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Each one is unique, although they have common bonds in terms of technology and, you know, different environments. Now, it is raining outside. It is raining again. It is fall. We got those fall rains. Fortunately, it's not snow. I shouldn't say anything. That'll probably be next. 19th of October. It is the fourth year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with the K-2011. Now, Thanks to the guys in the chatroom, I just had to laugh because Saturday Night Live has lost a lot of its flair in the last decade plus. It's been up and down, but if Ed hasn't seen this, and everybody else, if you didn't see what Saturday Night Live did with Ron Paul with regard to a basically a debate conversation thing, which was cool the way they did this where they were depicting the different candidates, It's SNL, let's go to YouTube, there's an excellent piece, by the way, for you guys in the chat room, there is a link right now to this video, but it's SNL says Ron Paul is quote, ideologically pure and tough as nails, end quote. Now that's how it actually is written for the title for this thing is put out posted by Yoda dog productions Yoda dog productions. Yes join the old the force Luke the force that's SNL for Saturday Night Live SNL says Ron Paul is Ideologically pure and tough as nails and it's interesting When you see this you're gonna think oh well they finally they were doing something around Paul It's it totally they they I did not see this before and I want to say thanks guys This was just for me it this is the kind of thing that everybody needs to be doing And it's amazing that this was actually up on a regular network, as we all know Saturday Night Live NBC, right? Okay, that's a controlled mechanism. So for whatever reason, however this was able to get out there, this is funny. Because again, as it points out, when you watch the thing, there are a number of characterizations that they use. step-by-step, you know, like Herman, Rick P, all of the others, Rum Dum Ramy, Plastic Perry, and they get into all these, you know, derogatory slash, you know, situations, gay bars, etc. But Ron Paul is put out in a parking garage, okay? What's interesting is they make fun of everybody else except for one. Although it looks like they're going to do in Ron Paul as the van pulls up, but you got to watch this. I highly recommend it. It doesn't go the way anybody would expect and it is interesting that this was even generated the way that it was. So for everybody out there, take the time to watch this. It's SNL says Ron Paul is ideologically pure and tough as nails. It's on YouTube. That's the title you want to punch in for YouTube. Saturday Night Live says Ron Paul is ideologically pure and tough as nails. That's YodaDog Productions is the page that it's on. Anyway, It's just funny. It's the kind of stuff you need every once in a while just to make you feel good guys because as Ron Paul dusts himself off another bad guy bites the dust the rest is history so check it out and For our friends repost that a couple times as we go here because we have more people showing up of course through the you know afternoon to evening on our page and it is just definitely fun. Okay, it's definitely worth watching and for everybody to share. Let's double quadruple and tuffle the numbers of hits on that page by the way to on that particular video. And the title of it again is SNL says Ron Paul is ideologically pure and tough as nails. When you see the video, you'll understand why we appreciate it. We ought to actually be able to pull that and use that with some other I'll make up a little skit using that final footage from that video by the way. I have already put some together. I think it would be kind of neat. White bands aren't hard to get. Anyway. Other stuff going on it is weapons Wednesday by the way let's not forget that guys so for everybody out there remember vote with your wallet and buy more ammo the bad guys as as has been discussed sorrows as you know and many people have been discussing this last week this is not the first time that's come up that's actually been up and in our Independent circles I'd say about what maybe three times in the last ten months So, good point needs to be brought forward is that the bad guys own or have accumulated a lot of the other companies that are not overseas, that includes Remington, DPMS, and Panther, and all of those. As I pointed out, there's no reason for us not to have an American company as the contractor making the M16 or one of several making the primary weapon and in good numbers. for the military but unfortunately FN, Fabric National, oh it says Fabric National US, that means Jack squat, that means the profits are going to Belgium and the lion's share of everything is going to Belgium and we aren't getting Jack or squat other than they're making sure that they hire certain low end trade to get the job done and a limited percentage of our skilled trade. When the time comes they can pull rugs right off underneath the arms in America if they produce 70-80% Soros has got the rest lined up either they profiteer from it by you know us being pushed into their other industry or they pull the rug out and go in both directions at the same time screwing us across the board. So one of the themes that I wanted to hit of course we had Larry Pradip last hour. has to do with improvised weapons production philosophy as opposed to an end-final solution with regard to operation as opposed to waiting until the last minute. Let me give you an example. There's a lot of fit and finish on weapons that is not essential or there's a lot of work that's being done right now that could be paired off and eliminated from production with regard to weapons. The AR-15 is very intricate, very complicated. something that has to be taken into consideration when it comes to production in a battlefield or a military restrictive situation. On the other hand, if we take a look at basic weapons systems that were produced in the last hundred years and understand that they're not that complicated, very reliable, and crude as the old term goes, crude but effective. Mortars are still the solution. Let's look at indirect fire weapons right off