in the chamber and whatnot. But that heavier bullet, you guys said, there are those that just shy away from a heavier bullet. Well, it's sold. So, you might as well just throw. I'll tell you what, you ever been hit by a brick that's been thrown at you? Particularly when it's down to like .45 portions of an inch, you know, in the cross section as it's coming at you. just under the speed of sound. Yeah, just under the speed of sound coming at you. It doesn't matter if it's a brick, it's coming at you really fast. We can get past that slow. Well, you can sit down and do your math formulas and say that 40 caliber just wings through the air and it imparts more energy. Well, that has been proven over and over to the point where they've gone back up in the calibers because that little small caliber, it moves through the... When we look at games, This continent really started to expand. If you take it off the continent, well, even the Africa, lions and elephants. Now when you look at elephants, now you're looking at what do you call that penetration, you know, and stopping power. There's another thing about that, legends of that, shooting a buffalo dead at your feet or sliding to a stop, you know. Ooh, that's good because, well, you neutralize the threat. They went up in caliber and, you know, that caliber that bigger bullet can only go so fast. And then it went the other way and now they're even shooting elephants. Well, for a while they were shooting elephants with smaller, really, really fast bullets, but they found that just the skin and as soon as it's a bone, it didn't bone, it deflected and well, you had to shoot that elephant again. At this time he's kind of mad. But it's gone back up and shooting big game, even on this continent, you guys, you know. If you want to go and shoot a deer, you can take your SKS out there, or you could take your 223, but here on the North American continent, it's kind of like that .30-06 or that .308, ain't it? Now, let's, you know, we don't really have to argue about that .45 being old and slow as drawn up a century ago, because, you know, it's been doing its job for nigh on to a hundred years now, and in that effect, it's been so, you know, we could talk around it and about it, but you know what? This morning we talked about a K-T ordinance, and we're going to push that K.T. Ordnance again here because you know what, K.T. Ordnance you guys, I have a number of their frames here that are due to go off to the machining here and make a little film about how to get that done. And one or two of them are 45 frames. And you'll see the step step and the progression and the drilling and the reaming and the fitting and all of that until you have a final gun. You'll see that. K.T. Ordnance you guys, very fine finish. We've talked about a CNC machine, you know, that you can actually, you can run a cutter so you set a speed and the cutter is only going to cut so much and it's actually being motivated then again. Now that part is next time the cutter is around, well it does like 2000. But now this is the balance, producing parts as fast as you can and producing parts that for the high finish and you know, very fine quality and high finish comes down to top two, doesn't it? Faster you run parts well, to an extent it's like the uncertainty. Well, you know, you can know how fast it's going but you don't know where it is or you know where it is. I don't know how fast it is. And if you balance those two out in the production line, right, well, excuse me, you've got a part that has a very fine finish, almost exact, no machine marks, no gouges, you've got a part that wasn't run through the CNC machine as fast as humanly possible and, well, without bending the deck, you guys, you can pick up their unfinished and steel prod, hold them out in the sun and look at them and turn them until it reflects in your eye and turn them and look at white, turn them and almost look at You know what I mean? Because of such a fine finish, not mirror finish, as any I've seen in the industry. In fact, 1911 examples knock off lines in them. So if you want to go to a particular place and build up a 1911 or a couple of other guns, K.T. Ordnance is the point to build a gun. Now again, that fine finish, if you start with N, pay attention to it as it goes from beginning to end, you're going to end up with something good, right? If you start would go on from there, do I? It's selfish. Talk again about This is going to be something in there now and it's built for this because you can do this. This is how kinkie little groups are very tight in the collar. Everything is tightened, but when you tighten it in the field, you don't know what's going on at night when you're moving around, right? Again, if you're going to pick up a K.T. Ordnance kit, and here I intended the old saw. I think we're going to use files and cutting tools, Don, not saws. Not saws, yeah. Cut it twice and it's still true. The other example, if you get more than You know, the second one's gonna be better. And that's a gimme, you guys. So if you build your first gun, you know, as long as you sneak up on it, bring it to fun. Everything is fine. You know, you're