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Is this still the land of the free? Find the mines in occupied territories. I'm IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com and we are on TheGrowEffect.com. We're on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Hallmark and Golden Spike Technologies east and west of the Mississippi. Good for our friends out there in Puerto Rico to the east. We are two territories, one to the east, one to the west, and they're not stars on the flag because they're territories. Okay, so just a little heads up there. Today's date, goodness, no way. Yes, way to the weapons Wednesday. and it is the 28th of December. It is the 8th year of open Fabian, Socialist and Soviet Socialist occupation of America with a K, 2016. Old Earth Calendar 2016 year of battle, year of storm, and we're ticking down the days. Here it is the 28th, guys. Only three full days left to December. And then we are out of 2016. Got the New Year's coming up over the weekend, and of course that'll be on a party hard. because of that. So beware on the road in advance, plan things out. Here's one of the things I've mentioned many times. Pick alternate routes, make a plan to use them, and then go out and experiment. Try them out and see how they work. Secondary roads, there's a lot of routes across Michigan. I can drive across most of southeastern Michigan and not hit a paved road except maybe to cross it or to bridge to another road by maybe 100 yards. And in fact, stay on dirt roads. travel without having to worry too much about lights or again speed restrictions or anything remote but not remote. This is true of most areas if you do a little research and the idea is to know where these old roads are. A lot of them are actually the original reason they're still in the road network is because they're the original primary roads back in the day. Things change, commerce changes, dots on the map change, some go out of business so to speak, towns disappear, others rise up. and that changes the direction of commerce. Also, remember, we went away from rivers because river commerce was very common and we've gone to semi-trucks and aircraft, okay? So that's changed the routes yet again. Anyway, a little air candy for you from another drive. Very important to understand with regard to Well, always knowing where all of your equipment is, not just where your person is. Needless to say, you need to make sure you use both cover and concealment. But let's not forget that the top of your head and or other components that you might be carrying, including your personal firearms, can be exposed just as easily as you and can just as easily become the next target on the map. Anyway, little Robin Williams for you here. If you don't recognize it, that'll give you a big hint. We'll see how many remember this movie. You'll recognize it by the firefight scene coming up. Here we go. The drift of that right. Anybody remember the name of the movie? There's quite a cast of characters in that movie. George Mathau was his name. Oh, nah, I got that wrong. So I was going to say, God, how could I make that mistake from the original Odd Couple and odd they were? Is that where Robin Williams Williams was a radio operator or something like that? No, no, it was, well, he, it's from the, it was an anti-gun slash, anti-prepper slash, oh wait a minute, anti-survivalist movie, remember? Oh yeah. Yeah. The scene is cute nonetheless because it does teach a lesson. And two things, number one, your enemy isn't gonna be polite, okay? And number two, you shot my gun! Well, that's the whole point. By the way, he's carrying a Velma. In fact, an irreplaceable Velma, and it actually looks like they fragged the gun. It was a movie in the movie production, they don't care. But they actually gagged the barrel in the movie towards just in front of the gas action. So, you know, the gas, the gas diverter. So nice firearm, by the way. There were several of them before they became one of our friends who just sold back in the $7,460. Brand new in the box. The magazines are HK91 modified by the factory, by Velmae. He just sold it for $6,000. Goofy price some of this stuff gets guys. And it's like, wow, you balance this out. It's a beautiful farm, seriously. I love the Velmaes. You know, what the problem is, it's kind of like other weapons. If it was an inherited rifle, it ain't going nowhere. But if I bought it and I can turn that gun around for a little under $6,000, he can buy a whole lot of anything else he wants. You know what I mean? Time, when you look at certain weapons like that, it's like, is it going to go into somebody's hands where they're going to appreciate it? Yes. Is it going to be taken care of? Yes. So if you're worried about the puppy being maintained, don't worry about it. But when weapons like that are available and they can be turned around, you know, at no great loss of, you know, conscience to you, then down the road they can go. And I don't even, like I've said many times, there are Ithaca's and Winchester's and Mosberg's, even the old Mosberg's, and a lot of other guns that are, you know, perfectly serviceable. Like I mentioned the Model 12 earlier, you know, that was a bread and butter gun for the longest time, and the 12 is still very serviceable. You can beat the snot out of somebody. That's