The figure walked in through the mist with a f***. 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. We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the length of grave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd 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. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money'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 a tax you do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame number You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm 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? Both sons of the Republic arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic in each God-given right, and created God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoki 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 tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in 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 fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave build the land of the future theme music? They love it that were twisting that wrench and all with his twisting is turning faster. It's You're trying to talk yourself out of the idea, just broke the bolt off, but that's okay. It's time for the easy out the torch and all the other fun stuff because big stuff doesn't turn easy sometimes. It takes a set and it just plain dies. You got to fix it. You got to fix it with Armstrong. Anyway, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report time, our currently One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories West Southeast gentlemen, you're listening to us on Www Liberty Tree radio dot 4 mg.com Liberty Tree radio dot org and we are on satellite once I hide all of our merchant marine operators wherever you are in whichever ocean on the planet we are everywhere a myriad of other communications technologies both inside and outside these United States and of course well all kinds of the cool stuff going on but today it's weapons Wednesday it is the 19th of April I'll have for a poe it is the open obvious and in your face Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K2023, Old Earth Calendar 2023, Battle for the Republic, The Dance of Swords. It's weapons Wednesday, beautiful day, kind of hazy. I think we got storms over on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, but I haven't really looked to see, but I'm looking over on the horizon all day and it's that threatening from the east. And when we see it like that in the spring, it means that there's water on the, here's white water on the lake, probably a little bit. Doesn't have to be extreme, but it'd be pretty interesting anyway. Beautiful on the shores if you don't want to do photographic work or just for the sake of watching nature. And a couple things. First of all, Diebold slash, oh, whatever the bullshit latest name they've given to the Diebold machine, the company. Apparently went after Fox News. Fox News was right on the edge of, they had a jury of, I'm sure, leftists, pedo queers ready to go. They were going to be going into litigation with The Diebold machine company, oh, oh, oh, whatever its new name is, throw that new name out. The operations that the Deep State, Deepfake slash George Bush's CIA and George Bush's family have operated, well, you got to remember it was George Herbert Walker Bush and J.W. who had all the money, oh, don't forget, J.M. tied up into the Diebold fakery of years ago. Now, this is not new. Because again before Diebold the same company with George Herbert Walker Bush's family tied in was involved with a lot of the election machines all over the country that were the non computer slash data hookup data streaming systems. Before that well guess what they go all the way back to the mechanical machine. Good old Papa Doc Bush, daddy to GW and also, well, grandpa and dad goes back to the old Bush family manipulating along with the kosher mafia out of New York and creating the mechanical voting machines. And every time they've created a voting machine, People have gotten into the back of them and shown and physically shown I mean demonstrated beyond a doubt how The machines can be hacked. I mean literally said hey, okay We pulled back off this all you do is hit this lever hit this lever and it doesn't mean it was who you vote for You're gonna vote for whatever. They just programmed with the analog mechanical arms on the machine This whole vote scam thing is not anything new with the ring knockers a spit swappers and the amical wearers, okay? It's as old as dirt. So anyway They settled out of court as they were going to be going into a litigation in court a jury had been selected I'm sure in whatever leftist pod and they probably had a really good idea how things are being railroaded through that you see that when you're in the court so that the last minute they made a deal I believe the number and it kicked me in the microphone if I'm wrong by a little a few million but I believe seven hundred eighty seven million dollars out of court Now they didn't seal this. Usually it's like an undisclosed, do not disclose the amount, but they didn't do that. They just simply flip the check over or whatever, or it's in motion, whatever BS is going on there. And so we'll see what happens or how this goes. As it is, this means that the Bushes and the Obamas and the Clintons who all helped to create the fake ass, lie your ass off, digital system that presently is the reincarnation of the Die Bold, which was the Die Bold system was banned by court order for use in any election process. And yet it is presently being used. And of course, Fox News is being attacked by the present fake-ass deep state operation slash read that globalist old world skank petals. And the process is that they've been able to anchor or keep it in place. It's obvious they will be using the same old garbage unless we kick it out here in the next year, which is what needs to be done. It needs to be gone. Any machine that you know or any system wherever they can gimmick it up, you know, you're really got to be stupid You are a dimwit, especially what don't doesn't the League of Women voters handle most of the elections? Yes, they do So what they're telling you is what the women are idiots That the women in charge are idiots complete fools stupid dumb as a box of rocks because they had the know they had control of the voting machines and and brought the wrong paper, have all year, some of them have been there for 10 years, 20 years, whatever, but on the day of the actual election, they all went into what? Female brain fart? Does that make any sense? Well, you can't blame the women. Well, the women are the ones in charge, so you wanna be, well, you can't be mean. Well, is that why you let the women do that? So that you can't be mean to the women. Well, obviously they were stupid. Really stupid. So they're all fired, right? The ones all involved in that. We didn't really write papers so we can't count your vote. That kind of stupid is you don't keep it in your business, do you? Well, it was only, it was a one day business deal. All you got to do is for that election day. One day is everything we're supposed to be. And you didn't know. Well then whoever those stupid people were all involved in the process should be banned from any activity of that type and not given another opportunity to screw up another local state or national election. Period. I don't care who they are. Banned forever. Period. Why not? We do stuff like that all the time nowadays arbitrarily. Well that's not how you're supposed to work really. Really? I can go right down a whole list of things now where you know, A, you don't know who's being, who you're being persecuted by, you're supposed to know who your accuser is, and B, taking rights away for life, which there's no place in any instrument, any document that says you can take any rights away. If it's a right, it's not a privilege. If it's a right, you can't take it away. See how that works? So not, Of course, we'll learn forever, and the Fed says, oh, you mean the corporate horse says so that's taken over our country, and is usurping the sovereign nation of America as the corporation of America under admiralty law? You need those horse? Well, they can be, well, they can be gone out of here anyway, we know that. Anyway, that's a little fox of a UX situation, and apparently they make about two billion, two billion a year. So that's what, 40% of what they make in a year? Whatever so they just but they just rolled over so for whatever reason Let me smell that coffee. Hold on here. So I gotta taste this man made a fresh cup and I know oh Yeah, oh Anyway, go ahead call her jump in there. This is Mike from Ohio. Sorry just off on a different subject. There's a deal with Menards. I don't know if anybody else any other stores will have it but they have Cans of generic spray lubricant like your generic WD-40 for a dollar and eleven cents on clearance And then you get to 11% off rebate on top of it, so it's a pretty good deal. We've had that up here It's usually like four different types or silicon. There's an equivalent to WD-40 And then there's one that's like a chain lube grease Spray on. This is actually mineral oil, so maybe it's like a ballast. It says transformer oil, so that's like a mineral oil of some kind. Is that or are there other items tied in? There was other stuff in there too. I didn't recognize. Propane and butane, I think, is what pressurizes it. Well, again, the idea is that, like you said, for $1.11 minus the right off the bat 11%, so you're going to take another 11 cents off of that. You can't beat that. I don't care how big the can is. For a dollar a can, it's an Aeros... Go ahead. They did have some like brake cleaner and I think a carb cleaner too, like the other day, but it was sold out when I got there. Right. But, and again, for anybody who's got a Maynard's, you know, Menards nearby, Menards does 11% off. You probably, if you're some parts of country, you've never seen them. The 11% is, used to be done a little more arbitrarily. I think they're trying to bring business in. So it hangs on a little longer than just a few weeks, which is good. So if you have the 11% off on any of the other products, another thing to check with Maynard's, like most of the hardware stores have a food section like Lowe's, Menards. They have a little food. Mom always want to check because they don't do much. But at the end of the run, they mark stuff down to get it out of there. And I've gotten canned goods out of there for, you know, free, 25 cents or free. They've had them, you know, they've had them so cheap that when you got the rebate back, they were paying you basically to carry the stuff out of the store. So just a heads up on that. There's some really neat, neat things that every once in a while pile up there. But right now cans of generic lubricant of mixed types and look to see what they have. Get a mixed bag. You never know what you're going to be working on. And for this price, you can actually afford to put some on the shelf and also spread them around, which is one of the things I try to do. So I don't have to walk all the way back over there to work on something over here. Which is basic trick across the board makes sure I don't have to go that far I know there's a little workbench right here. I got a little cash right here. Yep. There it is and Now I get on with work Every minute I say that way anything else jump in there, right? No, that's about all I've seen that was a real good deal there. But yeah, I I'm very good and again the down the road guys all oils and lubricants are gonna be used on your weapons We're gonna, TOL, petroleum-motor lubricant products, are gonna run down very, very quickly. We got oil sitting right underneath us here in Michigan until we start motivating to, well, we know what we're gonna do. But getting the local production back up and online to at least get the oil out of the ground, that's no problem. We have a good map out of the whole of Michigan, and the amount of oil sitting underneath us here is vast. They just capped the wells off, walked away. They were full production. We know where every field is that they've done this to, but we also have a lot of little donkey rigs all over the state, even down here in the bottom of the state. In fact, you go through Adrien, Michigan, right off M52 on the north side of town. You'll drive right by some of the newest machines they've installed, and they're right next to the reservoir and collection point. And there's three units that are right there literally to the east of M52 right there in the downtown area, Kitty Corner from where the old state police post was. So for everybody, there's oil hanging around. The thing is, we've got to also be able to crack it. We've got to be able to split it up. Right off the bat, we'll get all the other stuff that we need off it. The big thing is to produce what are basically the, you know, like we have micro breweries. Guys, you do know you could build a smaller refinery. It does not have to be as big as the ones that you see out there. And with some of the efficient technologies that have been developed, a smaller refinery is actually very efficient and virtually like a micro refinery, like a micro brewery. What do you want to crank out of the tap this day? And could continue to do so for an extended period of time. And of course, it's understanding the plumbing and the materials. Everything else is off the shelf. So again, just heads up on that for the time being though, since we don't have our own oil well, then Menards, they've got cans of generic lubricant, $1.11 a can marked down to clearance and with 11% off. So if you haven't stopped in to see if yours is doing this, you might want to. As Mike pointed out, it doesn't last very long and people find out where it is. Some people