the bat because I'm just going to touch on that for a minute. In every war for the last hundred years, mortars have played a decisive role. Everything from the latest Libyan campaign, which they of course never show you, you know, mortars in motion. Mortars are a fast, quickie to put in a truck. In fact, that's one of the places where the weapons carrier, the three-quarter ton Dodge weapons carrier, 1937, that's one of the things that it was specifically assigned to do, to support a mortar unit. You know, to support a mortar, work as a weapons carrier. a 60 millimeter mortar team or a heavier mortar team, you know, trailer, truck, and one mortar, you know, with the ammunition, all the support gear, cleaning gear, the personal kit for the troops was all designed to go into that three-quarter ton pickup truck and a half ton trailer. That included the weapon system. The Modus was put on there too, the .50 caliber, browning .30 calibers and pinel mounts. Hell, they even mounted a 37mm tank gun on a pinel mount in the back of a 3 quarter ton. Most people don't realize that. Everything you can imagine was mounted in a pickup truck. Now, mortars, one of the big advantages is that they are simple to build and they are easy to maintain. When a country gets in trouble, probably the best example, when the flub-ups slash the failures, the commissars had screwed the Russian military by trying to second-guess them constantly and by killing more of their own people than the German army did in some battles because the commissars, of course, running the interior police would machine gun down their own men, wasting ammunition that should have been used on the Germans. But the cowards and the interior police, you know, the commissar slash communists, you know, Jewish mafia, that's what they're good for. That's about all they're good for. They're not fighters. They're great for backstabbing their own people. Well, they lost so much equipment, they lost so many tanks, they actually lost the total edge in armor right at the beginning of the war. In 1941, Germany was outnumbered about 6 to 1 in terms of tanks in the field. Now, were all those tanks the most modern? No, but all of them produced an armored wall or the potential for maneuverability that otherwise on foot, you know, the guy gets tired. But a tank can carry a lot more, put a lot more lead down range, so it's always good to have a tank of any size or kind. If you're in a fighting situation, armor helps. Well, the Germans, using decisive action and the Blitzkrieg, as everyone would call it, moved forward and ran circles around the Russians, mostly because of ineptness through attrition because of the commissars. We know that's going to happen in this next war. Let's press that and hope that they continue to kill off their own, and in the process we'll get the rest of them. Now, mortars became critical because the Russians could produce lots of them, and so the mortar pretty well took over in place of the artillery that was lost by the tens of thousands of pieces during the first part of Operation Barbarossa. Because of this, the Russians concentrated on mass battery formations with less accuracy. Now they went all the way up to 240. Now you got to think about this guys. They went up to 240 and 280 millimeter breach loading mortars. And you heard me right, 240 and 280 millimeter. Now they also had a 260. In other words, man they didn't, they weren't too prejudiced, they experimented with everything. Some of them, they never really were retired during the war, they would just move them into a certain front and take other equipment and consolidate it so that by the time they were done, the Russians had whole divisions of artillery. D visions now these would be of multiple calibers and would include a mass quantity of mortars The mortar is simpler to produce the aiming system the calibration system the targeting system you know all and the support for it are Much easier to maintain easier to produce can be cruder in general Needless to say the improved quality and production as they went along depending upon how hard-pressed they were So to say you can't have indirect fire weapons, let me teach you a little trick that we had back in the day and you can figure out how you might make this work in other ways. In the SF we needed to simulate a mortar attack for instance. And so one of the tricks is to take a piece of galvanized fence pipe about three inches in diameter. Obviously a clean new piece of pipe would be preferred so it's not going to be crud or rust or obstructions or anything. Put an end cap on that, screw that into place, cut off the other to whatever length you want, five feet, six feet, whatever, four feet, although ideally six feet is about where you want it to be just because of what we're going to do here. You get a box full of grenade simulators. And you get yourself a box full of artillery simulators. Now remember artillery simulators guys, if you ever pull the pin it goes... And then BOOM! And you got yourself a really monster explosion that's good for simulating those boom toys that come down on you. Now what you do is you have somebody who actually knows what they're doing, grenade simulators have a delay. You have one person holding your improvised mortar or you get a couple of clamps, a couple of pieces of conduit. and you make yourself a bipod. Wow, so crude. In other words, use the fence post clamp. Take that, hammer flat the two pieces of conduit, drill holes through the flattened end right in the middle. Take a quarter, 20 or 3-eighths bolt, take whatever size drill you got, whatever you work it out, whatever stock you got. Take your clamp for your pipe. Hook that up to the round, hook that up around the pipe, run your bolt through the other part of that C, that alligator clamp that you've got for the post. Run your little two pieces of flattened conduit through that. Run your bolt through, tighten that down with a butterfly nut, and open up those conduit pieces and bend them a little bit, and you now have an improvised bipod. Now you take your artillery or you're forgive me you take your grenade simulator pull the pin drop it down the tube Take the artillery simulator pull the pin drop it down the tube guess what