A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his... His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat, speaking low to me. He said, we fought a revolution. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free, the freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. 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, 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's 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 attacks 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. It's number you 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 and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torture freedom bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as Tyrant trampled each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is the... first hour of the afternoon intelligence report of our currency. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, southwest, east, northeast, and central. Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com Liberty Tree Radio on satellite and we are on AM & FM microstations AM & FM conventional stations CB Bay stations and Ultra Net Hallmark and Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to all of our friends out there in Lower 49 including the Great City Sheriff's along with CONUS the Outline Two States Territories in the clock. It is time right here. Oh, that's interesting. Ah, as a matter of fact, the clock, oh, 506 there, thank you very much. 506 PM Eastern Standard Time. It is the 14th of July, meaning the end of the full second week of occupation and, well, July is, oh my, it's halfway gone already, guys. We've had rain, we've had all kinds of excitement here. It's Wednesday, Weapons Wednesday. It is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2021 older calendar 2021 battle for the Republic. The dance of sorts let the dance begin and it has been a very busy month for only having 14 days so far past. I want to say again congratulations a lot of our friends out there that are organizing. I've been getting a couple of the different message boards with follow-ups. I understand that this weekend, as of yesterday, we have a meeting that's going to be going on with Colonial Marine Militia at Camp Emmerich. It is going to be, I think, the eastern and northern half of Michigan, along with the western half of Michigan, different commands. In fact, the discussion is mobilization and combat operations. So that's scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday. They're going to be at the facility both days. This is for senior NCOs and also command staff. So there aren't going to be as many people there for this particular meeting, but that's really how it works. So if you're the officer in charge or the executive officer in charge, needless to say, you're going to need to be there. Senior NCOs including brigade, sergeant majors, etc. are going to also be participant. And of course, company and platoon unit commanders will be part of the first day's briefing on new construction for mobilization. So that's all in the schedule. Use your PIN number. Go over to the CMM. the UltraNet site and everything is there posted for each of the units. However, I will remind you about something here. It's Colonial Marine CMM policy for any of the meetings. You do not have a vote if you do not attend. And you do not, we do not do this electronically. All of these meetings, just like what's supposed to happen, wonder if the Wolverine Militia Corps' Constitution. It's a face-to-face meeting. If you do not attend, you are not participant. If you can't make it to that one day every six months, there's something wrong. And in this case, this is another day, but then obviously you're not as motivated. So if you are not going to be able to attend because of something happening, family member dying, something really critical, you're in the hospital, then make sure that an assigned individual is there to represent the unit for your particular task, depending upon your position. because each of these activities needs to be covered. We are looking at, again, full mobilization when the time comes, and you need to be physically in place. So again, for everybody out there, you can't make it because of some critical issue, and it better be critical. Otherwise, you are expected to attend. Again, we're looking at only 27 or 28 commands. In addition to that, one or two subaltern units and of course the individual command elements of each one of the commands that have to participate in the junior officer's reorientation that will be taking place on Saturday. So you need to attend. I've seen the writing up on it. I understand what you're doing. And again, this is like the counties. A lot of them are doing face-to-face right now in preparation for war. I truly believe the states are already in conversation about this. If they're pro-firearm states, they know the ramifications. There are other states, they're very quietly in the, you know, in not negotiation, but conversation about, you know, what-ifs. And this is also true with, for instance, the Michigan militia at large, they've already had these meetings months ago. Right now, they're just on pinter hooks waiting for the jump off, so. The big thing with this type of mobilization is standardization on final communications frequencies, alternate combat rally points depending upon what part of the state is involved in an action, rally points, travel routes, etc., which will be controlled by our people on the ground that are friendlies to reinforce units that may be in travel. This is something we had as a bit of a problem with the Houtari situation when that took place. While we did have three different militia commands that were actually in training exercises, it was optimal for us. One of the things that slowed us down a little bit is that we didn't have a full patchwork of pickets and scouts in front of us as we traveled down the road with units. We certainly had reconnaissance, but that means you're tying up manpower and we don't necessarily need to do that. We can speed that up with the locals. doing the reconnaissance and staying in place on the route for the response units to travel. So that's been established with some groups but it needs to be more of a standardization on that. It's kind of like the issue would happen April 18th, 1775. To a degree, most people don't realize some of the hurdles at some of these militias but also remember the messengers had to deal with. Paul Revere was captured. Other individuals were captured at different times. Now part of this is that remember they were the telephone company so to speak. So they were the first out there and they had to run the gauntlet. And in some cases they didn't, while they got caught, they were able to progressively escape. But again, this retarded some of the activities. When it comes to troop movement, On April 18th, moving to April 19th, a lot of units just moved cross country and didn't care who they ran into. Now, there were no Tory threats, but there was always the possibility of running into other regulars in the process. They didn't have that problem, and the actual conflict didn't start until the militia finally did, from the outbound, get to Concord Bridge. Then when the shooting started and the exchange took place, you know over the bridge and beyond the bridge back towards Concord Everybody seems to forget I've noticed this with even the stuff There's a thing that Guns and Gadgets just did about Lexington and Concord Well guys, the one thing he didn't touch on is, remember the Concord militia were not on the side of the bridge where Concord was. You all understand that, right? They tried to avoid conflict by, you know, stepping away from Concord under the logic that the British regulars would follow the militia. Now the rest of the town had been evacuated for most all of the useful goodies that they had, but there were some things that were taken when they sacked Concord. And the militia was on the far side of the bridge, away from Concord. Now, the other militias that showed up, they showed up unhindered. The Acton militia is the most famous because they are actually the ones that kicked off the war. After Lexington, it was the Acton militia that moved forward before most everybody else that was standing there, and they took the first hits. And that point forward, the rest is history. One of the considerations is, again, since we have a complete latest work of militia, pro-malicia forces all across the state, and your states are pretty much in the same situation, they can be used if we're mobilizing and pulling force strength to another part of the state, those units that are there can be mobilized to in advance sweep the routes of travel and if need be, identify where the threats are located. And if fighting escalates before you get to the primary location, the idea is through overwhelming force you sweep those objectives both with the locals and with the response units and then proceed with the mission on down the road. The other option is to circumvent. If you know where the check or control points are which are typically in vertical control point areas, bridges, high elevation or elevation points along the edges of hills where you have an arc so you can't see around it. They can create a control point. These are all spots that we're constantly watching for. And in a battlefield situation or an escalating situation, those types of booby traps, those types of ambushes would be destroyed. It wouldn't probably be any conversation. They'd be engaged and they would be destroyed. Anybody, a participant, would be casualties for their first actions of the war as it escalates. Another thing that is still not completely settled is medical support. We've talked about this many times. There's a lot of conversation about it. We do have in Michigan a lot of different medical units that are organized. What we need to see is everybody on the same sheet, but that's not as critical right now. The big thing is that we actually do have the medical support infrastructure built. But what we need to ensure is that we can maximize what we've organized so we're not piling people up on top of each other where they're not needed and we can more effectively use the medical detachments and medical units to the best of their ability. So that's being worked out. There are people going to have to deal with that. Can't micromanage everything. But right now the fact that they've organized is a good deal. So everybody, double plus good. Keep up the good work. Don't slow down. And I want to say thank you to Stephen for the message on the board, you know, with a follow up about what's going on at Emmerich. So, rest of you guys, check your colonial marine pin number on the CMM site. And that's only for members, as you know, you know what to do and you'll get all the information you need. I think I heard a voice, who do we have? Just to be safe. Okay, now, it's Weapons Wednesday. Yay! Okay. One of the things that we touched on the other day, yesterday, was the revolvers. Tex-Mex brought up the fact that, you know, looking at Smith and Wesson revolvers right now, just for K-frames, $500 and more apiece, I know. They've all obtained unobtainium prices, okay, or ludicrous, like precious metal prices. The Smiths are beautiful guns, love Smith and Wesson's, love Colts, like Rugers. I like pretty much any gun. But, you know, Smiths are really, you know, sweet operational pieces of equipment. They work every time. You know, point, pull the trigger, point and click, they work. Right now, you could build two Smith and Wesson Model 10s for the price of one over-the-counter gun with the present pricing system the way it is. If you go to JGSales.com, JGSales.com, JGSales.com, they have K-frame, round butt or square butt, I don't care which one, and you shouldn't worry either, don't spend $20 to get one over the other. Whatever one you get, trust me, if you want a round butt for that gun, you can get Pockmyers and others, you know, Buckmyer, Pockmyer, let's see, rubber grips, used or new and there you know you could sure if you got a square but they can make it around but if you got around but you can make it a square target grip and it's no big deal and you're going to get another set of grips probably anyway so guess what worry more about the idea that you've got the best price so you can take the money you save and spend it on the things you need. In this case over at JG sales on the front page they have model 10 Smith and Wesson's They are $200 a piece. They were cheaper. They're not. But for $200, they have about 200 of them, a little under 200 of them in the inventory. So whoever gets these, congratulations, you're it. But you can go to a number of different locations. Now, the first is the frames are at JGSales.com. These guns came from Canada. I already talked to them, already got the history on them. and they were processed and they had to take the barrels off them to get them in because otherwise they're snub-nose and there's some kind of code or ordinance they got now where they don't have the match sites. They don't have target sites on them. They're evil, evil, evil personal defense guns, which is rather bizarre. But by the way, they've also stopped pretty much all the rest of the arms corps guns and such from coming in. As I talked about here months ago, you notice you hardly see any of those in the inventory. They used to be a bread and butter item. That was a Smith & Wesson copy of a K frame and a 2 inch or a 4 inch gun. Both the same price, about $200 brand new, would get you a nice K frame Smith & Wesson type revolver. And like I said, good price at the time. They've had price creep for the ones that are out there. But there's none around that we've seen, and they're not $200 apiece anymore. So these K frames you're paying 200 for the frame, but you need barrels and you also need a barrel pin. The barrel pins will run an average of about $2 apiece no matter where you go. So that's not a problem. The barrel pin is the barrel lock pin that crosses through the frame and into the barrel notch where the barrel is settled once it's screwed in. Okay? It's a threaded barrel and it is going to require a feeler gauge and end up with a feeler gauge. Don't have to do any other timing on the revolver itself. That's all done. The big thing is you're going to mate up and make sure that there is a proper distance between the cylinder face and the barrel face. And that's where the feeler gauge, that's where your flat sheet metal feeler gauge comes in. Kind of like the way you tune only this is permanently tuned. At least Smith's Revolver or the Colt is the same way you do with Dan Wesson. If you're not familiar with Dan Wesson, go watch a video. It would be like, wow, that's a lot simpler than it should seem. Well, it is. It's actually relatively simple. It's not the hardest task, but you do have to be slow and cool about the process of putting a new barrel or putting a barrel on the gun. Now, the barrels that I'm going to be talking about are weapons that have been knocked off of other firearms, other Smiths. But there are some pretty good buys and some of them are not knocked off. They are brand new inventory, old inventory. Okay, so there's a mix. You'll have to look at the prices. You'll see what I'm talking about. For barrels, the JG sales doesn't have barrels and if they did, they'd be putting them on the guns. They just felt they didn't need or want to do it because of all the other issues. So they're selling the frame, the gun complete without the barrel as is. You go over to GunPartsCorp.com. GunPartsCorp.com. Gun Parts Corp. That's www.GunPartsCorp.com. Punch in Model 10 Smith and Wesson barrels as a search. You will have a whole bunch of barrels show up. Some of them are repetitious images. Now one that is mid-priced of the bunch that are there is about $56 or $57. Now that puts it over $250 for the gun right there. But it's an air weight barrel. An air weight, well my gun is not an air weight, doesn't make any difference. It's a Smith & Wesson Model 10 frame. The air weights were pilot guns. That's where they were most common and they were air weight to shave space, you know shave weight off, volume's still the same. Most of them, like when you see the air weight chiefs and all of that, that's where they were originally smith hung with their aluminum frames. But they did make model tents that were aluminum. And because of this, the air weight barrels have a tendency to be a much brighter finish. They're a gloss blue finish because the anodizing on the frames typically was also quite shiny and bright. They matched up nicely. They did a good job with the coloration. But the nice thing is that these barrels are in excellent condition, they claim. I don't doubt it. Gun parts Corp is pretty reliable for rating their parts. They know what they're doing. They sell them. And in this case, that barrel is a four, I believe, and 1 1�8 inch barrel. It's perfect. That's standard. It is not a bull barrel. There are bull barrels available. They are a lot more expensive. I mentioned them the other day, and when they were cheaper. Well, they've gone up in price. So this air weight model, it is within spec. They do have them in stock. And the nice thing is that because it's the lighter weight barrel, it does have the longer front sight. But it still is set up for a V notch slash post combat sight, which is typical for police guns, both the snubby chubbies and the model tens that were standard four inch guns. Well, two inchers, they just have a slit in the rail. That's what's built into the gun right now. That's what you're getting when you buy the gun. And you just have a post for the front, and all you do is line the top of that post with the top of the frame and line it up right in the middle of where there's that slit in the frame. That's where your sight goes. And you line that up on the target, pull the trigger, and you should be doing some kind of damage to the objective. Now the neat thing about this is that these barrels are new However, and again remember these barrels the barrels that were originally on were torqued off. I understand they were destroyed They were only two inch barrels. This is this has a short pushrod for the ejection, you know for the ejection system I don't care about that. I'm looking for pretty I am building a shooter So there are several different barrel options. There aren't a two inches out there and I wouldn't build it that way anyway It's a K-frame which is a little bulkier. The K-frame is a nice middle range like the Chevy gun of the revolver world. And many, many, many, many, many were built for the last 100 years. It is the year 2021. And the K-frames are already around back in 1921. So this is a 100 year model basic design even though there are some changes. The basic gun has been out there for a very long time. The bull barrel is set up for a long rod because it would have that normally because it has the barrel length obviously. But for a shooter, whichever barrel you choose, unless you want to go through the trouble, and personally I wouldn't go through the trouble of extending the push rod on the ejection system, no, I would leave it just the way it is. Just slap it with the base of the side of your hand when you do offload. Open the cylinder, slap it the way you normally would, and it'll work just fine. After all, it did work with a two-inch barrel, right? Well, nothing changes except that there's more barrel, and you don't have the lineup with a little key lock, a bumper lock there like you do on the shorter barrel, the way you do on the longer one. It still works just fine, trust me. The big thing here again is there are a number of barrel options. You can take a look at the pay attention to the model type. It's a model 10. Take a look at the JG sales posting and then go take a look and compare notes with what's available through gunpartscorp.com. Now they're not the only ones. Also Apex Gun Parts does have model 10 barrels on a regular basis, only a very small number. Okay. Very only a couple of examples. I will mention that Sarco, esarcoinc.com, sarcoinc.com has a couple of model pin barrels, they're five inch victory model. As far as I know, the threading is the same. Again, the Victory models were set up with the B-notch combat type frame, so that frame that you're buying should line up with that particular barrel. The only thing that I would question, because it is a Victory model barrel, it is probably in the larger 38-4 setup for the 38 Smith & Wesson cartridge. And while it would work, it would be a little sloppy. There's something that heads up on. Now, if I can confirm that those are late war because there are a number of, there were a number of 38 models that were done at the end of the war, in fact through the war, to be quite honest, a lot of guys carried them privately. The gun was available in that configuration. So I don't know what the bore diameter is of those barrels, but they are cheap. They've got them for $15 a barrel for used and about $25 a barrel for un-issued. Okay? So, if you wanted to talk to Sarco, they could give you an idea, okay, what's the bore diameter on the barrels? What were those? Those were all the victory models. Were they contract? Were they export? You know, which variant was it? And then that'll give you an idea of whether or not you want to go that way. It is argued, let me point something out here, Lee Harvey Oswald carried a Smith and Wesson Model X. Did you know that? You realize that they argued that there was something goofy about that gun, and what's interesting is a lot of guides. Now, attention, don't do this at home. Don't do this with a gun anyway. You can get 38 Smith and Wesson cartridges still. But a lot of guys that were home smiths or people that were gunsmiths did this as a crude-rude solution for the 38th Smith and Wesson. They would bore out the cylinder to 38th special and each one of the chambers has to be bored out. But it was very common to find people running these guns and then using a variety of ammunition in them. Lee Harvey Oswald is supposed to have been carrying three or four different types of ammunition and the gun rather than just one type which is kind of funny because everything that was done by Lee Harvey Oswald was bargain basement so to speak. Really really really bargain basement and yet phenomenally he did so much and got away with so much etc. which it's either a he was you know Jason Bourne of you know 1964 right 1963 forgive me He was the Jason Bourne in 1963. You know, you drive the Russian, you know, lobby car like it's a Maserati. You take a double barrel shotgun and go up against a guy with all the most sophisticated weapons and win every time, etc., etc. Well, it's interesting, 6.5 Carcano, a .38 modified, which remember he's supposed to have shot the one police officer. Now to be quite honest with the way that they had that gun set up, that sounds to me like a cop drop gun that was set up by one of the cops locally. Everybody always asked about, where'd this have come from or how did this bubble up? Well guys, I told you before cops love to have things that, you know, are hard to identify. Generic, it's kind of like, you know, unconventional warfare. You want stuff that's, you know, so common, it can't really be associated with any particular country. Preferably old service equipment that is rent a revolution. Well, that's basically what that Model 10 was back in the day. It was a throwaway, a barn, a castaway. And it's the kind of thing that would be found on somebody like him if it was put there by the cops. Okay? Just something to think about. There's whole stories on that. Remember, there were no two rounds that were the same in the cylinder of that gun. Now, again, that fits the classic Saturday night special routine. Cops would usually drop the gun on somebody they didn't like and claim, well, yeah, he was pulling the gun on me. And the ammunition can never, you know, no two rounds are from the same location and everything is, you know, hoofed. Anyway, we had a voice. Call her to jump in there, please. Hey, Will from Florida. Two quick questions. Well, One's a question, one's a... Yeah, whatever. First thing is, did you ever check on the tracking number of the box for the... I haven't... Let me explain it this way. I am not near where I normally would be. There's the best way to describe it. Okay. I haven't been there yet. We'll be tonight though. Maybe. Okay. Okay. Yes, if I could get that, that'd be great. Second thing I want to point out. Didn't forget you. Just can't do anything with it for the moment. You're only in till tonight. I know you're busy, that's why I'm reminding, because I know you probably got a lot on your plate. But the other thing I was going to point out was, so I was doing some reading, you know, on some comment sections, yada yada yada, and I found something that was pretty interesting to all of you guys, and this applies to me, that have the carbine styled AR-15s. I remember I asked you about this one. Is it worth using a bayonet on a, you know, AR-15 if it has a 16 inch