walk in and buy whole cases of the stuff. or they'll buy it all, take it to their store, remark it, and you'll be buying it for $3, $4 a can. And I would point out that recently here, all of these P.O.L. products have just jumped in price by about 20 to 25 to 30%, depending on what it is. And the more heavily refined greases have just gone up by about $3 over where they were a month ago. So there's a bunch of stuff like that going on. So if you haven't bought it in the last couple of weeks or months because, well, I didn't need it. For $1.11, like I said, no matter what size can that is, those are worth picking up. And they're probably a standard paint can size can. So again, they could be 12 ounce, they could be a 14 ounce can, whatever is inside. Which is kind of like your standard can. There we go. Perfect. Yeah, 11 ounces of can that's yeah, that's a regular that's a standard WD-40 size, you know full-size can Just basically what you're looking at. Thank you, sir Again guys solutions. That's just complaining about the problems. Well, there aren't enough problems go around by the way if you didn't know Michigan now has a red fag law. It was signed by the guy who's the governor Greg Schittmer up in Lansing, Michigan And the he-shit, of course, puffing up for a big time, but immediately sheriffs around the state, well, they have been announcing that they're not going to help with and or participate in any way, shape, or form with the red fag, which is quite appropriate. We have a queer government. We have a lesbian, you know, faggot, Attorney General Hawk knows kosher mafia piece of crap. And Lo and behold, wow, we get red flag laws. So you don't know who's calling in on you. You're not going to be able to be. I can't tell you that. They're not going to tell you anything. They're just going to show up and virtually the whole Bill of Rights. They figure they're going to get people to pick up the phone and backstab their neighbors. You know what's going to happen on this. People are going to find out who called. That's not an if. That's just a when. Well, who is the complatant? That's all someone's gonna want to know and they're just gonna decide well, I'm old you've betrayed me and First I'm gonna you know They'll go after whoever's in the system the government and then they'll get rid of the person who also backstab them who might be a family member or whatever That's that's not an if that's gonna happen. It's just when it's gonna happen. It's just all there is to it It's like well, you tried to get me killed with a bunch of strangers coming in with guns You're on the list of things to do. Goodbye. Goodbye. Or as he said in November, two stone. Bye. As it is, the red fag law and Greg Gregor, the cross dressing male, Shatmer is of course planning a number of other actions in the process. We'll see how that works. I'll tell you what, Ed, just to be safe. We're close to the bottom of the air, but we're going to do this instead of music for the moment. Guns and gadgets. There should be a guns and gadgets covering the signing of the red fag law with the male cross dresser and Lansing on guns and gadgets. So if we can, let's pull that up. We'll play that one real quick. But I do have some other good news. I told you earlier in the week was going on. And what just happened in Lansing put a fire under everybody's hind end. It's amazing, like I said, we're seeing a vast amount of numbers that are developing people, a vast number of people are jumping up and plugging in as we expected, but from many, many different angles, which I think is rather interesting in and of itself. So the most important thing. I'll tell you what, we're at the bottom of the hour. First of all, we are listening to libertytreeradio.4mg.com and libertytreeradio.org. We'll see if we can pull guns and gadgets up here in a minute. The Michigan, well, he probably has a generic covering several different events happening in the country today. I have not looked this afternoon to see if there are any additions. Too busy getting ready for some other critical work that needs to be done. Another interesting thing about this too is that the constables and sheriffs in the state are now in a different mode. I really think that's special. Here we go. And I know that's the precursor because we have to put up with those ads they put up in front of YouTube there. So don't worry, the ads got it. But everybody is now looking at Lansing the way that they should. Some people are like well, yeah, but I don't think they'll do oh my god. They did it. It's like yeah, we told you so so now it's you have to face reality and you can't try to baffle everybody with BSA claiming you don't know what's going on and Either one camp or the other Anyway, hey guys don't Do you can hear me? Okay, we got you Okay, I don't know if he has a follow-up on it, but I've got the one from six days ago on Guns and Gadgets about Whitmore and what they did. I know he's been live all day waiting for the pistol brace vote, and last time I checked on it, they were still stalling, covering a bunch of other subjects other than the pistol brace thing. They've been sitting live all day. So here we go. We'll play that one from six days ago that I see is on Whitmore. Oh man, you can't make this stuff up. I want to thank the sponsor of the video today and it's SDI. Snorin Desert Institute is a distance learning institute where all of the tools and materials required for your classes are shipped directly to your door. If you're like me and you like upgrading or tinkering or repairing your own firearms, then why not turn that passion into a career? You can check out SDI.edu slash GNG for more information. And they have a ton of classes like gunsmithing, armorers courses, etc. Check them out. It's SDI.edu slash gng links down below. Thanks to SDI for sponsoring the video Guys we're talking about Michigan and governor Gretchen Whitmer who just short period ago today signed two pieces of legislation into law and Another one is looming and that's the red flag. It should make out of the legislation today It should make out of the legislature today and I shall sign it at any time the two bills that are going there signing to law now in Michigan are No, wait now the first one is universal background checks We already have univer- we already have background checks. The universal background check, what it does is it removes the ability to sell a lawfully owned item to another law-abiding citizen so you can't do face-to-face transactions. It forces all transactions through an FFL, thus paper trail, thus registry. It's an inconvenience for a law-abiding gun owner and an additional fee for the transfer just to make it a little more difficult for you. But there's not a criminal in the freakin' world that's going to do this. It's not going to deter crime. it won't save lives because criminals are going to criminal no matter what so that's universal background checks that's number one the second is a safe storage law it's uh... forcing you to lock up your lawfully owned tools in your own home, in your own property, the government's telling you how you need to take care of your things in your home, your domicile, you have to lock up your firearms if there's going to be a minor president, or there may be a minor president, or you should have known that a minor was going to be present. And the, it's up to 93 days in jail and a $500 fine or both if you violate this. And those fees and the sanctions will increase if a minor actually obtains a firearm in your home. And it'll increase again if that minor obtains that firearm and hunts somebody with that firearm. And they'll increase again if that minor obtains a firearm and happens to kill somebody. So that'll save, that'll stop criminals, you know, that'll absolutely stop criminals. The only thing it really does... It won't stop a single criminal in case you're one of those people who doesn't get the get the joke there The only thing it does is it makes it more difficult for you God forbid you need to protect yourself the moment when it when evil kicks the door in That doesn't work that way mister and mrs. Gun controller like okay the window goes break someone's in the house. They're screaming Wife's crazy. He's upset dogs crazy upset now. I have to go to my safe In the middle of the night, figure out, like, wipe the cobwebs off, maybe turn the light on, check and get my stuff and get ready and go. It's not enough time. So it's only going to make more victims, which is what they want. Democrats want you to be a victim. They don't want you to defend yourself. They don't want you to stop crime because they want crime. Because when stuff's out of control and people fear for their safety, they beg the government for more. And that's the gun controller and the Democrat dream is more government, bigger government. And red flag legislation should be coming out of the Michigan legislature today. It's a couple tweaks in that bill. One of them is crazy. They're looking to enable a clause to judge shop, basically. They want somebody to be able to file a red flag in any one of the state circuit courts, anywhere in the state. So basically, if there's a judge in Big Butt County, And your judge doesn't issue them or demands people prove things or maybe doesn't want to take away somebody's, you know, constitutionally guaranteed rights over a whim. Well, if that your judge doesn't do it, you can go over there to Big Buck County and that judge will issue it. It's crazy. It's judge shopping. It's just not the way the due process works. But hey, it's Michigan, right? So who cares? I guarantee that there will be lawsuits for these. We'll see what happens. Guys and gals, I just wanted to give this information. I took a break from unpacking boxes and moving. I am exhausted. But I want to get this information. Please share it. The only way this information gets out is we, our community, shares the information. Because YouTube doesn't care. Nor does anybody in the you know the big media so like the video and share it get more people to see this and it's we see each other again be safe stay vigilant carry a gun to keep you your friends your family your community safe subscribe to Guns and Gadgets for Second Amendment second Amendment news every single day check out SDI.edu slash G&G I'll see you all the next one take care. This is a past and this is from an earlier Guns and Gadgets today. They signed the red flag legislation into effect Greg Shitmer, the male cross-dressing poof-ta, that is the governor of Michigan, the sick, sick, horrible creature. The perversions and wickedness, no, no bounds in the capital of Lansing. All through the two your fiasco with the you must wear a mask and you need to hide in your house the faggot bar the queer bar down the street from the gubernatorial mansion was kept open when all your restaurants were closed so that the cross-dressing of Sagat, the Pufte, that is the governor, and the lesbians and all the other queers did congregate down there at that restaurant and bar and get naked and have fun while the rest of you were in your basement covering under your hideaway bed in the mold, well, or at least the dankness. So yeah, yeah. Land of the fee and home of the slave. But that's okay. Other things are going on right now. Yesterday, although I do not have the final assessment as of today, but it's out there. I just haven't been able to dig it up. In Livingston County last night, the County Board met and the Second Amendment, for Second Amendment, we'd call it Article 2. sanctuary slash resolution slash resolves vote was to take place. It was argued, well it wasn't even really argued, it was just pointed out that it would probably take two days because what was written up by the County of Livingston is much more aggressive than what has been seen to date. So you might want to check that out. Again, Livingston County. And it was covered live by the Second Amendment groups here in Michigan, also two or three other active groups that are working to deal with what's happening in Lansing, and a couple behind the scenes too, of course. And in the process, this was the first of the next generation of resolves against the Communists. And it's interesting that in addition to the county, the townships of course already had, we already had a football in Livingston and I think at least three townships where everything was done three years ago. But like I said, with what was happening and what you just heard, which is more than a few days old now. This has put a fire under everybody's ass to get you know, get done what needs to be done the request for militia Support and organization in the different counties has accelerated to the extreme It is something that I warned everybody about with regard to being prepared with regard to your trainers and having classroom construction ready I mentioned yesterday that you're going to have to be what is basically a train the trainer force multiplier. The objective behind this is to formulate constructions. We already have this with, for instance, the militia, which we've offered on the RTU guys. You can go over, it was listed on our webpage. The rifle marksmanship course and instructor's manual with of course the individual range books for each of these students. and it's a pod and basically you bring everybody in. With rifle marksmanship, it's Weapons Wednesday, yesterday I was talking about medical, but with rifle marksmanship we start out with inert trainers, we go to Airsoft, and the other overlap with Airsoft now are these very, very accurate and realistic BB guns that are select fire. I prefer that you not use those for initial training. I believe that the Aerosoft are the better choice and here's why. I don't want the person to have the ability to flick it and switch it and fiddle fart around with the automatic option. The BB guns