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The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. 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I'll tell you what, it's been a beautiful, beautiful day today. I think we've got Don with us there. Yes, we do. And Don, what is the day today? First of all, background noise. Have I got a big hum coming off the line there? If it's not you, it's me. The phone is mine. Nope, it's me. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. You go ahead and take over here. Again, night vision. Look outside, guys. We got it. We need it. Guess what? Don has it. So, go ahead, Don. I'm going to sign off here and hook up through the other workstation. I'll be there in just a minute. Okay, no problem. Hey, it is the first day of October, year of our Lord 2014. We just went past 100 years anniversary there for the beginning of that 40 year war a little while ago, but you know 2014, 1st of October. It is a particular day and that only draws the mind to the empty magazine here in empty magazine well full magazine in the other hand so with that in mind we're going to take introduce the magazine to the magazine well and touch that slide release and now we've got one in the chamber and we can tell you all that that's a one that's condition one gun that's a hot gun there I like my 1911 that way but you know what it is weapons Wednesday the perimeter is secure And there's plenty more where that came from. And, you know, equal opportunity. We've addressed that. It is Weapons Wednesday in Mark 1. I've run over to Night Vision for a moment as he changes. The telephones are getting wigged out lately. This morning, you guys, I would dial one number to get into the micro effect. And it came up like I had dialed a local area code, like, you know, when you call me, you dial 231. Only I was dialing the... for something that fits right in with the puzzle over time. That's another way to see it. Now again, it is a Weapons Wednesday and boy oh boy, I like that, 1911. And I get the call every now and then, well, can I use my handgun with night vision goggles? Like if I'm wearing a goggle, can I use it like I would just with Is it just like daylight? I bring the gun up and I aim at whatever I'm looking at and well, can I use goggles that way? And the answer is if you're looking at a silhouette that's real close, you can get away with it. But if you're trying to do anything like beyond well, real close, you're going to be hard pressed. The idea being the piece of night vision is going to focus either on the gun or the target beyond it. Now if the target is 30, 40, if the target is 50 feet out, you're going to focus on the target. And when you bring that handgun up in front of that piece, that goggle, and try to look across the, oh let me see, the notch, and try to bring that blade into the notch, they will be nowhere in sight. They'll just be, you know, blurs. This is much like you know with your naked eye and this is a weapons Wednesday and we've never really mixed these thoughts together before talking about the night vision and Goggles because I get that question. Can I use my pistol with the goggles? Well again if you're focusing at the blade and the notch if you've got that in focus It's just just almost arms length because you don't stretch your arm straight out. You know your elbows are slightly bent, right? Okay, so that notch and blade is just, they're almost arm's length away. In fact, if you add up where they are on top of the slide, they might be arm's length away. You know, all of that, things stack up as they move away from your eyes. But right in that general area, if you've got your goggle, be it one or two, now we get in a little bit goofy here, I'll stick with your standard like PVS7, which is one focal, one front lens. two eye pieces. Give me just a second. Now, you bring that gun up in front of that night vision goggle and the gun is in focus and your target is about 30 feet out, he's going to be a blur. Closer than that, he's going to be a more defined blur. If your gun is focused at arm's length, you get him to about 10 feet away and you're pretty certain, I think that's Franklin. I think that's joking, but you won't be certain now. To be certain, nothing changes. The aforementioned person doesn't move, but you focus the goggle to you can identify his face. You look back down at your gun, which hasn't moved either. It's a blur. So that should answer the question of can I use Night Vision goggle? Now, we've gone in this direction before and there are patchwork work solutions to this. Before I continue in this thought line, I'll say you guys, you know, an Abrams tank, the main gun is laser targeted. The machine gun in the front there that sticks a little bit out of the hole there, that's targeted. That's tied to the laser now for ranging about lasers on the battlefield before. But you guys, if you're kind of pigeonholed, if you've got a night vision goggle, now it's not so much pigeonholed because a mechanic Might have a goggle a medic might have a goggle So you know with a good set a good night vision goggle you guys you could literally throw and I'm not talking about Repairing your grandma's quilt talking about that fine a picture at you know less than arm's length But if that medic looks up and over there Wowie he sees motion and there shouldn't be people there and they might even maybe they haven't seen him yet But he brings his pistol up and as he is unholstering his pistol with his other hand he is adjusting that focus and now he has identified a threat that is perhaps moving oblique