happens boom the grenade simulator round Discharges the artillery simulator from your improvised mortar It will be quite directional and in fact all you do is once you start if you want two guys that know what they're doing that's fastest way to do this one guy goes pull the pin drop it in the tubes the other guy even as he's doing that pulls his pin drops the artillery simulator in the tube what you get is poo at the other end. To be quite honest there's a lot of guys that have said oh Batman we're in trouble there's a old BEEP Batman we're in trouble Now there's a reason for that because this is a very realistic simulation that you get a flash in a distance, the grenade simulator moves the artillery simulator a good two to three hundred yards comfortably purely a matter of elevation and if you experiment with your little improvised mortar tube with its simple end cap You could do a fine job of dropping a barrage in a target area with everything compartmentalized everything palletized ready to go now I'm laying that down as a premise because you figure out How difficult or easy it would be to come up with a charge and a charge that would go one poop and the other one poop and then he boob at the other end psychologically even if it is not a big boomer to have something dump on you from several hundred yards or a hundred couple hundred yards three four hundred yards out and Flashboom in the middle of your presence you're not going to stand around to ask what kind of round it is it's going off just something to think about there now I don't want you go out do this I'm just planting the seeds so you might experiment look at things as they exist out there seamless tubing that's threaded end cap a couple of ball fixtures and you can make a base plate. Yeah, I could do this real easy. I can picture this. As a matter of fact, you can buy pretty much all of the older mortar fixtures without the tube. be very creative to at least create a simulator so that you can practice practice practice guys think about that anyway small arms that's really where our issue is and as was pointed out earlier ammunition is going to be the big problem well guys straight case first of all straight case using weapons are your best choice pistol cartridges uh... this is why world war two when the brits were in trouble they paired down uh... production and went with the sten gun When the Germans saw that they had problems at the end of the war, although they did go make a Volksrum series of submachine guns, they also, because they already had a lot of 8mm Kurz in production, built two types of light assault rifles that were called Volksgrenadier weapons that were assault rifles, VG1, the Volksgrenadier assault rifle 1, and Volksgrenadier assault rifle number 2. For the Russians, their panic came at the very beginning of the war and for that reason the Peppiesh, which of course Peppiesh 41, which is everybody's familiar with, well an example of the next step in production when you're panicking, you have no, you know, your shortened materials, is a variation on what you're seeing at center fire systems with the Peppiesh 43. Now the Peppiesh 43 was built for Leningrad because they were the city that was under siege for a thousand days. And the Peppiish was the crudest example of Peppish 43, was the crudest example of crude but effective, a submachine gun that could be cranked out, that was reliable, that offered a lot of firepower, and suppressed with volume. Now I will say something about all these weapons most people don't realize. They were also mostly blowback slash open bolt systems. Now there are advantages, but there are some disadvantages to that. Not the least of which is remember when you're using an open bolt system, it slam fires the cartridge. This creates an accuracy issue. This is why again, crude but effective. The idea is that with saturation fire, the individual can be brought up to speed pretty quick and how to make the weapon work for him. Now the probably the best example is see right here. Yeah, Polish, Peppie 43C Centerfire systems has them on their front page. There's a classic picture you can look at to understand debates. That's a some automatic pistol. What they did is they kept the subgun barrel. They just made sure that the stocks don't work, but it has the image because the folding stock is on the gun. It was a flat, straight, simple design. The Russians cranked out lots of them in Leningrad. The Peppiish 41, of course, has a wood stock, instead of a folding stock, and a wooden body that shrouds the receiver group that actually wraps around the receiver group. But the basic receiver group is still the same. So again, there are different solutions for the same weapon. Now, in all of these cases, I guess I'll add one more, both the Chinese and the Japanese, which you don't see much information about. When you watch movies, you'll see the air soccer rifle. In both cases, both of those countries, because of lack of production, panic fire situations, because, hey, they were losing people left and right, they were losing a lot of troops in the battlefield. The Chinese, right from the beginning of the war, well as we know the beginning of the war, they'd already been fighting for six years. So they were used to cranking out weapons en masse that were simple and effective. The Japanese did the same thing, but really didn't get into the mode and even then still kept things fairly complicated right to the end of World War II when they produced a series of national defense weapons. Do a little research there and you'll find out more about those. Now I'm going to go back to the Brits because as we pointed out the Sten gun, which is a submachine gun, One of the first criteria for the Sten gun was that it, number one, could be produced anywhere, and literally was, that it had both semi and full auto option. Why semi? Because England was out of ammo. Were it not for the Americans? Snicking through whatever they could through the U-boat lines And a lot of it not making it a lot of the stuff we made ended up in the bottom of the Atlantic guys and is rusting there today and being taken pictures are being taken of the ships that were sunk all around the British Isles that were carrying American