that are out there are reliable. They're select fire. They have a limited capacity magazine, so it's not like you have a Hollywood magazine where it just sprays and sprays and sprays and sprays and you just never change magazines. But they would be good for initial novice automatic fire discipline. And the Airsoft is still your better choice provided you limit the magazine capacity of the mags to match the realistic capacity of the gun. And this is true with pistols, this is true with the rifles of all types in the airsoft. But the final phase is to go to 22 and of course then depending upon the ability of the organization, say at that particular given point, to move to a full rifle caliber of whatever type they choose as their BCT or final phase in graduation. Center fire weapon system can be SKS could be a moisten. It could be a rack of moisten they gots. Come on guys. We have we bought But we bought a big chunk of the Warsaw packs most and they gots for 69 95 or less and some of you wore maybe $100 apiece, but it's still a hell of a buy Some people bought crates of them. So as a final familiarization center fire rifle familiarization training rifle, they're perfect Now here's where the toss-up is if you're going to use any of our military weapons like the SKS, the Mosin they got, any of the surplus like that. Those guns are supported in terms of reserve by the cans and cans of sealed Russian or Chinese or Romanian, Hungarian or Yugoslavian ammo. Don't open those. If you were going to do weapons familiarization and training with any of those rifles, you use the newer, like, PPU, Preview Partisan Ammunition, number one. With basic familiarization and final graduation experience, you're going to be doing 40 rounds at a time and cycle, traditional for the military. Traditional actually for militia, it's weird. This goes back a couple hundred years. The basic familiarization, there was a limited allocation of ammunition simply because most of the times when you're building an army, you're at war. And most of what you need needs to be on the front line. And traditionally, armies are always short where the ammo needs to be. In this case, the reason I'm recommending the PV partisan is because it's reloadable. And so if you're going to do a series of training operations with multiple numbers of men and women who are going to receive basic rifle marksmanship training, you want to use ammunition that can be recycled and reused over and over again. And one of the advantages, as I've told you, and this is purely a flavor of the day thing for any of you who are training troops out there, I would set up a couple of conventional loaders and part of your next step after you've shot for the is in the evening you're going to be reloading and what are they doing? They're going to reload the ammunition for the next class that is going to use those training rifles that you've established and designated as training rifles. That in other words you're going to get a full spectrum of experience. Basic handling of the weapon is with an inert firearm. A training aid. The next step is with the airsoft weapon. The third step is with a live fire weapon and there again is where the 22 is your basic experience because again you shouldn't be startled shocked or amazed but people still are you know some people have been so heavily conditioned. either from bad experience with somebody letting them have a firearm but not showing them how to use it and letting them hurt themselves. Not her doesn't get shot, but I'm talking about everybody used to think it was funny to give the 11 year old girl the 12 gauge magnum and then let her put it up to her shoulder and not tell her to A, suck the buttstock up to the shoulder and B, lean into the gun. Well, the 11 year old girl pulls the trigger, the gun comes back, kicks her in the shoulder, pushes her back, maybe she stumbles, maybe she even fell back. Ha, ha, ha, that was funny. No, it wasn't. You just created a flinch factor that you're going to have to overcome with that shooter until hell freezes over. And so instead, you have to be intelligent with regard to working with your individuals to bring them up to speed. We're trying to create a much vaster army than we already have. We need everybody able to defend themselves from the police state, and everybody to defend themselves from the globalists, and everybody to pitch in in that fight. So we need everybody on the same page. Which means that again, we make sure if you know, little Molly at 11 years old, she can handle that 12 gauge. If you've done it right, you know what? She'd be kicking ass and taking names by the fourth or fifth round of that working action on that 870. But the first thing is you explain to her number one suck it into the shoulder there get it right into the shoulder There you go Molly now put your shoulder cheek, you know put your shoulder rested Let's get it get it stabilized there. There we go now get the cheek and you know Get a good cheek wealth of the stock so it doesn't bite you Now we want you to lean into the gun lean forward Now a little more and again what we're gonna do hold on. I'm gonna be right here behind you you're nothing's gonna happen It's going to make some noise. We're going to put some ear protection on you. We're not going to hurt you that way either. Not that I'm not excited or concerned about anybody having not used ear protection when they've been shooting. It's a good idea, but hey, that's a personal flavor choice thing. That's a personal flavor choice thing. Well, if you've been shooting a lot, you've been shooting a lot, haven't you? Yeah, I've been shooting a lot. I can't hear a thing you're saying. See how that works. However, if you don't use ear protection, that's fine. Okay, but in this case we'll do that for training purposes. And so then when Molly pulls the trigger, it may stand her back a bit. Instead of her leaning into it, she's going to be upright, but guess what? She'll figure out the gun didn't hurt her. And not only that, if you're really lucky, she's already operated the action as leaning into the gun. She's trying to figure out how next time not to be stood up by it. Because she likes the idea. Boom. Which is what you want to see happen. Okay, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. And again, we don't want to have to waste time. If you damage the student's attitude, then you're going to have to fight that, you know, or you should say the perception of, you know, of injury. You're going to have to overcome that. So let's not let's prevent that from happening again. We're trying to bring everybody up to speed, try to move them up to the same level of performance as quickly as we can. They can develop their expertise at their own personal choice, depending on how much time they're willing to commit. But we can get the basics done and get everybody up to snuff fast. And Airsoft is the most economical, low ammunition consumption. But the cool thing is they pull the trigger, they make a mistake, somebody moves the gun wrong, the training aid wrong. The Airsoft training aid is not going to kill you. Yes, shoot your Roy out. Well, then we'll have you wear eye protection just to be safe too. How's that sound? Remember, we got glasses, cool shooter glasses too, man. Cool looking. Just keep reminding everybody, you got cool shooter glasses. Make sure you wear your cool shooter glasses. If you don't have cool shooter glasses, I got a whole box of them right here, and I really do. I got a whole box of safety glasses of every shape and size. So you pick out what you think is the coolest pair and you wear them. Okay, I even got goggles. If you don't think that's enough, don't worry. Have you got goggles? You can wear goggles. I don't care. We've got gargoyles. You remember gargoyles? I've got gargoyles. I've got a bunch of those. It's amazing how many of those I've run into. And remember, those are ballistic glass, ballistic Lexan. Those, remember, were rated to protect you against shrapnel, little shrapnel, not grenades, but little shrapnel if something stupid happens. In fact, what was the big push? I think it was supposed to be able to stop a BB from a regular BB gun, which is pretty good, considering. However, we don't just have gargoyles. And as you know, we have pugs. Some of you have those pugs. Actually, I like the pugs. They're pretty cool because those are a full wraparound. They're kind of like a land use of swimmers' goggle, like little swimmers' spectacles, which is cool. But if you got your pugs, I got a bunch of those too for that same reason. I think we bought them out. I don't think they've restocked either, by the way. I bought every last pair of the pugs that they had. Which is too bad, because I'd like to get more. Not anyway. Between the three processes, we bring everybody up to a certain level. Now, remember we'll count four as graduation, a high-powered rifle. Which is no two, whatever rifle you're choosing. And by the way, if you have to, depending on what you have a lot of, For final familiarization, you can go with a shotgun. Now, I would recommend the rifle, or again, the .22 is first. No matter what, for everything, the .22 is still the most efficient way for, you know, again, a higher performance. testing the shooter's ability to perform all of the tasks, to bring their body to bear, their mindset, breathing and keeping the bullets, you know, the crosshairs where they belong or the barley corn and post and hitting the X. Because that's what it's all about, is hitting the X. And so you want to see if all that you've done has sunk in, that's a great way to do it. Then the next step is, okay guys, now we're going to have some fun. We're going to all be shooting SKS's today. But you could use single barrel shotguns for instance, that's limited. And why not a pump? Well if you got racks of pump guns, yes you could do that too. You're teaching them another technique with another weapon that's a little different, but it would be a solution and it still performs the same task of challenging the student. to demonstrate that they're able to control themselves. They're not in fear of the firearms, gonna make a big boom. That's what you're looking for. You're watching the student. You can also watch that target, but most important, if you're the trainer and you're an individual trainer for each of the shooting stations, is you're watching the shooter and you're paying attention to where that gun is. Go ahead, Carl, jump in there. Hey, this is Carl in Virginia. I just want to add to it. If you can, I mean, use what you got, but if you can, use Silhouette-shaped targets, not bull-rise. Silhouette-shaped targets from the get-go to mentally prepare them for shooting at a human being. In fact, again, you know what? Right now, I believe that there are some pretty good deals over at Sportsman's Guide. They're clearing out some of the mil-spec thousand-inch targets. And you know for the little silhouette targets and I believe they got a couple others that are in clutches typical clutches of 50 and 100 And I think also there was a deal over at Coleman's Dot-com now one of the tricks there to remember you can photocopy these things Not to do a full-size being do like a quadrant with an 8.5 by 11 and just do part of say a thousand inch range target to get part of the silhouettes and then use those for particular training like when you're working with the save money to work with the airsoft. It'll bust paper. They'll bust paper just fine. Now you won't necessarily be running at a thousand inch in 25 yard range. But you still can give everybody the basic familiarization and you have a consistent target, just reproduce it in another form and produce only part of it. You're not going to eat all of them and you can vary those two depending upon which part of the course they're in as you take them back to the range. But yes, good point there. Again, they're all readily available and colmans.com, colmans.com, colmans.com. and sportsmansguide.com, sportsmansguide.com, sportsmansguide.com, both have some deals right now on paper targets. There's another source and I'll have to look it up during the one hour break. I'll flip to see if I can find where I'm, there may be one other location. However, again, if you have a printer or you're like, well, we used to do when I was in printing. Guys, during before deer season, we did 45 by 54 inch deer silhouettes. Full size with maybe the ass missing. You do the half the deer for one page, one sheet, half the deer for the other. Staple them together and you got a full deer silhouette. But we also did bullseye competition targets, 22 targets, silhouette targets, whatever you wanted because we had to do set up and we'd get the machine run up and get everything moving. You throw that plate in with the targets on it, crank out several hundred or a couple hundred of them, usually a couple hundred at a time. Lado's off to the side and anybody who wanted to take any could take any. So if you nobody is in printing with a big printer, a book printer, the plate like with the millers and the bules and all the other plate machines that are out there, if they're still running them, are able to do that. And it's not, usually they are already doing it. In fact, if you look, there's even a couple of shelves that have so many thousands of the targets sitting on the shelf where they've already printed them a couple of different times, which is pretty cool. And the paper will vary depending on what was going through the machine for what kind of book. So, heads up there. Let's see, next. And on the idea with regard to training, as I pointed out, for instance, the church groups are training typically for a specialized support element, for instance, medical support units, which they're perfectly suited for. Needless to say, also supply and transportation. And