to him. But now if he continues, those guys are moving in on the backs of his buddies. That's not good is it? We could draw all kinds of scenarios but let's just say he has to shoot. If he brings his gun up and he has a laser that is already zeroed, 30 yards, on his handgun, maybe even 50 yards. Now if you're 45 or 0 to 50 yards, it's going to be a little bit tall, I think, maybe at 5. But it's going to be negligible. You shoot him in the tip of the nose, you shoot him between the eyes. What's the difference, right? It's like a belt or the belly button, right? At any rate, he brings that gun up while he's looking with the night vision on. He brings the gun to bear to the best of his ability. He might even be looking right down that gun. It would be blurry. And he points it at the threat. He touches that laser targeting pad, that laser power for the laser power. And it comes up and he corrects ever so slightly for aim and takes the shot and turns the laser off. Now we've talked about lasers before as far a laser with a gun's you can bolt to gunstals or long guns that you literally throw a switch and it's on and you don't have to touch the switch anymore until you want it off. About that, if that person, if you drop that gun, if that person that owns that gun is incapacitated, knocked down, falls or whatever and that laser is pointing up in the air, that's like a shoot over there thing, isn't it? It would be good to be able to turn it back off in a, well much faster than I can just, the targeting action, that's a way to put it. The gun is pointed in the general direction of the target. They'll squeeze that, the laser comes on, you correct for aim, you take the shot. You let go of the pressure pad and the laser goes off. Then describing it, you know, it can happen in the real world. We've talked about this before, but now there's a way to target with your handgun and a goggle. If you're stuck with a goggle and you've got a long gun, well, some long guns, you know, like some long guns, you can just shoot them almost like big pistols. You know like m16 pattern type guns. I rather enjoy that you know like AR15s car 15s yeah even smaller yeah, five pound rifles are not exact. That's like you know big go desert Eagle big pistols yeah, but If all you've got is a goggle for that you can zero that laser and run back over to the same For spot line you know you bring the gun to bear on the target You turn the laser on, you take the shot, you turn the laser off. Even it can happen even faster than it was just described. Some people really work in talking fast and some people have national championships and win world championships for talking. Get a world book of records and I can't even talk that fast. But if that guy, that world championship man, he got 834 words out in a minute or whatever the number is, that sounds like impossible. If that world championship's fastest talker said to you right here on the radio, you bring the gun to bear, you take the shot, you let the power off. If he said that as fast as he could with a little bit of practice, you could do it faster than he could say it. Don't think about it. There's a man of laser and just lasers waving around in the air and all kinds of things. The laser might seem part of the muzzle flash for some people. just another confusing element. If it zips through the air, you guys, if it's there and it's gone, somebody that actually even saw it might say, I wonder where that, what was that? Look over Frank, over there is twitching now, only in this instance it might be in certain. So now there's a way to target with goggles. It's not the best way. It's not as surreptitious. It's not as secretive as not having an illuminator on and not having a laser on. You know, like using a real gun sight. But it'll get you there. Another thing, you know, it can do is it can be a thought line in the butter knife. We need, we're going to upgrade. Here is a way to use a goggle to get something better. But you'll see goggles, you guys, on the periphery of things, on the periphery of mechanized, on the periphery of encampment. You'll see goggles sometimes taken in by particular teams. because they wish to walk, not necessarily to shoot. They might be trained to the point that as they're walking along, and we've talked about point and shoot, but they might, you know, if that's what you do literally all the time, you get kind of good at 20 meter point and shoot. When you're looking at the target with your night vision on and you bring the gun up and you're looking down the barrel of the gun, you don't have to correct too much for, you know, windage. All you have to do is not worry a little bit about elevation. That's why they ride that gun up ever so slightly when you see these close actions. It's not recoil. When you're using a piece of night vision, it's easy to look down your length of your gun and use that as your aiming device. But when you're doing that, you still don't have your elevation. Now, one way to do it is pick up your, if you're real familiar with a long gun, well this kind of negates the little physical exercise here. But you can understand that the more you bring that gun up and the more you shoulder that gun to a particular target, the more you have a feel for it. There are teams that train to this and even to 10 to 15, 20 yards, they're pretty good shots at that. But this is only that we do it with a handgun, sometimes shorter ranges, sometimes even 15 yards. That reflex, point and shoot just to get the first shot off. Sometimes you get that first shot in the air and instead of, well, particularly the