gonna put any sort of finish on it that you want. You might send it after doing all of that work. If he brings a gun in, it has to have a serial on it, doesn't it, Mark? If he brings a gun in to do service, I think if he gives it back to you, it goes into the paperwork and whatnot. And he has to record that. unless he's, you know, your local friendly gunsmith and wants to put a finish on these paperweights. Well, they aren't even any number of direction issues. You can, there are people that are very adept at home and oh, you know, you the guy with, uh, down the road from Rock Robby, you know, see the two names, finish on your gun. If anything you want, he'd put an American flag on the side of your gun if you want. It'll last there probably to your great grandchildren. And they've even got color. Most of you don't want to get caught with on your weapons. But there are girls who like pink. anything and everything at the area of operation europe michigan hunter in the fall and you sent him all as example your remington seven hundred or your spider and you want uh... you want to camouflage in uh... and it comes back the kind of gun we've talked about in the woods you're setting right now with and you pick it up when you stand up or if laying up against the tree or something because if it's the camouflage in the right area you set it down in the woods you might be hard-pressed find it You know, if you're looking long-term and you build a gun, you might want to think along something like that. You know, you can bring a gun to a sink and then even apply paint over. You can bring a gun to a gun thing, glue it, you can faucet, and then you can... One thing to always would be to, if you want, the frame and the slide really on your handgun are all you're going to have to. Well, gee, you know, there's a whole big syllabi waving around, you know what I mean? But if you wanted a camouflage, clear the gun. Shoot it with clear and then shoot... Now you're going to tape off a whole bunch of places that you know, were moving parts and you don't have to alter the finish on the inside top or in the slide areas of the frame, do you? Excuse me for just a second. Because we don't want to have any, so I painted her up real good. Every part, yeah, but it won't open. I can't understand why. Yeah, it's like painting a window closed. You know, somebody's probably done that over the years and remembers, well I painted this window and three years later I tried to open it. At any rate, If you painted it with clear and looked at some other paints, you know, there's paints that you can paint your whole car. If the car has a clear coat, you can paint your whole car. Dines and everything, but then you take it down to the car wash and hit it with a car wand. There's the question, you wash it right off. Think of the advantages there, but think about the advantages taking that down to your side armor, your long gun. Now I know, well, it's going to wash right off, but what if you hit that coat with a bit of clear and then hit, when you laid that clear on, this is painter talk now, but you put a into the amount that you would take to paint a long arm, you know, a rifle, and you'd put like seven drop, oh, it's a dollar. It takes the shine out into the clear. So you paint washable paint on, then you just touch clear that it's gonna come up very dull, almost a pattern finish. And you know what, all you have to do is, and well, it's gonna last you through probably that season, the winter or the spring or the fall, that camouflage, but all you have to do is break that, the top. with like steel wool or something, even four zero steel wool and get down to the stuff that are soluble and the water soluble stuff, just take that right off and then you're ready to make your finish on that gun for the next season or your next area of operation. Think about that. It's really not that dirty. Your sidearm or your long arm as far as the appearance there, you fit the area you're working in. And you know what, I would not paint my gun all white if I was in the snow. All white, just maybe gray, maybe satin. gray, not as dark as like a full gray, but maybe a real light gray, maybe even tooth or gray with a little bit of white in between. Even when you look at snow, you guys, and we're looking at that season coming up, we're not too far. We might have snow on the ground here at the beginning of gun season, which is weeks away now. We've had that before, even sooner. And in fact, very common to see that happen in your neck of the woods. Oh, yeah. You know another thing that if you can't come across Another thing that's going to work pretty good would be urban camels. Now, when you lay that urban camels out on the 600 yards, now we're not talking about size, but when you lay that out and look at it at such an angle, it just went kind of looking at snow at a distance. Depending on what's around it, you get a lot of different colors into it and little inference. It might not sit, but it has that ever slight tint of blue, slight tint depending on how bright the sky is or what's standing. of trees is next to it or the other colors. Camo isn't just going to be in the