one of the reasons guys like the Model 12. You were on the road and you got into a little bit of a problem. You know, you don't want to shoot somebody if you can help it, but by God you can beat them with a Model 12, turn right around, if they still get persnickety, put a bullet in them. Well, put a 12 gauge in them, okay? Boom, lots of pellets. But the 12s are a stupid price now. They've been creeping for a long time. A sleeper gun, which I think is rather interesting, which you've seen, all of you have seen it. How many of you remember the lever action that Schwarzenegger used in the second Terminator movie? the and they were made in 10 but mostly in 12's but you could find them in 12's, 10's and even 20 gauge and in other gauges because Winchester would build you a shotgun in any spec just like their rifles whatever you wanted Winchester was notorious for building it for you if you're willing to pay for it but again it was a cool it's interesting gun for the longest time it was a $200 shotgun it was a sleeper nobody thought it talked twice about it they didn't get any interest but as soon as that came out oh god Then they went right off into Stuller. Plus, again, it's inevitable because it's a Winchester gun, pre-1800, no, pre-1898, and a lot of them were out there. So there again, it's a personal balance thing. If you know you'll never be able to buy another one, you could never afford another one, that's where you have to decide if you're going to keep it. If it's one of those things where I do like it, but whoever gets it's probably going to appreciate it and do more with it than I ever will. and I get money out of it, I can use to buy 10 more AR-15s. You know what I mean? It's like, well there's no question. And it's true of even more modern arms. That Velma is not an old gun. Well, it is an old gun. It's not like you're selling a muzzleloader, a three band infield, okay? It's a modern firearm. It's just there aren't any more coming into the country. And they blocked them. And one of the reasons is because of the quality. I believe that Velma was hurt simply because people were leaning towards him and they know that the guns have a very high barrel life, precision in manufacturing, very reliable because it's an AK action, and their RPK gun, which is the last one, that's the one that was just sold for almost $6,000, one of them that was still in the box, the other three the guys still have. What's an AK action? It's an AK system, an AK action, AK-47. The Velmais is made by Finland. Finland's logic for as long as they've existed just about is, you know, use the weapon of the country most likely to invade you, which typically has been Russia. So before the semi-automatic rifles, Velmais and all the others produced bolt-action Nagats. They produced their version of the Nagat. In years past before that, a number of other cartridge guns and before that muzzle loaders that basically were knockoffs or spinoffs of the standard arms for the three northern European countries that were most likely that they would be fighting Sweden, Norway, and Russia. And in this case, in modern times, almost all of the Velma, well all the Velma designs are an AK-based design. That's an AK action. In other words, the receiver group, you would recognize it completely if you start staring at it. The big difference is that they went more with an HK, depending on the modeling year, they made more of an HK type front sight. Immediately it has a different bayonet fixture which you will notice because the fins have a philosophy about the bayonet. that's different from others and in fact they have a very traditional design that goes back to the ancient days, back to the Vikings and they've stuck with that bayonet design forever. As far as the new rifles they all have that. It's also a fighting knife for them. It has the folding stock I mentioned, a very unique folding stock. But like I said, unless you run into a Muddy Arts if, you run into a Valme, it's an 8K design, but it's a Finnish Valme rifle. Somebody's got one for a couple hundred dollars, a three, four hundred dollars, that's a steal. Jump on it. Yeah, jump on it, literally. We don't need to hesitate for anything 500 or less. If it's a Valme and you can confirm and you know it's a .223 or a .762 by .39 or a .308 rifle, when they built their RPK, They also made a Dragunov knockoff, but these are true RPK slash Dragunov receivers. When they brought the 308 in, they had not completed their research on their own magazine, nor did they have an interest originally. What they did is they took steel HK91 mags, milled off on both sides of the upper part of the magazine where all the little ripples and stipples are from the stamping. They modified that and then they also attached a rear magazine tab so that it locks in like a regular AK mag. And they worked really well. They're collectible in and of themselves because they are a factory produced modification done by a military service. Now, they started out doing all machined receivers. Velma then went to stamping, stamped receivers, and they were very dissatisfied with them. So there are variations on the rifle itself because they felt that it was not, they didn't meet their specifications so they went back to a machined receiver. Another thing about Velmae, and I've also mentioned this about