people who aren't heavy trained, they tend to duck. Even if bullets are flying by, they tend to winch, they tend to look for a moment, they tend to distract them while you're taking aim more humbly with the second shot. Now we've talked about that's what you call suppression fire. With the first round out of suppression fire, you're in a real bad way right off the gate and you're kind of admitting it. You're hoping that that first round, not exact, there's another word that sounds like suppression and it kind of might even work. It's like desperation. But we're going to send one in his direction while we kneel behind the car and bring the gun to bear and take aim with this one. That thought line. And, you know, we talk about taking aim. We talk about, you know, and I'm more than happy, Mark, to bring to the hour from Skip Talbot that, hey, us is better than a fan. It might be that time. The best you can do is get that first shot in the general direction of as you step to a place where it might even be much easier for you to aim. We've addressed this many times. You guys with concealed carry, you carry that under your arm, you carry it under a vest, you carry it under your suit, you carry it under, hey you might carry it under just your work coat. Have you ever thought about shooting that gun, discharging that gun and it's hardly even left the holster? But it's because your opponent is on your quarter or on your quarter. You hear that step, step, and as you turn just a little bit, you see the threat. You know that you're not going to be able to remove the gun from the holster and gain that weaver or gain that other kind of stance. You're pushing and you're pulling and all of the isosceles, triangles, and everything. And by the time you think that, the opponent is on you. He's probably taking your gun by now, but have you ever thought that just to bring that gun just enough or even just kill harness there and just as the gun is clearing it the safety goes off and the trigger goes squeeze and bam. Now if it's a slide gun you're probably going to have to do a clear drill real quick but if he's so close you guys and you drive that into the fore I think he just got punched as hard as he's ever been punched in his whole life and he might even be thinking he's never even going to get punched like that ever again. Because if you're closing on, think of the bad guy closing on the opponent and he's looking at what he thinks is something that's really not a threat because he hasn't even seen the gun yet. You know you don't have time. The old cowboy cleared the leather. Well, even if you cleared the leather you'd never get it out from the vest, let alone clear your arm. You don't want to shoot your arm off. While you're bringing the gun from underneath your arms, you can shoot that fellow that just happens to be there at your three or somewhere between your six and your two, depending on how he's moving at you and depending on how you're turning. But just the gun comes up and bam! Now that first one, in particular torso, thorax, delivery, any one of those, you might not be able to bring it up to high thorax, top of lungs, heart area. That first delivery is going to be enough. Again, he's going to, with a handgun that close and center of mass basically from stem to stern, any place in there, if you get one off, now, hey, you've taken a lot of steam out of that locomotive. Even if he's not stopping, but the thing about it with a slide gun is you're going to have to do a clear drill, aren't you? If you discharge that gun so close to your body or even still dragging it out of the holster and you had one in the chamber, the slide might not even jump all the way back. The empty casing that it's trying to extract might not even clear. That would be an easy one. You just jack that slide back and let the case fall out and let it go. You're bang-bang back in business, aren't you? First next probably would be like a stovepipe where the The empty case just tries to clear the exit but it bounces back off your t-shirt, dress coat, dress shirt, whatever, your work clothes, whatever. It bounces back into the port and kind of stays there. Now you have to, as you are moving that slide back, drag your hand across that port so that you drag that empty case out. Remember it is going to be a little bit hot. If you have never done it before, don't be startled by it. Oh, that's hot. I got burned. I am out of the fight. I have to look at my hand. That isn't very conducive to getting off a quick second shot. So again, don't let that case, if you do this immediately and you get that stovepipe and you do that immediately, that case is going to be a little bit warm. And if you have to press on it as you're dragging that slide back, you're going to induce a little more of that residual heat that's still in that case into your flesh. But don't let that stop you. Oh my gosh, it's burning me. It's not going to burn you. It will feel warm, but it's not going to burn you. Hey, it might actually wake you up a bit out of your stupor. Yeah, like you're trying to induce the stupor into your opponent. Yeah, I just try and throw everything onto him. I'm awake now and he's taking a dirt nap. But again, you guys, we've addressed this before. We moved Mark from talking about lasers and handguns and goggles, night vision goggles, to handguns and then into long guns and lasers and goggles, but over to that quick draw. It is a weapons Wednesday, you guys, but a number of different ways to carry might just be, you know, it depends on where you are too. You know, that under the arm mark, that's easy