barrel and it cuts down the bayonet length? Turns out there are actually accessories that are specifically made. They're about $30 that are specifically designed to increase the length of the bayonet lug on the 16 inch AR-15 barrels. You can look up, it's called AR-15 Bayonet lug extender. And they're about $30 and it increases the lug's length by about one and a half inches to make the bayonet fit properly on an AR-15. So I figured that'd be something I would... So it juts forward. It's like a chin that juts forward and extends the lug. Well, yeah, it's kind of like it. It's got on the back of it, it attaches to the lug, and then on the front of it, it has a copy of the lug. Yeah, exactly. And then it also has a screw set on it to secure it even tighter. Good, okay. Yeah, that's what I expected what it would do is they do a male female and then they have them the the male available for introduction to the bayonet That's not a bad way to go the other option Because the biggest problem we got is weebles wobble then they they bet When you do use the standard mount because most people have the regular birdcage the Retainer ring is behind the flash hider and so it weeble wobbles all over the place The solution for that, one of the other ones, which is still probably out there through Tapco, is they made, it was two things just did, it made the car, they made the carbine look more like a car 15. It's a long flash hider, similar to the psionic, you know, psionic suppression, not a silencer, but suppression flash hider. But it's cut deeper so that when you screw it on, it actually rests back deeper along the barrel and the bayonet will fit. Now it's about the same price, so it's six one way, half a dozen the other. Whichever way you want it to go, you could go. But I haven't seen the flash hider in a while, so if this is available, that would be a good option because it would create a three, well, it's actually more than a three point, but basically it's like a three point stabilizer. The bayonet lug itself of course creates the base back fixture and then the circular, you know, the circular retainer ensures that the bayonet can't weeble wobble around. So it works out very well. If that's the case, that's a good solution. Now who has it though? Where were you able to find it? Oh, okay, might be busy and probably it worked. Another thing about that is, again, if you can find the Flash Hider variant, they do... A lot of people like them because a lot of guys are buying the short car 15-diped guns. Because they wanted something like what either Sarge carried or they may have carried if they were in a unit during the middle or end of the war. A lot of different variants on the Kar-15 XM-177 gun were handed out in a number of different situations and Mechanize had them to a degree. The proposal was that they were going to phase out completely the M3 grease gun, which by the way they never did. And to give MEC a little more firepower, and cooperative firepower that would blend with the infantry, they used the XM177 variant as a tread head personal defense gun. Needless to say, also they showed up in helicopters, even if they weren't issued, a lot of times very popular because they're smaller. And that's why guys wanted them. They had seen them or used them or wanted one. And so when all of a sudden all the parts for a car 15 were basically there but they didn't want, they couldn't do the short barrel because of the restrictions you all are re-educated about with length. That's why this flash hider was developed so it created the illusion. of the XM177 flash hider while simply being a basket flash hider with the proper slots to make up to the old model and the thread being deeper, the whole flash hider body actually just laid back deeper over the barrel. And so it was a good mimic. It worked well and it allowed for you to be able to affix the bayonet the way people were interested in doing. Now I would point something out about that too. Remember that the Vanette is mostly used as a motivating tool. Prisoner motivation, for instance. Prisoners maybe, you know, get a little excitable or want to be a little, you know, uncooperative. Well, you prick them with the Vanette, they have a tendency to motivate. Otherwise, remember with the techniques for Vanette use, although again, it's nice to be able to stick a Vanette into a person. deep enough that you hit vital organs, which is why the blades are the length they are, the bayonet was enough to do significant damage and since in many cases everybody was taught cross-draw or again engage and then pull or drag across the body to create a wound channel, there are a number of different techniques. Then with the bayonet located with the original bayonet station but with the longer flash fighter, there's not as much to give you a good deep poke with. But basically, it does put a sharp pointy object on the end of the gun and that really is what everybody wanted. It's in a brawl, remember you're cross drawing, you're going to be slashing, not just stabbing. And if you understand BANET, if you don't understand BANET, go over and do a little research. Trust me, there's tons of information out there. Some of it isn't quite right for the, you know, back in the day, which we can live with, because it still gives you the basic idea of where everybody was going with the BANET by the time we get around to Vietnam. And again, it's the sharp pointing object is still better than a club. When you can poke and create, you know, bleed points, that's better than trying to bludgeon someone to death with your seven pound aluminum rifle. Because that's the other thing to remember. You're carrying a rifle that isn't made of steel anymore. You know the barrel is, but everything else is much lighter and it's not as robust under certain conditions. Remember that you had an issue with the buttstock especially the early car 15s you had a consideration with the buttstock because it didn't have as much support not that the standard m16 had much support to begin with. So damaging the buffer tube was one of the several issues that were really high priority for the education when it came to armorers. because the buffer tubes were going to end up being fragged, bent, sometimes stepped on, and if the buffer tube is mucked up, then the rest of the weapon is very, very not operational. It very quickly becomes either A, a jam omatic, with another point where the bolt carrier can stick if it's bent or if it's oil-ovalized, or it just won't work at all. It'll never go into the buffer tube. Therefore, or back towards the buffer tube, air go can't compress in either the buffer nor the bolt carrier, which typically shouldn't go too far into the carrier to begin with, the tube. What happens is all that gets thrown out the window as a very unsophisticated, manually operated rifle that typically won't operate because it doesn't have any trail. It doesn't have anywhere to go. So you've got a failed weapon. So again, That's a solution and if the other one is out there like I said first place I look is Tapgo if they happen if anybody has any Tapgo inventory and Then again at the gun shows for anybody has been doing AR-15 parts for a long time They might have a source especially if they specialize in AR-15s and they've been doing it for decades a lot of guys have They might know what I'm talking about find that flash fighter on the shelf right there for you Just most people put it out of mind Because the XM177 slash the Vietnam era car 15, it's an interesting idea, but everybody's gone past it to make their own designs or come up with new something new. But this was built to take care of and cater to the post Vietnam market, but it's still a good solution that could be just as applicable today as back then for the purpose of mounting the bayonet. two solutions instead of one now that's a good thing. Oh let's see next oh we're oh we're past the bottom of the hour Edward I'll tell you what we are a little past but we can still live with it. Traditional bottom of the hour break and if you could again for all of our friends out there pay attention because this is my rifle and most all of you know there is no other rifle like it. This is my rifle, my rifle before God. What can ye hear the red ghost? What mind you manage to build in our valleys? There is danger, and there's danger in our hills. Oh, hear ye not the singing of the views of wild and free. Soon you'll know the ringing of the rifle from the tree. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands, the fruit of no frightful. You may ride a good lead speed, you may not turn a master. You forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back-switch faster when you meet our mountain boys. And the leader just starts glad to make what little noise can always hit the mark. Hold the rifle, hold the rifle. In our hands we will prove no frightful. No graves at home, back across the briny water And giddy must come, like bullets to the floor But if we the job must do, then the sooner it is begun If spind and figure hold the butt through, the quicker it will be done Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle In our hands, no proof, no derifle Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle In our hands, no proof, no derifle All right, we are back. There are many like mine, but this one is particularly important. In other words, hang on to your weapon. Without your weapon, you are useless. And without you, your weapon is useless. Well, not completely. If somebody else picks it up, you're in trouble, especially if they're not friendly. That gets down to, again, opposite operational, but especially physical operational security. And this is where the team leaders, UNCOs that are listening out there in each militia unit, have to drive home the point that that weapon is physically attached to a person. They must understand that they don't leave it anywhere. The weapon is constantly under their custody and control. And this includes your personal firearms. Let me give you an example again. You must always at all times be prepared to fight. You might recall if you watch any number of movies, they've done a real good job of this, especially with movies that have to do with combat. If you watch Platoon, yeah I know, Platoon's got a bunch of, you know, they compressed everything that could go wrong with the unit and gave it to one group where it just didn't happen that way, okay? But it's a two-hour movie, gotta fit everything in. Oh, maybe the director's got a little longer, three hours, still only three hours, okay? But if you pay attention, in most of these movies they show you a lot of working scenes. You might recall when you see the M60 gunner tearing down his M60 or the guy with the M79 who's tearing down and work cleaning out his M79 launcher. What's right there either on his thigh or literally where if he were to drop his hand What was sitting there right there on the cleaning mat or on the poncho? You remember go watch platoon again. Go pay attention Even in Forrest Gump where you watch some of the combat scenes in one of the rear area scenes Pay attention. I did a really good job with this the guy Lourdes. It's a cult 1911 Yep Exactly. A people beater. But what it was, remember these operators typically had a personal defense weapon issued to them. If not, they found one. And a pistol was typically the weapon. Well, guess what? The M60 is being broken down. And if it's being broken down completely and you're doing maintenance, you're not going to get that together right away if all of a sudden something springs off. And even if you're in a secured point like that. And so what you see is proper operational security discipline. Not only is the weapon on his person, but he's got the weapon there ready to literally jump to his hand. If you pay attention, like he's cleaning the, you know, working on the gas system on the one weapon and he's cleaning the hell out of it. But if you pay attention, that literally that gun, if you were to drop his hand straight down, where's the gun? Right there. And that was a, that's a good depiction of mindset. Now, all of you need to be thinking the same way. One of the things that I was taught is your weapon should constantly be touching you. When we say it's bonded to you, it becomes second nature that you know the weapon is at certain points. If you carry it in a, for instance, a buttstock hip carry, it's obvious you have control. If you want to maintain control of the weapon, you control it with one hand while you're working with the other. If you are in the rest position and you're laying down, the gun is laying prone and on an angle ready to be gripped. And in reality, your hand should already be resting on the grip or resting on the control point of the weapon. That way, if you have to mobilize, even if you've taken a boot off or whatever, you don't take both boots off. You can loosen boots up is your best choice. But you don't take your footwear off and then blade back. That's just going to happen. You jump up. How far can you go before you're going to get hurt? So in a field situation, especially in aggressive patrolling, you live in your armor, you live with your footwear on, you may loosen up to breathe, and only one foot at a time. Let one go for a while, tighten that back up, and then switch out, loosen up the other boot. but you don't do both at the same time. This gives you only one point of contention where you have to operate something quickly. But if you have to return fire, the weapon is first and foremost literally under your control constantly. It is touching you in such a way physically you know where it is at second nature. That's why I feel naked without a gun, without my weapon. That's because that weapon has become an extension of that person's body. and that's how it should be. This is another reason I've talked for decades about this. I was taught in the school of no rifle flanks, but I've used rifle flanks and there are different, depending on who you're assigned or who you work with, this changes because there are different philosophies and you're not the person in charge so you don't get to tell the other, you know, the officer in charge and the NCO in charge, he's the guy in charge. And if there's an established SOP, you're to maintain that SOP, that standard operating procedure. Traditionally, when I was taught when I was a young soldier, a young man, we don't use rifle slings. My gun is never resting. My weapon is you know in one place one place only under the control of my hands so that when the time comes it immediately goes into combat operation in some form Return fire in some way take cover return fire take cover return fire You got to go use the bathroom. You got to go to the toilet. Guess what? You don't pass it off to somebody else. I better be touching you You have control over it to one degree or another no matter what? Never leave your side. Never is it not touching your body, not making contact. You know by feel where it is. That's how it's supposed to be. But then, rifle slings also become very handy for support. And there are, again, you know the basics of rifle marksmanship, especially in the standing position. Remember that sling helps to greatly enhance your three-point control. And there are all kinds of different techniques for that. In fact, even for offhand shooting. Depending on the era, again, I knew, I had World War I riflemen teaching me some tricks that I learned that I never would have been taught by a younger individual. In fact, I never saw it. But the tricks that they taught me, in fact, even the use of a sling, or different techniques for using the sling, would come in handy under certain conditions. But they went out of style or out of vogue with a change in weapons policy. Now, let me slide forward a little bit. We were just talking about, let's see, platoon or Saving Ryan's privates or any of these movies. If you pay attention, now sometimes what they've done is they've rolled modern rifle handling and it's really easy to pick out if you simply go through combat footage from World War II where you see where, yeah, they did train the guys well, but they've taken modern rifle management and brought it up to, you know, took it back into a period movie where the handling would be different. And this is really obvious if you compare notes. It's not hard to do. Remember World War II was quite heavily documented. And granted they keep showing a lot of the same footage over and over again because they're lazy. But there is a massive archive of information and a lot of forward area photography that was done as in videography using a camera. So later on, Vietnam, same thing, television, everything else there, yeah, even more coverage to play. One of the significant changes, and this was especially critical, With the admin of the m16 and it was hip fire guys you will probably find these videos I challenge you because they had news real pieces they did or you know news for the lengthy news a whole new technique for combat operations in the in the jungle Now these weren't new because the technique had been applied and you can see it applied a lot of different situations But it became the norm not to bring the gun to the shoulder lean in a little bit at least use automatic fire instead hip fire became the norm and in fact was taught aggressively. Now it's totally contrary to trying to keep not, contrary to trying to keep the rounds into a specific target area and as we know a lot of the present automatic rifle fire if you see competition you're not going to see a whole lot of hip firing are you? If you do see, and even with speed shooting, what do you see? Ready station, weapon to the shoulder, looking over the sights and dropping a tri-round burst into a silhouette at whatever range. But you won't see hip fire or any kind of, you know, basically what is point instinct fire in any kind of application hardly at all. Doesn't mean you can't use it. But understand that in the middle of Vietnam, the Vietnam era, that became the promoted agenda. And then they bitched about the consumption of ammunition. Well, if you're going to use hip fire, then the other thing that goes out the window is any kind of trigger discipline. And so massive amounts of ammunition are going down range. We jokingly would call it reconnaissance by fire in some cases. And in reality, it is that really is what you were taught to do. certain conditions. You know, reconnaissance by fire. You watch we were soldiers. I want everybody to fire a three-round burst. That's not what they would have said. Reconnaissance by fire to your front. That just was an SOP statement for fire a three-round burst. Nothing happens. Fire another three-round burst. Now remember using M16A1s when that was going on or E1s depending upon who carried what. And because of that, it was full select fire with no three round burst. So it was personal discipline to control the weapon and conserve the ammunition to try and route out an aggressor in front of you through the use of reconnaissance by fire. Which they don't use the term. I'm fascinated. See, these are things that get lost in history. This is the stuff I was taught by the people who did that. Reconnaissance by fire, do your fraud. Ready ready ready boom boom boom boom okay one two three one two three four one two three Of course the other reconnaissance by fire could be a mad minute Everybody okay, we're all ready pre-dawned okay. We're gonna do a mad minute. How many remember what a mad minute is if you're old enough You know those two terms reconnaissance by fire and mad Excuse me down Yeah, mad minute. Yeah, what a mad minute is guess what stack the magazines up in front of you Whatever you had for that one minute. I'll ever quickly you could shove a magazine into the magazine Well, don't dump that 20 or 30 rounds downrange drop the mag stuff another one in slap the side of the gun and just keep pushing and Typically what that was done as a counter stroke. That was the philosophy was to do it before the hour of dawn because a pre-dawn attack would be the precursor to an all-day assault. So what you did is the officer in charge picked the minute and whenever they either hit the flare, fired a magazine full of tracers downrange or whatever they did, it was SOP for the whole line to light up all the way around the perimeter. Lighter up! Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, You see none of that in the movies. I'm using a correct terminology based on how we were trained. And yet you don't see it in the movies. So these are things lost in time so to speak that we need to kind of jog everybody or people need to maybe relearn. Part of it is that they always go to instructors or teachers. for Hollyweird, for people who are present instructors and teachers. And what you want, if you're going to do a period movie, is you need to find, if there are any left, the individuals who were actually the trainers of that era or period, and you need to base all of your tactical wherewithal and condition your actors, if that's what you're training, so that they match the period of operation. Now let me give you an example where this is not the first movies that started that did this but if you watch the movie The Big Red One. I've told you many times that was very very accurate. My Uncle Bob said, yeah that's exactly how we were. In the movie if you pay attention every time they stop they reach into their pocket and while they're busy scanning they'd be brushing off their sights. And they'd be using what they were using. They weren't using a toothbrush. They were using a shaving brush, an aggressive horse bristle shaving brush. Same one they'd use for their face. They only carry one thing if they were shaving, and most of them were. But it's the idea that that shaving brush was perfect for dusting the crud off of the receiver of the weapon. Dusting off the bolt. Dusting off the rear sight. That was something that kind of like everybody thought that was really you know interesting and that they actually caught on to that nuance Because the guys that they were dealing with were you know of veterans? Everybody should remember that the you know the old sergeant there was actually a World War two veteran and guess what basically he kind of taught him all the little you know tricks of the trade that he learned or they learned during their processes of you know in in field and And it carried over into the movie and it was very much to help create realism. That was a big thing back in the late 60s and 70s. Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Shavago, all of these. The big thing was to get the period experience and make it accurate. And the same is true. The big red one is kind of the tail end of that. Tora, Tora, Tora is pretty much. But to an extent, somewhat 80% or 90% with certain things where the details weren't quite there, but it's okay. You can live with it, right? After all, you know, guess what? I'm going to be there for a minute. You're going to blow it up. But, you know, in this case, one of the things to remember when everybody talks, well, they didn't do it like that. They didn't like this. Yes, for your period of time, they did it like that. But that also helps me to date when you were trained, typically. Another thing is that, by the way, if you think that hip fire is brand new, let me ask you something. You ever see a BAR belt from 1917? Anybody know what a buttstock cup is? Here's a homework assignment for you. Now remember, this is the BAR. That's not exactly a light rifle. Not only that, it doesn't have a big magazine capacity. Nope, 20 rounds. And, remember, it was a squad gun. The BAR was a Squad Automatic Rifle, right? We used it World War I, World War II, and Korea. And Special Forces had them in Vietnam, and a lot of other people. But SF continued to use the 30-06 standard BAR after the Vietnamese started receiving more sophisticated weapons. Anyway, I'll pick this up where we're left off. Those VARs when they first came out guys, they did not necessarily have a bipod and hip fire is how they were going to control the weapon. Wow. So I guess it wasn't the first time they tried this, right? Also they dropped it pretty quick too. Anyway, we're gonna go to break. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. Cal Pramille, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. And we're on the march both day and night. Again, different philosophy, different periods, but whether or not they were successful, well, take a look at the environment and what the end result was during each of those periods. With regards to performance and success, we're actively on the battlefield. We're gonna go to break. We'll be back right here in just a few minutes. Second hour, coming up. Go use the bathroom. We're gonna get a coffee. We'll be back. Well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, we fought a rebel. We wrote the Constitution as a shield of entirety. For future generations, this legacy we gave, exists to land the free, home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hope you always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. And this is the land of the free and calmer and 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 the land that you believe you are, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. and your Christian values can't be taught according to this. 