the Lottie firearms. In fact, even your bolt-action Nagots that are out there, all of these firearms are built for the Arctic Circle combat environment. Their metallurgy is designed to deal with extreme cold. That's something I need, I should have mentioned earlier, we were talking about the finish variants on the moisten they got, the ones that are finish made. A lot of you guys bought them when they first came in for like $60 a piece. They're excellent firearms. Interestingly enough, they're one of your first better choices for extreme cold weather like sub-zero weather because their metallurgy, they were actually pulled and produced, okay, in the way that they were tempered. They're designed to handle the extreme deep cold weather and how it affects metals in general. Fire and pins will snap and break just under normal service in sub-zero weather. That is not the case with the Lottie and not the case with the Valmé and certainly not the case with the Nagats that were made for Finland. Now the Russians are just sloppy. The Finns went more precise on all their tolerances because they wanted to tighten the gun up even more and they did. There were some complaints about that from One Direction and there were pluses from the other direction so it balanced out. They're like the Rolls Royce of 8Ks and agains, aren't they? Oh yes, in the 8K if you can go to a show but most people won't let you work the actions guys. That's how hard it is to get replacements. All the parts are goofy price if they're actual Valmé. But once you work one, if you have somebody that's using one that's a working rifle and they're not going to care if you've got somebody carrying one and you're training with them, ask if you can handle that rifle. Drop the mag, check the chamber, and work that action. Before I carried the M14, I was trained on the M14 but I carried an AK-47. And the 47 that I carried was a machine receiver early Chinese defense rifle. I'll tell you what, that gun just had the whole mechanical action. It sounded different, felt different. The tinny ones that came in later, hey, I'm happy with them no matter what anyway. They all work. But two different worlds. And the all machine receiver, again, fit and finish and polish is the key. And the fins are king of the hill on that. I was always told the AKs you can drop them in mud and the damn thing is still fire. Well, yeah, all AKs are good hot and cold, they run under all environments, their tolerances are sloppy and it's a self-cleaning rifle. The nature of the tray type system that they've set up, the FNFL has that same concept built into it. It is a trade self-cleaning bolt system. Plus, there's a lot of space internal for slop wear and tear, internal junk coming in. And the gas system itself on the AK is very forgiving and it's built to be forgiving. It has a progressive series of clean points. and ports that evacuate carbon as it builds up. Now they needed to do this anyway, not so much because of the volume fire of the gun guys, but because of the crappy quality of their ammo. Understand that they knew full well they'd be making junk ammo like they always have whenever they get into war, because Russia never had enough of anything in any war it's ever gotten into. And for that reason, what they do is they come up with the cheapest, crudest, easiest way to build something, and that's what they stick with. And so the AK is built based on, like I've always said, the potato farmer engineer. OK, who's going to be operating it? A potato farmer. OK, he very little in the way of mechanical skills, typically. Hasn't handled much in the way of machinery, because they wouldn't let the peasants handle much in the way of machinery. and it had to be very forgiving of stupid mistakes made and or just playing you know battlefield you know detritus and debris being part of the nature of the beast. You're talking about this velma is that the same thing even though it's a tightened up AK? Yeah the velma is the same quality and potential it's just it's a better quality gun their finish is better or worse On the spectrum, the Bulgarians kind of caught up with the Finns back in the late 80s and early 90s. The Bulgarians, of course, had the new barrel process which basically paralleled and competed against Finland's barrels. Now, Russia was buying a certain number of Finnish barrels and then when Bulgaria came out with their new AK barrel, which was superior in performance across the board, Russia started putting the Bulgarian barrels on their AKs. But they had been buying Finnish barrels for the exact same reason because of the high standard in production. Not on every gun, but they had obviously a purchasing program with something in mind. I would assume Marksman's weapons were again a research program, who knows. But the Russians were doing that with both of the countries that were making a knockoff of the rifle. Now the Velma has some very specific features. Go look it up. It has very specific features, makes it very easy to identify it as a Velma. But the basic design hasn't changed. And again, it's just a matter of fit, finish, everywhere. The fins are meticulous. They do good work. They always have. And everybody is typically very proud of those guns if they're able to acquire them. The problem is there aren't any coming in so whatever's here