snow. If you're going to work into different areas, just a little side bar. But you know, because now we're talking about well maybe bolts. Climb onto your Walmart and get a bolt of two or three yards of earth camo or even winter, you know, zebra or winter, white and gray and black splotch. And now you can throw that for a long gun or you can even take that and turn it into a pun. That'll cover you and man, now you're winter camo flies, aren't you? But you know what, that poncho really isn't a poncho-like army issue because it's not really waterproof, is it? So it's kind of just camel, isn't it? Maybe half of a kilo. But you can do the same thing to your guns, you guys. You can flee over it, you know, that is the coloration and the season you're in, your long gun. Now, it's going to be so much. But camouflage isn't going to really be in effect because think of a handgun to bear unless, you know, you're just sitting at the end of the hall. Aliens are just coming down the hall, you know? just coming down the hall and there's another moose and there's another coyote you want. You know, one of the things we should tie into this for a lot of our friends listening and some of you already have this solution in hand are a number of ones that were made using the 45 magazine. Several companies were smart. Now there are still in 40 caliber and in 9mm for instance the high point but high point still has not made it and i know why because as you you can go so far with a barrel length with a forty five that's what it comes in beryl's were short as they were coach time it kind of cajole monotheism today guys you do forty five uh... alike her being in high point you're going to sell it but what would be best at the standard nineteen eleven mags the marlins do savage rifles did i mean i don't know how many are still being made i don't think they're in production but they are out there wandering around if you see one it's a great mate for this personal for the combination for what down what you're talking about on him to deal with a great intermediate light rifle to you know magazines completely interchangeable there's no guessing what goes in which weapon one mag fits and sex both weapons for pretty decent combination so consider that that you've got an uh... i would be garrison light rifle for entry better not uh... in the offensive mobile defense in personnel It doesn't mean you can't learn to use it in the offensive mode. You would see it still like the Thompson, hey guys, a lot of guys walked that right across Europe and also across the Pacific, didn't they Don? Oh, he thoroughly enjoyed deploying that in the European theater. Hehehehe. It's pretty wrong, you ought to hit something. Even if it's just going to keep Ojai, keep some busy from another. And, you know, that's a few guys. That's not just a joke that I've... Because, well, we can mark, you know, what was it, the thought line there about 1970? The average life of an M60 gunner was about 40 seconds. Guys, when the automatic web, when the big threads, they are neutralized. I'm going to be here for a moment and I'm going to lose two and in just another moment, that long definition. You might want to think like in an instant, I'm going to be 20 yards away and then lose two more bursts or three. One more thing to tie in here, and we mentioned it, but in reality there are Thompson carvings out there. If you've got one, it's heavy, but I'll tell you what, it'll stay on target. And depending on the model, it'll take either the drums or the stick mags. Some do, some don't. Depends on what year, depends on what model it is. Our drums out there, for a little while they were cheap. They're pricey again because they're typically World War II collector's items. But, every once in a while you see them wandering around or waddling around. If you've got a Thompson in 45 ACP, which 99.999999% are, then make sure you buy more mags now because there's still a lot of World War II and Korean era magazines in the inventory. Most will be dated 1944-45 in the foil that were made during the Vietnam, both Korean and Vietnam War because we've lend-leased a lot of these weapons. and we still had some hanging around here and there. It was only 20 years after the war for Vietnam, after World War II. So a lot of thompsons. There's a lot of mags and a lot of parts out there. Plus the mag pouches, etc., etc. That makes that an excellent solution or a mate to that 45-1911 you're carrying on your hip. Oh yeah. When you start talking about Tommy Guns, you guys, picture somewhere here. I'm going to have to convey it to you somehow, Mark, or the next time I'm there, we'll make a copy of it. it up on the internet. It's Winston Churchill, old Winnie himself there. He just looks like... But you guys, if you have one, that is what you might call the brain of the gun, the computer. I know it's not a computer, but if that is not functioning properly, shaped right, and you know, when it's shaped right, it's properly, it moves in the right direction. So you might want to think about another H block just as much as you want to think about another barrel. That's right. Actually, all the parts that are still