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 shit. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit so their children will be brought. Your leaders send artillery. and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great republic and each God given right. And pray to God, keep the torture freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Kernke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind. the lines in occupied territories north, south, west, and northeast. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com Liberty Tree Radio unsettling. Want to say hi to our friends in the Pacific. I don't know how you're getting that, but however you are, double plus good thumbs up and congratulate. We're on AM&FM micro stations, AM&FM conventional stations, TV base stations. Good afternoon, channel 27 and 29. And we are on AM&FM. Let's see, Ultra Test Rig 91.5. At 91.5. Want to say hi to our mobile kids there. In fact, I needed to do that two nights ago and did not, but you guys have got a new micro FM up, and we appreciate the rebroadcasting work that's being done. It's a highly mobile briefcase radio, along with several others. I don't know where you are, but apparently you have to change location a lot. Sounds like California to me. Anyway, it is 6.06 PM Eastern Standard Time. It is the 14th of July. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 13th year of the Opinh Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K. 2021, older calendar, 2021, battle for the Republic, the chance of swords, let the dance begin. Hacking and chopping rules, you know. Battle access in broad swords. Oh my goodness, hey look, I caught his axe, it's right in my head. Grab him. So anyway, we want to avoid that. Hey Mark, before, go ahead, we got a caller, who do we have? Hey, it's Bill from Tennessee. Quick question for you on equipment. It's not really weapons, but it's a weapon system. I guess you might call it What's your opinion on this? On European Kevlar helmets, I've seen a lot of these British and Polish and different countries deeper than the American stuff. Is it good? What's your opinion? They are good Actually, if I were to rate them, I'll tell you what the Czech ones are actually a little higher spec They look a little different. If you compare the cuts, once you get them, you'll see what I'm talking about. The polls probably are, I think, the best quality. The polls and the checks have always been competing with the Germans for decades. For a little while, German Kevlar was coming in too, and they're all about the same spec. They're all comparable to the American US model. In fact, I think some of the German were originally contracted by the same manufacturers at one time. I don't know what they're doing now because they do have a couple of other niche type helmets. But all of them, including the British Mark 6, for a Kevlar helmet, they do exactly what they're supposed to do. So they're definitely worth the money. And again, if you're trying to outfit a lot of people or against, say money yourself, I probably have eight of the German ones right now that I, you know, or stuck away with, you know, cash. And then we did pick up some of the Mark 6s when they first came out, oh, what, two years ago. They were a lot cheaper. Remember, I just tell everybody to kind of buy them from Sportsman's Guide, just for a while there was a lull. And they were relatively cheap. I mean, Doc, $50, $46, $48. You couldn't really beat the price. But they have gone, they've slid up because the market has moved, you know, and the, you know, getting ready for war direction. But any one of them might wear a heartbeat. I wouldn't have any problem with them. Now, there's a difference between that. You see some of the propaganda videos about, you know, we've talked about before. There are bump helmets that are, look like the Kevlar helmets. But guys, here's all you have to do. If you've got a Kevlar helmet and somebody else has what they say is a bump helmet, okay? They look the same. They're really cool because you can put all your people in a Kevlar looking helmet, which if you're going to wear a bump helmet, why not all look the same, right? But the weight is the first tell. All you have to do is compare the weight for the density and thickness of the material. The training helmets right now that they have over at colmans.com. are the best price for the British Kevlar copy but not Kevlar. They're a bump helmet, they're done in the ABS plastic, they're well made. In fact, I was going to recommend them on the air here. They're not Kevlar, they're not Kevlar, they're not Kevlar. But of the bump helmets, they're black, they have side shield for the chin strap, they've got a modified and improved chin strap. and face cup, you know chin cup. The basket and frame on the inside is more expensive and better made. So for $12 to $16, depending on what Coleman has those for the time being, those are a good buy. I've had a chance to see them and I would recommend them now. But they're not Kevlar. However, if you're trying to make everybody look like you're all the same army, it's a good way to put a helmet cover on those and no one can know the difference between that and the other guy wearing the Polish or the Czech or the German or the American Kevlar. But all of those work. Where were you looking for the helmet right now? I'm just looking around online different places. uh... that one time midway at the polish helmet for like maybe something about several three-star now right now i have a rich what about the uh... i looked at some of the british the mark five they said it was that nylon helmet uh... what and some of that part of the care for it now on uh... well we may win what was it a mark five okay now the mark okay the only thing uh... i have seen I haven't seen anything with the Mark V's out there, but there is... See, what I was mentioning, they're a bump helmet. They're made in actually an ABS type plastic, but they're a thick wall. They're very thick, so they have the same basic dimensions as a standard Kevlar helmet, either the Mark VI British or a variation on the Mark V, or IV, because I think this Mark IV really isn't any different either. They're just different grades of protection. But the if they're in anything other than Kevlar, they're typically bump there. They're again Beener bouncers. They're designed purely to keep her from getting your head smacked on a piece of metal They don't have any ballistic protection per se now they might they would still slow down some stuff flying through the air but The mark sixes that are out there all of them that I've seen so far our actual standard compressed I I pressure compressed laminate Kevlar and they're worth the money those do work now you can get helmet covers in desert and get helmet covers in the British DPM paintbrush and they do make them in multi camp their British version which looks just like ours or close enough no one will know the difference now the problem is that helmet covers have gone stupid price they're really I mean oh now they're selling them separate used to come with the helmet and and they're charging a lot more for helmet cover. So you want to really shop around for just some used ones to get anything for a reasonable price there. But if it's anything else, it's probably again, it's a bump helmet as in purely it's designed for you to put on kind of like a crash helmet or a safety helmet so that you don't get the sharp object, you know, you run into the edge of the bulkhead of the APC on the way out, you don't skin back three inches worth of, you know, flesh and hair. Instead, the helmet takes the hit and you get reminded where the metal is. Right? See how that works? But you said the rear gear is typically good stuff. I'm sorry, repeat that again? You're saying that most British gear stuff is pretty good stuff usually? Yeah, oh no they're well made. The Osprey system and the Mark VI make a very complimentary armored set. You can't get the Osprey armor hardly at all and anybody that's got the Osprey system, the vest and the groin armor, they want a fortune for. That helmet is the center for that particular armored system like our PazGAT system was. In this case, they went with a higher rating and a lot of the Kevlar, but most important is that they covered more of the body. The helmet is designed to go deeper. Notice they didn't go shorter like we did. You know, the Pascat, if you look at the Pascat or the standard post-Vietnam Kevlar helmet, and then you look at like the Mish 2000 or the new, you know, they're barely brain buckets where the whole ear side is open now. Well, that completely defeats the purpose behind wearing the Kevlar. So, personally, either the Pascat helmet, the shortest I'd go would be the Mish helmets, the Mish 2000s, because those still have a step on the side and cover part of the ears. The British pretty well stuck with what was a tapered angle from the... from the forehead back to the back of the neck and so they've got pretty good coverage around the side of the head and most importantly around the ear. So hold on a second, we've got either a radio program or a something in the background somewhere. If we can, might have to mute up there guys. And I'm still hearing a... Somebody that's okay. Somebody else needs to mute up there because whatever they're doing they're coming over the earth Sounds like a radio program Okay, somebody really doesn't like the programming. So I hate to do this to you caller. But what we got to do is mute everything up Ed Sorry about that somebody's walked away and is basically got their head up their fundamental orifice And Edward, if you could, mute up the program. Anyway, okay, I'll talk over it until maybe Ed gets around to muting the whole board because somebody isn't listening. Okay, anyway, other things real quick here. With regard to the helmets, the steel helmets have been something people have been asking about also. We will take callers after the bottom of the hour. Real quick, in the Kevlar helmets pretty much everything worked. There was the Italian kit helmets that were incomplete, but you could finish them up yourself. They were being offered at Sportsman's Guide. A couple other companies had them. I believe Coleman's did too. Those helmets are good helmets. It's just you have to finish them. You have to install the webbing system, make sure that the helmet covers are squared away, everything. You do it yourself. I'd also give it a nice coat of paint just to give you another color under the helmet cover. I always remember that. Another thing is that the steel helmets are still out there. A lot of the better steel helmets are ballistic protection systems. All of them have some ballistic protection if they're steel. But some helmets are heavily rated. It's also why they're heavier in a brick doghouse. You know everybody's making steel helmets out there. There's the militia steel helmet that's made by one of the companies. They're calling it the militia. It's a militia helmet. It is steel. If you watch the videos they show exactly what it stops and it will stop Brown's head on. But it is not a light object. Always remember that. It's steel, okay. When you are going to stop certain things, you have to have a certain tempering process involved and you also have to look at, again, thickness. You need that extra material there to slow down rifle bullets and pistol bullets, but it does a pretty good job. Now, other countries have built the Swiss M70, 71, 72 series helmets. are out there but not much, not like they used to be and they used to be dirt cheap, they're not, but they are still reasonably priced. All of those Swiss Alpine helmets are ballistic. They're steel and they do offer really good protection. If you have any of the German copies of the M1 helmet that do not have a separate basket slash helmet liner like the M1 US helmet, those German helmets are built to the Swiss spec and actually offer some ballistic for projectile protection. They are heavy. That's the first thing everybody notices. Man, that's not like my helmet that I wore when I was in the army. It looks just like it. Yeah, but the liner doesn't come out and the helmet is much thicker. Now, these were available years ago. In fact, decades ago, it's been about, hell, 15, 20 years for the German helmets. And they're not the coal scuttle. These were the Bundeswehr copies of the M1 US helmet. And more than one country adopted them. So there are still those floating around. And just because it looks like a US pisspot doesn't mean it's the same helmet. Now the helmet covers will work and all the other good stuff you might want to use to you know Make it all blend in with everybody else's gear, but the helmets themselves different countries had different philosophies Depending upon what era it was and how much luker how much cash how much in the way of clams they had to spend That's why you see a variety of different ideas on the subject. At least get something on the guys head to keep their head from bouncing on, getting gouged by metal objects. Now if I can do a better job at flying metal objects, at high velocity, well better still. But that's money I may not be able to spend. The Kevlar helmets were the next solution after the high point was steel, which by the way, that's the second time around that happened, going all the way back to World War I again. when ballistic steel and ballistic steel plates, guys, all that was in service back in World War I. Disappeared completely in World War II. The only people who really had body armor in World War II were bomber crews. And you sometimes see it and sometimes don't, but you know, guys in the bombers used to wear Mark I Anil Fispots, or they had an aviation model that had side flap cups with steel so that they got some protection from flak. They also had ceramic body armor. Very rigid ceramic body armor. Okay, well what happened to that? Well, kind of that all disappeared, but then the next generation of armor shows up in the Korean War. Okay, but we've gone full circle back to steel. Now, with regard to the present family of helmets out there in raiding, The Kevlar ones that are out there will do everything they're supposed to do. They're not really outdated by any stretch of the imagination, but you need to do a little research on what each country and what their interests were. I still believe in the original PazGAT design because we're in the defensive. You've got, if you want earbuds or things of that nature, there's micro stuff out there that would be, you know, deal with most of what you need for radio. And again, it's the idea you're putting more junk around the precious part of your body, your brain. Okay, the brain gets hit, it's lights out. It's kind of like, oh, that switch got hit fast, didn't it? So more protection around that critical mass would be a really good idea. So a smaller helmet with less protection isn't really a good idea at all, but they look cool. And the latest cool guys are wearing the skimpy helmets that are cool. It's like, well, yeah, but are you one of those really super duper, does somersaults while firing from under your armpit and hitting the ground, standing up and on a run while you change magazines and pull out the belt fed weapon from over your back? I think it sounds like a great video game. But the reality is that we're looking at being straight leg ground pounders. And we're also looking at, everybody always yaps, they've got this and they've got that. Well, then you need to be increasing. your defensive potential, not decreasing your defensive potential. And in this case, remember, body armor and helmets are passive defensive potential. You don't have to do anything for body armor to do its job. You don't have to do anything for helmets to do their job. But you need to have enough material there in place so the helmet can do its job. Same as the body armor, whatever you're wearing, okay? So, that's where the balance is. Remember, like a lot of this new stuff, they're basically reinventing the wheel with these steel plates right back to 1917. You know, World War II back in 1914, 1915, 16, 17, and 18, both for the Allies and for the United States. And some of this stuff is kind of coming out again, but it was all known back in the day. So again, depending on the application, I'm not with a dancing chorus line that's going to line up out in the middle of the open, an open area and shoot shoulder to shoulder side by side. Piss on that crap. Take cover, return fire, have a plan, move as a team and move in such a way that you take ground aggressively, but maintain your fighting force. The other thing we're shooting them at the greatest range we possibly can just to start wearing them out. And the other thing, silencers. I don't want silencers. Only people have silencers on the gun crews that I don't want them to realize are there until it's too late. And that's a special application. Otherwise, I don't need silencers. I want so much boom junk on the battlefield that five counties away they can hear this firefight. Just the reverse of what you might think. I want that psychological, wow my god, there's a fight going on over there. Because when two or three or four or five fights are going on simultaneously, when your ambushes or your raids or your attacks are taking place, it creates greater confusion on the battlefield. Because I'm also going to set off fire techniques, squibs, and you know, rattle battle cams to create the illusion there might even be a few firefights other places where nothing's going on. I want to make noise. You know, there's certain things that they're doing that are absolutely non-essential in any way, shape, or form to our purpose. When the time comes and you want to silence your people, let me point out, you can build all of them you want. We'll make any difference. And there's so many different ways you can build a hush puppy for a gun that it's ridiculous. They just want me to want you to believe that it's some kind of witch doctor science, and it's not. There are so many ways you can build a quiting device for a gun and just the problem is all of them right now entail BS with the bureaucracy that we don't want to have to worry about. We don't want to deal with. Okay? Instead, save your money and paying a tax for some bullshit and get around to using... Excuse me, I thought I liked that. You know with this BS and get on to spending that money on other critical components You need either build more weapons or get your butt your butt covered with the technology you need to stay alive Go ahead call her jumping there. I think I heard a voice. Okay, very good anyway another thing to remember about About the armor is some of its like in its passive but also minimal but it's maximal for you know comfort Knee pads and elbow pads are so stupid cheap even though they've gone up twice and three times the price they were only a year ago when I told you to buy all that stuff. There was the same item for less than a dollar or two dollars. Do you remember? A year ago and two years ago elbow pads and knee pads were under a dollar fifty a set for military issue coming out of Desert Dust Part 2, the adventure, you know, it continues. Right now we'll price all that junk. Stupid price now, okay? And there's more of it coming out of the auctions, by the way, but they are paying ungodly stupid prices for the equipment and then jacking the prices up yet again. However, you still need to get a set of something, protect your elbows, protect your knees. Excuse me. Oh, man, something in the air. But anyway, the other thing that you need to look at is gloves. And I mentioned this, gloves started four or five years ago. Gloves were bargained basement, well, not four or five, we'll say four years ago. Trump's gone. It's been four years by the time he was coming in. You could buy armored gloves for a very reasonable price from any number of different surplus companies who bought them from Uncle Samuel. Right now, armored gloves are a ridiculous price. They are $20, $25, $23. There's very little under $20 that's out there that's a mil-spec type glove. Even in surplus, even something used that somebody got rid of, okay? So here's the thing I'm going to remind you again, your hands are precious. See those joints? They get tired. I'm older. Okay. All those battle scars and musty points all crackle and they, I've noticing that some of the scars are doing the back, you know, the backlog thing I told you about with the rusty Brown buildup of debris. Well, they also don't like to bend sometimes as much. So if you're younger, I highly recommend that you get a good set of armored gloves because it's a neat tool that we should have had more of and we had only a limited supply way back in the day. Mostly we just use DA3 gloves to cut them down, give ourselves some finger space, you know, you clear it up so you could use your fingers without any restrictions. And congratulations, you had something that protected your hands to a degree. We can do a lot better than that now. And I will remind you, go over to ShopMedVet.com. ShopMedVet.com. ShopMedBet.com. They've got all kinds of gloves over there for a dollar a pair. Some of this stuff's more expensive, but by comparison, when you go out and price it everywhere else, it's not expensive at all. Well, they have armored gloves over there. I don't know how much they have left. Some of the stuff is small size. Some of the stuff is 2X only. So if you got a really big bear glove, bear paw, you can put a pair of gloves on over there for about $3, $4 a pair for a top-end set of armored gloves. And if you're a small hand, extra small or small, there's another set they got over there for about $3 a pair that are about a $28 pair of gloves anywhere else, but they're brand new. They're not surplus, they're brand new products. To go over there and check that place out, if nothing else, if you've got little guys or women who you can't afford to outfit normally, if you cherry pick from these sites, all your big people can get covered. And all your little people can get covered so that girl there is just as well fit it even though she's not supposed to be you know in combat line She still have to protect herself because those sob's on the other side have got crosshair on all of you They got the crosshair on your wife. They got crosshair on you got crosshair on your kids These bastard communists are planning on hurting this country big time And the only people are going to save all those people. I just listed are you? So you all need to get your act together and get your stuff squared away ASAP. Trying to find minimal cost, maximum benefit. Because if you only have to spend a few dollars there, now you have that other extra 10, 15, or 20 dollars to spend on the other stuff you said you couldn't afford. Cut down and minimize wherever you can. Don't forget ShopMedVet. Flat shipping. $10, $5, or free shipping depending on how much you buy. And you can get a whole hell of a lot of junk over at ShopMedVet.com. for $100. Trust me, I just got three cases of stuff that are filling up one of my medical barrels and I gotta go get another medical barrel because I ain't got enough room. Couple hundred pounds of material for less than a hundred, well about $100. And that included several sets of all the gloves I've mentioned on the air because I wanted to see what they look like. And I'd recommend anything you see on that list right now. Why? Because I bought one or dozens of everyone you see there. So I know they work. I've actually experimented. I love those blue gauntlet gloves I told you guys to buy not because I'm aware I'm in combat but because if you ever had to handle bodies or you know damaged material or chunks of biomass, trust me, these are very handy. Anyway, we got a caller. Who do we have? And that's the second time. Do we have a caller? Okay, very good. We are now I can hear you. Go ahead. Who do we have? I'm sorry. I thought I was muted. There we go. Anyway, we're at the bottom of the hour. Edward, if you could, bottom of the hour break, traditional, because it is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon, but by God, you better not drop your rifle. Remember that. The sergeant used to explain that to you real quick. Okay? Everybody had to learn it sometime. I have no difference. Although I never drop. I will say this. I never drop my weapon. In fact, I already decided very quickly, number one, I ain't going to pay the government for a rifle I possess. So I'm going to make sure I do not lose it. The other thing is, again, common sense, if you take your job seriously, I'm not going to boo-boo up as often. Not again, it's real life. And in that case, you guys got to make sure that you are properly trained, organized armed equipment trained as militia. Establish a 510 program in your area of operation. Set up medical