is all that's here and that's where the price has gone stupid. Yeah, when I get done with my M4, I get that thing built, I'm going to get an AKA out. So I just AKA just, I've always wanted one. Well, in the AKAs, and again, we're not neglecting them. I know everybody, I've had a couple who say, why don't you talk about the AKAs, Margot? Guys, we've talked about the AKAs for decades. How do you think we got the Sega's out and sold? Remember, we told everybody when you can find an AK that's Russian made for $165, by God, don't slow down and buy it. And so all you guys are smiling right now that bought those Sega's when they were out there so cheap. And now those Sega's aren't cheap anymore. Not like they were. They were bargain basement there because nobody was thinking to pick them up. But you know, I don't even bother with the Sega's. I don't need a pistol grip. I don't need to modify the gun and put all this stuff back on it. Just to reverse. Out of the box, the idea is that I've got a working functional firearm. Well, the Russians had to make it work or they couldn't have marketed it, number one. Number two, it is a sleek firearm in its configuration, making it a really good cash firearm in its original configuration with a C-type stock, you know, with a setup just the way it is out of the box. Magazines are available, so the gun works. Okay, it works well. And the SAGAs were AKs. They're all, not were, they are AK. There's AKs you're going to get. They're made right in the factories where the other ones are made. And the same is true with all of the other variations you're seeing that we've had in the way of Marksman's rifles that came through. Okay? in the Russian AK patterns. They're all factory made. In fact, they were made in the configuration you see way before they started importing them here because they were actually issued out like during the Cold War. They issued out Hunter's rifles. They would be, everything was already, they had gun control just like what they want to do here. Everything's tracked, everything was IDed, and you would be issued out a weapon for it to be a government hunter. and the out in Siberia for instance or wherever. But the weapons that you see like the especially the 7.62x54R long barrel guns, those were not military issues. Those were things that were built specifically for the commercial hunters and for harvesting. So just a little heads up on that one. And they were well built, just as well built as any military arm. You'll get shot dead by them just as quick. Now the problem is again, well not a problem, I can't say this, but the price has crept up a little bit, but we've got to admit, guys, you can now buy a fully American-made AK, top to bottom. So that's a double plus good thing, you know what I mean? If you're, you know, somebody says, well who's a commie gun? Okay, well then buy the non-commie gun, buy the AK-47 in 760x39, 100% American-made, there you go. Any idea if those barrels are chrome, like the commie guns? They come both ways. I've noticed, and again, it's a price issue. If you want to buy them with a carbon steel barrel, you can get them with a carbon steel barrel. If you want them with a soft brush, well, it's hard chrome. But with the soft brush where it needs to be so you don't get the high reflection around the chamber, they've got those too. I've seen them both ways. In fact, pretty much anything you want for an AK American made is now available. Folding stocks, replacement stocks, you can either replace some of the parts on your gun with American or you can build a whole new gun American or you can buy American. But again, you're going to be charged a little bit more but still less than say an arsenal AK right now or any of the others and they're beautiful firearms. There's not an AK I wouldn't carry. When the Chinese guns came in, guys, we ran those into the ground. I had hundreds of people I was fielding with OpFor. We grabbed every one of those weapons as they were coming in in quantity and took them into the field and we abused them intentionally. In fact, like clothing and gear. If I have something I tell you about, typically I'll personally wear it and I try to see if I can break it. In other words, how does it wear if I was just not, you know, I just couldn't do anything else. And again, I get this stuff at wholesale price. I'll buy a sample. And the same was true with the firearms except we did it in mass. We carried a lot of Velmais. Well, we could still get Velmais. We were buying, I tried to get everybody to buy a Velmais years and years and years ago. Get a Velmais. Why? Well, there's only so many. And then of course they cut them right off and that was a bush thing. And when bush off the Velmais rifles, that was pretty well all she wrote for them. But then another rifle that is out there. And I was talking this morning about weapons that Mark doesn't talk enough about. The DeWoo rifle, now we're bouncing around but we're not. The DeWoo 223 is probably one of the finest utility western designs made. It doesn't get talked up because they don't want to talk it up. Why? Because it has the best of both worlds. It's an AK type action in terms of the gas system, which is most critical, and the one issue about the M16 that has always been up and down in a debate. Well, they eliminated that completely. But