in addition to that, other logistic support operations, one group is actually picking up, like I've said, told you to do, pickup trucks. They're picking up, you know, buying so many of the same model. I don't know what they're going to get yet or what they've already got, but they're going to be all the same model, basically within the same year band, and they'll be tactified. But they'll be set up with everything necessary to provide direct immediate transportation support. Also, one of the other things that this is doing is we have built up and we're expanding immediately on this, the Chaplain Corps. Which is something that we've we cannot Fail in we need to make sure that the chaplain court is expanded upon and since you already have ministers and other individuals who are participating from the church direction is basically a given that the again that the minister will probably be Overlapping as the chaplain for that formation but also as a chaplain within the attached elements that they'll be participating in I've already given them some of the hymnals and of course sources for the pocket bibles that many of the different units are already accessing. And again, there's a number of different caches of military issue. Typically they're the New Testament, but they didn't always have just the New Testament. In fact, if you find any of the elders now, they're collectibles, of course. But there are piles of them here and there and they're not of interest. Another thing are the heminals, which is something that typically if anybody has those as surplus, they'd love to sell them because they're taking up a lot of space. So the older heminals are something also by the case that are available that are the old US military, US Army, US War Department heminals, which is fine. In addition to that, again, don't forget with the fighting units, as in what we're talking about here first, working on basic rifle marksmanship, we still have to deal with every other aspect of what's out there, guys. And this is where those little militia SOP manuals that we put together for you, if you have them, copy it. If you need more, send me an email at liberty at provide.net, liberty at provide.net, liberty at provide.net. If you would like a quantity of them, I have a case sitting right here, but it's actually a packet case for a, well, it's this one, yeah, some of these are probably gone because there's enough here for a whole classroom for the entire structure of somebody else's group, so. It's not a big deal. We can make more immediately or we may still have some leftover. I haven't done the full count in the box that's here, but we do constantly. We're going through them constantly on a regular basis. And if you take the militia SOP manual, it's everything that you need for all of the classroom work that needs to be done. The basics that are there are all applicable and it really even where you have different web gear for instance It's not not a not an issue The one thing I would recommend and in fact if you look at the SOP manual guys the standard TA 56 and TA and you know TA 90 gear which is the Vietnam era and Alice gear is still as useful and relevant and in fact more serviceable in some ways than the MOLLE gear is. The MOLLE gear is based upon the Army working as a police state occupation force. In fact, the rig is designed with you not really able to maneuver quite the way you would if you really are trying to get out of a line of fire with an earnest enemy. So it works, but if you use the TA-56, the TA-90 as intended, you can get a lot lower to the ground and you're a lot more efficient in several ways. The other thing to consider is, like we're talking about here, is if you're training a unit, At the very least, set up the standard SOP, the way you see there in the manual, using the TA56 and TA90 gear. You can use a mix. You don't have to have an official Vietnam era. No, it can be post Vietnam era. It can be, right now there's a ton of Belgian, Italian, and other countries surplus that is the Alice gear. It's not the American gear, but they made absolute knockoffs. The only thing will be a slightly different color depending on the type of green that was standardized. Right now, for instance, Italian Y-strapped ALA suspenders are out there from four or five different sources right off the bat. And you can make quantity deals on them, okay? So if you have the standard US pistol belt with whatever model and there were several made, Then use that as your foundation if you're using age suspenders, which by the way are coming in from Belgium. There are exact copies of the Vietnam era model. You can get Dutch versions of that and you can also get from each source or from the same surplus mechanism. Alice copy Y suspenders. You know, they're the same model just made to their, you know, with their spec and materials. They'll all integrate because they're all NATO standard. The big thing here again is your your field dressing pouches back fanny pack slash butt pack slash what really was called originally the three-day pack That that item is available in a number of different production With a number of different production companies right now And it would be a good one as is pointed out by one of our listeners that would be a good item to build If you were going to do your own local sweatshop, one of the first things I would do is a slightly larger, I'd make it a little bigger in whatever materials you have, a fanny pack, you know, a three-day butt pack, the standard that you saw for the Vietnam era. It's still in a good location, down and out of the way. The only other consideration is making something similar to what you see with some of the Hungarian, which puts it a little higher up and actually in the flat of the back, which allows you to roll over without creating a bump. which is down at hip, hip heights. One way or another you have to pick a direction. You're either going to go prone, belly first, or you may have to lay flat. Either way, when you're carrying other gear and junk on you, it's going to force you up off the ground, sometimes not in a positive situation. This is the one problem with a lot of the, even though, don't worry, I have tons of alloscere. But the one thing I see with the alloscere is orientation forward means that it's keeping your body up off the ground and putting in more and every inch counts with regard to exposure up into the line of fire if you're not careful. You have to constantly be looking for better cover and yet again, you can't lay flat. You can adjust your web gear accordingly to do that. If you'll notice most of your Vietnam era eight suspender and wide gear, your TA-90, you leave the front belly area relatively open, left and right is where all the junk is, so that you can lay flat and actually get close to the ground. Proper prone with proper contact and control of your body. Anyway, we're at the top. Control of our body needs. You guys probably want to take a break because we are just past the top of the hour. It is. Weapons Wednesday. It is April 19th. Shot heard around the world. And the day that the skank federal government attacked the Branch Davidians, murdering women and children while praying to the fire. Remember, this day they prayed to the fire. The demon worshippers showed exactly what kind of bottom feeding excrement and filth they were. If you don't know that. And we are at the top. Should be hearing the music any moment now, since we're about four minutes after the hour, a little bit. Also, now don't forget, again, when I mentioned Sportsman's Guide, they do have some knee pad deals and elbow pad deals over there. The elbow pads are better right now at a little under $3.60, right around there. There are also a number of other surplus items that Center Fire System has picked up. Two numbers to mention. You're better going over there and spot checking. The good thing is they've cleaned up the page and they've taken the dead items out that they figured they're probably not getting back. So it's a lot easier to pick and choose through that to get to the end. You know, in other words, get to the end of the page. And we are at the end of the hour. We should be hearing the music any moment now. 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've fought a revolution to cure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave in this delicious home of the brave. 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 and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money'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 a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. It's number. You trade it 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 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 watching 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 fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave build a land of the good afternoon ladies and gentlemen This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report I'm our kirky One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters and then behind the lines in occupied territories south north and West ladies and gentlemen who are listening to us on? Www Liberty Tree radio dot 4 mg dot com Liberty Tree radio dot org And we're on satellite, so we had all of our merchant marine out there and virtually every ocean on the planet and utilizing satellite uplink and downlink technology. So satellite cell with some unique features, which is really cool. We're also in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 19th of April. It is the day of the shot heard around the world. It is the 15th year of open, obvious and pissing in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist. Occupation of America with the K2023, older calendar, 2023 battle for the Republic, the dance of swords. And yes, I did know. Notice, don't think that be which piece of cross dressing manhood Greg Garech Shitmer didn't know that the he, she, it was signing that stuff on April 19th, Patriot State. That was an accident. That was intentional. That's what the turds are all about. So again, that cross-dressing man that we have that is governor Greg Shitmer is the problem. One of several, but everybody's working on that. And of course, one of the other things that as I pointed out the moment this garbage happened this morning, almost immediately several sheriffs have already stepped up. There is a special constable and sheriff conference that's gonna be taking place here shortly. We already have most of the state as Second Amendment resolution counties guys with what just happened, like I said, in the last three weeks. I don't know what the final count is right now. The ones that we do not expect to take. We have all the townships around the dots on the map. Example, Ann Arbor, Michigan. You think we even bothered there? Why bother? Piss on Ann Arbor, Michigan. You know, piss on Detroit. Pontiac though is one that was, actually I think I already mentioned this, Pontiac is doing something we were rather surprised of. I don't know if it's really Pontiac proper. or if it's the townships, but the way the area is divided up. That's something that's interesting about townships in Michigan. Waste cities developed and grew out and blossomed. They don't stay within one township. They can be overlapping into two or three different ones. So the town itself, the city is isolated, but the rest of the township, in other words, it's isolated itself from the rest of the township and the county, because it's a city. Well, the cool thing is, because of that, is that they can't say anything about what's going on. They can't tell the township what to do, even though the city might have like a dollop of however many acres touching that particular township. And right now, as I said yesterday in last lecture, we've talked about this quite a bit. The way we've been doing this is intentionally encompassing and ensconcing, closing in each of the metropolitan areas. We do have a bunch of other stuff going up in the Bay City area. We've got Saginaw Bay City, there's Midland to the west. But in each area, there's A number of people who have already accomplished the mission, gotten everything where we needed to be. The Resolves and Resolutions are the precursor to conflict on the ground. In other words, at some point the system is going to come out, try to wag their weenie in somebody's face. Typically they'll come out with brute force. I expect it to be a special element because now that they've passed the red flag laws, This will give the probably the SRT out of Lansing, Michigan a job to do to go out and confiscate guns from gun owners. They'll create a special task unit. It will be an MJTF slash JTF operation. It's already in place. I guarantee it's already finished. It's done. Before they even put a pen to paper, this was already in the works three years ago. And before that, they tried to do this back in the 90s. And in fact, they did in the 90s, more on that in a minute. But there'll be a special task group. The special task group's gonna come out. They're gonna get in somebody's face. It's gonna be somebody with a lot of relatives and friends. Someone's gonna get tired of their yap because when they come in they're gonna be swearing like Barnacle Bill to Sailor, that's what the pigs always do. This filth always does. They know all, it's amazing how, they're such sweet and decent and they know every swear word on the planet. Some I've never heard before. Well, I have in a roundabout way, but they use them all because it's what they are. It's the nature of their being. So what's going to happen is people are going to hear that and that's just going to snap it. And someone's going to pull the trigger and they Billy Badass all the Billy Bad Boy, you know, in the black uniforms, all their goodies are going to try and kick stuff