available right now are what you want to be thinking about, getting ready for the time when you're going to have to keep the weapon in service. Then having to make the... How about having the puts on hand makes all the difference in the world. That is a particular hardness. It's not real hard, it's not real soft. As if it was real hard, the gun out. It meant to wear out, you guys. Before it wears the gun out. That's why I'm telling you, you can't just take a block of 4340 and cut one out. I'm exactly the right because I've got a new one here. I'll make a duplicate and you wear out your original and you put that 340 in there, you will wear out your gun. That part is meant to wear down instead of wear down the gun. When manufacturers build things, as example, it goes into the transmission. It's very hard. The lever that grabs onto it is soft. You don't want the lever goes into the transmission, so you have to take the transmission apart to replace a $14 part. See? They all planned this stuff out, you guys. So I encourage you, and we've never brought this to the hour before. If you have a Thompson, just as much as getting a spare barrel for it, you need to get a spare H for it. Not something that you... Because it's not something you can cobble up for the aforementioned reasons. In fact, it's interesting that that's why you'll find certain parts in the inventory when you look around, like, man, they made a lot of these. Why did they do that? Well, that's the part. part, they expect to wear down, and that's the one that's taking all the abuse over the rest of the weapon system. And that's not an accident. Of course, sometimes it could be a failure to engineer, but that's not typically the case. They know that to maintain that weapon, that the buyer was already informed of particular features that were to enhance the overall lifespan of the weapon system in service. And that was one of the reasons for the designers working with the Thompson in all of its variations. And he goes back to World War I. not quite into service when it happened, but at the end of the war, just in the wrong place at the right time. However, going from a tape feed to a magazine feed and with all of the other experiments, they learned their lessons and developed the weapon accordingly. Now, we don't have to reinvent the wheel, we just have to understand how the wheel turns. Exactly. There's the key. So we've got to find out more. Now, there's another company we have out there that actually gives us a lot of cool information on that very subject, maintenance and operations of weapons, Don. Oh, you guys are going to shift here, but we're not really going in a different direction than the subject. How about in frame? Well, there's another company out there that if you were to purchase it on 1911 or whatever else, or even AR, the variants, well, you kind of want to know basic dimensions, don't you? Well, there's a company that will teach you all about your gun in particular. They can go there and become a gunsmith. You can take their covert time, again, become a gunsmith, or you can information for particular gun that will make you basically a gunsmith on that gun. Now you know what there's a whole lot of places where you can you can go to a school for motorcycles and teach you how to fix on to a certain extent you can go to a school for Harley-Davidson. You're not going to be able to go to a school for 1945-45 the army Harley-Davidson or for 1957 Sporters alone. You know what I mean? Smithing Institute of them. That's a way to get there. 1-800-247 will get you to the American Gunsmithing Institute. Again, 1-800-247-5032 for the American Gunsmithing Institute you guys. And you can call them up if you were to, again, get a, as example, a 1911 frame, that beautiful finished paperweight from K.T. Ordnance, and you'd want to know all about that before you start making marks and changing dimensions, American Gunsmithing Institute is here. are the people to talk to it is the place to go and this is the phone number to dial 1-800-247-2. Why? Because well you don't want to go back to that car's mistake, I've used that missile, I might not use it again, but you can do that. You know it's a lot harder, well you can, if you've got a buddy who's a welder, I'm certain that you could, as example, cut panel on each side for the slide on your 1911 way too deep and way too wide or it doesn't even function because it never goes back to the things don't engage and well it never goes back to the same for you and then you might be able to cut it again but you know sometimes when you're cutting welds, it goes right out no matter how good the welds are and it breaks, rips, hairs out of whatever. You're going to have to pay your buddy to weld it too so it's another example if you want to do it right the first time and if you do want to do it right the first time American Gunsmithing Institute, why as mentioned moments ago they're the people to call. Give you basically a gunsmithing on the list you guys. So again, you're 1911, if you want to build a really good one, they're the people to talk to on, gee, I want to know what to do with this. So if you really want to