otherwise all M16 internal parts M16 standard mag and this is a rifle made by a third party, you know, South Korea Now we took those weapons into the field without for because big close enough the AK that you really couldn't tell the difference most people couldn't barely tell the difference between most rifles they look at but as far as the you know, Lack of training goes But the DeWO is in .223 and we also acquired them in the 7.62x39 function flawlessly. Now these were the standard fixed stock, standard iron sights, beautiful firearm and about a little under, well a little over but not much, a little over half the price of an AR-15. Made by an ally, Korea. Oh as soon as we started looking at, everybody started looking at that in this country that was a shooter, oh they cut them off right now. the same thing happened with the Chinese when they started bringing the 223 AKs in. And I argue this because it was for the same reason with all of these weapons. The best of both worlds. An AK action and 223. Let's see, buy all the cheap Chinese mags because they were $5 and $6 apiece for the 223 mags. Buy a ton of the mags, buy the rifle, it'll run forever, and it's in the standard US military caliber so you're not going to have any problem with ammo. Oh, they cut those off as quick as they could. And the DeWoo rifle the same way because again the DeWoo doesn't have a lot of the other hiccup issues that the M16 has. Then there also is a .308 version and there's a semi-automatic shotgun, well actually the full auto shotgun originally, but they offered the semi-auto shotgun and cut that off right away. I think 1,500 of those got into the country or maybe a little more but not many. About 1,500 were the first import and then they cut them right off. Kind of the same thing that happened with the Spas 15. The first 500 came in and everybody goes, what the hell is that? Well, that's a spy shotgun. No, that's not a spy shotgun. I watched The Terminator. That's not a spy as 12. It's not a spy as 12. It's a spy as 15. Looked like it took an M16 and made it out of Taffy and pulled it in all directions. And it was magazine-fed, semi-automatic, 12-gauge bumper gun kids. and it worked just fine. Well, only 1,500 of those came in. And so again, this happens whenever it's something that looks like it's sensible and works, oh, especially where it can probably really capture the market. Oh, that ain't going to go no more. It's like the Velmaize. There was nothing odd about the Velmaize. The Velmaize were not something you could, you know, you just, you could be no easier or harder to convert a Velmae AK to full auto than any of the other millions of AKs we brought in. So that was not an issue. The issue was quality because there's a math formula. Let me bring this up. There's a math formula for the CIA and these intel groups, and I've told you this many times for how long your rifle will last in constant service. And the average lifespan based upon intentional metallurgical failures is supposed to be about two years in a nonstop combat environment with consistent use. So Uncle Mark here has told you many, many, many times by firing pins, extractors, and ejectors. It's one of the things they hate me for, I am sure, as much as anything. I'm telling you one of those little secrets you're not supposed to know about. See, they don't mind if you have, say, 12,000 of these Model 19-19 semi-automatic Turkish shotguns. How many firing pins, extractors, and ejectors did you buy for it? How many spare parts are available for it? If we get into a constant fight and you have to constantly be using the thing and you're spraying and praying because everybody's conditioned by Hollywood to do that, well then guess what? The function meter is ticking on that weapon. The function meter is ticking down whenever you time you pull the trigger. And again, some weapons are built so well they don't want them here because that formula doesn't work. Now there's two ways to get around it. You know those beautiful AR-15s you've got, like we've said. And then failure to feed. Failure to feed. Failure to feed. Okay, well, what I got? Oh, I got a malfunction, or I got something jammed in the barrel. If I can't get it to work at all, I can pop two pins, drop that whole assembly, add that upper assembly, put another upper receiver on that lower receiver and keep fighting. And the time it takes to push two pins, pull that receiver group off, put the other receiver group on, push the two pins in, and bang, bang, bang, bang, go to town, pew, pew. See how much of it, that's a big advantage. So even if we do have a malfunction issue, even if they did an FN thing to us, because you see FN years ago, as I pointed out, all of the rifles that they built malfunction for the US Army, 100%. It is impossible that FN could do that. That was by intent, not my accident. And it is amazing that the American military, whoever the inspectors were that were bribed or failed us, should have been dragged out and put against a wall and shot. But instead, they just let it ride and they used up our American parts inventory to fix those stinking FM M16s so that we could kind of get them to work. But right from the first purchase of those, they had such a maintenance problem that the armorers were just constantly replacing parts until by the time they