off. And that's when the big heavy rifles in place on, you know, in the community will start going off and they'll be dying. And then they'll be begging for, you know, we got to talk and People have already made the decision, they're so far pushed by what's going on, that if something like this happens, whoever it is that comes out will not survive. Whatever they send out simply will not survive. Nobody will give them any quarter. That's the one thing I have dealt with talking to people for a very long time. And there's one problem that I've mentioned that they really hockey-pucked up on. is that they wanted to get Christianity out of the population, so to speak, so they could manipulate them. Well, here's what you got. You got a bunch of people now who don't have any social mores with regard to if somebody crosses you, you know, they're gonna deal with the problem. And they don't have, you can't use their Christianity on them because, well, some of them don't have any. You know what I mean? Well, you can't do that. You're a Christian. Now, on the other hand, the pig that says that, the turd that says that, that usually is a communist will do anything to you you can imagine. But what happens when they're blurring that out at somebody? You can't do that. You're a Christian. I don't know who the hell you're talking to. You know what? I ain't part of that group. By the way, hold my bullets here. Why? Because that is part of what's in people that are everybody's been crossed to the point. Everybody knows the ship is sinking, everybody knows the captain lied, or at least they know all the politicians lied. And the characters that are carrying out their acts now are your enemy. Whoever carries out any of these red flag actions, because it's going to escalate. And again, it's a good thing. It has to happen. Don't lament about this. It has to happen. But when it does happen, you already have to have the resolve. These are resolves and resolutions that we've all agreed to. We have now set a line and everybody knows what has to happen. Okay, so for those who are up to the, what's necessary up to the task. Go ahead. I think we have Tom here. Jump in there, please. Yeah, can you hear me? You sound pretty good. Well, like that song at the beginning, like the same song at the beginning of Top Sad Boys, what you're trying to do when it comes to you. Why play on shooting everything along, you know? That's the way they are. Well, you know, what's funny about this is that with the purpose behind that propaganda, that's why they wanted to bring it back, is because now they have the commies really working high speed, you're all supposed to be so terrified that you're just going to let them take you to the gulag. And let me explain something. If the system was bad years ago, I'm telling you right now, it is terrible inside. The food situation, because nobody is monitoring what's going on in the prisons, the food situation is the worst it's been in probably three or four decades. The state of Michigan for each prisoner gets a total of about, well, it's probably higher now, but it was $27 to $34 to feed a prisoner. And they spend two, and they steal the rest, $2, $3 per prisoner. And what's fascinating is at least you were getting something. Right now, what we know is they're starving the prisoners. They're stealing the place blind. The Michigan Department of Corruption, Michigan Department of Correction, is rife with a top-down, top-to-bottom criminal enterprise that is stealing taxpayers' money in every direction and way you can imagine, and making personal profit off the materials that should be used for the prisons, but instead of being stolen out the back end of the warehouse. Now that's true. It has been true for many years. I don't think it's ever not been true But it is at an it's an epidemic level right now. Now, why do I bring that up? What do you think it's going to be like if they can acquire you? They're planning on trying to get you killed. Are you white? Are you Christian? Are you you think you're decent? Well, they figure they're going to throw you into a gang pit. Now, different locations have different problems, and there's now the only good thing that's happened. I mentioned this the other day, there's a three-way split. The mistake they made is they brought the Hispanics in to try and create more conflict. Well, the Hispanics and the blacks don't get along. Well, and the blacks, because they're busy grimacing at the Hispanics, have to worry about that direction more than they do from the whites. The blacks and Hispanics are there to try and keep the whites in prison because the lion's share of all the prisoners in all categories About three-quarters of what's presently in the prison system in Michigan or in any state should not be there I was listing some garbage where they're starting to flap their yap about what they're releasing from the prisons and why we're having the crime problem. And I'm going to tell you right now that the crime problem is engineered and created by the parole boards and by the criminal, criminal system. Now, that's an insane justice system. Guys, a person who will never come back is not going to get a parole first cycle around. a person who has 10, 15, like you hear this all the time, well this guy has 10 or 12 convictions and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, for whatever. Now half of that you can't believe and I've told you before, remember, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the prostitute's office, the And part of this is tied into the parole scam the parole officers who also are lying through their teeth and have fabricated information in the database I have little or no confidence in information Blurred it out by the controlled press about anybody because they they literally have fabricated and altered records and if it weren't for the fact that you know many people are Let's just say become religious about holding on to their paperwork and securing it other locations so that the system can't destroy it when you're in jail, when you're locked up in prison. If you don't do that, they'll come in and destroy all the records you have because they've already altered the records in the computer system. But recidivism, first of all, it's promoted. It's promoted because they look at who it is they know will come back and they let them out because then they attack you, they become a problem. But if an actual parole group were in charge, a bunch of human beings were in charge rather than the sycophants that are presently there, guys, the prison system would be smaller. The parole board system wouldn't be out of business, but it would have to be smaller because it wouldn't have as many customers. Also, the whole scam that operates to handle prisoners, both with the tethers and everything else, oh, there's a horrific amount of money stolen from the American people just on that. But the people that are incarcerated, not only would they know this, that most of the white population that they incarcerate will not be coming back, won't come back. So they hold them for the longest period of time they possibly can. Period. Because otherwise it's true. Yeah, most of the prisons would be full of nothing but a lot of black people, a handful of the predator white people, and we don't know what I've told you about predators. There's a percentage that are true hard criminals. They are such a small percentage that it's hard for people to wrap their brain around. I understand that most of what's creating all this police state industry is sculpted by the police state industry to demand a bigger police state. Now outside and what's going on is going to create more customers. It's like the stuff in Chicago. All we have to do is go in and beat the living shit out of those people once. And then all of a sudden doesn't look like it's fun to do that anymore. It would stop. But it's intentionally being promoted because they want either they want you to demand a bigger police state. We can't let people out of prison. Many of the people out of prison, not only would you never see them again, a percentage of probably just flat out leave the country, which happens. With regard to behind the wire, in fact, as I pointed out, it's possible to do this, and many people took advantage of this in the odds when there was a change in the law. And I told you about the idea that foreign prisoners can volunteer for foreign military services under a special multi-national agreement that goes through the UN. One individual went to Ireland, leaving the United States. bigger than me. Again, he was up for the opportunity to parole down the road, but instead he filed all of the paperwork and they had a representative from the Irish government for the Ambassadorial Consulate. Actually, I think it's a Commerce Consulate, just who came in. And they interview you, they go back, and under the treaty, They then sign off. The person's straw man is transferred from the United States to Ireland. And he, they came in, pulled him out. He's a free man on the other end once he got to Ireland. But he has to serve in their military for a complete term of service, all active. Another individual did it, joined the German army. was over here. In fact, the Upper Peninsula filled all the paperwork out. They had representatives from the Congress liaison council that come in. They interviewed him. They look at the records. They don't care about the records. And then within two months, a month and a half of processing, he was then picked up. And he was transported to Germany. He has to perform a full term. They have different lengths of service. I want to say eight years, but I think it was ten. Nonstop service with the German military. He becomes a German citizen under the straw man there. Two different individuals one told the other one that he actually it was kind of everybody found about this at the same time Contacting their lawyers. They said they looked into it. They said oh, yeah, this is available at the time There were only 54 signatory states in the early aughts today. There's over a hundred and Twenty or so that have signed on to this treaty that allows for them to pull population prisoners from populations or individuals even from anywhere could do this. I mean obviously you do that by jumping in a plane, but this is where you literally take yourself out of prison. be transferred out of the country. You, of course, you surrender your straw man citizenship here and they make a whole new file for you at the other end and you are, they want you, they want the corpse anyway. You're gonna be in the German army starting out as a plebe. Same with him, with the Irish. You started the Irish army now. Remember the Irish, both the Irish, or all the same problem with America is just much of a whore for the UN as anybody else. But for instance, the Irish military works extensively under UN operations all over the place. Germany provides resources too, but Ireland is actually more active, like Canada. Canada is an entire separate element of its military that are prostitutes for the UN. Just something to think about there. So anyway, but you don't want to be going... If you were to go in, it's a death sentence. That's what they're planning on making it a death sentence. So instead, might as well keep your weapons, fight like you're the third monkey trying to get on Noah's Ark, and live as long as you can, as free as you can, but you're better off, I'm telling you. Going along with them into the prison system? Nah, might as well fight. They're going to try and kill you. They will really try to kill you. So just a heads up on that one. We're at the bottom of the arc. It is weapons Wednesday and weapons Wednesday we have our rifle and our rifle is there for a reason. Why? Well because there are many like it but this one is mine. For all of you out there, maintenance on your arms is especially critical. Understand that's why we talked about lubricants. Oh, petroleum oil products up there earlier on. Over at Menards, $1.11 a can with 11% off. over at Menards for mixed cans of generic lubricant of different types. You might want to check that out because weapons maintenance is especially critical. And we are at the bottom of the hour, which means, hey, I was hoping. Anyway, for everybody out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. Also, let's go over here. Hold on just a second. Before I go any farther, oh, I got to make sure I do this. Yeah, forgive me. I didn't do this the last hour. And slap me in the microphone, there are things that I should do and I don't. 22nd of April, 1 to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, majestic Frisian horse farm, green township, 21750 19 Mile Road, Paris, Michigan. There's a meeting there. It's from 1 to 5. This has to do with the communist Chinese coming into green township. Again, there was a meeting that was scheduled. He had to change location and that has been done. So again, 22nd April, this is Saturday coming up. 1 to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, majestic Frisian Horse Farm, Green Township, 21750 19 Mile Road, Paris, Michigan. Again, 22nd April, 1 to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Majestic Frisian Horse Farm, Green Township, 21750 19 Mile Road, Paris, Michigan. And again, guys, there'll be, there's also another meeting taking place down here at the bottom of the state same day, but that's a Second Amendment sanctuary slash Second Amendment resolve meeting, township and county members, and you guys know who's talking to who. In fact, I should get a call tonight after we get done with this hour of the program, or I'll be calling them probably. And in addition to that, up in the Bay area, as I mentioned, up in Saginaw Bay, There is a meeting up there with the townships again that will be on Saturday also and I believe