bicycles some machine guns rifles ammunition artillery pieces Ford trucks you name it It's at the bottom of the ocean a lot of it just didn't get there So the British, because of their malfeasance and incompetence during the early stages of the war, and that's the only way to describe it, lost a lot of material on the French side of the Channel. When they got back to England with the troops, thank God, you know, at least they could say they saved the men. That was the big thing. Getting more takes time. So they saved as many as they could, but they lost the entire British Expeditionary Force to the German military machine. When they got back to England, they were scraping the barrel. Lee Medford rifles were pulled out of Cosmoline. World War I equipment, which really wasn't that old, was already on the surface, guys. So it wasn't like they were going to World War I. They actually went back farther. Martini-Henry rifles were brought out of inventory that had been in the Strategic Reserve. The Home Guard, of course, was low priority. So while the regular British military had SMLEs, Number one mark threes being brought into service, you know, get back out of reserve because many have been put into the guard units and were even in the home guard at one time. Those weapons were pulled and given to the regular army and the home guard was basically running around with two by fours, six foot pieces of water pipe with man that's welded to the end of them and harsh language. England itself was short ammunition across the board. It was argued they could only sustain a fight for two to three weeks at the present level when they ran back across the bay. Or forgive me, across the channel. So the British were looking at, you know, Panic in Year Zero, didn't know what to do, and one of the innovative series of men said, well, we're gonna have to come up with a new family of weapons. And one of the things that kind of went against their trend towards intricacy and quality with regard to production was the stem design. Now the stem design was built everywhere. If you were a grandma and you didn't have to pay if your arthritis wasn't too bad, they would give you a hammer, they would give you a little anvil that was a cut piece of metal sculpted in a certain way, and a guy would show up. Hello Mrs. Liffrey, how you doing? I'm fine, I've got my hammer, it's looking clean up and oiling it. Well we've got the metal for you here, have you got the other parts? Yeah, they're in the book, it's there. And of course the guy would walk in with a box with a bunch of cut strips of metal. and he would go pick up the buckets and say, we'll see you next, well, I'll probably be back in two days. Do you think you'll be done? Oh yes, dear, I think I can do more of them. Bring two boxes next time. I'll have them all ready to go. So what would happen is then she would pull that one strip of metal out. She would grab her hammer. She would lay the part into this little jig and she would tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, stop. Then she would move the metal to another spot designated she was already taught to do and tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap She would bend the metal in another direction and then tap tap tap There we go. We're done. She would take that finished trigger guard and Throw it in the bucket and grab another piece of metal and go tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap If she got really good, her arms built up strength, she would smack, smack, smack, there we go, done, flip it, smack, smack, smack, and the part would be finished and she'd start getting production going. Other people had a file and they might have a drill won, they might have a drill press in their garage. Congratulations, you're with Defense Production. And the guy would go pick up the part from one location, the big bucket of parts. Now he walked down two doors away and he walked into the garage. Hi, good eye, Mike. Hi, will you go up a bucket for me? Yeah, I'll go up too. The lady, she's doing a great job. She says she's gonna have more for ya. And the part would be picked out and the drill press would go, into the, you know, the guy would put the part in the jig and it would drill one hole, flip it, drill the other hole, go in a bucket. People garage every garage anybody that had tools anybody had the ability to use their hands could build parts for the stenga Now the stenga was so simple that they got the price down to about two dollars and ten cents now again it low end was a dollar seventy-five upper end was was argued to be to 280 right around there 270 280 I've been reading numbers that are from other books that are older that give them kind of change the formula if it was as low as a dollar a dollar seventy-five for a whole submachine gun This is the one you see in the movies if you're low wonder what a sten gun looks like it's that one that took the magazine in the side That really looks like it like it's a literally like it could be an industrial tool for greasing your engine You know or something like that, but it grease a few people now the sten gun was made in such numbers that they really don't know how many they made The mark 2 alone was made and was it was made with tubular stock The springs, they're only a couple of threaded pieces of, actually a couple of screws that are actually part of the design. Everything else is pressure or threaded points on the receiver. It was designed to be semi-auto because they were short ammo and so guys, you might only get two magazines of ammunition for that. Oh, it wasn't going to be a submachine gun then. Then you were going to use it as a single shot semi-automatic light rifle. Pop! Don't waste that you only got 60 64 rounds what that's all we got you got 64 rounds for your stand semi-automatic light rifle Now of course eventually they could as they got more ammo they could flick it over you know with the push button it would go over to full auto and Of course still controlled bursts. We're not spraying and praying you're trying to hit the peppy ish had a very high cyclic rate stan was actually not all that high, but it was you know again reasonably rapid as put it that way. And it was again designed with a 32 round magazine.