were done, every small part on the weapon or every wearable part on the weapon had to be replaced prematurely or again, very early in the life cycle of the gun. That was sabotaged and that was done by FN. Now you're in the same situation, but again, somebody's telling you, make sure that you've got a parts inventory. For you guys who have set mes, Apex Gun Parts has got the arsenal boxes back in. It's got everything, top to bottom, spare parts, armorers, tools, you name it. Go take a look at it and see if it's worthwhile. It's a couple hundred dollars, but hell, you've got all the components to rebuild your gun more than three or four times, maybe five or six times. So that makes it definitely worthwhile as a prepper slash a survival component, something that really is useful to have on the shelf or for battlefield survival. Air proper planning. Who got that? I'm sorry? Who has that? Apex Gun Parts and they've got a sale on it for Christmas right now. ApexGUNPARTS.COM. Go there and they have the, it's the standard set me 762NATO armorers kit. It has tools, it's mixed depending on which kit you get because they're brought out of service. Last time I looked they had about 46 of them left in stock. They still had some. They're wooden chests. These are actually an armorers repair kit. They've got trigger groups, extractors, ejectors, replacement flash hiders. It's everything and all the replacement parts are new. Definitely worthwhile. And again, you know that, but whatever other parts you have, well, straighten the thing out, inspect everything, and then add your other spare parts to it. That'll work out just fine. Anyway, okay, what we're going to do, we are past the bottom of the hour, and I know that they've taken the bottom of the hour break over there on the other end with our friends way out west. But a reminder, hold on here, oh, I don't want them to make some noise. Whoa, the amputations were horrible. I'm sure that they were. Hold on here a minute and I'll find it and get to where we need to be. And again for everybody out there, spare parts and spare parts. Everything on the battlefield gets picked up. They desperately try to not reinforce that with everything that they do. In a real life situation, even a weapon like in that little joke routine that we played earlier with Robin Williams, you shot my gun! that weapon or any gun that would be damaged by even HE or be shredded, partially damaged, would be carried back for spare parts. Anything usable would be used, and even stuff that you wouldn't think was usable would be used. And small parts if nothing else. That's right. Well, all the small parts, but again, just think necessity is the mother of invention. As you realize that you are short material or you are running out of the technology that you need, you're going to build from whatever you've got laying there. Again, remember you drag the thing back. It's got a barrel. Well, you may not use the barrel for the original design, but the barrel's straight and the barrel's functional. Everything else about the gun is trash. If you don't reuse the barrel on another firearm that's of the same model, building another single-shot weapon from it or a pistol, Using that cut down barrel works quite well. When I say pistol, I got a reminder everybody, a lot of the different guns that are out there that are built, if they use a threaded stock fixed barrel to a receiver, well guess what? Half the battle is having the proper steel for the project. Any barrel, unless it's, you know, again, depending on how thickness of the wall can be actually reamed out to a larger caliber typically. Now you're restricted in the dimensions of the barrel wall and the overall dimension of the barrel itself. In war time, most countries when they do barrel blanks, if the barrel, when they do like a rifle barrel, like the Russians did, the Nagat barrels were in 30 caliber. Well, if the barrel was a reject, they made three peppiest submachine gun barrels. If any of those three barrels were a reject, they'd use that barrel if they could to make a broom had a Mauser barrel, a bolo barrel, or a Tokarev barrel. That's why all of the Russian weapons were in 30 caliber. So that none of that production time was ever wasted. They never lost hours because in some way or another that production use put the weapon, you know, that component towards some other application. especially with barrels because they were universal with regard to again the construction of the basic design and dimension of the gun itself. Okay, let's see, I gotta get at least one piece of ear candy in here for everybody and I know there were some ideas about other things to do. I gotta line something up. Let's see if I've got it here. And Maurice, okay, hold on, Maurice. I'm trying to find your request. One of the first one is too long. It's two steps in from hell. and it's like nine minutes. It's like a cool piece but we're not going to play that. So let me see if I can find your second request while I'm buying time and talking on the radio here. I think we can do something for you. Oh, by the way, also on that, again we did mention magazines but then again we always have so I'll tell you what we'll do. There we go. That's the third year, third request I can handle. I can do it real quick. And everybody's heard it recently. Again, I