it's going to be bringing up people from around over towards Aaron act and I think that although I think Aaron acts already done. Probably to help with organizing is what that is. I think Aaron act County is already. They've already done the second Second Amendment resolve resolution. So, and if they haven't, maybe it's, well, I know certain townships have for sure, but I thought when the first cycle, a couple years ago, they'd already put their paperwork in a motion. Now, on the other hand, and this is something that we need to take into consideration, it is very likely that with what Livingston County is generating now, that other counties that have already passed a resolve are going to add to the resolve. They're going to expand it because that appears to be where everybody is headed. So all of the townships will reinforce by duplicating the expanded performance of these new instruments. And it's a benchmark before you go to war is what it comes down to. The Fairfax Resolves and the Suffix Resolves were the last gas, the last documents before open hostilities had taken place. Casual conflict had already been going on for quite some time. Today is April 19th. And I guess I would remind y'all what was going on. Here it is. It's 635 in the evening of April 19th. What was happening on April 19th, 1775 at this time? Well, I'll tell you one thing. The British were still trudging back towards Boston around the on the neck. The militia was converging from everywhere. They weren't just going down the road behind the British. The call to arms had taken place three, well, correction, correction, six different times before Lexington and Concord. And Salem almost became Lexington and Concord only weeks earlier, okay, a month earlier approximately. And what's interesting about it is that the number of people who showed up then had been larger with Salem. Now when Lexington and Concord took place this morning when the US Patriots shot the federal agents with the ATF and FBI tried to come out and confiscate guns, and started putting bullets in them after they went door to door to confiscate guns, you know, the ATF and FBI went door to door to Lexington and Concord to confiscate guns. And they did. When they went to Concord, the... The ATF agent that was in charge put a chair right in the middle of the town square, so to speak, right in the middle of the road and said, gentlemen, do your duty. And the bat faggots and the FBI agents went room to room, door to door. They stole silver, they stole pewter, they stole candlesticks, they stole finery like jewelry. They loaded 54 bags or I should say pieces of luggage, basically trunks with booty. The troops packed their backpacks with booty they stole from the people of Concord. They tortured people while they were there. And then, of course, they got shot at the bridge and they started moving back. Well, by this time of the day, not much of that baggage made it back. Some of it did, though. They wouldn't let go of the booty. They might leave men laying bleeding on the ground. That's what's rather fascinating. there were wounded up and down the trail at different points that were left. And there's never a whole big discussion about what happened to them. They didn't kill them, I mean didn't execute them, because they did take them as prisoners. But on the one hand, the British, the column left wounded behind, but wouldn't let go of the war booty that they picked up from Concord. That's what they never show you is a proper image of what it looked like. Okay, it's pretty close, but nope, they don't, where's the little wagons that they had set up where they were, you know, moving the trunks and lockers and bags with all the stuff they stole from each of the houses? Now, the reason we know that the number is pretty accurate is because, or about where I said it was, because the British keep really good records. And they didn't want to let go of the goodies because they got to divvy that up for you know beer money later on ha ha ha just like bat faggots and the thieves today and the feds they're sticky finger thieves If they get into somebody's house like with this red flag stuff. Oh, they're gonna rape that place dude You're gonna it's it's gonna take weeks for you to find out what's been stolen by the cops when they come to your house for a red flag law You know, where'd that belt buckle go? Where'd that, where'd my, hey, wait a minute, I didn't notice that. You open up a, open up a room and you realize, wait a minute, something's missing. See, that's the problem when you have this type of piracy going on by the pigs at the state level and the, you know, yohooty trash at the federal level. Well, this time of day, the militias are coming in from all directions. They're across the Bay. They're crossed in the heights and literally are surrounding the port and the facility of Boston itself to the point where the British are literally immobile. They can't go anywhere. They can certainly move by ship at their discretion. They can come and go as they choose there. But as far as land, Tens of thousands of militia right now are deploying and cutting off every avenue of approach to Boston. Now, there isn't any single command, but there is a war council, and the war council is doing its part to get everything squared away. What brought them to that? Well, the Fairfax resolves. and the suffix resolves and other counties that also registered with the king and demonstrated against the actions and of course demanded that their sovereignty be maintained because they were of course they had the rights of English of Englishmen of you know English subjects. The problem is the key word there is subject and so in the eyes of the queers, petals, and perverts that are in Lansing and in Washington, D.C., all the rest of you are just doormats, just like the crown in 1775 thought you were doormats. And so the resolves need to be in place. It's like, what good did they do? Well, again, for those who have a spine and for those who will maintain their manly firmness, They're madly firmness with regard to their political stands under principle. Well, that's what's going to start this stuff and kick it off. And it's not going to be, we're not those monkeys, those you bangies that are in Chicago dancing around the streets. That's not us. You won't see that with us. That's the difference. Again, thinking human beings versus the knuckle-tracking shoe-sized IQ criminals that have been created by the public fool system that have been on the streets of Chicago for four days straight. Not my circus. Those aren't my monkeys. Just that simple. Okay? Another thing here real quick is with the resolves and with the change. Now the thing is there's a whole machine now in place and it's the conduits are pretty well separate from the regular internet, whatever. It's interesting. People are learning that we need to be dealing person to person. And so the mechanic, the mechanicals are being thrown out. They're used for providing a venue for everyone to observe the actions as they develop. But When it comes to planning and coordination, everybody has learned to properly engineer the day. So what's going to be interesting is to see how quickly, and I think it's going to be weeks, I don't think it'll take them months, I think it'll take them only a day, I mean a day or two to get the word out. But once the hardened versions of the Second Amendment resolves and resolutions are available, that every township and county that has already passed them in Michigan will have them in place in their new form almost immediately. It's a matter of when is the next session where they can sit down and meet in regular schedule. And it will become, as it has several times, it's become the priority for the township or the priority for the county, and they have made the entire session. an opportunity to make statements and then of course to formulate, present ideas, and then establish the results and resolutions necessary. When they got the answer back, actually the Fairfax and Suffolk's results, I think the first response came back about the time we were shooting the ATF and FBI on April 19, 1775. I mean the red coats. Describe the red coats of that day and describe the sickle fat, twilight zone, follow no rules, federal agents that we see today. Tell me what the difference is. The very thing that the founding fathers warned about is where we are. Just that simple. Tell you what, Edward might be right there and it is weapons Wednesday and it is later. But we do need to cover our bottom of the hour break for Weapons Wednesday. And as we know, this is my rifle. I'm hoping that that'll show up in a moment. Because this is my rifle. There are many like it. So anyway, one of the other fascinating things... Hold on here. Do we have a caller? I don't want to leave anybody out. Make sure that we don't have anybody that's been waiting in the wings. One of the most important aspects of what's going on right now, and this is by the way I want to say I haven't done it I want to say hi to our friends in Western the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan One of the other things that's been happening here with the resolves and resolutions is the fact that We have people now working from Michigan with the people in Wisconsin northern, Wisconsin the northern counties and I had again more remote ones especially first but all of those that are not in any of the central metropolitan areas are now in Wisconsin doing the same thing that we've been doing county by county, township by township here in the state of Michigan and the advantage of this is again because they have experience we're able to expedite the activity. So again we'll say hi to the guys I guess but what I understand We had a number of reps that were down here last night that were from the Upper Peninsula. They were in there visiting specifically to simply observe because they know what they're going to be going through up there in their neck of the woods. And I believe that they're tweaking the machine there too. So if that delegation does its job... Then Wisconsin has already been and by the way, I understand is already cross-contaminated. Oh my god, there's their freedom. They're thinking about freedom. They have that Yes, yes, they can In fact, they can do a fine job of it there, too also Let's see before we go any farther before I forget there was one other item here, too Because we are headed now in the last quarter here. Um, oh Really? I'm gonna have to wait there's certain things. I can't really Talk about until with a note. I just got here Okay, they went farther than I expected there's again, we've got two other counties that were also Dealing with the same issue last night apparently and well it was Tuesday Tuesday's an odd day out Obviously, it's just a matter of what day they actually have the the County Board sessions, but also a special sessions I guess once one was a special session an open committee that took place and the other in, of course, Livingston County, but there were others, two others. Okay, and there is video, by the way, too. So they did a video conference also. Apparently, several other people watched that. So thank you for the feedback on that one, too. As it is, before I forget, we hit Larry up for a minute. Totally unrelated to guns, but having everything to do with keeping you fed, And this is a good idea, by the way, because everybody's been asking, what do you do about electricity? In fact, even the churches are asking the same thing. So we're going to actually put them in contact with the source that Larry came up with last night. National refrigeration of the ship, Sihuana, Indiana. That's Amish territory, guys. 260-768-7059 is the phone number, 260-260-7059. They have propane refrigerators. First thing we're going to have to be doing is getting rid of all of the smart BS that's on most of the appliances, which we may not be able to do easily, but I'm figuring that we can carve out and override the BS from the digital processors. The unnecessary computer technology on board is absolutely useless, purely for spying. It's purely for being able to shut off or cut off. It's kind of like working on the vehicles. The newest ones are going to be much more difficult to cut off most of the electronics to go just a basic run, but basic operation. However, if you have anything that's before 1999, a lot easier than if it's before 1989, incredibly simple to cut out all of the electronics to including the electronic ignition. And we're not talking about even putting other technology on board. There's a couple of neat tricks in the trade that are actually were used to be used for emergency purposes if you had to move the vehicle. If you know what you were doing, all you have to do is clip a few wires, join a few wires and congratulations. She'll run flat. She won't run with any special adjustments or compensation for highway speeds like you see with the new electronic brain. But it will run the way a car used to run and your pedal, your foot pedal, you know, accelerator pedal does all the work. So again, that's something that needs to be shared. But national refrigeration, and that is for propane refrigerators and freezers, which is what Larry picked up last night, which was a new propane freezer. 