know what to do with that, call 1-800-032. The person on the other end will say, American Gunsmithing Institute, how can I help you? That's good. When you're talking about building a gun, in particular for the first, how can I help you is a real good one. So again, if it comes to you in printed form, comes to you on a disk, and you just download it, There it is right there. Those numbers look at .1537 and this hole has to be and that channel has to be. It is you guys. You don't want to try to run into that. I think I'll take my 1911 frame here and I'll take some measurements and transfer them all over to the other. That would be good, you know. And there's another problem because there's a thing called polaring. And polaring stacking you guys is something and then move the part something else and then move the part and cut something else or drill something else. Well, I'm going to go back to early Davidson and read. again because the look of Harley Davidson's to 1980 two pieces of that clank case seven different and the part with now you know what they were on for leaking real after 1984 the bottom end went to I think starting the amount of turnings and referencing the part again of the previous in a slightly different shape and you know what the leakage went way way down the more you go to blueprints apply that thought line to your samples of that I yield the floor to you sir Now, one of the things we keep mentioning here, and the word patience has to be tied in to any gun work you do, maintenance or otherwise, guys. I want to do it fast, I'm in a hurry. Well, yeah, you can do that, but you know what's going to happen? If you cut corners, something is cut out. And that will cause problems later with regard to maintenance or perhaps, again, failing to properly Or, Ken, you can damage the part completely if you're grinding or whatever. First of all, take grinding out of your mind. Other than the initial cut that may be required to get it to the general specifications, all good smiths know, and all good machinists know, that you're going to bring it down to a certain tolerance, and then you're going to start the fine tuning. And this literally is where you lap one stroke, guys, just one stroke, and then you look, and then you test. If it's still snug but you're seeing a give, you do one lap again. One simple stroke with the tool. Finest possible. Now the reason for this is because, again, we don't want to take what you... your weapon is going to wear itself. Understand that? Just as you were talking about with that H block part on the Thompson, the weapon is good for so many rounds. It's just finite. All things are working to go back to the material from which they came from. Entropy exists. of nature. Actually something wears out, breaks down, has to be replaced or is dysfunctional and no longer usable. Now, if we do things right, we can buy more time. If we pay attention and do proper maintenance, we can buy even more time. Each step in proper performance increases the length of reliability of the system you're working on. That can be a motor, it can be a gun, it can be whatever, a medical supply or equipment, depending on what it is you have to repair or fix. Again, you're looking at, there's another word here, instrument. I'll bet some are cruder than others. As we've said, there's a combat .45. You know, I can beat you side to head. It rattles a little bit. When I'm done, I can pull the trigger and it still rattles and it functions. I can tighten it up to the point where, as you've seen, combat shooters can drive tacks moment after moment after moment, faster than I can say it. Yeah, but eventually something is going to loosen up, go where? There are solutions or things that we can do. Learn from other people. They've already done all this. This weapon, the 1911, the reason we're, you know, really I wanted to emphasize this, this is a 100 year old American firearm that is just as viable a day as it was when it came off the line the first time. And the interesting thing, once we get to the true 1911 100th anniversary, there is not a part that is on the original 1911, in 1911A1 that can't be switched out to every other 1911 built to this day. Think about that. No tolerance variation. Small block Chevy or how many variant 89.4. Think about it. Distancy is a good thing. And it's the mark of our nation, which is the other thing we're trying to build our heritage up properly again. We're trying to build up a history and make everybody understand, help people understand how they're connected to the past and how they're going to take that into the future. Because we are planning on winning. I'm not planning on tying on this thing. I plan on beating women's snot out of the bad guys. And when we're done, getting on with life. That's my goal. We're going to leave them in the dustbin. We're going to leave them in the trash can. I'm tired of them. I think everybody else is. So, when is what you have to do? That first word is when to do it. How are you going to be best at everything that you're doing? Well, it means skill. You're going to have to build everything from personal defense, hand-to-hand combat, pistol