for the businessman, that's easy for, well, you know, anybody who's layers of even thin layers under the arm unless it's a big gun compared to the person's stature. It's not real hard to hide there is it? You can see that. The other thing is, we did mention more like we've got that word out whole. One of the things they like to brag about is, well there are holsters now that only the person wearing the holster can take the gun out of the holster. Well, I find it hard to believe because if that person is the only person that can take the gun out of the holster, is it custom built to him? Was it explained only to him? And if that were true, did he kill the guy that explained it to him when the explanation was over? So again, yeah. I was telling Mark today about a quick draw on that. There's a YouTube video with a guy taking that 9 out of the... He had a quick draw on 9 on a ship. holster and he shot himself in the leg. Did you see that one? No, I didn't. You take it out so fast, it was so nimble that, I don't know, the special holster was supposed to cock the gun or something like that as you pull it out of the holster, I don't know, some special holster. Wow. And he had to sit away with the other guy right in front of him and he was showing off to the audience about how fast he was. He pulled up the holster and shot himself a leg and entered his high thigh and came out down by his ankle. Oh, that hurt right away. Yeah, he turned around and looked at the camera and shot myself with a leg. That's pretty cool about it, huh? Can you finish the demonstration now? I'm not tracking the holster and start over again. I'd like to see you do that again. Can you do that again? Wow. Yeah, it's on YouTube. Just look up, shoot, shot myself with a leg on YouTube and you'll see it. It'll come off. I'll tell you, I'd be like that in the class. Excuse me. Excuse me. I know it probably hurts. But can you finish this up? I drove 20 miles to get here. I paid for a whole day. Yeah. And all these other folks here paid for the whole day too. Now, Grant, that's entertaining what you just did. It reminded me as the professor said this, you weren't watching an APF agent climbing a ladder there and doing the same thing to himself. I guess there are some really trick holsters out there. I don't know nothing about them. We talked about that before. Some of the old, old quickdraw folks, you guys, they had a rivet at the bottom of the holster and a rivet about a third of the way up. It was the curve of that leather much like the curve of the horse saddle leather You know you can wet leather and shape it and mold it until it's almost like plastic, but we know it's not But they never cleared leather before they were starting to turn the barrel before their opponent toward their opponent. That's a trick right by itself, isn't it? And those whole idea is 100 years old if it's a day. If it was a self-cocking thing, you see my problem with the gimmick holsters, those have come and gone over the last 100 plus years. They're some neat ideas, but the problem is not all the people that use them right, it's the person that doesn't use them quite right. They are really cool. I've talked about these rigs and I still have one my dad bought years ago. They call it a Folsom Prison Ulster. What it is, is it locks. There is a metal keeper. It's a spring made out of high chrome, almost stainless. Never rust, but it's rustless. It may be Ford metal. They called it rustless metal back in the day, not stainless. Anyway, it's a top open holster. There's no cross strap. There's nothing to get in the way. When you take, and they made them for K frames, N frames, they made them for all the Colt single actions. When you put the weapon into the holster, it locks, it clicks into the trigger guard just a little bit. And the idea is that when you put your hand on the weapon, you stick your finger through the trigger loop and push and pull at the same time. Now, the argument there is you shouldn't have your finger on the trigger until you're ready to use the weapon. But again, this was a philosophy, something they came up with, because it creates the illusion you can grab the gun. And I've been on the range several times using that holster where people thought they were going to be smartasses. This was years ago when I was younger. And they saw that holster and of course they thought they were going to be slick and of course they grabbed the gun and it jerked. Granted, it moves you. But there ain't no doubt you're not getting the gun. It's very deceptive in that respect. Also, it did not pivot. Real popular back in the day, remember, are the pivot holsters, which do a degree off, or something like what Don is talking about. Remember, you can take a pivot holster and if you had the gun cocked, it was a revolver, and typically they were carrying revolvers back then. When you pivot the weapon horizontally, you can pull one round off as long as she's already cocked. A lot of people like to carry in the half cock or carry him full cocked with the cross strap over the hammer strike. That, of course, was an old trick to get one shot into somebody who might be charging like a wildebeest and obviously has the intent to do great bodily harm. He's got a kludgel with a nail in it. I don't think he's going to be friendly with me. Boom! There you go. Like you said, Donald, take some wind out of him. But the Folsom Prison Holsters, an example, self-conquing holsters go back even to the old Hickok days. There were some ideas and all kinds of innovative things because that was the age of invention, more so than even