support, transportation and communications so that we have the infrastructure necessary to not only maintain our fighting force, but sustain in the event of injury. Okay, we've got to be able to support the people who have stepped up to the plate. Something happens to them, we got to fix them. I need your help with that. New people can do this. Don't say you can't. Get motivated. Put a fire under your ass. Anyway, a couple of things real quick. I mentioned, I was talking about, well, it's been a half hour. I was talking about BAR belts and hip fire because hip fire was pushed in Vietnam. And everybody goes, wow, we never saw this before. This is really ridiculous. Well, it's true. You know, you hadn't seen it in recent times. But the US military going into World War I, it looked at assault, fire, and of course it was something that was used to a certain degree. Didn't make any sense with manually operated rifles, though, did it? Yeah, I'm gonna work the action and keep it down on my hip and pray that that one bullet I fired might come close to my enemy No, you didn't do that. You work the action at the very least you you popped up Let me give you a trick one of the World War one guys used the World War one vets used You did have an on the 1903 Springfield and on the model 1917 you had a pop-up Incremental site where you pull the rail up and you could adjust it out to 2,000 yards people go well, that's crazy. Well, why would you do that? Well, they're not going to right away. What you did is you dropped that rail back down, put the peep site right at zero point where it should be. But you left the rail up and it was an early version of an aim point or a red dot. And he goes, what? Well, think about it, okay? You've got this rectangular box. Now, you've got at the other end what's called a barley corn site in 1917. You have a post site on the Springfield. If you bring the weapon up, quick snap to your shoulder, and I use this technique with my 1903 Springfield to test it, and it works. For anything that was short sight, you bring it up, line up, and just put the front hair on the target and look through the up rail sight the way it was set up, and that gave you the parameter to get the bullet basically into the chest cavity at short to even intermediate ranges. And it was an effective technique that worked quite well. It wasn't that you were going to use the long-range sight and adjust it at that point. It gave you a quick reference parameter where the blade in the front was basically set in the middle to the closest best of your ability at that snapshot. And what basically you did is got the top of that site lined up somewhere near the rear peak site or V notch that you had. It didn't have to be perfect and you pull the trigger. It was snap shooting like for ski. Amazingly enough, the technique worked phenomenally well. And since most men had a bolt action, not a machine gun, they had to come up with ways to get the drop on the other guy faster. The technique worked very, very, very well. All the guys that I knew that were World War I said, yes, this worked exceptionally well, and it was one of the many things we learned very quickly. We didn't always get to aim. However, the Army, in its many infinite wisdoms, had several different programs going on simultaneously. And with the BAR, they created the BAR for trench warfare and assault warfare. And so the logic was he didn't really need a bipod, so the gun was produced both ways, or it was modified by the troops, depending upon the personality and whim of the soldier and also were produced with limited quantity. Some men after they got the BAR without a bipod would turn around and wheel off the front assembly and then install a bipod they'd rip off another damaged gun or something. I'll be right back. So they had a double mag pouch on one side for 1911. Then the rest of the pockets were where they were supposed to be. On the right side there were three individual pockets. But then there's the assault model. Now the assault model has a cup. And what you were supposed to do is, in fact the BAR buttstock, they had one model that was specifically built for this cup that was a little different. Both of them worked, but one worked better than the other. You had two mag pouches with two mags each on the right side, but the cup located at belt line level. On the other side, you had double 45 magazine pouches and then two more mag pouches. So one variation made by Boit had three mag pouches on the left and they dropped the 45 pistol pouches because they felt they wanted more ammo. It was purely a matter of what month they were made under what contract. However, the purpose for the cup was to insert the BAR into that cup and carry it in assault mode with the support of your combat harness, which was a six-point suspension system with the BAR belt itself. You were simply to drop the mags and reintroduce another one. Drop the mags and do not recover them. Your assistant gunner's job, if he had the time to do it, was to recover Drop Magazine. This was an assault technique that they developed, but it was all hip-fire. So basically you did the index point and middle finger trigger pull. Something that everybody relearned and the Israelis tried to claim they invented, that's all a lie. The technique was invented in World War I by BAR gunners who used their middle finger for the trigger finger. They ran their index finger along the side of the receiver. They were carrying the gun in that assault cup. And they would move across the battlefield and into the trench and move ahead of the team to clear out strong points or key points that were in front like clusters of troops. So heads up, there's always somebody to tell you, we all invented this. And in reality, now it was done by a lot of other Americans or somebody else way back. And they really figured everybody forget. Now we're going to call her. Call her. Come in there, please. Well, Mark, you know the Israelis, they invented urban warfare, don't you know? Yeah, they invented everything. They're like the present Russians, right? Remember the Russians invented the potato. Yeah. But there was a technique being taught during World War II to guys going out, especially out in the Pacific, where you might have a Japanese guy hanging out in a little spider hole somewhere waiting to ambush you. So you're patrolling along, and all of a sudden he pops up, and he's only six feet away from you. And so the technique was basically you take your rifle or machine gun stock and you tuck it under your armpit and you take your arm and pin it down, just rotate that chicken wing on down and just pin it down as tight as you can. And therefore you'll be able to control the recoil. And whether you're using a Thompson or a BAR or an M1 Grand or an M1 Carbine, you're going to be able to put rounds on target. But basically a point shooting technique with a long gun. Exactly, it's not effective. One of the things to remember, the Marine Corps included the Johnson and the Ricing submachine gun, etc. The Marine Corps had a technique like that that they used very early on and it kind of faded for a little bit when they were experimenting. There were ideas that they went to and then they made disappear. And the Army did the same thing. It's kind of weird. They thought, well, Ford has a better idea. That's an old ad from Ford. Well, it was kind of the same thing as like, well, yeah, Bob, your technique works really good, but we got this really cool idea back in the state. Let's go and try this, and man, drop your thing. I know it's cool, but it didn't come from command. And so it's really interesting that they, as one of my friends said, he started out before the war. He was in the army just before the war started and was in the Pacific, and he fought from the very beginning to the end and survived. And it's like he said, we went full circle with everything. He started out carrying a Thompson and by the time he was done at the end of the war, he went through every weapon that they had. By the end of the war he was back to carrying a Thompson. Granted, it wasn't a pre-war Thompson, it was an M1. But he said, you know, I went through everything, tried everything, experimented with everything we were told to do. And by the time we were done, we found that Thompson really did the best job and just thud them down. Especially when they were doped up later because they knew they were losing and everything was a bonsai charge. And he was, and by the way I will remind you, he was a medic. And just like he said, everybody fought. He didn't fight to kill you. You better learn that real quick. Medics, that was just a target. You're a little red hit. Everybody lost that little red cross on their helmet as quick as they could because the Japs decided that was a really preferred target. So and again that several different techniques especially for close point route. Here's another one Thank you for bringing it up to guys. There's a technique that I notice is really invented again. Oh my ass. I hate this crap It's we used to call it bridging. Okay, you heard my perm use the term I actually described it I put it in battle for the Republic The Winter War okay, it's in there. Okay If an opponent appears in front of you, just like you're talking about where you got a bush monkey coming up out of a whole spider hole, or whatever it is, whatever variation, you apply the energy with the closest point of contact to minimize the distance and time. So if you have a target pop up in front of you, don't step back and try and bring the muzzle around. You just simply do a push-up with a rifle and aim for the softest piece of tissue or the most hurtful point on the face that you can make contact with. In other words, if you're holding the weapon and you're at port arms and or shoulder, let's say you have it to your shoulder, your left hand is controlling the fore grip, your right hand is controlling the pistol grip or the C point on the gun, shotgun 1903 Springfield K98 miles or whatever it would be. If the target appears to your right, you bridge, you literally engage and thrust with the weapon sideways. Don't try to bring the buttstock around. Don't try to bring the barrel around. And I was taught this years ago, this is something, you know, there's somebody saying, whoa, this is really class and all these things. What they did is they dumb down the American military. Then they take all the stuff that we already knew and learned and they reintroduce it because they're just so smart and you're so stupid and it's like, no. They stole this from us. Like everything else they steal from us. And the bridging, that technique is especially critical to get first strike on a target. You may both be unawares. Remember, just because somebody came out of a door doesn't mean it was a plan. You know, the guy pops out the door and he realizes, oh shoot, gaga. And meanwhile, you're in the same boat. Well, whoever strikes first is going to be on the top of the wave. So bridging, or in other words, just doing a hard thrust, Ideally, the only thing you might do is if you can turn, you can use the side of your weapon. But remember, there's all kinds of sharp object points on the base of most of your weapons, not the least of which is the magazine. So if while you're going to thrust, you pivot with your wrist, you bring the base of the weapon, you've got your pistol grip, which you've got to watch it, those are weak on most guns, but it'll hold up. But the magazine well edge, let's say that you were in the middle of a magazine chain. The magazine well edge is square, okay, it's got right angles. You thrust that into somebody's face, you turn their teeth into chicklets. You crush the bones on the nose, you collapse the socket and eye bridge right there. And you did it by simply striking with the whole of the weapon like it's a crossbar. Now this is something I already have to have in your head because most everybody's condition of the oh I need to shoot them and so you lose time and you you create distance where you don't necessarily want it by trying to step back and bring the weapon to the muzzle or the bayonet around now here's another thing after you bridged them then you step back and then you go into basic a basic bayonet work 101 But not necessarily with the bayonet first remember the buttstock is a significant part of your weapon system If you're carrying a garand a main battle rifle of any kind like the fal The hk 91 then after you bridge then you bring across and butt stroke to the side of the head or to any Critical joint where you can do more damage and you have to move fast Remember the other guy doesn't want to die and he's probably highly motivated and the adrenaline rush has kicked in. So after you've done that first stun, then you immediately have to follow up with a system of attacks. I don't care what you figure out, you can bring that muzzle around and slap it to the side of their throat. slap it to the other eye. You've already crushed probably one eye socket or most likely be the one on the left side depending on how the target approaches. But whichever you want to try and destroy, vision or create again confusion, shock and damage. And so it's continued just a flurry of attacks. You have to think that way. And remember, you don't have to necessarily hit the head, but remember again that the nose, that's a lot of sensory activity going on there. You do damage to the skull. You're also doing damage and concussing the brain and that's what you want to do is that massive shock trauma effort. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, get motivated. Thank you for bringing that up because again the techniques if you were still in a situation remember you don't have time to turn around if the attacker is to your rear maybe he's trying to be quiet. Understand that rather than trying to turn around and still giving the enemy an opportunity to put a blade to your throat or stick you with a knife Guys, remember to drop your shoulder slightly and take the weapon and put that buttstock right back into his face or somewhere into the body just to create brute force and reverse motion. Now once you do that, you pivot with the whole of your body, you can either rake with the base of your gun. This is because you've already butt stroked and you're starting to pivot. You could turn and then rake with the whole gun crossing the object target and you're hitting them with metal, whatever. or you can actually step, pivot, step back, and then cross if your bayonet is bayonet fixed. What you'll do is then cross and slash the whole of the target from top on an angle if at all possible. The objective behind this is again, inflict injury and pain. If you don't have a bayonet, remember that muzzle and that barrel is made out of a lot heavier and denser material than flesh and bone. So even if you pivot and slash with the muzzle, remember that all you're doing is inflicting pain and buying moments time to then step back, bring the muzzle to bear and put a bullet behind that. Engage, engage, engage, engage, but with minimal motion while still making contact. So in any of these situations, the idea is this is why you have to have total awareness in contact. whatever direction the enemy is coming from. The most difficult to deal with for a shooter is left 90 degrees. I want you to think about that. When it comes to following up on a target and you're facing a target, think about this. Right angle of evacuation of the target right, to your right, is much more difficult to follow up on because of the nature of your musculature. then if the target fortunately moves say to your left, his right, and you naturally, think about how your arms move. Your arm can track even in a situation where you might be injured or damaged, and you can more efficiently track if the target is moving to your left, which would be your enemy's right. If you're smart, and this is why I bring this up, and you're in a disadvantage situation, If you are facing an aggressor and the aggressor has the weapon to its shoulder or up and in contact, move or start to move to your left unless there's an obstacle, something that's going to kill you, whatever. But remember that it takes, think about trying to track and when you move your arms. It is far more natural for your arm to collapse towards your chest than it is for you to think about pushing your arm away and to the right because you're holding a weapon and you're trying to pan and direct the muzzle. Now this only buys you moments, but remember time is everything in contact. And most people are not taught this. They don't want you to think about it. Think about most of your enemy and most of your secret police and the government want you to be a pop-up target. The last thing they want you to understand is how the dance of swords works. And by the way, these techniques really do go back into the depths of time and are no different with regard to swordsmanship or pikemanship going back for as far as men have been trying to kill each other. Think about that. Which is easier with a thrust? If you're trying to turn sideways and move to your right with your arm, certainly your musculature will extend. But if you are moving and trying to block, your musculature will respond faster and more efficiently and naturally. And think about this kind of like when you're going into the fetal position. When your arm is moving from say the right in its instation and then moves towards your body, you will move more reactively and naturally than you will if you try to move the arm to the right in either a semi extended or extended position. because it is moving away from what is the natural compression. Well, it actually goes back to birthing, to be quite honest, if you actually study it. There's all kinds of, this is all, it's an interesting subject, but for most people, don't. But it comes down to you're buying moments, moments count. Just something to think about there. So again, every angle, first thing that can make contact, remember it's tougher than probably what you're trying to hurt. And if you jab somebody with it, jam somebody with it, beat somebody with it, it's doing harm. Now, if you get a little more training, you can break things. Wrists, arms, nose, body parts, hell, you can break their neck if you do it right without even having to go any farther. If you're lucky, and it's not likely you're going to be that lucky, but you try to apply energy accordingly, you never know, a fickle finger of fate. And that's why you still have a loaded gun in your hand. Okay? Oh, by the way, you're going to get hurt. Remember the first rule of close quarter combat. If you are close enough to stab or beat someone, understand the mistake you made means that your enemy has the ability to stab or bludgeon you the same way. So before we get into conflict, understand that you have to put in your mind, I'm going to get cut. That means you don't see like you do in all these BS movies where the guy gets hit with something goes oh Remember override that are you still able to function? Maybe shock is taken over maybe the injury is so bad You're not feeling it which means it probably is really bad But if you're in the midst of a brawl then the focus should be on engaging and destroying the whatever it is It was trying to hurt you or maybe has already killed you Something else you need to take into consideration remember. We don't stop fighting We don't stop fighting. When all the secret police gun grabbers are dead in front of you and all your friends are safe, okay, maybe we can stop fighting. But as long as there is small arms being exchanged or there's one of your enemy twitching, you don't stop fighting. Get them all. Help to get them all. Remember, everything you do to contribute means that that person that you like on your side is more likely to be able to help you because you win, they lose. So you fight on. You've heard that term before. Fight on. That's what needs to happen. You don't give up. Anyway, couple other things. Yeah, somebody said, I'm sure is thinking, will I reach for my handgun? No, your rifle is already there and your rifle is your primary weapon. Use what you've got to the best of your ability and if you then buy time, okay, maybe your weapon is malfunctioning or empty. If you weren't willing to beat the target senseless or maybe you can't get to the soft, chewy part, you've bought enough time so that maybe you can bring a secondary weapon to bear. Now, when I said that, you'll notice I didn't say handgun. Do you have a knife that you were so proud of that you reversed up on the upper left shoulder? You know, that might be faster to bring to service than the pistol, and if it, again, he who gets the sharp pointy object or the projectile into somebody first wins. So however you fall, however you collapse, I carry more than one blade. A weapon on your hip may be more accessible and more rapidly, quickly brought to service than that shoulder fixed knife or that bootleg knife you've got, depending on which school you're from and what era you were trained. Just keep that in mind. And remember that always will be minimal distance, maximum effort. Don't hold anything back when it comes to trying to insert something into someone. You put all the energy behind it, you can. There might be some body armor you missed. And you also might hit something you didn't expect because you don't know what's in somebody's pockets. You don't know what they're carrying or wearing. Always remember that. So maximum effort. We're not playing, we're winning. Another thing here before we go any farther, I will mention JGSales.com. I mentioned in the first hour JGSales.com. They have those Model 10 revolver frames for $200 apiece. They were pricey about a year ago. They ain't pricey no more. Now they're like half the price of everything else out there. And with a barrel from any one of a couple different sources, you could put a Smith & Wesson Model 10 as a shooting grade gun. It doesn't need to be pretty. To be quite honest, while I might put a pretty barrel on it, I would then turn around and break out Krylon and just give it a British Enfield or a British, you know, a British military paint job. There we go. It's all one color now. In fact, give it a little dusting here and there and camel it up. Be careful. Don't gook up the parts that are critical that have to interlock. But again, you can make it all tactical grade. It's a shooting grade, you know, Chevrolet. Not an old, not a Buick, not a Cadillac, it's a Chevy. But it would be a serviceable shooting firearm and you can put it together for about $250. But the base frame is over at JGSales.com. Everything's there but the barrel and the barrel pit. Okay, and barrel pins running $2. Barrels are, you know, there's a spread on price. Personally, I keep it down around $50, $60. That puts the gun overall price at about $260, $270 maximum. Maybe as low as $250 if you're lucky, cross your fingers. But that's reasonably priced by comparison to what they're going for out there on the market right now. Making it a, you know, a sensible solution, especially if you're looking for a personal defense and cannon. And revolvers are not obsolete at all. Do they still, when you pull the trigger, you point them at somebody, they put a hole in you? Oh, hell yes. They're not obsolete. Okay, so that's something. That word is used in so many foolish forms where it's not really relevant. We're at the top. Everybody out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon. load everything between the years that you can in the way of information. Who knows? I remember some of it when things get critical. I hope you do. God bless our Republic. Yes, for the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the rung. and we are on the march both day and night. I don't care what genre you find, but whatever you do, immerse yourself in the studies and become a master of the trade. We got Craig from Forbid Knowledge coming up next. Don't you guys check that out? We'll be back in one hour. Meanwhile, Ed's taking over. Craig's coming up. God bless. Bye-bye. Hello again and welcome to another dangerous episode of Forbid Knowledge. My name is Craig. I'm hoping everybody can hear me okay. Either I'm having connection problems or Mark, the show before me, was having dropouts on their phone. I don't know. I placed my phone in a position that seems like it's working. Way out in the country here, we have very limited ability to get a good signal. So I'm hoping everybody can hear me okay. On this Wednesday, July 14th of 2021, If you're listening live. Hey Craig. Yes. You're coming in loud and clear on my cell phone device. Over. Okay, thank you very much. Stick around, you might want to participate in other parts of the show. Who knows? We're ready to get started here. Of course, I don't have any shows until the end of summer, basically. Dragon Con and then Knob Creek in October. And I mentioned on an earlier show a couple weeks ago about Knob Creek and I got a news alert here that basically I've already explained this to people that maybe some people have not heard it and this is the actual paper that