smithing, which includes also, they call it pistol smithing, guys, even when you're a pistol marksman. A lot of guys use that term. You know, we're going to sculpt. that bullet. Take it right into that target and twist it right into where it belongs. One after another after another. Be the target moving in a moose with black uniform, two legs, or if it's a target for practice, or a silhouette that moves, or a silhouette that pops up and moves. There's all kinds of creative ways to build up that skill. And the same is true with all of the other heavier weapons of support, but the hand cannon is about as personal short of the fighting knife as you're going to get. The hand cannon is a personal choice issue. You notice we've never said, you must buy this or... Now the reason I'm harping on the 45 is because guys do a search what's out there to buy. You know, there are some nines, there are some 40s, but the inventory of what's available to purchase is nothing like what it was two and three years ago. We've seen to that. We've done our job. But the 45, the 1911, just like AR-15s, I've never said get rid of for a reason. There are so many of them out there. There are so many companies making parts. My biggest interest is that we make more unique parts so the weapon is more versatile. That's what I want to see. Now with the 1911, I just want to see lots and lots and lots and lots of everything that the tactical went out needs to be so that we have it where we need it when the time comes. It is not an if, it is just a when. The other side is just trying to figure out like that old wicked, you know, flip the hourglass over and is leaving the room. Well, Sam's ticking guys. it's not a matter of the wicked which is coming back it's only a matter of when the stinking wicked which is coming up on the show here pop up all of the drops like everybody else it will pop up a little smaller aims are mass law always remember that they can and if and when i'm i'm think we've got a caller wondering if that what we're going to have to worry i wasn't sure whether i've muted out or not uh... that's a better night I just wanted to add something to the previous thing you were talking about. You mentioned the Thompson and the H-lock part that's in there. There's two things. One is that that part is made out of a special alloy. It is made out of titanium aluminum bronze. It looks like brass, but it's not. So that is a very high priority. If somebody has a 1928 Thompson and they want to have a spare of that, you'd better get a genuine one because it's not an easy thing to fabricate. The other comment I wanted to add is that people that have the 1927s, those are the semi-auto civilian style Thompsons, those are internally completely different from the 1928. They do not have that H-lock in there at all. So be aware that that is part unique to the Select Fire NFA $15,000 a copy firearms. And you do not need to worry about that if you have one of the civilian versions. On the other hand, if you have the civilian versions and you're planning to use surplus magazines, You'd better check to see whether the magazine catch fits, because I have read that those need a little bit of fit and finish to alter, to work with the GI magazines. And in fact, most people prefer to purchase a second magazine catch and file the replacement so that they have an original to put back in if they wanted to sell the rifle. So there are some kind of strange things that you wouldn't expect. I mean it's silly for them to have made minor changes in the positioning of the magazine catch, but they did for some reason. So if you have a 1927, that's the civilian version, the semi-auto version. You do not need to worry about the H-block, H-lock, because you don't have one. On the other hand, you do need to worry about will your magazines snick in there and hold. If you haven't fooled with it, you'd better get around to doing that and give it a little exercise on the range. See whether everything fits the way you expect. Because you may want to purchase and modify a magazine catch for your rifle so that they will use the surplus magazines. Go ahead. In fact, one of the reasons they did that is back in the day in the late 60s and 70s when the Batfaggots were especially stomping and chomping. That was one of the requirements because after all those evil military mags would fit in that weapon. It's for the same reason that the AR-180 originally did not take a regular AR-15 mag but had a different mag catch. Even though the magazine body is exactly the same, it was part of this whole control freak stuff. What they were trying to implement was the European whole racket like they have in Italy or in Spain where you can have any firearm but it can't be in a military caliber can't be in the caliber of the unit at the time and if you reach a bird for you know some some oddball caliber but that's certainly a weird approach but okay now the the other thing about that too and i think a good point there is uh... from gun parts company gun parts company old numeric armed gun parts company uh... has a lot of auto ordinance parts they bought a good portion of the inventory way back when