today. And they came and went. The guy who perfected his skill with it, it worked. But a lot of people didn't practice that much and it probably got just as many people hung up and dead like the guy had shot himself in the leg. It's a self-cocking holster. How about you use your thumb? God gave us opposing thumbs. Yeah, put a monkey in a row. Exactly. The opposing thumb is what made man the tool-making animal. Yes, remember? Okay, so as it is again, common sense. Simple designs are best. minimal attachments. It's like, you know, we talk about this with rifles the same way. You know, before the Civil War started, you know they had coffee grinders on rifle stocks. You could buy them. You could buy a rifle and you could buy, you know, like you were issued a Spencer or you were issued a, you know, like a Springfield carbine, not a three-bander muskets. Although, they put them on any rifle they wanted, but you could buy a replacement stock that had a coffee grinder built into it. Right into it. It wasn't a Margarita blender. Yeah, because coffee was the big thing. Coffee was like you had to have your coffee. The coffee fix was in. In addition to that, you had the trowel bayonets. They were all cool ideas and none of them ever got thrown away. But not very often did they eventually get fixed to the front of the weapon because they were a tad more cumbersome than that guy coming at you with a standard spike bayonet, which was half the weight. He was perhaps a little more energized and ambitious, but he was able to move a little faster. Or even how about, have you ever seen even an illustrated drawing of a bayonet on a pistol? Which to a degree in a brawl situations like I'd rather stab somebody than beat him with my barrel with a barrel of gun Yeah, so it's like thrust if you think about it. It's like kapok and oh he's getting closer and oh wait a minute. I'm gonna There you go. Yep, you know take that Yeah, no changing the hand and no switching out, but he would again have you know very you know specific time application The thing about weapons in general is because everybody always talks about all the different ideas about how things should be constructed and how they'll work. But the bottom line is streamlining because no matter how we look at it, you usually don't get to plan when you're going to be attacked. If you're a defensive kind of guy, you're the one who has to wait to kind of take the first blow or at least take the first thrust, trying to avoid that. In the process, trying to bring your weapon or a weapon to bear to create greater than equity because you want superiority. I want to be equal to him. No, I don't. I want to be so grossly over and beyond his ability to fight that he'll wish to God he never showed up. Beat him down. Yeah, I want him dead. I don't want to talk to him. I don't want to discuss and I'm not going to debate. This is not a movie and I'm not going to dance. Here's how it works. I'm getting older too and I even get more persnickety about dancing. You don't look like my wife and I don't really have any interest in that, okay? So, come on, there you go. Goodbye. And that's really how you should be thinking. Minimize, minimal time, and streamline. Ask somebody else. Yeah, the M16, this is what I keep going back to. If you look at all the things we've done with rifles right now, and I've noticed something that might be leaning back in the direction towards thinking a little more common sense, but still adding a do-dad. The M16 was thought through and looked at by Stoner for its environment. Triple canopy rainforest, hanging vines, lots of fruit plants and junk that could catch your rifle up and down. The M14 was fairly streamlined like all military arms for that reason because of the number of different environments that it would be moving into. The AK is obvious. If you get a basic standard AK, look at how clean the lines are on those weapons. Now you've got all kinds of new Americanized we got to put you know racing fins and we're putting jacked up spoilers on it and vertical fore grips with extra picatinny rails and all kinds of stuff But I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen when you get in the field Every stinking thing that can cling to you will and I'm getting older and it's really becoming a lot more annoying than it used to be You know, I'm still patient But I realized that you know, I'm gonna make that disappear because that that particular snag is really wasting my life's time An example of how this worked out is something that's so simple and so stupid, and when you think about it, how small this is, the one significant change that came from the M16 E1 to the M16 A1 was the Pickle Fork flash hider being done away with. And the only reason, guys, just think about this, for all the things that stuff could catch on in the forest or in the bush or going through brush, that those three little tines that are nothing more than what, an eighth of an inch thick, were such an annoyance that the troops complained about it forever. I mean, constantly it's like, guys, this is a neat idea for cutting wire, but it just hooks up on everything. So the number one feature on the M16A1 in final production was that sealed basket front flash hider that you know so well. The very simple, very basic M16A1 flash hider. Think about that. And all that is is a couple pieces of metal filling in a hole basically. Each one filling in their own little line that was the slit for the flash deflector. That was so annoying and caused so much trouble that it was the first thing that they changed on the weapon. Now, a forward