I wish I had in my hands at the time of the announcement two or three weeks ago that I did it. And this was a paper included with our renewal forms for the coming show in October as a vendor. And so it comes straight from them so there's nothing conspiracy theory about this paper that I'm about ready to read to you. It says, news alert, half a century, 50 years, knob creek machine gun shoot, every year, twice a year, well, except for a flood and a pandemic. We've made many friends, some have become family. It has become a twice a year reunion for many vendors and shooters. Your patronage has been much appreciated over the years. However, old age has crept up upon us all. The time has come. October 2021 will be the last machine gun shoot. Hope to see you then. Our shop and range will continue to operate on our regular schedule. Come see us anytime. Signed, Kenny Sumner. So if anybody was doubting this, you can, this is again, this was included with the vendor's renewal forms. We have to send in our money at least a month before the show. I'm not sure why they're doing it so early. It seems like it's usually about a month before, because then they open up. If you don't pay within a month before the show, they open up the, there's a long waiting list for people who want to get in. And this next show, this last show coming up in October will probably be, one of their most attended shows whether or not they'll have enough ammunition to have all the shoots they want. That might be another story, but because it's the last one, and if you've never been to this machine gun shoot, you really ought to go. If you're a gun enthusiast, you really need to go. You need to go at least once. That's one of those things that's a pilgrimage once in your lifetime you need to make. In my opinion, there are other machine gun shoots around the country, and maybe some of the others will get bigger, and maybe they'll become the new Knob Creek. The Knob Creek machine gun shoot is the Premier and a machine gun shoot in the country as far as I'm concerned from everything I've ever seen by all shows I've ever done so October is the last one coming up unless somebody buys off the show I I consider that to be a strong possibility that somebody may come along and buy the show from Kenny Possibility, I don't know but that hasn't happened yet that I'm aware of And for the dates and all that you can go to my website for bid knowledge dot info for the dates of the show and a link to their website. I think it's knobcreekrange.com, I think, but I don't have that in front of me if you want to go right to their site. Last time I checked, a few weeks ago I checked, they did not have announcement on their website about this yet, but they did have a posting on their Facebook page saying that it would be their last month. So you could go to the non-creek range machine gun shoot page, or it might just be knobcreek range on Facebook. And you can see that posting that they did if you doubt what I'm telling you tonight. So anyway, I do expect that show to be very well attended, but there just might be a shortage of ammo. Okay, let me put the phone backward. I think I'm getting a good reception. Because I was actually trying to listen to Mark's show, and at one point I got cut off. So I believe that it's probably my reception here that is the problem. So apologies if I'm getting cut off here tonight, folks. If I do get cut off completely, I will call right back in. In fact, I had to call right back in before the show. And if you're trying to participate in the show and you find your star six buttons don't work, that's the buttons you use to mute and unmute your microphone to be able to participate on the air. I've encountered this many times and sometimes after calling in right at the last minute because if that button doesn't, if those buttons don't seem to work for you, I have found in my experience you hang up and call back in and try again and get a fresh start. And that seems to usually take care of the problem, at least in my case. So if you're trying to participate in the show and for some reason your star six buttons don't work, hang up and call back if you're listening on your phone. Okay, there's a bunch of news and headlines in the news today and I'm gonna... I guess I'll just tell you some of the headlines. You know where we're going with this tonight. At least where I plan on going with this tonight. Of course it could change. Somebody could call in and completely change the topic. But I also want to mention, I'm very much into what we used to call back when I was a kid, the space race. And I'm very much interested in there's a lot of things going on in the space race. Now the space race now isn't government so much as private companies for tourism essentially. I think it's the best way to use something. A lot of people who have already been space tourists don't like the word space tourists, but that's essentially what they were. And yeah, it hasn't been. The press seems to make you want to believe that this latest Virgin Galactic launch here last Tuesday was like some kind of groundbreaking for space tourists or something, and no, it was not. In fact, depending on what numbers and how you classify a space tourist, you can very easily say that Dennis Tito, back in 2001, I think it was, more than 20 years before the flight that was last Tuesday, Dennis Tito, who paid approximately $20 million to go aboard the space station, the ISS, is what probably would be considered the first space tours. Now the definition gets foggy because there was actually people back in the 80s that went into space and of course there was also the teacher in space, right? Krista McAuliffe who never really officially made it there but there's been other method but Krista McAuliffe was treated more like a a member of the crew going through extensive training in order to go on that shuttle flight which blew up Challenger back in the 80s. And there's been others in the 80s, in fact, that went up as civilians, however they had pretty extensive training. So Dennis Tito did have some training as well. It wasn't nearly as extensive of what a normal astronaut goes. He basically paid us $20 million to get aboard a Soyuz capsule to go into the ISS. And he spent almost eight days up there, and then came back down on a Soyuz capsule. So Dennis Tito certainly in history would have to supersede Richard Branson and the other three that went up with him. And of course, the pilots that flew on this thing, this is not their first flight. They had like a dozen flights already of this space plane that went up. And so why wouldn't they be considered? Well, they're not really tourists, they're pilots, so okay. But yeah, Branson and company, they didn't have virtually no training and they just went up and they're just coming. They went up and cut down. It took like 90 minutes or something. And this next Tuesday, if you're not aware, Bezos, or Bozo, some people want to call him, he goes up next Tuesday. I think it's scheduled for, I believe it's for 9 a.m. Eastern time. Might be 7 a.m., somewhere between 7 and 9 Eastern time, he's scheduled to go up in his blue origin. New Shepard rocket New Shepard the word Shepard if you're old enough. I'm fairly old enough, but I was I was alive during the space race Mercury Gemini Apollo Skylab I remember all those I mean I was too young to really remember Mercury and Gemini much, but I was really got into it once I was aware enough anyway I'm an old guy and I remember those and Shepard Alan Shepard was the first American The US, first American in space, basically a short hop up and down. I mean, almost like what they're doing today, almost. John Glenn, a lot of people think John Glenn was the first American in space. No, John Glenn was the first to orbit the earth, a suborbital flight, well, an orbital flight. You see, what Branson just did aboard Virgin Galactic, was a short hop barely in the space. It is in the space by the American standards of the Carmen line they call it, the imaginary line where space begins. And he crossed that line, which is about using miles, since we're mostly used to miles. Wait, no, kilometers. I think it's 80 kilometers is considered the Carmen line. I believe, and I keep seeing so many figures, kilometers versus miles and so on. To get a frame of reference, the space shuttle is like three times that height. Now Blue Origin coming up next Tuesday, if you're listening on July 14th that is, he will go up to about 100 kilometers, which is, he's actually gonna go up to 103 or 105 kilometers aboard New Shepard. New Shepard by the way, named after Alan Shepard. Okay, and then he's got another rocket he's designed and that they're testing called New Glenn after John Glenn, right? Okay, so that's where that comes from. And by the way, even though Alan Shepard was the first American in space, the Soviets did it like a year before almost, Yuri Gagarin. And he did it before. The Soviets were ahead of us. Those of you who want to study history a little bit, the Soviets were ahead of the Americans on virtually everything regarding space in the 60s. In fact, in the late 50s when Sputnik in 1957, first satellite, really threw a US for a loop and made everybody scared that a ballistic missile now could be launched through space onto the US. And that was a huge scare for the US and they started NASA the next week and then started to come up with their own space program and eventually melded into Mercury a one-man mission going into space learning if it was even possible. And then a two-man spacecraft called Gemini and they did a lot of docking and spacewalks to see if all that was possible to prepare for Apollo which happened later which was three men. going up in a Saturn 5 rocket and orbiting the moon and going landing on the moon supposedly. So that's the basic timeline in the late 60s and that ended in the early 70s and then we had Skylab with the remaining hardware that were, after all the rest of the moon missions were canceled, they used the remaining hardware for Skylab, which was essentially the first US space station. But you see the Soviets They were ahead of us first man's face, first woman in space, first animal's face as we did it later. They did it with Laika the dog and Sputnik too. We did it with a monkey. You can't remember what the US monkey's name was. And we actually had a lot of monkeys that they used experimental. We brought our animals back, however the Soviets at least in the beginning did not. It was a one-way trip for Laika the dog. So that's actually the only, at least unless there's any kind of secrecy in the space program that we don't know about either from the old Soviet Union or the US, that's the only living being, well, I shouldn't say that, anything more than bacteria and flies and whatever. That's the only living organism of substantial size. that has not only died in space, but it actually remains in space. Well, actually that's not true either because Sputnik 2 did reenter the atmosphere some months later. So as far as I've ever seen all my research, there's no dead animals or no dead humans up in space that remain up in the space. Again, unless there's some kind of secret program. So that's still the case today. There have been humans that have died in space and animals that have died in space. Most notably, three cosmonauts in 1964, 1965 I want to say, who died upon re-entry. So the question is were they really in space, but being there there was a stuck valve and they were exposed to space, the vacuum of space. I guess you would probably have to say they died in space, but they were immediately landed on Earth. They landed on Earth safely. Their bodies were intact and they tried to revive them, but they were dead. that was the Soviets' first major incident in space. People had died on the launch pad, including three Apollo astronauts, Apollo 1 in 1967, I want to say. Again, I'm just going off of memory here. That might be how those dates were on. But three Apollo, but they died on the launch pad, and it wasn't even a launch. It was a simulated launch. Anyway, coming up here, here's another piece of history that maybe a lot of you didn't know. I didn't know until about five years ago when some of this stuff was revealed. Jeff Bezos has an interesting passenger because that's all they are on the... Blue origin craft. Now the blue origin craft, if you don't know, as you probably saw, the blue, the Virgin Galactic went up like a plane. They towed it up like, like you've seen the Space Shuttle tow. They flew on the top of a plane. Well, in this case, on the bottom of a specially constructed plane, a dual fuselage plane with four jet engines. It towed it up to approximately, I think they said about 50,000 feet and then released it and then the jettison, the craft from underneath the wings and then the rocket took over and then it basically went straight up into space, into the edge of space. But the Blue Origin, and then it basically did a flip up there and they were wait lists for three minutes roughly and then came down as a glider. and landed on the same runway they took off on. And a total of 90 minutes and two hours or something. The Blue Origin Craft, however, is different. The Blue Origin Craft will take off like a rocket in a capsule up to six passengers. There's gonna be four on this first one. From everything I've read, there's supposed to be four passengers on this first one. No pilots on the Blue Origin Craft. They're basically, they are all tourists on board. They don't have to do anything to make the mission successful. So if there's ever a problem up there, they are basically just goldfish in a bowl. They can't do anything about it, and they're doomed if the brown people can't make right whatever's happening up there. They do have an ejection, not an ejection. They do have an escape mechanism like the Mercury and Apollo programs did. Gemini had an escape system as an ejection seat, by the way. So Gemini, however you want to say it, It had an ejection seat similar to what fighter aircraft have today, which they said may not have been survivable if it was a problem. And of course, that wouldn't have worked in space. It was only during a launch sequence, which is the most challenging and the most stressful on the rocket and the most likely to have a problem is during launch. And the first few minutes, essentially, when you're increasing the power to the maximum, like I think it's called... Q max or something that the most stress on the rocket But if you're an apogee already and try to eject you're probably gonna die Well in the apogee in this case is apogee means that the crown of the flight where they're basically in the space or the edge space Probably this is not something that a lot of people are all that interested in but I want to go over real quick good interest me That's my show. It's your own show if you don't like it So basically the New Shepard rocket launches straight up And the escape mechanism is, during Apollo and Mercury, it was a tower. If you look at the pictures of the Mercury before launch and Apollo before launch. They have another rocket above the nose cone of the actual capsule. And this was designed so that if there was a problem during launch, essentially, that these rockets could be fired immediately and possibly take the capsule out of harm's way. So even if the rocket below him then was exploding, the idea was maybe they could save the crew on this last-ditch rocket on top. Now, they would eject this rocket at some point. after a certain point in the mission when it was no longer deemed necessary as an escape method. So essentially the New Glenn has that as well, I'm sorry, New Shepard has that as well, the Blue Origin, I'm sorry, I keep getting using the names like so. The Blue Origin capsule has that, but it doesn't have a visual tower, it's little rockets kind of in the bottom of the capsule, but it has that mechanism in order to... Listen the capsule from a potentially exploding rocket in order to get the crew to safety and I'm Like is it are they still a crew that we call them a crew at this point? Where do we call them passengers? Because they can do nothing There's there's nothing up there for them to do which is a little nerve-wracking I would think but the same thing when you fly an airplane you got you can do nothing You're at the mercy of the people in the cockpit, but there's people in the cockpit In this case, you don't even have anybody up there to help you. You are on your own bed. You hope for ground control to make it right. And the computers don't fry or screw up or get an EMP wave upon them or something happens, and then you're kind of screwed. That'd be a terrorist attack, wouldn't it? The EMP, the Focus EMP weapon on a new Glenn or a new or a SpaceX or any of these rockets. that are so highly computerized today. We can't do anything without computers, it seems like. But the very interesting passenger, I keep getting off track here, there's one very interesting passenger that I'm very happy to see this happening. There is a passenger, I believe the name is Wally Funk. Yeah, that's a weird name, especially for a woman. Yeah, this is a woman. I believe she's 82. I'd have to check that. She's old. The reason she's old and going up is she was one of the original Mercury 13. Yes, back in the early 60s, there were women that also trained alongside the men in their own separate program for the Mercury missions. The idea was maybe we might want to send a woman into space as well to beat the Soviets at it, right? While the Soviets still beat us at it. And they never utilized any of the women that were trained and qualified all throughout the 60s. not Mercury, not Gemini, not Apollo. No women were utilized for that. It wasn't until Sally Ride in the 80s that they actually utilized a woman for a space mission. Now that's very unfortunate because this woman, Wally, her name is Wally, it's Wally Funk, I believe his name is, I hope I'm getting that right. She would have been as famous as Gus Grissom or John Glenn or Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin or Alan Shepard. Her name would have been as famous as all of them had NASA let her go on a flight, a Mercury flight especially. But it never happened. NASA canceled the program and she was out of a job. And all throughout her life, she wished she could go up. And so now Jeff Bezos, much to, I think is very, good that he did this and it's certainly good publicity. If the publicity gets out there, not a whole lot has been said about it yet. Probably during the day of the launch, they'll be doing a lot of promotional about it and about who Wally Funk was or is. Because now she, not only will she have, will be the oldest person ever to go into space, but she was part of the Mercury Program some 60 years earlier, which is really, really interesting in my opinion. I'm very glad that she's the elegant Jeff Bezos from what I've been reading Jeff Bezos basically gave her a seat on the flight has she hasn't paid for it. There is a 120. There's a 28 million. One passenger has paid 28 million might be 26 million I can't recall I think it's 28 million to fly aboard this new shepherd rocket next Tuesday. The name as of today that I've seen on the internet has not yet been released who this fourth person is. The second person, Jeff Bezos is flying his own rocket as well as his brother and then Wally Funk and this one, the fourth unknown high bidder for the fourth seat. I would be, I'm kind of hoping it's Elon Musk actually. Somebody that can afford $28 million to go aboard a 10-minute flight, essentially. It's about a 10 or 11-minute flight. Yeah, it goes up, stays in space, and it falls back down. It goes straight up, falls back down. That's it. Done going around the Earth. The wait list for about three minutes, same thing. But we can do the wait list thing, you know, what they call the pocket comet. What do they call that plane? There's a plane where the astronauts would train in, where basically the plane free-falls. for a minute or two and it makes everybody inside wait lists, artificial wait listeners. That would be interesting, Craig, if Elon Musk did that because right now he's the one with the contract with NASA. All the satellites and everything that we're sending up is through Musk's company. Oh, come on. SpaceX. Yeah, SpaceX. Wait, is SpaceX? Elon Musk is famous. Which one does it drag? Yeah, that's the name of the rocket, but yeah, SpaceX is the company. Yeah, so Elon Musk, he already has his own thing and he has his own plans for it. It'd be interesting if he did buy the ticket and went up and checked out the competition. But I think if he really wanted to, if he had competence in his own product, he would just go up in one of his. Well, he's competent enough to go up in Branson's because he's actually paid, I think they said, a half a million dollars. He's listed on one of the flights coming up with Branson. Interesting enough. So he's bought a ticket aboard his competition in the form of Branson. So I don't think it's too far west to think he might have bought a ticket to award his other competition Blue Origin. So, Bezos, I'm sorry. Yes, color. I believe you were referring to the airplane they take up pretty high and then go on a ballistic down angle to simulate weightlessness that they call the vomit comet. Yeah, I do have something like that. Yeah Yeah, and that's essentially all they did Tuesday is they went up high and then the rocket stopped The thrust stopped and they're floating for a few minutes as they're dropping that that's essentially all they did folks I mean you could argue that and there's a lot of criticism online about Ranson for this if you look at all the videos and you look in the comments section to see there's a lot of people You know, why are we spending because he spent over a billion dollars on this to get this flight essentially to get either doing it for like 17, 18 years, something like that, to get to this point where he could actually fly in space himself. And now Elon Musk has already been sending people up in space in space tax, but he has not yet braved his own rocket. Now he's argued that his is not a tourism thing. His is a useful space mission. That's the argument, so he doesn't have tourists yet, but he's talking about having tourists. In fact, he's also got a program to go around the moon supposedly with space tourists where you're spending a week up there or something. So that's going to be a whole different story when he does start that. But for now, Space X has not had regular tourists. They've been shoveling flights back and forth to the ISS for supplies. and personnel. That's essentially what most of what SpaceX has been doing. And they've been pretty successful about it. They had a lot of failures, especially in the early days. And Branson, by the way, they didn't really mention this, but Branson had a failure too. Virgin Galactic had a death of a pilot. They had a spaceship that one of their space planes break up in there right when they, soon after they released from their mothership. It broke up in air, apparently due to pilot air releasing the wing lock or something. And it broke up in mid-flight and the pilot did survive with injuries, but the co-pilot, the one who actually pulled the lever that actually made the mistake, he did die. So they really didn't mention that much during this launch. It's not really good publicity, I suppose, if somebody dies. And spaceflight has about a 3%. Right now, there's been like 500 and some people that have actually been to space. And it's about a 3% casualty rate. If you gather all those together, we've got at least 14 during shuttle missions that have died. Now, you can argue whether or not they were in space or not because they died either during liftoff or during reentry, but there were 14 that died there. And there are others that died on the launch pads all around. But the death rate, and then Soviets have had some casualties, the death rate right now stands at about 3%. And so if that was the death rate for aircraft, and aircraft was probably very similar in the first days of air flight. So this number will go down. But it's not a very good number if you're wanting a ride on a roller coaster, which is essentially what they had. That's essentially what they had, right? A rich man's roller coaster. That's what they had there. And that's essentially also what Bezos has coming up this next Tuesday. A rich man's roller coaster, right? Bezos hasn't announced the price of the tickets, but we have somebody that had bid $28 million on that first seat. And Branson is supposedly going to have his at about, set at about quarter million. I guess initially they were set at about $200,000. And by the way, Wally Funk has also bought a ticket. She has had a ticket on Branson's rocket for almost a decade now. Yeah, she actually had bought a ticket as one of the early buyers, earlier believers in Branson to go to space. So now Wally Funk may be the first person to go aboard both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic's suborbital hops. Maybe, depending on who this fourth person is on Blue Origin