and they do have many parts sitting on the shelf including spare barrels and you know you go right down the other company assault when you get on the phone with them they're gonna ask you what model is it are you sure they're gonna actually interrogate children because they've always had people say yeah i know what the thompson and it turns out to be a you know a little thompson knockoffs from back in the middle of late seventies early eighties looks like a thompson but it's not the command force are probably the best example uh... so they're gonna ask questions and it's not they're being mean it's just they don't want you to get up with a party or it's not it well that's not it so i don't know where house and they'll be talking to you nowadays on the cell phone while they're looking to just want to make sure they don't have to try to pull and hand you know and quadruple of a they've had that happen it has happened in the sixties and seventies that uh... not much around as it used to be but they still i think that numeric at one point owned uh... auto ordinance Oh yes, they had the whole company, the whole Schmack. Right, and they've got a lot of parts and so on. However, they sold the company to CAR Arms, K-A-H-R Arms. Now that's that oddball company owned by the son of Sung Young Moon. This guy is a pistol fanatic and he lives in New York State. That's sort of like, I don't know, being licentious in Saudi Arabia or something. It's a strange combination. You would expect them to move to some other state. But CAR Arms now owns what's left of auto ordnance. They may have some newly manufactured parts. They do manufacture drums for the auto ordnance, semi-auto rifles. Those are new manufacturer drums that are available on the market. I don't know how many they're moving You know, and I don't know whether they're moving new rifles or not They would certainly cost one arm and two legs if they are currently available It's not the sort of thing that we recommend for people on a budget, but they are a new manufacturer of those parts and They own the auto ordinance tooling, etc. So they may be a source for new parts if you can't find existing in stock parts from SARCO or NUMRENCH. Anything else? No, those are the main things I wanted to call in with. Excellent. Very good. Appreciate the call. We're almost at the top. Before we go any farther, make sure we get you up there. We have night vision available. Everybody, we got a lot of new listeners. Like what happened the other day, somebody calling in, oh, I'm listening to you on a search for freedom radio. and we pop up in different ways along with other people. Well, for your new listeners, Don is capable in answering any question that you have about night vision. Why go to a stranger when you can go to an M-I and a friend? So Don, go ahead, jump in there please. the right job if that's what I want to do. If you want to talk about night vision again, 23179. A warranty for two years. Again, your three-aught, they want 17. I do the best I can for you. I want to talk to me about night vision and the work, but you can reach me at 23179. And another thing before we go guys, the banksters in Flint and then radio want to bring in the National Guard to foreclose on homes down. The interesting thing that they say it's so dang, a gunpoint or shooting at them, etc., it's like, well, as we know, and everybody these banksters have traded on times none of them have the proposal right now and everybody needs to pay attention this isn't just going to happen in flint if you go all over the country at least a truck so i'm just going to warn you be prepared they know how they've been screwed off what is an engineered problem just like the troy does flint is an engineered problem just like the troy does mission old italian mafia were mostly jewish are the ones that orchestrated this thing and continually undermining cause the problems for the community that exist their plan land from everybody. Remember the Communists wanted to tear down 40 to 50% in Michigan. Well now they're going to bring the Soviet-type National Guard in. So yeah, we'll see what the Communists do here on this one next, because that's all this is. These potlick and bottom feeding pieces of tripe. I'm using the US Miller clothes on homes, because here's the other thing where he said a lot of other information out there nobody's talking about for a re-controlled media because they're on a way and Michigan knows what's going on. Red Dawn is on hold. It's off things develop. reason. They don't want anybody to speak. We aren't talking about the movie. We're talking about real life. Well, Dan, we're at the top. Your number's for night vision. One more time, please. Two, three, one, seven, nine, six, eight, four, five, eight. Very good. God bless, Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the mark. day and night. Where have all the military surplus stores gone? Don't worry, you don't need one. Because everything you need at Military Surplus is at mainmilitary.com. A-I-N-E military dot com. One of the last surviving true military surplus stores in the country. 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