assist is because of malfunction after malfunction and somebody trying to figure out how to deal with a problem that was created by the Ordnance Department in the first place. But it was still a needful thing because, as we've always said, there's not a whole lot of ways to take care of the M16 to deal with it. And if it really is a major malfunction, you better make sure you brought your band in. Because you know what, there's not a whole lot of- Everybody else's is working. Yeah, because you're not going to fix it in the field. Certain failures were just actually lethal. And as we've said, the middle of Vietnam, when the M16 came in, and it's the area that they always try to avoid because they don't talk about it. They might do it in passing, but that was a murderous period because our entire battery of weapons that we were taking into the field were malfunctioning. The only thing that saved the units from being completely massacred was the m60 machine gun which had its own problems over a period of time and the m79 grenade launcher which was something new in that it offered you know again volume firepower You know a poor man's shoulder fired mortar Boom and away you go and away you go you know what you got really good real fast like a big single barrels You know single shot shotgun most Americans went hunting so they can relate to it But those two weapons, especially in the middle of the war, when we had horrible, horrible defeats that they don't make movies about, are because of failures with regard to the firearm, in fact the dominant arm on the field on our side. You know there's one thing about the Russians you can say, they never had that kind of failure with the AK. They could make crappy ammo, they could make piss-poor parts, and the design was so forgiving that it eats everything, and it continues to function under the most abysmal of conditions and with some of the poorest manufacturing on the planet. Think about that. See, there's the difference in the two. The M16's failures were as much because it's like the Glock. It was a finicky weapon. If it's not built, if it doesn't build to certain specs, which most guns are supposed to have certain specifications met anyway, but if you think about it, if it's a battlefield weapon, it better be able to eat anything that a country produces or even stuff that they don't because you're going to what? They claimed we were going to fight World War III with that weapon. It's not like you're just calling an alibi on the range. Yeah. Who designed that M16? The M16 was Stoner. Stoner was a good man and the rifle was sound. It was a sound idea when he built it. The problem is the Army and McNamara got hold of it. The Bean counter screwed us, is what they did. Government got involved. You know, government failure. There's two words that always have to be attached to that. First one that uses government, but then you have to immediately apply failure. Government failure. It's like the war on poverty. Government failure. It's like the war on drugs. Government failure. It's like operations overseas were there military modern times of the UN involved in NATO. Government failure. And the sad part is that everybody knew it. And again, remember that was a transition period. The Marine Corps still had the M14 to a degree. US Army units, some of them still carry the M14. Other units carried the M16 and they forced the M16 on the units that were still carrying the M14. There were units that refused over and over again to take the rifle and refused to the point where they would not surrender their weapons to the armory for anything. Whole units did that after the massacres, after the Iron Triangle debacles. Once that took place, everybody's like, man, mine's better than yours. Well, I got the latest and greatest and the drill sergeant told me that. Although in many cases the guys were trained with the M14 in the US because that was the primary rifle, then they hit the beach over there in the early middle days, the middle days of the war, and the M16, they'd never seen it before, they had no familiarity with it. Now congratulations, you're going to learn to use it. And it was dump truck. Try to keep it running. Yeah, and most of them couldn't. And a lot of them died with piles of magazines around them, half empty or busted up. The weapon malfunctioned with a case jammed into the chamber. In many cases they found the guys dead where they pulled out their combat knife and were trying to pry open the bolt carrier so they could get the gun unjammed. That's how they were found dead. With multiple marks on the bolt carrier to show that they'd probably done it over and over again. That's all part of the history. You don't see movies made about that, do you guys? Well, you see, and there's a reason for that. That's why when I saw the movie, you know, we were soldiers, it's a great movie, but that's not the one they should have talked about. I mean, it's great because of the way it was done, but you want to, you know, again, if they could have even made more like an ongoing history, but they wouldn't allow them to do it. That same family of units, of mech units, air mobile units, had some of the most catastrophic actions with the greatest number of troops lost since Custer's last stand. for the US Army. And that's why again there's a whole window there, selective memory again, and it's happening more and more. And of course in recent times, it's just like the last six months where, hey, ISIS is great, next thing's sliced white bread. They're evil demons, and now we have to go after them because of what? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. With regard to our arms, simple. I know there's cool stuff out there and yes, we do want to apply it. The night vision is an application tool that you really can't pass up. The optics that we can see out there are again, common sense. Bringing the enemy closer in terms of my battlefield computer means I can pick which dimple I want to make into a hole the size of your fist. Which is what I want to do see so those tools make sense and they can be applied quickly to the tools in the toolbox be it the AK the m16 You know air 15 family of weapons the e-hell even the high points accommodate while we have a problem is when we start adding more and more gobbledygook on if I was just a secret policeman kicking in doors and going door-to-door to steal guns Well all the doodads I need all the flashes and the bangs and the whistles because you know I'm playing police state But once you get into a battlefield situation, a couple of things need to be taken into consideration. I need batteries. The one thing I need batteries for are very narrow applied applications. And I need to be very sparing with my power what I use because there's no guarantee that I'll get more. Which is why, again, we need to be always thinking and conserving and shutting down. And this is something that a lot of people don't even have a discipline in that now in the military, which is OK because when we cut their supply lines off, It's going to take a long time for them to get on the learning curve. If you're already in that mode, and it's like I've said, it's like weapons production and also with how you fight, you have to be ultimately conservative from the get-go. If you do that, you will have changed the dynamic of the formula with regard to battlefield operations, not just in the short term, but the long term. We change the logistics process. We change the way that we engage. We up the casualty count with our enemy. If we pull the trigger, we should expect a hit. That should be pumped into every person listening and every person that you train. If we pull the trigger, we should expect a hit. Now, there are times when you apply distraction or as we know, covering or suppression fire, but even that has to be paced with discipline because 30 Round Magazine doesn't last long when you're going pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. You noticed I mentioned one in the aforementioned handout situation. One. Oh, by the way, before we go any farther, Don, because I don't want you to miss us, we're heading towards the top. Officials released a few details, but we've had another Pennsylvania State Trooper dead. However, in this case, apparently it was at a training exercise at Montgomery County Public Safety Training Complex. Boy, what a mouthful of BS that is. It wasn't very safe today. What training did he have to do? What resulted in his death? He was airlifted to a hospital. Now it sounds to me like they all had their field weapons and the officers in charge did not properly inspect because after all the NCOs don't want to get up in the face of all of their men that they're training because they're all trained professionals. and so what happened is somebody had a live round somewhere although they could have smacked somebody with something real close-range. Blanks are not blanks when they when that muzzle is anywhere near you that blank will kill you just as effectively as a ball round. Always remember that I don't want to hear anybody tell me well he put the barrel he had a blank and they're going in he put the barrel right up to his head and pulled the trigger and yeah and blew his brains out well he put a dimple hole in his brain you know in his skull it didn't go off the other side. Little pieces of shards of probably inert brain yeah those are the final project of the killed in you know blank all the all weapons are deadly all all ammunition is considered lethal there's a way to remember it all ammunition is considered lethal but it's a blank Well, you think somebody else might have accidentally shot him with a blank? That can happen if they are very close, but they are supposed to be wearing body armor and apparently got shot in the chest. So, it sounds to me like somebody had a live round in a chamber or something. But, see the thing is, people do this all the time. In fact, remember what was it? One of the Lees. Was it Jet Lee? Oh, Bruce Lee's son was shot in the abdomen and that's how he died. Another actor ten years before that. on television had a series going at the time, was in building a movie, never finished a movie because on the set he brought the gun up to his temple. It's blank, so what's this, bang? He was dead in the day. Remember it's a guest yet. If you take that energy and you close the distance between the muzzle and your skin surface, or if you press it right to your head, well where does that jet of energy go? Yeah, remember that's what's called, most of the blanks are using what is called EC blank. Okay, that's Echo Charlie blank. EC blank. Let me give you a little hint. The powders that are used in many conventional grenades are also of a certain nomenclature. EC blank 1, EC blank 2, and EC blank 3. You get my drift? High velocity powder that's designed with a minimal charge to create a similar cyclic stroke so that it will operate a gas system. Because there's no projectile and because there has to typically be a limiter, the gas is diverted and generates the same velocities and energy that would normally be diverted from a ball round when that gas passes through your operating system and