tomorrow or Tuesday. So that's rather interesting. Another twist, the fate in history. Wally Funk, the person who trained, and she wasn't the only one, there were 13 of them, that trained, now will go into space aboard Blue Origin, hopefully it will be a successful mission, and she will be the oldest person, and the oldest female, the oldest person, period. John Glenn, if you recall, back in the 80s, I believe it was the 80s, might have been the 90s, I don't... We call for sure John Glenn went back in his face because John Glenn was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and he went back in the space shuttle if anybody remembers that. Go ahead. Yes, Craig. I think it was, it might have been back in the 90s or the early 2000s. There was some pop star that paid the Russians $20 million to go into orbit on one of their mirror spacecraft. I can't recall his name, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct about this. He actually was in orbit and was up there for a little while, so he was well beyond what this little low-Earth orbit thing was. I was just remembering that. Yes, you're correct. I don't remember the name either. Here's the thing. I mentioned at the beginning of the show, maybe you missed it. Dennis Tito was a face tourist going aboard the ISV, and he spent eight days up there on a Soyuz capsule, Russian capsule. He paid $20 million. You might be getting confused with that, but there was other people, too. You see, that Dennis Tito can probably mostly be deemed the first-based tourist, but after him, there were many more. There were like seven or eight others between Dennis Tito and the flight last week of the Virgin Galactic. There were about seven or eight other people that also paid to go up in the Soyuz capsule. And I don't know about the mirror, if any of them went to the mirror. You might be right, I don't know. But they did go up. Now, Dennis Tito spent a whole week up there. He spent almost eight days up there. So certainly in orbit. And yes, the flight that we had last week was not orbital. It was only a short hop up and straight down. And same thing with the Bezos flight next week. It's not orbital. It's going straight up and straight down, landing back in the desert where it came from. But yeah, you're right. They're not only Denniscito, but they have others. And I think one was famous, a singer of some sort. And yes, maybe it was a rock star. I don't remember. And I don't remember any of the other names, to be honest with you. I did remember Denniscito, but I didn't remember the other names. But there were other people that went up. I don't know if any of them went to the mirror, but you may be right. I'm not sure when the mirror ended. I'd have to get online. I'm not online, folks. But you have to see when the mirror finally came back to Earth and see if that's possible, because the year 2001 was when Dennis Tito made his flight, I recall. And it was more than 20 years ago. It was like April or something. So it was a few months more than 20 years ago when Dennis Tito made his flight and where he stayed up there. for almost eight days, more than seven days. But yes, there's been others. And then, so the Blue Origin and the Virgin Galactic flights of this last, both within almost a week of each other, they have been history-precedenting only because it's the first space tourism. That's basically the first commercial space tourism put it that way not the one-offs like Dennis Tito and all the others that followed behind him before the ones that happened with Richard Branson as named Branson whatever his first name is. So it's historic in a way but it's just kind of meaningless and there's a lot of criticism online if you look. about how come we spend all that money, you can solve world hunger or some other problem, climate change, and there's the pollution from the rockets. Now Blue Origin is cleaner for the environment than Branson's is because of the type of propellant used. But there's all kinds of arguments, and a lot of the comments are very negative about it if you look at the comments section on these videos. So there's a lot of it, and maybe it's just jealousy. Because I'd like to I like to go on one of those I'll never be able to afford that but I might I'd like to go on one of those But I'll never be among me. I'm quite sure during my lifetime. I'll never be able to afford that But the way I think about it if you see all the arguments about where the edge of space is Is it 60 kilometers 80 kilometers 100 kilometers all this argued back and forth? And they because it's really an arbitrary line is just a matter what your country recognizes as that arbitrary line The way I look at it Anyway, you could do if you want. I'm at the edge of space right now. Standing on the ground. Yeah, I'm at the edge of space. What's the difference? I'm not weightless, but I can do that in the vomit comet, like the caller said. That's been done for many decades. I don't even know if there's any company that, but that would be another good tourism company that people could do the weightlessness thing. I don't know the time span of weightlessness on the rocket comet. might not be as long or the comment, vomit comment, I'm sorry, I'm getting the slang terminology mixed up. I don't know what the time limit of that was, that could easily be looked up if you look up vomit comment. I don't know that it's as long as three minutes, roughly three minutes that these other councils do. So that could be a space tourism thing, not really space, but. Is it really space where they went to? That's a big argument on the internet right now. Because even Bezos is saying to Branson, no, you didn't go to space. So he wants to be labeled the first one to go to space as far as a tourism go. But I would tell Branson, Bezos, no, you didn't go to space either. Or you weren't the first. Dennis Hito did it long before you and others did it long before you. In fact, 500 and some people went to space before you. So is it really a big deal? Okay, I probably should get on another topic. I just got carried away with it. Sorry, do you want to call and talk about this? That's fine. I have a bunch of headlines here, which some of this will be obvious to you if you paid attention to the news here recently. And I like to pick out things in the news and talk about them and usually try to get some information that you don't hear on the mainstream. And probably a lot of stuff I just mentioned in the mainstream. I probably educate people about some things. And that's one of the things I like to do. Tell things about people that people don't know oh by the way I'm getting off topic in here one of the reasons if you look in the history behind the Mercury 13 Which is the women's program for the Mercury program the women in space they never went during NASA's reign in the early 60s for Mercury One of the reasons and we could probably laugh at this today, of course Not only was it a good old boys Club, you know, and there was racism in NASA There weren't any blacks either. They went up to space in the 70s and there are 60s during the Apollo and all the other missions for NASA. They're a good old boys club, good old white boys club. In fact, if you look at the history of the astronauts, you'll find most of them are good old tree mason clubs. You'll find that one of the reasons they claimed they canceled the program for the women in space is they were supposedly, this was an excuse, one of the excuses, that women and their menstrual cycles might actually bleed to death or have a big blood problem in space. That was actually one of the excuses that NASA made for canceling the program of the Mercury 13, the Women in Space program. I kid you not. Anyway, okay, getting back to, I got off-tracking, I thought some other things to say. All right, I'll read out some headlines here and probably anybody can see this happening here right now. Food shortages have become obvious as the higher prices are. U.S. consumer prices jumped most since 2008, topping all estimates. A report released today. Senate Democrats announced a $3.5 trillion budget agreement, which would include stimulus. Biden wants to extend monthly $300 child tax credits until 2025, as millions of families get first checks. USC's biggest annual inflation jump since 2008. US housing market forecast, will it crash or boom? Yeah, and of course you look at the gas prices recently, we are seeing inflation and nobody can hide it anymore. Why are we having inflation? Well, one of the reasons is they threw away about $10 trillion into the economy because of the pandemic. Getting it away to everybody, adversity everybody. Everybody in the Social Security Administration, the Social Security call, that is, I didn't get any money. Whatever, all the rest of you got money. Just throw money away. Well, now we got inflation. So better hang on to that money, folks. You may need it because everything's going up. And there's no mystery behind this. I mean, I know Erwin Schiff, Erwin Schiff did a book about this. You don't know who Erwin Schiff, he was considered a tax protester. He protested an illegal tax. Had a book, I don't remember what the name of the book was, it actually was a cartoon book, it was pretty good actually, it was a picture book. And talk about how inflation starts. When you print out money, that's inflation folks, that will be inflation. And we've done a lot of it, and this latest budget thing, 3.5 million, and what's his name, the Social Democrat? What's the biggest socialist we got in Congress right now? That would be a what's his name ran for president a couple times. He wanted six trillion dollars But he opened he he compromised don't you know? Wasn't even a guy everybody want to shout out. What's the name of that guy biggest socialist we got in the country right now? Anyway, I thought why you probably know money Sanders. Yeah Bernie Sanders. Yeah, very Santa. Thank you And Bernie Sanders was, of course, probably the big rub. Probably one of the biggest obvious socialists. They're all socialists, including the Republicans. Because remember, folks, all this $10 trillion I told you about before, that was been Republican, not only in the White House, but also controlled a lot of things in the Senate. Congress, this was passed by both parties, so don't just think it's Biden doing it, because this was under Trump's watch. But don't you know, oh, you were un-American if you didn't support giving away all this money. And that's what socialism is all about, giving away free money. But of course it's not free. You are paying for your own demise. Congratulations. Well, we've seen prices go up across the board about just about everything and shortages. Lumber, we talked about this in previous shows, and that was a very obvious one for many, for about a year now, it's been very obvious. Lumber has come down about 40% from his highs. But it still, that still means it's a huge increase. And I was at the, let's see if I can find the picture here while I'm on the phone. I know there's a way to do this without getting cut off. I'm gonna read it to you when I, cause I took a picture of it. And probably a lot of you have seen the same sort of thing happening all around the country. Empty shelves of things that are missing. They haven't been announcing any kind of major that I have seen. They haven't been announcing any kind of major shortages of food items or things at the store. Like they were announcing toilet paper back in the day, a year ago, which caused, of course, a run on things. But here's a, let's see, that's okay, that's not it either. I'm looking for a document while I'm talking here. So I've seen a lot of empty shelves in the stores for all kinds of things. I asked one of the employees at Walmart the other day, I said, is this due to the pandemic? Is this due to the Fourth of July? What's with all the empty shelves? He said, well, we just can't get supplies. There's trucking problems. There's supply problems. A lot of people are not working. A lot of people are not purposely working because of the socialist programs they just installed. Because hey, it's cheaper to sit home and do nothing. So I might as well just sit back and collect that check. Why not? They're giving away free money. I'll make more money sitting back at home doing nothing, right? And that's where problem and this happening everybody's seen this you go to fast food today I went through Due to the labor shortage. We will be closed on Tuesdays, Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays between 2 o'clock and 5 p.m. Or whatever we've seen we've seen this kind of stuff all over restaurants are having trouble opening back up Things trying to open up back. We just have enough people working because of damn socialists Here was, I'm going to read this word for word, a sign. I went through a drive-thru, an apocable, I don't mean to advertise it, I mean these companies won't, but the paper on the drive-thru thing says, sorry if we can't feed your current craze. Due to national ingredient shortages and delivery delays, we may be out of some food items and beverage items. We apologize for this inconvenience. And we've seen this sort of thing happening if you've been up and about and looking at some of the signs and doors and things of stores. People are having trouble keeping the stores the shut the shelves stock You know a lot of it is because and if you're looking for a job and can't find a job You aren't looking because you can find a job anywhere Well, you can I can't because I'm not part of the social security cult, but anybody buy a job right now Unless there's some other reason that the place you're trying to hire in You'd have something on your record or there's some other reason some kind of disability or whatever I mean there are other reasons you may not be able to get a job but If you're able-bodied and you don't have a job, it's because you haven't really looked. Or you're just not willing to settle for the $13 an hour or $15 an hour that the fast food's paying right now in some places, $11 an hour, whatever. You see the signs. You see people having their clothes that were only open during this day to get people to come work for us. Open interviews. Just walk right in and get a job. We haven't seen that in a long time. But that's what we're seeing now. And until these programs end, and some states have already ended this, the supplemental to the federal unemployment benefits, some states have already now reduced that to where we're going to now see some of this go away maybe soon, because now the free money is not going to be coming in as much anymore. Although Biden wants it to continue and Bernie Sanders wants it to continue. All Democrats want his consensus to keep giving away free money. More Democrat voters. You see how socialism works. You throw money at people. You make it, you try to make, you throw money at the poor, mainly. You try to get the poor to be equal to what the rich are. And that's how socialism works. You don't need, you don't need it. You don't have to, you can't have a lower class, a middle class, and an upper class. You have to make everybody equal. That's what socialism is. So it makes no one's standard for you to do anything. Well, if the government's just going to give away free money, I won't do anything. Now, eventually that'll end. You'll have to work. And that's what socialism is about, too. Yeah, we're all in the government teat, but you have to pay for your spot from the government teat in socialism. That's what it is. And that's what the Democrats and the Republicans, again, don't think I'm blasting just the Democrats because the Republicans are socialists, too. The Socialist Party never had it so good in this country. in this world because that's what people want. Oh free money. Oh they're gonna Biden's gonna give me $300 more a week so I'll definitely keep voting for the Biden the Democrats. I love that. Don't contribute to society until you're forced to then you're essentially you're the government's slave. Socialism in action. Okay well let's see here how much time do I have left. I got about 10 minutes left. Okay. A lot of you have also seen this trend right now. I'm sure everybody is starting to... This is probably not news unless you just haven't watched the news. Anybody trying to find a house right now is having a residential home, and then having a hard time finding residential real estate. Just as soon as a house goes on the market, it's sold. I had a table next to some people even six months ago that was telling me that, yeah, we've been trying to get a house. And now what we do is, sort of the house comes on the market, we bid immediately on it. We're not even seeing it, because by the time you get an appointment and do the money, go see it, it's already sold. So they're just bidding on a house unseen, other than what it looks like on the outside and hoping they get it. And it's gotten so bad that some even offer the higher than the asking price. So have you ever thought of a good time to maybe sell a house? I would think probably right now is a good time to sell a house. The only catch with that is you got to buy another one unless you no longer want a house. So if you sell your house, you're going to have a really hard time buying another one. So I'll just keep that in mind. Yeah, you can make out probably right now by selling your house, but you won't be able to get another one easily. That's where I have one. My dad's trying to do that right now. Yeah, so housing is a big problem. Food is becoming a problem. It has been a problem actually for the year now. But we haven't really had noise starving yet. I mean, that's the bottom line there. I can read some of this here. Even the everyday complacent American is now noticing the price increases at their grocery store and that certain foods are often unavailable for purchase. This will most likely, this will likely not be close to being resolved in the coming months, but will probably worsen. If you've been wanting some reason to prepare, now is the best time to start. The mainstream media keeps trying to blame this on the virus, but... Last I checked, the virus didn't bark orders to impoverish yourself and lock yourself in your home with no way to generate an income. It was the world's governments that those willing to blindly obey without question who helped destroy the supply chain and the economy. That is only one of many reasons that we continue to call the government what it truly is, slavery. It is unwinding in some cases we're seeing similar effects from the first few months of the pandemic. Some of it is in reverse. Says Dan Kowalski, Vice President of Cobank's Knowledge Exchange Division. Cobank provides loans and other financial services for the United States rural community. Early in the pandemic some shoppers heading to the grocery store to stockpile food and other items agreed with empty shelves. according to report by MarketWatch. Businesses work feverishly to shift distribution away from restaurants, cafeterias, and other away from home dining venues that were now off limits during lockdowns. And that's the reason for the toilet paper thing, if you didn't know. The toilet paper companies were also making commercial toilet paper in the giant rolls that you get in the stalls of a public restroom. And those aren't really saleable or suitable for homes. And so they had to shift their production somehow because now nobody was going out and using public restrooms, for the most part. There is a part of the economy that's been relatively quiet for the last year that's reopening. And the part of the economy that was quiet and revving up at a faster pace than the manufacturer thought at the beginning of the year. That's the rebalancing that's happening in supply chain. Even pet items seem to be selling out as the prices are jumping. A high level stock items were headwind during the most recent recorder. This is clearly a supply driven situation which we expect to abate in the second half of the year as additional production capacity comes back online. Until then, we will keep actively managing our inventory and using our recommendation engines to help consumers find attractive alternatives. My sister happens to be a nutritionist and she works at hospitals and elderly care for the diets, special diets that they see. These hospitals have people on staff that help patients. They're having loose stools or something like that or if they have a special diet, maybe a halal diet or a kosher diet or something like that, they help them with their food choices with the cafeteria and so on. And she was telling me, yeah, they've had shortages all ever since it started. Right now, she told me just recently, there's been a weird lentil shortage. Beans, lentils, the type of beans. So whatever that's about, I don't know. It might just be one particular company just having supply issues. Other retailers, of course, say there's a labor shortage and demand is increasing. The National Federation said that in a Monday announcement that April was the busiest on record at the nation's retail container ports, with May possibly setting another record. This article is about a month old. There's no shortage of a demand from customers, but there continues to be shortages of labor, equipment, and shipping capacity to meet demand. Supply chain disruptions, port congestion, rising shipping costs. All continue to be challenges throughout the end of the year. Stay alert, remain prepared. With the supply chain already hampered, it wouldn't take much for the entire thing to come crashing down as people panic. Remember when they panicked over the flu and bought out all the toilet paper? That should have been a lesson to everyone to make sure you have at least whole package as a spare. Get what you need now. Things are looking like they could get tight this summer and into fall. The prices are going one way and if you are not prepared, then jump will be even higher. You may not be able to get prepared. Of course, this is all things that if you listen to my program, you should have been doing for years. I'll do a little bit of a reality check, I'll have a few minutes. Just have a bigger cabinet. Don't go crazy, don't buy entire cases of food. Well, buy them when they're on sale. That's when you buy food canned goods especially buy things when I say oh not perishables You can't buy a case of lettuce and store it But you can buy a can of pork and beans a case of pork and beans on sale like this If you sense you can't buy when it's on sale stock up little by little don't wait for something to happen and use it Don't let it sit there because if it sits there for 10 20 years Then not only you might you've died and then your kids throw it away But you but also it could go bad depending what it is canned goods can go bad, too Call her when it brings something in. Oh hey, this is Will from Florida. I was just going to say, you know, I'm 20 years old and I've been stocking this as much as I can. I think I've comfortably got it exported six months or three. And it's really all about trying to find stuff when it's on sale. I remember there was a bunch of Kingham fruit that I bought that was 75% clean-rins stock, but they have buggy hull of it. I mean, it's doable. There's no excuse. You know, if I'm 20... Call her. Could you speak up? I'm sorry to interrupt. Could you speak up a little bit? We're having a hard time hearing you. Sorry, Anna. Well, we were having, I was having a hard time hearing what you said. I'm sorry. I said, sorry, I'm at work. I said, you know, I'm 20 years old and, you know, I'm, you know, work a part-time job, not much more than minimum wage, but I think I've got at least six months worth of food. So it's all about mindset. There's no excuse. Yeah, you're right. And six months is probably, to be honest with you, I believe, this is my opinion, I believe six months is probably more than you probably ever will need. I'm not criticizing your decision, I'm not criticizing anybody else's decision, the Mormons think at least a year, and that's fine. It depends on what you believe is going to happen. But if you really think about it folks, if you really look at history, at least in the United States, there hasn't been any reason to supply more than a couple weeks of food for the last 150 years or so. There really hasn't been a reason to have to do that. Now, there may be a reason they have to do that. In the future, we don't know. None of us know. But even during your grandparents lifetime, it really hasn't been an easy thing to have to do that. So, a good amount. We might have to meet in your cabinet. Anyway, I'm out of time. Sorry, this is a good topic. We should have got a whole lot of filling. But this is Craig. This is Ben Mow. 