know but patient. I'll do what I can. There we go. Okay. And for everyone, because again, we are going to be out there, we're going to be sailing. Well, we're going to be into aircraft support too. In fact, ground support, guys, no aircraft is obsolete. Contrary to what everybody thinks, oh, well, what can we then do? Hey, again, talking about the Fins, doing a little research on what they did with the limited air force they had. Remember that everything, no matter what it is, if it's a weapon system, you alter its purpose on the battlefield. Well you're gonna be in, you're like an old tank, what, are you gonna go up against Abrams? No, I'm gonna use my artillery on that Abrams, I'm gonna dump all the crap on it I can. I'm gonna do everything I can to run it down before it ever gets to where I have to shoot at it. Or I'm gonna avoid it, you know? Remember like you said, you know, oh heavy orders, you have to run. If I can smack it with enough of all kinds of other fun shoulder fired things, I can bring that dog down. On the other hand, it's kind of nice to have a piece of armor where I can float heavy weapons around and use them for supporting the infantry. Nothing is obsolete. It's a matter of application and understanding that at a given point on the battlefield you have to abandon equipment and destroy it, people. Get over it. Be prepared for that. We don't leave it to the enemy. Look what airplane sunk the Yapamato. I mean, just a ragtag. A couple ragtag airplanes that were just clapping the wings, shot the rudder out, they had to go around in circles. You're talking about the Bismarck. I'm sorry, the Bismarck. Yeah, not the Yamato. The Yamato was taken out by the Aircraft Naval Supremacy, okay? Yeah. The Bismarck, yeah, again, Swordfish. Well, that's, what I'm talking about is, again, knowing how to apply the aircraft and the technology, some areas will be more secure than others. In a war zone, America is a North American battlefield. No place will be secure. Okay, that's something we impart upon everybody. You have to treat the battlefield as a constant 24-7. Everywhere you are is the battlefield. This is why we work hard at camouflaging concealment constantly. It's part of the old, in fact it's more like the old NATO or the old, you know, U.S. Army deployment policies, but on steroids because we have stuff we have today we didn't have back then. as far as ways to cover and conceal and neutralize our signature. So we also have the ability to actually test it because we have the technology the enemy has in our hands. Makes a big difference, guys. Anyway, we're going to do it before we get farther again for our friends out there making a request and 90 point, let me make sure I get 90. We did this this morning with the date. It was a six, we thought it was a six, it was an eight. 90.7 FM and good afternoon to our friends out there. It is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first weapon and best weapon. And, well, actually, pay attention to it. Usually it has a lot of good work and knowledge. It's like a library. We'll be back right here in a second. And enjoy. The rump is lastly more than a year now. We could have bought a whole fleet of Romanian trainers all inside the U.S., bought an entire bow. And it would have cost us no more than a total of about $120,000. The thing is that the same aircraft now in less than a year and a half, well under two years, has now appreciated from being an $8,000 aircraft to being a $35,000 to $40,000 aircraft. So they bought one, paid for half, but three of them, you wouldn't have done it because you couldn't replace what you picked up. There's bizarre stuff like that happens in military inventory all the time, guys. It even came with a couple of hangar slaves. You had maintenance mechanics. Well, in one purchase for $13,000, you got a fully functional, ready to roll certified twin-seat jet coin-attack, or got another hangar queen that was a complete aircraft but not rated, plus spare parts, engines, a mechanic who lived in the hangar, all the spare parts inventory and tools, and full aircraft for $13,000. Now, and you got the slave. I don't know what the arrangement was going to be on the slave, but he was remaining an aviation mechanic and worked on the plane, so he had a pretty good idea what he was doing, and that's kind of priceless. So you're going to end up paying for him in the long run, but it's definitely worth it if you have instead of two, but maybe 14, 15, or 20. Know what I mean? Just something to think about there. You just never know what you're going to run into. All airtime, all stick time is good. How many aircraft you got in your hangar, Mark? I have not hangars. I have all over the countryside. The first plane that I picked up years ago, there were two tail draggers. I got them from YR, it's out of Ipsilanti, Michigan here, on the other side of Michigan Ave. You may have even been down that road if you had to go over industrial down there, on Michigan Ave and Ipsi. And I got two of his tail draggers for $10. And those are in somebody else's hands. I got the airframes. They were actually, they were reconnaissance aircrafts that were made in World War II. They were used in Korea and the early part of Vietnam. They were done by Curtis and they're in line pilot and observer I paid $10 and they were