260-768-7059. And that is in Ship Showana. So an interesting trip anyway. By the way, if you're going to go there, you're really serious about going there. Plan on making it a day and go through the businesses that are there. They have a lot of tools, brand new, but old school, and you are going to want to look around. You would be fascinated. You will enjoy yourself if you're into tools. and machinery, there are things there that you'll realize, wow, maybe I could use one of those. So I highly recommend that. And of course, it's not a big place. You're not talking a big complex or anything like that. No, it's a farming community, farming town flat as a pancake area, but pretty straightforward. It does has particular business interests there. You might want to check them out and not too far from there is where one of our major airsoft suppliers is, by the way. we've dealt with quite extensively. Last but not least, maybe Ed's right there. Before we get to the top, we are going to play the bottom of the hour break. We have enough time. It doesn't take that long. But one time in the two-hour block, we'll try to fit that in if we can. So for everybody out there, hopefully I'm still hooked up. I don't trust the technology anywhere. Anything could be happening right now. For everybody out there again, a reminder too that this next weekend coming up we have a number of other different meetings. In addition, one that's in Paris. But if you are part of a training operation for this weekend and you're in that area, as we've already discussed, stick to your activities there because as we've seen in the past, you might be needed. So again, for those people who are already set for whatever training operations at particular facilities, take advantage of being squared away and prepped and with formations already on assignment, they might have to be diverted like we did several years ago. You just never know. And if that is the case, then you won't have to worry about it being hours away. All right, did I, I heard a click. Do we? Okay, I'll try this one more time. Even though it's not the bottom of the hour, if we can, let's play the bottom of the hour break because it is weapons Wednesday. Maybe, just maybe it'll work. I must be dead. Anyway, a couple other things before we go because now we're getting close. Okay, very good. I'm still alive. Half the time we get like, oh, you're up. Last but not least also I was mentioning reloading with regard to training guys Let's not forget that one of the other things we've talked about for as long as we've been up on the air is casting bullets now If you're using a center fire rifle Depending on what you're using you can even do cast bullets for carbine But if you're going to use carbines, for instance, for your basic training rifle for familiarization, if you're going to reload, there is a bullet called the Plinkster. What it is is a semi-jacketed bullet. It's not considered a soft point or a hollow point or anything like that, but it is a semi-jacketed bullet. What this means is that there's only about half as much copper for the jacket and the front of the bullet is exposed and is rounded lead. However, they are cheaper, or at least traditionally they have been cheaper, than a standard FMJ 30 caliber carbine bullet. If you are going to be using the carbine and you are going to reload, The Plinkster or the semi-jacketed bullet made by any number of different companies because most everybody makes these. All the bullet companies make this projectile in 30 carbine. If you can access those, I'd recommend using that for loading to save money and preserve the FMJ standard bullets, all your standard ammunition for combat operations in preparation for what's coming. The Plinkster load is a better choice. Again, cast bullet where you can. If you're going to be doing pistol and you're going to teach the people in a pistol cycle. When we do pistol, we do exactly what I described with air with first inert firearms, inactive training devices. Then we use airsoft for the pistol for initial familiarization. And then we go to the conventional handgun for final graduation phase. Okay. Now in the process, remember that all the basic rules apply, but for your final shoot, cast bullets for a 357 Magnum, 9 millimeter, 40 caliber, 45 ACP. I would go that route simply because you can make the bullets for a hell of a lot less. And those much more if, well, we'll see, they're not super as efficient in either way. They're just the same basic idea, but an FMJ bullet is a lot more useful for field combat operational use. It has better penetration. But for paper cutting and training for familiarization, the 148 grain or 158 grain lead semi-wadcutter or wadcutter, well, wadcutter if it's 148, semi-wad cutter for $158 for $38,357 and basically also for the $38 Smith & Wesson. If using .40 caliber, the appropriate lead projectile that you want to cast is up to you, but I would do lead. You're cutting the cost in half with regard to your bullets. And you can load pistols so stupid, cheap, it's ridiculous. Again, consider this, I would go a light load, not a, I would go a medium or average load, but I might even back it off a little. Why? I can save powder. Remember for a fight, for graduation of familiarization, you want to, again, to demonstrate that the flinch factor has been worked out of the student and that when they pull the trigger, they do the job right, everything's where it's supposed to be, and they cut the paper where it needs to be cut. And again, any load will do. And the idea here is to minimize the cost. And I haven't even talked about the idea that, you know, we do have insert type cartridges that allow some groups actually, not as many people do it because they don't have that many of them, but there are steel case cartridges that were built. Last year we bought them from Sportsman's Guide. They had a sale on them. 32 ACP, 30 out 6 and 32 ACP, 308 cartridges. You load a 32 ACP round into the base. The barrel for the round is basically the inside the case, steel case itself. And then of course joins down the barrel. And this is for paper cutting for basic training or gain getting for that matter. It's an excellent little gain getting round. for a bolt-action rifle or for a manually operated weapon or even a semi-auto if you need something to pop a small critter or maybe quietly take out something that's in your way, depending on how you load the .32 ACP that you're using. But the advantage of this is you can also cut costs by not using a full rifle cartridge in a rifle for training purposes. and there are a number of different combination pistol cartridge adaptations that match the bore diameter of whatever gun you have and this varies from one weapon to the next. They did make some 7.62x25 Tokarev adapter kits. that allows you to do the same thing. Individual cases, everything, you loaded them by hand, but then you could actually operate, manually operate the weapon to use a subcaliber that still got a lot of power and demonstrates, you know, again, the performance of the weapon, you get all the end results of the same, but you've saved a gob of money on shooting, which is especially critical. So, again, for everybody out there, that's just another idea. It's one of those things that they have been available. They might even still be on sale. They did have some for 30-30. They had them for 7.62x51 NATO, 30 out of 6. They made them for a number of other different pistol cartridges, too. And if you go into the scroll at Sportsman's Guide for the Deals and Clearance, They were at the very end because they were down to the bottom of those things, which typically were at the very end of the scroll is where you'll find the listings for the last ofs. And in there, they still had some of those cartridges, these cartridge replacement inserts available. And so they are something you should invest in. In fact, even if you just buy a couple of them, and keep them in your kit as solutions for what I was just mentioning a moment ago. If I get an Out6, but I need something for game getting, then I can use this little kit that's available with the little chamber insert and congratulations, I'm able to fire, eject, disassemble it, I can put it back together later on and reload it again. But I don't change my weapon out. So if I eject that, if I don't use it, but I need to use a standard route, I can eject that insert and use the standard ammunition at my discretion to continue to defend myself. So again, it is a solution. It's not just complaining about the problems. Anyway, we're at the job. We should be here. Hear the music, God bless, Republic. This is a sacrifice. Gough is three-cornered hat. Speaking low to me, he said. 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It is, well, it's weapons Wednesday. It is 19th of April. Heard around the world the day of Lexington and Concord. Headed into the evening now, so we're at the end. And we're at the beginning of the siege of Boston. By this point in the day, The siege of Boston has kicked in and it's a reality that the ATF and FBI that came out to confiscate guns today on April 19, 1775 are now boxed in in the district of and the peninsula, the little wart there of Boston and they're not getting out. They can sail out. They can't march out. And they're now surrounded or will progressively be surrounded by up to 32,000 militia through this day. And then that'll drop back down progressively to around probably 20 to 22,000 with a random number of people showing up for the next two or three days in the in-descript formations of five men, a couple of guys, you know, dozens, a hundred, but all showing up nonstop in a wave. And each of course taking up their positions and trading out with the other men for a bit, some returning home, some injured having to come off the line and actually rest and recuperate because they had been tagged during the exchange of today leading up to the siege of Boston. This is the day of the shot heard around the world. It is the 15th year of open obvious and pissing in your face baby and socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K said how far we've come and where we need to go. It is 2023 old earth calendar 2023 battle for the Republic the dance of swords. Let the dance continue and there's a bunch of other things that are going on with regard to weapons. Interestingly enough, as far as procurement, procurement guys, there's some really cool stuff out there right now that you need to be looking at seriously. But right from the get go, I want to say something. The priority should be, if you can, if you guys as groups can buy more barrels, and I know I keep harping on this, but also upper receivers, complete AR-15 upper receivers, the cheapest for the mostest. In other words, Whatever the cheapest is that Bear Creek Arsenal is offering unless Delton or Anderson or somebody else has a stripped Not as well not stripped but a minimized Upper receiver then it would be great Let me give you an example of places where the original idea of stoners AR 15 would really make sense right now, especially right now Stoner's idea was to shave as much weight off the weapon as possible because of the complaint of the tropical environment that soldiers were fighting in in Vietnam. But that argument went back to World War II. And Korea was no soft spot. During the summer, they've got hellacious heat on the peninsula of Korea. And during the winter, they've got hellacious cold. So you get your choice, freeze thaw, freeze thaw, freeze thaw, freeze bake, maybe, a better way to describe it. It's not tropical, but it's moist enough because they're like Michigan. The Korean peninsula has water in every direction, okay, where it counts. So in World War II, the carbine, everybody goes, well, the carbine became popular. One of the reasons the carbine became popular is lightweight to carry. in the Pacific, they didn't get it right away, but they did get some, and as quickly as they started shipping carbines into the Pacific, they became popular. Now, they weren't fully the stopping power weapon that, say, the 45 or the grand were, but they'd put a bullet in the enemy, and, you know, again, people gravitated towards particular arms. It wasn't just that it was necessarily issued to you. And there was a, there were always a variety of arms on hand. Well, the time we get to Vietnam, the argument was that we needed a much, much lighter rifle, and it had to be not 9 pounds or 10 pounds. It had to be approximately 2 to 3 pounds lighter, ideally. Lighter is better. Carrying more ammo, that was the other argument, smaller caliber, et cetera. Okay, so fine, they got that. And they rounded it out to about a seven pound rifle, the Kar-15 slash the XM177, scaling in as low as five and a half pounds, but averaging about six. And big thing there is why would there be a difference? Well, there wasn't one Kar-15 model that was issued, or XM177 model. In fact, about the time that the XM-177 comes into play, several different agencies and organizations within the Donut of Destruction wanted to use the weapon and SEAL teams, Special Forces units, needless to say, the reconnaissance units, and also special issue to certain personnel. They made different accommodations and it was an experimentation time. There's a lot of guns that were put into the field even before you knew about the M16 that were very, very unique, one of a kind, and only showed up in probably several hundreds for tests in the earliest days of Vietnam. We're not talking the middle of the war, we're talking the very beginning of the war. In fact, even the M16E1 was actually brought to the troops that were the first and second detachments to be on the ground in Vietnam, and they didn't want it. They preferred the M1 carbine or M2 carbine select or M3 carbine select because it was just a common rifle all over the place. Vietnam had a ton of them. They were still out there everywhere and they were proven. They were reliable. The M16E1s that were offered, nobody knew anything about but they also, what happened when you run out of ammo in the field? There's nothing you could do with it. So they kept them in the arsenals and they were in Vietnam in the very earliest year of Vietnam, the very first year of official America kickoff where we're on the ground. Most people don't know that, but it's a first person experience by the guys that were, you know, the ones that were