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And we're at the halfway mark, kinda, not quite, kinda, almost. And it is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist and in your face, pissing on your back, Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2021. Old Earth Calendar. Yeah, Jim. I'm a doctor, not a breakfast. I think I should put a shingle up. Respect that, Fordo with a concrete from one of our emergency kits for our buildings. Hmm. Less money, less work. Oh, wait a minute. Less overhead. And more money. Nah, I think I'll do that. And 2021 Battle for the Republic, Dance of Swords. And it has been a medium day here in Michigan. We've had rain, rainliness wander through, not necessarily hitting everywhere. But again, this has been one of those summers like last summer, where when we had the storm clouds move in in the morning, if you decided to cancel everything, that was a mistake. And this year is the same way. This is plastic, Michigan damp, wet weather. This is Michigan as the boy shares and the Jesuits. all wrote about the land of the mosquito. Why was it the land of the mosquito? Well, we got lots of water, lots more water coming down from the sky, and we got... So guess what? We got all the bugs and more. And this is classic Michigan bug mosquito weather. So make sure you got your mosquito nets. your head nets for your hat skies and don't forget your bug spray whatever floats your boat whatever fan vintage do you know bug spray whatever you choose enjoy it'll work they all do to one degree or another anyway a couple things here real quick again Camp Emmerich we've got this weekend that this is a CM Colonial Marine militia but other units will be participating about I was corrected on here a little while ago There are other groups that are going to be attending, but they must attend. If you're with the CMM, in order for you to participate in the votes that take place, the officer in charge, OIC, along with the executive officer, senior NCOs, company commanders, and even platoon commanders. Day one, platoon commanders, in addition to everybody else, have to be there for these meetings involving Northeastern Michigan and Western Michigan. This is a specific coalition meeting. about mobilization for combat. We are correcting a few things, but they're going to have to make some decisions and per the Constitution of the Colonial Marine Militia, just as the Constitution for the Wolverine Militia Corps dictates, they have to be face-to-face meetings and if you can attend, A physical representative has to be there to cast a vote for the unit. So that is mandatory. There's no give on that. You don't attend. You have no vote. That's simple. If you can't make a handful of days for critical events, how am I supposed to expect or anybody else, people that are part of the CMM, expecting anybody to perform when the time comes? So this is all part of the SOP. And congratulations guys, check your Colonial Marine militia site, use your PIN number, you know what that is, I don't. And follow up by collecting all the information you need. Everybody pretty much should know the date, time, place now. In addition to that, again, one more time, the pistol frames, the Model 10 Smith & Wesson pistol frames I was talking about are available through JGSales.com. They're right on the front page. Now let me make a recommendation. Don't worry about whether they're square butt or round butt. If you want to select, then you have to pay 20 additional dollars. These are field grade guns. They're nothing to write home about. They are standard issue firearms. They have been used. They had the barrels taken off them because they were in Canada. They get them here. They take the barrels off. They were 2 inch. These are good frames. They're Smith & Wesson, American manufactured. Okay. But I would not spend any extra money. $200 in what they cost. Just any select, whatever they pull out of the box, that's fine. Because there's no select as in premium select. It's a matter of square butt, round butt. With the many, many, many, many, many, many, pistol grips that you can buy, you'll see what I'm talking about. If you go like gunpartscorp.com, they have Hogue grips, they have Pockmeyer grips, there's all kinds of companies that still have used police surplus in all of them. And you can make a round butt, a square butt, you can make a square butt, a semi-round butt simply by changing those Pockmeyers or the wooden grips if they're custom cut wooden grips. And there's a bunch of those out there. So I would not spend the $20 on a select. I will you know, in other words, round butter square, but I just take what you get, you'll it'll work just fine. Another thing for the barrels, the pistol comes to the pistol frame complete. There's nothing else you need to buy. It's all on board. Timing is good on these guns. They're mechanically, everything is sound, everything's on board. They are used. Don't think you're getting a new gun out of the deal. That's typical for surplus. And these are police slash Canadian government surplus. There are $200 apiece for it, just the frame, but complete. The barrel and barrel pins you can get from any number of sources, but one of the first that you can look at is www.gunpartscorp.com. www.gunpartscorp.com. www.gunpartscorp.com There's also www.apexgunparts.com, apexgunparts.com, www.apexgunparts.com. The other is sarco, e-sarcoinc.com. sarcoinc.com. They have two barrels. They are though for the victory model. So I will point out I have not called them. I have not been able to do that today. I will do it tomorrow. I'm going to give them a ring and confirm that they're probably going to be the bigger, slightly larger diameter for the Smith & Wesson standard short cartridge. Smith & Wesson, you know, standard. It's World War I cartridge to World War II, and by the way, they still issued them with the 38 Smith and Wesson during the Korean War, because I've heard that both were issued out, 38 Special and 38 Smith and Wesson. So it's what they had in the box. They're pistols. They figure, well, it's close defense, and if it's pilot, you really got to worry about recoil with a guy who's probably injured. I could explain that, but I'm not going to spend time for the moment. If you watch, or watch, if you read the book, it's not really very big, but it's worth reading, it's called 999 Survive. It was an Air Force Survival Manual survey for World War II, and it's talking about the percentages of why, how people do what they do. why the guns worked or one gun was better than another for survival in the field based on first-hand experience usage, not guesstimating or in theory. It was we have 999 people that survived bailing out of their aircraft. What did they do? That's why they came up with the title. Okay, 999 lived out of a thousand. Why? What did they do right? What happened? And even if they didn't quite have a perfect tool, they did have a tool in the toolbox, so what did they do with it? Another thing about the pistols, especially K-frames, if you inherit one, a couple companies you can go to for reproduction leather, if you want to go military leather, and one of them I just mentioned was eSarcoInk.com. Sarco.com, okay? SarcoInk.com. Forgive me. Sarco has a wide collection, but you may have to call. They changed their page, but then they didn't update their page. And a lot of stuff that has been on their page and is in their inventory, you're going to have to call and ask them, hey, what have you got left in a Model 10, you know, K-Frame, you know, revolver leather? What do you got left? World War II copies. I'm not looking for expensive. I'm looking for duplicates that are reasonably priced. And they do have the pancake holsters in .38. K-frame or in for the 1911. They have a number of the different duty holsters that they date back to the Span Am war that will probably work with a K-frame because they were built for the equivalent pistol circa 1898. all the way up through to World War I, World War II, and Vietnam era holsters that were either brand new or old inventory surplus, or they were re-productions built for re-enactors and collectors. The other option is to check gunpartscorp.com. They have leather and they have a lot of other stuff there and they do have speed loader carriers too. So if you have a K frame, you want to get speed loaders, remember that some speed loaders are longer than others. So you need to pay attention to the manufacturer and make sure that if you're going to get a certain speed loader, it matches up. Some are open top, but some have flat covers. And that flat cover, for instance, Sierra speed loaders have a big, honky, push button on the back, push thud button like an emergency button almost big. HSKs have a simple small turn knob on the back. And each of these are different heights and chubbiness thickness wise, you know, different. So they won't necessarily fit in all the other speed holster leather that's out there, the speed pockets. That's why you need to match it up for manufacturer. Now, Another thing is, again, ammunition of course is catch-as-catch-catch. 38 Special. K-frames can handle pretty much everything that's made out there. And these are American K-frames. They're modern, I would assume 1970s through late early 1990s production for the Fistols. As likely as not, they fit about the middle 80s window. There's nothing right home about their basic gun, okay? Now as far as speed loaders go, the company you're buying the gun frame from, JGSales.com, has a complete selection of speed loaders in inventory and they also do have the speed loader pouches if you want them. Most other places that have parts usually got leftover cop stuff, cop hardware, cop leather, etc. But you may find also not just in leather but also in black nylon or brown nylon. and there's a number of options out there. Look for the used cheap stuff. Ask. You never know what they got on the shelf. They might even have a crate full of the stuff out there in the store if they have a, not just an internet site, but they also have a store. By the way, Maine Military is very likely to be like in that situation. You might want to give them a call, Maine, M-A-N-E, MaineMilitary.com, MaineMilitary.com. And Botash and the others do carry a certain amount of stuff, but you have to go through meticulously screen and see what's available. But do proper diligence because you save dollars in one place, you can spend dollars in another. It's that simple. So you can put a pretty decent K-frame Model 10 or Model 19 Smith & Wesson or, again, official police type combat kit for a pretty good price and reasonably priced. In this case, with regard to the gun, This makes this the cheapest handgun that I can see out there other than the high points. And those are still out there. There's some available again, and those are of course some automatic pistols. This is a revolver, but when you're looking at $500 for the equivalent in a service revolver out there, Model 10, you can put a gun together if you have a little bit of wherewithal and you pay attention. by just going and cherry picking from a couple of locations. Now, one more thing someone just asked. Yes, those K frames are FFL required. They are a standard Smith & Wesson revolver, so they are going to be on a 4473 if you're going to buy some. So that's another thing to take into consideration. But it is a hell of a saving if you do it right. So check out, see what you can find. Again, if you go over to GunPartsCorp.com, they have about five barrels that could slap onto those frames right away. Personally, I'd go with the air weight. You'll see that it says air weight. It's on the picture. It's a stamp, air weight. Those particular barrels are high finish, and if you'll notice when you get them, they have a kind of a high, bright finish to them. The reason is because they were going on aluminum frames that were anodized. The anodizing color that they use, the range of black that they use, they matched up with their finish on all the steel components. And because of this, they all have a kind of a bright range in coloration, the way that they look. They were aviation, you know, aviator backpacker type pistols. A lot of guys pushed them. The K-frames were pushed for, for instance, camp guns for Alaska. Although normally a 3 inch gun was recommended, a 4 inch is just as common, but 3 inch, small, easy to pack with a lot of fire power, a lot of punch anyway. Or for dealing with either a small aggressive game or if you have to save your life from whatever might be going grrrr in front of you. It gives you something to punch back with rather than you trying to use your bare fists. Other than that, nothing to write home about, like I said, Smith & Wesson, Model 10, JGSales.com. They have the frames, it's on the front page, easy to find. As far as I know, they don't have any barrels, they're going to tell you that if you were to call them up. But they do have the speed loaders. They can buy the correct Model 10, Model 19K frame speed loaders right there at JGSales. And you're probably going to know, how many should I get? Well, ideally you should get at least five right away, but if you're taxed because you just got to put the gun together, at least get three because two on the carrier and one in the pocket, however you want to do it, or say one in each pocket and the other one where it's in a quick grab location, there's a number of variations. But it's the idea that you've got just enough to keep some bullets going down range and you're not having to handle a handful of chiclets. You've got one six round circular object. You get them lined up, you shove them in there, twist the handle, drop the speed loader, close the cylinder, point, click, click, click, click. Remember, revolvers, these are single action and double action. You close the action, you point and just pull the trigger, double action, boom, she fires. If something happened where you messed up or there's a problem with the round, pull the trigger again. Pull the trigger, boom, click, click, boom, there we go, there's another round. See how that works? So the revolvers are cool in a number of different ways. Of course, you're not going to spray and pray the whole jungle with them. But if you're focusing and know what you're doing, that weapon will serve you well. Now, another thing I mentioned, and everybody immediately I know is like, Vanette, why would I need a Vanette? Well, sharp pointing objects are kind of handy. And if your rifle can take a Vanette, why not carry? It's just a good idea. Okay, it doesn't have to be the most expensive and I will remind you again if you have a grand and you got one of those original M1 Graham banettes that now is like you know an opinion price I Wouldn't necessarily be carrying it out on the field for training. So here's the thing You can go over to Bud Kay calm and other companies, but Bud Kay has these in stock They are duplicates copies made in China of the standard Infantry blade, the shortened model, and the sword model. The World War I to the 1942 era. I've got one that's the full length. It was built in 1942 by Remington. Even though the standard had already done a reduction in the blade length, there were two reductions in the blade length to drop them down to eight inches. And what they did with a lot of the long blades is cut them. Now, there's two ways they did that. Either made a standard Drop point that everybody would be familiar with basically short the blade then recut everything or they just cut it on about what I think I would say a 55 degree angle Sharpened it and congratulations. There you go sharp pointy object, you know pointy spot on one end sharpened So it's got an a sword blade or a chopping blade and the back strap is dull But that's it And of course they made, there's an intermediate length and then they went shorter still to the bayonet that eventually, even though they made a black plastic copy that looks kind of like the M14 to the M16 bayonet, it was made later for garands that were issued out to the guard or for units that, you know, pieces of equipment that were being shipped out to allies, even though they did it both ways. It was purely a matter of what came out of the junk box when they were issuing it. That's how when when you're looking especially at older weapons systems purely well, we open the crate with here Wow, this one's got whatever good. That's that's what they get right there. Congratulations There was no worrying about everybody you know etiquette or any kind of coloration or a bottle of that and now it's great you care less so great Go ahead call your company, please Roadhog Roadhog magazines in the pouch very good excellent over Oh, yeah, thank you for the notification, Kathy. And again, one of the other things is that there, for instance, if you have the Winchester Trench Guns or one of the copies that was made, there's a bunch of them made by the Italians back about, what, 20 years ago now. If you have one of the Winchesters, probably, you know, Thumb Buster, Guys, first of all, if it is an actual one, it takes a 1917 Enfield Bannett, not a 1903 Springfield. It takes an M1917 Enfield Bannett, typically. Now, there are some duplicate shrouds. Some guys took these replacement shrouds, put them on some field grade Winchester thumb busters. If you pay attention, you'll notice the lug is chubbier. Now, those typically were built to take the M16 Bannett. And there's a number of different ways they were put together, but these are duplicates. They were designed so that for all of those old thumb busters that were kind of tired, that were laying around, what people did is they cut down the barrel to trench levels, the matchup of the shroud. The shrouds were new manufactured by a company down out of Tennessee. And the only difference is since the M1917 Bannettes were becoming harder to find and becoming more expensive, they made this shroud to take the M16 Bannette. So you may have one of those that's why you've got to kind of puzzle out what have you got in your hands? Take a look at it. See if you can figure it out. The Winchester is not an obsolete gun, pretty cool weapon. They call it a thumb buster for a reason. All you have to do is work the action. You'll see what I'm talking about. The whole bolt assembly slides out the rear of the receiver and then of course reintroduces itself into the receiver. That's why it got the name thumb buster, okay? Another one is, yes, I know the Mavericks, or should they Mavericks, forgive me, the Mossbergs are out there, there's a bunch of military copies of those. For a short time in the 90s it was evil and terrible and horrible and bad for you to have the, you know, shroud in the bayonet lug on it, you know, because oh my god, but so there are some that just have the shroud but no bayonet lug. And of course the shroud was evil too by the gun grabber standards, arbitrarily of course. But quite a few of those Mossbergs have the proper Bennett fixture, those taken in 16 Bennett. And there's a few other variations in guns from that period of time that were mimicking the standard military issue shotguns. And again, they typically take the M16 Bennett. Now, there are duplicates. They are cheap copies. They're not badly made, but they're cheaper to buy than a real one. by half and those are available at Bud-K and I believe Center Fire Systems and also Sportsman's Guide just picked up a batch of these. So if you go to Sportsman's Guide and run M16 Banette you're going to see a, oh I think there's four or five variants for including the you know wire cutter model. etc. for about $35 a piece. The originals are running now up around $70, which is ridiculous, but it's where they are for the regular M16 standard Vanette. So a copy for $35 is half the price. You've got more than one AR-15. You've got to put Vanettes on. It's still cheaper to go with the cheaper model. You get two guns covered for one. It just needs to be something to get on there to give you that sharp pointy look and the ability to cut and you know slash and stab when you need to. It doesn't need to be fancy especially if look at it this way. Maybe you already got a bunch. Don't take the good one out just like magazines. Why are you taking your most expensive mags to the rain? You don't do that. You buy those cheap mags everybody makes comments about and you wear those out right now because they work good enough. But when the time comes, now you've got all the hours you need on those very expensive mags you invested in. And they're the first ones and the primary ones you carry for first up, you know, keeping yourself alive, if that's your concern, and typically it is for everyone. The big thing here again is the fanettes. You can wear them out, see what they do. See how long it takes to actually break down one, not snap it or break it or destroy it, but use it the way you normally would sensibly. and see how it takes punishment, what it does. If it works well, you might decide maybe you want more, but the only way to do that is put some miles on the thing. And that means carrying it, using it, the way you intend, and the way you normally would in the field. No, not stabbing your battle buddy with it. Stop stop stop stop stop. Remember he's probably got body armor. You're just gonna piss him off and he'll do the same to you. You're wearing body armor so you just be poking and poking and laughing and poking and then you slide it sideways and goes under the armpit. You do some real damage, he gets pissed and everybody starts shooting everybody. We don't need that. Okay? Just a heads up. We would prefer that you not go into battle buddy violence. Okay. So another thing here with regard to, again, Weapons Wednesday, pyrotechnics. Remember we had our ammo guy out in Arizona that was carrying parachute flares and all the other effect flares that we wanted. While they're not available now, some of the inventory is now being picked up by other companies and as a matter of fact Midway, somebody mentioned earlier, did have the lifeboat parachute flares there. Now another one that's carrying those or has carried the lifeboat emergency signal parachute flares has been CenterFireSystems.com However, I have not looked recently to see if they've restocked an inventory. You might want to check to see if they do have them. And if not, we need to do a search because I don't care if it's a sports warehouse, emergency supply service. These are surplus from old, you know, they're the inventory that was in the lifeboats. They have to clear them out by law. It doesn't make any difference. They obviously haven't been used. They were designed for saltwater environment. In Michigan, we don't have saltwater and most of you don't either. So the cool thing is, is that they're good for almost an indefinite period of time. They are typically Wessex or one of the variations for all of the British players. However, they may also be Japanese. And if you get the Japanese players, they're good for another, I think, close to 800 feet in altitude, and they burn longer. So whichever you run into, I'd like to hear about that. And where are they? because players for night illumination and for signaling for general action are perfect. Especially since you have inane patterns and colors that are out there randomly available to you when you notify your team of what it is they can expect in the way of the signal, it is almost impossible that the other side would have a mimic or match deployed. Just the name of the game. So remember there are big advantages to having certain tools in the toolbox Especially if they're quote-unquote. Oh, it's a leader. Those are older. That's old inventory. Oh, that's really good You might recall all of the East German flares Well, everybody was popping those off at the knob Creek machine gun shoot left right up and down and We saved back as many as we could we bought cases used by them $60 for a case of hundreds. Okay These are military flares, but they're single, single star, two star, three star, four star, six star. They had, you know, like specific numbers of illumination stars that would pop, and you could use them for signaling, plus they had colors. So you had a wide range of colors. If you didn't see a four star purple, then obviously that signal wasn't for you. So again like everything else you have to use the grey matter between your ears and pay attention. The flare! Four stars! Fire fire fire! Shut up! It's not for you son. That was not a red flare. We are waiting for a red four star flare. And it should be coming from the northern quadrant. Mount the eastern quadrant. Oh that's right. Oops sorry sorry. Hold fire everybody. Hold on. See how that works? So the flares were quite handy. Also don't forget smoke grenades. Guys, the industry, all industries have some inventory backlog outgating going on right now. This is where you take advantage of the coronavirus virus failures. Because of that, you can pick up the orange juice size smoke testing units for H and B, heating and ventilation. Now these are non-toxic. They do not produce anything that is harmful. They're designed for testing after you have a new installation or if you're looking for leakage in an old system. They're designed to throw smoke into a system dense enough that of course and also resilient enough that it moves through the system and shows you where the air leakage is or where there's a failure. And what's really cool is the orange juice sized ones basically, orange juice sized cans of smaller ones, produce as much smoke as a