actually designed to be trailer mounted So all I had to do is undo the well actually the way the wings were already disconnected Loaded everything up took it down to one of my friendly points and they've been down there They've already been rebuilt and they're just sitting on standby now. They're they're a raggedy aircraft I mean, they're very simple crude rude recon tail dragger then the next thing I found was a Well, I got a DC-3. We picked up for like $100, found it in a warehouse near Kellogg Airfield over in Battle Creek, Michigan. And that went up north, that's with our air fleet up north, actually towards where Don lives. I picked up a Lear for, like I've told you before, $900. Got a full Lear. The only thing that was missing was the primary, the hatch, the door. Lo and behold, one of the guys that's down the road that's in the militia here, he works for Lear and guess what they built? His particular Forte doors. So I got a grade two rejected door for free. And so the aircraft is complete and it's kept up. I mean, we don't worry about asking for permission for anything. So the BD-5s we've collected, I think I'm up to 29. that we have collected and we've dispersed. Well, actually, they're clutched into two air sections. And of the mostly way I find the BD-5s, it's like you just ask questions. And we found a French single-engine, single-person reconnaissance aircraft just south of us here. I walked, I was talking to a farmer, and he said, well, yeah, my friend's got a plane in his garage used to dust, and he got this thing because it was cheap. It's not a crop duster though, so that's fine. Whenever we looked at it, it was complete in the garage, sitting there, ready to roll. And it got picked up for like $800. And that's fully functional, conventional. And a really good training aircraft, although it would be best if it was a two-seater, but it's a single-man aircraft. Stuff like this is laying all over the place. We picked up helicopters. I don't know how many helicopters total I've picked up. I see it laying all over the place. I've got my multi-engine commercial instrument. I've had it since I was 22. My dad sent me to flight school when I was a youngster. I was supposed to be an airline pilot. That didn't work out. Well, that's good. Yeah, the trucks are much safer because the twin engine, you know how that works, right? You know what the basic motto is? That second engine is designed to get you to the crash site sooner. Yeah, I like the ones that counter rotate, you know, as long as each prop turns in opposite directions, I feel safe. Well, I got three- Now on that note, you see, without having to have the multi-engine, you know, the SkyMasters, the StrikeMasters, were really great for that because those are a quick pull. Yeah, I know. We have three of those, one burned out and the other two I picked up, oh, back in 83, 84. When I was working as an Op-4 commander, I always paid attention when I was traveling about and we were in Wisconsin. There was a runway that was an old, again, it was a training site. The first one I got was a burnout because they had a problem with electrical harnesses. For that one I got for the price of the trailer, to call it away. I had to buy a trailer from the guy and that cost me like $200. I put the plane on the trailer after we disassembled it and dragged it back here to Michigan. That's a spare price. It had some problems. Flame and aluminum don't work well together. You got any Piper or SESA multi-engine aircraft laying around? No, you know what? I had an opportunity and I kicked myself in the rumpus. I mentioned, not deal extreme, Pokemon, gov liquidation. Go look at gov liquidation and keep an eye on it. I don't know why this is happening. but they had a couple of twin engine aircraft. I was just telling you, in fact, our friend just came in. One of our pilots just came in here. He's behind me around the corner. They had two multi-engine aircraft, twin engine, disassembled and palletized in the auction. Now the interesting thing is usually they hold the engines and they clip the, you have to cut the props in three places. These were complete kits. Everything was there. They had just disassembled them. The one was a Cessna, or not a Cessna, it was a Curtis. The other, I don't know what it was, but they were both there complete and they were actually, the final bid on them was like $800 each. I mean, giveaway price. Well, there's stuff like that that still comes through the system. And again, watch what's laying around. If you're multi-engine, be your prop, right? Well, it might put you beyond the stick of a lier here if we have to down the road. Well, that's what I told you, man. I mean, not the car, I'm gonna fucking check down and I'm gonna fly one. It's a $900 lier, what can I say? God bless the republic. That's the new world order. We shall prevail. The Empire is up. We're in the march, day and night. In that last screen, Rick Takeover, he's coming up next, right? For Bitten House Liberty Street Radio. Moving back in a double S, guys. Bye bye. We all need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit mainmilitary.com. Mainmilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. Do you own a firearm? Mainmilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. 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