cycles that bolt. Violently. Okay? Blanks are lethal. just as easily lethal. Now here's a little trick, don't throw any blanks away. Let me give you a little hint there, I told you a big clue. EC blank is typically EC blank 1, 1, 2 or 3 and it depends on the era and the size of the cartridge. Just like with you know black powder you know you've got pistol powder, rifle powder, pistol rifle powder, light gun and heavy gun you know grain. EC blank, you save all your blanks and down the road the blanks would be used but for something else you would empty out the blanks and you would put the material into a new containment vessel. And if you introduce a squib or a fuse to a, you know, with a fuse system, then that EC blank is going to travel at about 40 to 50,000 feet per second from the epicenter of the event, which is a very violent shockwave. Now it drops off very quickly like all HE, but EC blank is more efficient than black powder for making things that go boom in the night. So, hand held booms that go, you know, things that go boom in the night that you pull a pin on or that you, for instance, light a fuse to, EC blank is a better choice than black powder. It will create a far more violent response with regard to the reaction inside the chamber before it fractures and sends all those nails. or let's see, well actually brads, those are really good choice, pneumatic gun brads. You lay those around the outside. Hey, you might have access to a place where they pull staples out of old things. Really, literally you guys, old thumbtacks, old anything like that. Oh boy, oh boy. The other thing about it, as I told you before, you don't need the serrations of the container on the outside of the container. You want the serrations to fracture the container on the inside. Remember that you're looking at sculpting the material with the blast. By putting the serrations on the inside, the blast shatters and follows the path of least resistance. shatters and separates all the components creating more fragmentation. In the process it slaps the other material that you've glued to the outside which can be nuts, bolts, screws. It can be wire, a copper wire wrapped around. It looks like you use both. There's nuts and there's also, if you pay attention at the bottom of the thing, there's a wire. Now that could be a pull fuse pyrotechnic booby trap or it's notched. If you wrap wire, what you do is you take your wire cutters and every inch you knock with a wire cutter. You don't cut all the way through, just gouge it. Wrap that around the material of the device you're creating. When the device goes off, the copper wire breaks where all the little knocks are and now you've got how many hundreds of pieces of copper shrapnel moving through the air. at whatever thousand feet per second you generated with the expansion inside the device. Oh, that's kind of ruining everybody's day. Oh, that's stuck in his forehead. Oh, that's good. So again, EC blank, it's out there in force. Blanks, people get rid of them all the time. You're going to have a bunch of these. I don't want them. Blanks, grab them all. Save the blanks. Don't play with them. Don't shoot them. Save them. As blanks, they can be stored indefinitely. They were designed to be stored just like regular ammunition, guys. They've got a painted cantaloure, and they paint the rosette up there at the other end. So that powder in there is good forever just about. Or at least as long as you take care of it, don't dip it in water, you'll be fine. When the time comes, gee, you've also got a case with a primer, and you can do all kinds of fun things with that. You can fill up whatever it goes to with EC blank powder and pop, pop, boom, boom. You've got a solution to the problem. A couple of things here. Before we go any farther, heads up and Don passes on to everybody else. Mr. J, there, you might want some of these. Unamo.com. I've talked about these lifeboat signaling devices, how cheap they are. Guys, 50 ground illumination, one minute, German made and Swedish made, depending on the color. Two of them are German. The third one, the red ones are Lapua, but it's a contractor out of Sweden. They are 50 flares for $90, including shipping. These are the lifeboat flares, they are weatherized, they are in their own containers, their own plastic bags. They are set up and they are outdated for lifeboat use. What I told you before, they take these all out of these cruise ships and then they sell them. Well, UNAMO.com got three flavors. They've got the orange, they've got the yellow and they've got the red. Now, our unit, everybody carries three of the flares of those flares, three of the illumination flares, which are parachute flares, from the same companies, and three smoke from wherever we can get them. Now, the thing is that if they've got the ground flares, which just came in, Keep an eye on UN ammo because the price of the of the pop players is about the same as the ground flares And if they get pop parachute flares for two or three dollars apiece you guys better pounce on them I know they've got them if they're German they're gonna be some of the best players you've ever used kid if they're Japanese they're even better They're superior So UNAMMO.com, UNAMMO.com, go to their fliers and ordnance section. You'll see the right up there so Mark doesn't have to explain it. Don, you're going to be available in just a minute for night vision. How can we get old here? God bless the Republic. Death of the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire thought the Rock. 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