standard military smoke grenade. The ones that are the size of a US military smoke grenade produce probably about almost 100% more smoke and of comparable density to a standard concentration smoke grenade. And yes, there are bigger, including smudge pot size. So you can pick these up. They're not a weapon. They're not harmful. They aren't going to hurt anything. Yes, don't be careful. Remember, they still will start fires if you heat near combustibles and you certainly don't want fuel around them. When it comes to lighting them, remember that. But if you're looking for smokes, this is another solution. Now, there are two different fusible systems. One is a standard light the fuse and throw. That means you have to be thinking ahead about how you're going to activate that fuse without drawing a lot of attention. So you need to get used to the idea of taking cover, concealing and covering the fusible system, and then throwing it as needed. The other are a striker, typically almost like the German, everybody calls the potato masher, but the standard German stick grenade system. You have an aggressive phosphate that is lining a tube. You have a pull handle with a cord attached to a ball. The ball has more of the abrasive material, but with a crystalline or a sand type grit surface to it. When you pull on the cord with a little stick, what happens? It works like you're matched striking a piece of sandpaper. And that of course burns and activates the fuse or it directly activates the filament which of course is directly attached to the combustible material and you throw that and you've got smoke going. Now I'm going to say something else. If you are using military smokes, attention, attention, attention. You have not had experience with military smoke and or CSCN. You do not hold after you release the spoon, when you release the safety spoon on the fuse system. Throw it. Why? Because in many cases, especially I've seen this with high concentration smoke that has been in the inventory for a long time. The material is sometimes cast green. What we mean by that is it's still developing, crystalline structure. It will burn as smoke, but it may also detonate. Everybody goes, what? Yes, it may also detonate. I have it on video. I can show you one that I personally use. I was tearing the camera. Jumped out of the chopper. I've got the CS ground up forgive me high concentration smoke because I'm going to throw it off to the side I did It got to the edge of the screen and as it did and of course this spoon flew away the the cap got hit and The thing ruptured into part almost two pieces the canister burst sideways Now, it continued to burn, but most of the concentration took off almost immediately, and of course, I had more surface area burning. But the fact of the matter is that, again, pyrotechnics age. Now, they all work, but sometimes more drastically than originally on the instructions. So, we don't hold Mr. Grenade and, you know, we'll drop the spoon and count to three. You may not get to three. Boom! and with smoke and CSCN. I've had that happen also with older CSCN. I used to take total control. When I was working as an out-for commander, I would deploy gas. And I had two or three designated individuals. Everybody was trained, but when I was deploying a chemical agent, I would have a specific person whose task it was to deliver six or eight canisters into an aggressor. and we already had an SOP set up and everybody understood you do not hold the grenade while with a mean trick here. Use smudge pots or a couple of concentration smoke grenades. They're dirty. They actually have a dirtier gray color to them. You throw those out and you let the area get cluttered with it. Now remember concentration smoke burns, it billows more actually it's quite dynamic. Now while that's going on that's when you throw the CS right in the middle of all of that. Initially, people get hit with what is standard smoke. They feel confident. They're taken in deep breaths or they're at least breathing normally. And that's when they hit the first wave of CSCN traveling in amongst all the conventional smoke. Totally breaks their confidence in the idea that they can easily move forward. Once they have that happen in a defense in depth, you can throw conventional smoke without CSCN. and you will watch as the elements you're making contact with hesitate because they've now already had a lung or a face pull of the CSCN while they were advancing through the smoke. From that point forward, there's a cautionary tale of pay attention on the other side. So it's a way to, again, stumble them up by time. Remember, in defense and depth, you're trying to get your enemy to linger in kill zones that you have preestablished. And you want to make sure that you can take advantage of whatever gun time that weapon has before it's supposed to stop shooting, disembark from the location, and move to the next, you know, fighting station in line, you know, as part of the defense in depth. So these tricks help to keep the enemy where you want them or put the enemy where you need to put them, because remember, it may also deflect. It depends on how high a concentration, what else you use, and the way of pyrotechnics to divert or deflect the energy and motion of the aggressor. Okay, but remember Mr. Grenade once the pin is pulled Mr. Grenade, I don't care what the smoke grenade, flashbang grenade. I don't care what it is a smoke a CS grenade throw it Okay, just do better. You know if you're suspecting well, I think it's gonna make it and it's not gonna be malfunction Okay, then learn to lob it remember you've heard the term lob a grenade you're not trying to throw a grenade like it's a hardball like your hardball pitcher. Remember that arc is part of the calculation. The arc of travel is part of the calculation to the end objective along with the burning of the fuse. Just something to think about. Now, problem. If you are confident but then find out you shouldn't have been, you're going to realize that in many cases that because of that extended arc that you lob the grenade the way you planned on. that the grenade may activate or detonate in flight and is not necessarily as effective. Now an air burst is good, but if it's not as close, remember, most American grenades, if you're using captured ordnance. and you will be. Most American grenades are called defensive grenades. You do understand that. The difference between an offensive grenade and a defensive grenade is burst radius. You know those flashbang grenades that they've been BS'ing you about that, oh they're not lethal and they're, that's not a grenade. My ass, that's an offensive grenade. That's just like the potato masher we mentioned earlier. That is an offensive grenade. It has a smaller burst radius. It is designed for shuck and jive, shock and awe. You throw it in front of your attack, it has a narrow, a small circular burst radius so it doesn't affect you as you throw it into the enemy's ranks. That is an offensive grenade. That is not a flashbang grenade. That's just a lie word they came up with as part of the propaganda vocabulary. Now here's the thing, all the other grenades you've used, the lemon, the Mark II or the baseball, those are defensive grenades. They have a much larger burst radius because typically defensive grenades can be used from cover. So when you do throw a grenade, remember, depending on how you deploy it, that burst radius is always going to be pretty consistent. This is another reason you make sure you take cover and by the way all those things I've talked about body armor helmets a leg and you know like me and elbow armor are all kind of handy because of these these particular problems and as I mentioned as The battlefield develops although I think it's going to be much sooner than most people think Very quickly you're going to see a lot of HE on the battlefield. The enemy will be deploying that because they're going to try to up the ante to create more shuck and jive, shock and awe. Okay? Just something to think about. That's why body armor, helmets, anything you can do to add additional protection is a really good idea. Now remember that 35 yard burst radius that you're dealing with Within that, you can get, and maybe not lethal, and not every fragmentation of fragments is lethal, but all of it is damaging. And cumulative damage is just as good as a lethal shot first time around, because depending on what it is it messed up, you might be now a casualty that has to have two people get you off the battlefield. This is why fragmentation is very desirable. It doesn't have to be a perfect hit, but if you get peppered with a whole bunch of pieces of copper wire or steel rod or something that's, you know, being or chunks of metal of whatever kind and they permeate your body, you get hit in the knee, you get hit in the chest, you get hit in the side of the face, you've got a chunk sticking out of your head, you're not exactly getting motivated to move forward anymore, but you probably will be withdrawn from the battlefield. So, this is why HE is going to be there. But we don't want you to be self-fragging. So, prior, proper planning prevents piss for performance. The B principle, remember, Mr. Grenade is not your friend when the pin is pulled. Or if he's, you know, rules of warfare, okay? Another thing, and again if you do find pirate techniques, now the civilian pirate techniques are going to be ground players, markers, and need to say parachute players. There are again some smoke and the smoke will, if you're going to buy emergency type, will typically be orange smoke. Now remember smoke can be used and as you know, you know, if you see the red smoke man, that's where the old Z is. Okay, whatever color is picked, you know, purple, red, green, colors were varied intentionally because when you become predictable then the enemy knows to take capture to, you know, whatever and mimic what you're doing. And this is why as team members you have to pay attention. Wasn't red the marker, man? No, dude, weren't you listening to the briefing? What? What? No, man, I was gonna pick him and it was scratching my earth. Yeah, I kind of figured because green's the color for the, you know, for the, you know, confirmation recovery. It's green today. Green, green, green. And this variation is needed, especially if you're not fighting the five-year-old blind kid across the street like we've been doing for years now. We picked the guy out, you know, we picked the kid out, we can beat up easy. Like the Iraqis, you weren't fighting their parents, you were fighting the kids, never been in war, and of course they watched lots of movies. Well, that's not what you're fighting now. In fact, well, the other side, everyone wants them to correct their posture. But basically, again, remember, technology-wise, we have to be up to speed and up to par with all of the materials that we are going to be acquiring and or building. Now, on that note, smoke grenades aren't that difficult to build. I would remind you guys, actually, this is why there are so many different sub-component companies that make for heating and ventilation the smoke grenades we were talking about earlier. There's a whole bunch of independent companies that have regional or state contracts that are quite extensive. And it's because it's not that difficult to build them. They're relatively safe to build. They're not, again, it's not an explosive pyrotechnic, especially if it's fresh. The issue, as I mentioned earlier, is with aging. That's where you have to beware and why you should always be cautionary towards, again, the worst case scenario. Always. Okay, assume it's like Mr. Boom Boom Toy is not your friend. Muzzles of guns are not your friend either. Remember that. Don't point them towards friendlies. They aren't going to be too happy when you make a mistake. Okay. Next, and this switching over to another interesting little piece that I saw about what, three days ago. There was a company that made stoner knockoff copies, the stoner rifle from Vietnam. I recall, but it jogged my memory when I saw this, that the company had made a couple of the variations. There are examples of the guns being used in a couple of the different videos available on YouTube. They were done over the last couple of weeks. As a matter of fact, it's kind of funny that they, you know, the subject itself, the guys were reviewing a lot of light rifles. And the top magazine mounted variant, which remember all of the stoner weapons are Lego block. You could take any one of the weapons that the Stoner built of the Stoner rifle family and convert them into any other model that existed in the inventory. That was his, it was intentional on his part. It was the Mattel Swell rifle. It really was. And that's the Stoner gun. Very popular with the troops that carried it. A lot of guys didn't want to give it up. If you know anything about it, when they actually did finally start to discard the stoner guns, they chopped them into pieces. When I say chopped them into pieces, it's harder to hell to find a kit. And by the way, this is back in the 90s when they finally started cycling out of a strategic reserve or a tactical reserve, a bunch of the stoner guns, they were taken to whatever facility and they were chopped into 10, 12, 14 components. Barrels were cut back when they didn't need to cut the barrels. But there was absolute paranoia and fear about anybody seeing those guns intact in even larger format. And it's very rare to find, the only ones you'll find that were DeWatts that are actually pretty big chunks are from the Vietnam War era towards the end of the war. Sarco used to sell a kit that had three pieces. Which three large pieces, if you know what the size of the gun was, about the same size as M16. and the barrels were intact. They had the barrel pulled and the gun had been chopped into three large sections. Those kits were the impetus, along with the chop, chop, chop kits that came out in the 90s, for a lot of piecemeal guns being put together by people who really, really wanted the guns because they were Vietnam era. So these guys were real seals, not claiming to be seals, they were seals. They used them, they knew how to make them work, they knew what it is that needed to be done, and they also had gone into the trades. So there are a bunch of those guns floating around, and they look like Frankenstein monsters as far as how they were put together, some of them. Others, the guys knew what they were doing with the machining, the welding, ground everything down, refinished everything, reinforced the metal where they needed to. And those guns are out there in the inventory ready for this war. They're gonna be coming out hell bent for election. Go ahead, caller. Are there blueprints available for that? Yeah, actually, well if all else fails, you can go to the archives. National archives, all this stuff is on file and it's not restricted. So yeah, the original prints, if whatever is available, could be drawn upon to actually- You can do CNC and make new ones. Well, that's what these guys did. That's what this video is about. As a company actually did start making brand new, I don't believe they're select fire. They were semi-only. However, they also were the price of your first born son and, you know, and a half month worth of paycheck. Whoa, we got some, we got somebody who's not. Okay, this is the same thing that happened in the two-hour block. Somebody didn't mute up. Okay, go ahead. No, that's it. I was just curious to see Again, there's people out there that have CNC machine shops and the business is kind of slow right now. That'd be something pretty hellish to put together. And especially if the computer's doing all the work and all you're needing to do is check, you know, fit and function and put them together. Wow. I'm sure there would be a great demand for it. Well, the interesting thing is a sheet steel gun. The only thing is there were a few more intricacies than you would find, say, with the AK counterpart. But in reality, when you look at how they were built and how they were folded and put together and how they were forged, you know, they were stamped plates, it was not a complicated gun to put together. In fact, it was the closest gun to maybe what you would say called the MP-44 of the American military. to that date. It was built basically the same way as the MP44 in many ways. So, you know, if you look at the way that they minimized where they didn't need finish, they didn't worry about it, but it was that period of time where the best in metallurgy met innovation and fit and finish were premium. Not only that, but remember the Stoner guns were not in as large a production run to begin with, simply by the nature of who they were being issued applied to, where they were being applied, and how they were being tested in their, what we call the XM phase. You've got to remember guys, the military has an XM phase for tanks, aircraft, whatever, usually like with deuce and haps. If you have a deuce and haps, some of you have the original M35s, but they're not M35s, they're XM. dash 35s. Why are the XM? You might have one of the first 500 deuce and a half, well the Vietnam era, made. And their XM model truck, and what they did is that was the production test run. They would get them out for the troops. The troops would beat the hell out of them, tell them what they liked and didn't like. And that's why you have the M35A1, M35A2, M31A5E1, et cetera, et cetera, because they would listen and then they would modify. Or there was a need to modify for some field application. The same is true with weapon systems. So when the stoner came out, and just like a couple other weapons that were out there but didn't really go direct application, the AR-180, as everybody knows it, Now three other governments built it, well America built it, and you'll see Sterling and the Japanese both built the AR-180 in contract form and they applied it militarily. They didn't end or for well police sniper use etc like the British and Ireland. All of these stoner designs got into the field in some numbers though always in Vietnam and interestingly enough even though it wasn't adopted you will find photographs if you dig long enough showing the equivalent, the M18, slash AR180, you know, the AR18, I guess is what you would call it, not if it was, I think it was AR18, tick mark in the mouth, microphone. But the counterpart was actually in service about the same time that as towards the end of the war as the stoner system, which was already pretty well perfected. But remember that XM designation doesn't mean that we're just only a few made there could be hundreds made depending upon the contract agreement and In this case most of the stoner guns pretty well once the guys got them. They wouldn't let them go After the war we had BAR still that's why I said in the two-hour block guys the the SF still had BARs and the other gun that was very common for end of the war, or probably even during the war use, needless to say, were guns that were nondescript. The RPD, not the RPK, the RPD was very popular because the gun had already been in service. It was still in service with a lot of countries, but it was a hand-me-down gun, even in its earliest phase, and a lot of African states, a lot of communist states of all pattern had the gun. Well, the BAR was the same way. It had been around since World War I, the US government and other contract countries made it. It was everywhere. So the BAR was a perfect sterile firearm to take into the field. Another thing, guys that I know that used the BAR, they were in the SF groups. Once they used it and got a chance to especially fire it extensively, they couldn't pry it from them with a crowbar. And that's in the 1970s. We had two BARs and two RPDs issued out. And of those, both of them functioned flawlessly. But the BARs, the guys who got to operate those, all they did was just start collecting. Hell, they even went out and bought mags at the gun shows. Went out and found mags through like Sarco for a dollar apiece and bought a pile of spare mags and literally carried way past the combat load that was authorized. But they just had them patched everywhere. So heads up, this guzzler's holder doesn't mean it's obsolete. And in this case, the Stoner could hold its own against any gun presently. In fact, it's not obsolete. That word is so foolishly used. In fact, to me, it's purely marketing now. It's like a lot of other garbage out there. There are very few weapons that have been made in the last 50 years that are quote unquote obsolete. They may be less available, but as far as their capability, their ability in general, They're comparable to any weapon that exists right now. In fact, maybe superior in many ways, especially because of the materials they were built out of. The one thing that we have to look at is when we build something, we may not get any more for a while. So whatever we're building as wartime production weapons, or what our plans, is that it's going to be built like a brick doghouse and it's not designed to fall apart. It's not a last-ditch weapon. Believe me, we'll use last-ditch patterns Certain guns are quite useful. We know the history of them and we know how to beef them up. But if we were to go into production with them, oh, hell, they'd last longer than most of the standard arms that are presently in service. In fact, they'd be coming back to haunt them for an indefinite period of time. As long as they were properly, again, even if they weren't properly maintained, some of those guns were just so grossly robust, that's why they made them disappear. You can't sell more guns if the guns don't break. Keep that in mind people that you didn't necessarily get the best you got the one they knew they could sell more up Long as it breaks we'll buy more and we do So heads up there another thing real quick. We are almost to the top in fact. We're only minutes away. I think right now Double-check time there and yeah, we got about three minutes four minutes Another thing to remind everybody about, and I'm going to harp on it, is ShopMedVet.com. So many other reasons. Remember all the things we're talking about? Weapons Wednesday? They perforate, old spindle, and mutilate people. And both sides are trying to do this. This is adult play, okay? This is serious adult play. It's still play, but it's adult play. Okay, we get into the discussion on that another day, but to understand that, Unlike, you know, well, competitive play, but less serious, this is lethal play. So everybody, everybody needs to take seriously the idea that we are going to try to do what we can to repair the damage created and keep the people alive that are our friends, our allies, we, you know, the people we like. Shopmedbet.com. Shopmedbet.com. Shopmedbet.com. You're listening, could be a wife, could be a family member, could be a dad. One of you out there, you want to help, but you're, I'm too old or I'm not as strong or I can't, well, okay, you can't necessarily, you know, do the 90 pound ruck anymore and carry the M14 or the FAL or the, for that matter, an AR-15. But you know what you can do? You can help keep people alive. You can drive an ambulance. You can help to patch up the wounded. You can become a caregiver when we convalesce because people are going to need time to rest and recuperate and they're going to be injured. There are things that you can do now to help to make that possible. And we need your help with that. It's as critical as carrying a rifle. In the past, you know what you had to do if you got hurt? You had to try to drag your sari hind end off the battlefield in pretty bad shape. Hacking and chopping rules, okay? And you drag yourself as far away from the center of the battlefield because two things might be happening. Your enemy, or even your friends, might be looking for valuables. And whether you're alive and in the way or not might be, you know, embarrassing. The other is birds of prey and the vultures and the crow. So you wanted to try and maybe save yourself. So you dragged yourself along with a snail trail and you probably still didn't save yourself. But if you were motivated, you made the effort. Well, things have changed, guys, which is a good thing. So nowadays, we're probably trying to pick you up, take the rear, and plug most of the holes. To do that, we need all of you other people out there listening to toe the line, put the technology together, and be ready to use it. And I hear guns shipped in the background because we are at the top. God bless the Republic. Yes, for the New World Order. Shout out to the ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. And we are on the march day and night. Kill them all. Guys, gunship and fly for your life. Check out the video on YouTube that goes along with that. Gunship. Dash. Fly. For. Your. Life. Thank you for all your support. We appreciate people have donated. Guys, be patient, but pay attention and we'll watch your mailboxes because stuff is in the mail. Well, when it gets there, let us know. We're getting out of the way for now, Ed, taking over. God bless, and we'll see you tomorrow at the same time. Bye-bye.