there doing the, you know, doing the work that confirmed this and are people I've worked with. So, what we need is that five pound rifle I've talked about in a CAR 15 but with a 16 inch barrel, short carving action, pencil barrel would really be good. And everything else lightened up. I don't need any aluminum front end, basic carry handle would even be good. One type upper only in a short barrel 16 inch barrel but with a carbine action like an XM177 would be fine. Now since flat tops are in vogue, go a flat top because that's really, you know, it's not specialized, it's cheap. That would shave maybe even an ounce off of the weapon because the carry handle is gone, but you still have to put something back on in the way of sights. Now, why would I bring that up? Well, you know, what's interesting is a bunch of toys or trinkets that we've always had since I've been alive. The jet pack is probably the best example. The original jet pack was done as a promotional. It has very short flight time, but still even back when it was brought up, if it were to be applied the way it was originally proposed, the jet pack would have more than enough flight time. For instance, specialized combat insertion into an area over obstacles. Example is river crossings. You have a bunch of people, you've got the jet packs all set up ready to go. You have to have quick release on them though. You've got to be able to drop, stop and drop. If you can't stop and drop them, then they're a burden until you can dismount a certain number of people from the jet packs, okay? The 60s, the jet pack was pretty well proven out. They made it work. You see it lost in space where they used it because it was a cool, you know, cool item to throw into the mix. But it was flight time. Now, flight time issues can never change. You know, in other words, you can only carry so much weight to create so much thrust to produce so much, you know, distance. And it's time and distance with everything. We've always talked about that. Well, it's the 21st century and if you haven't been looking on YouTube, there are some really cool videos. I've been watching this since they came out with this several years ago, which is a combination of jetpack and hand control system. Have you seen these? Now it's the next step. They've actually been showing up. Obviously they're trying to really, really, really, really, really push these with the Navy for like boarding boats and stuff like that. And there's two things that are very obvious. Number one, when you use it, yep, it'll do exactly what you want it to do. They've got the experienced personnel that have been using these machines for a while. They typically operate over water. It's safer. If you make a mistake, the water's a little less, you know, a little more forgiving, less, a little more forgiving than, say, ground. But as long as you're not flying, you know, two, three, 500 feet up, and that doesn't seem to be the agenda, a couple hundred feet probably is the max. But usually they're staying much closer to the surface, reasonable distance from the surface. So the dropping would not be a big deal. The next thing is making sure you just don't, you know, the thing doesn't drag you to the bottom because it might load water or whatever. It doesn't look like it will. They probably may seem made some kind of accommodation there. But they're carrying of an M4 dually-didded everything bells and whistles on it up gun And if you'll notice if you watch the videos where they're showing them using them tactically they can dismount fairly fast But when they do do you see any combat kit on the person? Now, you know why you don't see any combat kit on the person. It's because it's weight So the first thing you got to remember, and we talked about this when it comes to weapons and aircraft and everything on an aircraft, they try to make it lighter. First of all, do you really need it or may you really need it if something goes wrong? That's the first rule when you're looking at a flight. The next thing is now that I know I need it, how light can I make it and make it useful? Because if I make it too light but it just breaks, it's useless. So if you look, this is one of those locations where the 5 pound AR-15 M16 rifle is going to make more sense. Why? Well, yeah, you can project your ass on the whiz-bang super-jock machine. And when you get there, what? You got a magazine, maybe one or two that you're carrying, because that's about all you can afford? Well, you're attacking somebody else who may actually be very very very very very well armed and Other than the fact that maybe you're trying to work as a distraction in a bullet magnet Unless you do something when you get to the other end and can sustain doing it. You're not a whole lot useful Okay, so this is where a very very light AR-15 type rifle would make sense a five pound all-polymer AR pencil barrel 16 inch, you can still go 16, although you don't need to. It could be a shorter barrel. Government can have anything they want. Us peasants were a different story, and they consider us peasants. But what's fascinating about this is, again, then you can be carrying more mags. But if you carry mags, you want the lightest magazine you possibly can transport. Here again. Depending on what you're looking at, you might actually even decide that a pistol caliber AR-15 type, M16 type weapon would be an even better choice in whatever hot caliber you want to use because those little block mags would be lighter than your big mag and you carry almost as much firepower. That's right. Now it's not likely you guys are going to have a jet pack. Okay. But looking at these things, always ask questions. Think about it. Ask the right question. You're like, well, what would work? What would you really carry in a weapon system like that? With the transport system. And here's the thing. If you're in helicopters, you're in the same boat. Now granted, there's a certain amount of overload compensation with the official weight capacity versus what you can probably put the aircraft through to get something done. Two different worlds. And we do have a lot of helicopters, we do have fixed-wing aircraft, we have everything in the militia that pretty much the military has. In quantity, it's up and down, depends on what it is. But here again, you'd want to sculpt your troops and the select individuals that would be used for vertical support like that, vertical aircraft support landing. You want to lighten the load as far as the individual items but still expand on or keep at least at normal level where the weight and lift costs are balanced out. That's really what you're trying to do. The big thing is again also remember age and limitations for the operators This is another reason a lighter weapon really be critical right now It's either you go with a lighter weapon of the same type you're presently carrying which you can engineer with an AR-15 Or you're switching to another weapon that is lighter in general and carries as we mentioned a pistol caliber may even use the smaller lighter mags Which means you can carry more mags and more bullets downrange for the same volume of space. This is one of the advantages of the pistol type pistol caliber AR-15s, for instance. But you also have the high points. You have many other guns that are like this that are very lightweight. Magazine capacity is reasonable. Magazines themselves are relatively small, which means that for their weight and for the volume of fire provided, There are actually a bit of an advantage. Okay. Example, if I'm suppressing at what are the 300 yard mark ranges nowadays, one of the considerations is using pistol calibers or SMGs for suppression fire in place of or to compliment say a squad automatic rifle or a squad automatic designated rifleman. In other words, why use an AR-15 and burn up a bunch of rifle rounds when you're just trying to patter that area and a wad of 9mm, drop down range will do just as well, keeping their heads down as long as you're focusing on the target, not just spraying and praying. So, and this is something that to a degree, there were different philosophies about using the submachine gun in World War II. The Finns had a very different attitude about what the submachine gun was meant to do and how it was employed in a very, very specific way for suppression but also accurate suppression fire or in the niche of what literally what it was supposed to be was a light machine gun, in all those cases a submachine gun. But they would fit it into the light machine gun niche and work it exceptionally well. Purely a matter of where you're willing to take the gun with experience and how reliable is the weapon system. The Samoy SMGs, which by the way, there were a bunch of those kits that came out, remember three, four, well, six years ago, maybe seven years ago. They're pretty well gone from the system because everybody's bought all of them up They were they're built like a brick dock house or gross you over heavy you'll overweight for what they are But if you apply them the way the fins applied them They're perfect in the configuration and by the way, yes, they even mounted bipods on them And so the gun was kind of like again a baby SWAT automatic weapon There are many examples of individuals who received high awards and you know commendations of valor operating with just one of those SMGs against platoon or company strength units and virtually stopping them in their tracks and destroying them. So again, it's as much as anything, it's the attitude of the operator and taking the weapons seriously and pulling what you can in the way of performance out of the weapon that makes the difference. And this is a matter of, well, it's like arts, military science. So again, really good, an 8-millimeter carbine. Yeah, well, I don't want to get hit with one of those bullets. And if somebody's really paying attention and just dumping rounds down range, everything and anything you've got can perform well enough. The big thing here again, and it's kind of interesting because we don't have select fire to a degree. I think that's a good thing. If we need, when the time comes on the battlefield, casualties on both sides exist, but the first rule is strip the enemy of any weapons, automatic weapons for the purpose of the select missions that I mentioned, like squad automatic riflemen. The weapons you acquire from the enemy will fit that niche for select fire. Otherwise, for the most part, accuracy over volume fire, we still can get tremendous volume fire with a semi-automatic rifle. And I will remind you that once the adrenaline rush kicks in, somebody will swear to God that you've got a submachine gun in your hand with the way people will burn ammunition. In fact, most people are surprised, and I'll never forget this, when we first started getting 15-shot semi-automatic pistols, okay? It was fascinating how people said, well, yeah, I've got to have a browning high power. That'd been around forever. Smith and West Model 59, that's been around a long cuts way in the back in the tail lights, but just still very, very good gun. I'd carry one in a heartbeat. Okay. Well, what's interesting is if you're on the range of these people, they were used to seven shot 1911 with one in the chamber or they were used to a Walter P-38, a Luger, Astra's, whatever. And they're thinking, yeah, I'm going to be able to shoot a lot longer with a larger capacity pistol. Oh, wow, look at all these new guns that are coming out and they get on the range and empty. And for them they're thinking it's like this is it's true. Boy you really went through that magazine fast. Yeah well how many rounds did I fire? You fired 16 rounds. What? No, no I ran out too soon. You guys didn't load the bag all the way. No you fired 16 rounds trust me. And it's interesting that This is also it's funny because it's being reflected in what they do do honestly acknowledge about small arms fire with personal defense issues There were a greater number of hits for a number of rounds fired when police were carrying revolvers Then there is with regard to the dump ratio with automatic pistols The amount or number of rounds required to you know, maintain a hit and it's a much larger volume of bullets going down range to achieve a hit than when the revolver was in service. And also, dated in this, no, it's a matter of, again, how are you making the weapon perform? And what's happening is, the assumption is I'll just dump another mag, has now created a very, very bad situation where if a lot of bullets are going not where they should, And it's like I said, the cops, you see the gun teams which have disappeared from the streets, apparently, which was not a bad thing. You had the rifle teams of, you know, two men, the secret police, black uniforms, looking like the third world banana republic in New York. And every time they cut loose, they'd wound 9, 10, 14 people. Oh, they'd eventually shoot the guy they were shooting at. But everybody around the person got hit. And people down the street, because what were they carrying? Well, they're carrying 5-5-6 rifles. And guess what? That bullet, if pistol's bad enough, pistol round, a 9mm round, given the opportunity, we'll go through a whole hell of a lot of stuff if it's a ball round. Contrary to what you might think. On flat shooting or in a flat shooting environment, this is why they always tell you to take cover. Everybody take cover. If you sit here, small arms. Well, if I've got walls in the house, yeah, in that 30 out 6, 308. Take your pick of pistol calibers. We'll go right through one wall and through, you know, the next wall in the house, go through a pan in the kitchen, go off the other side, lodge in a telephone pole in the next neighborhood. How do I know this? I'm just describing stuff from the Detroit area where they recovered bullets from one to, you know, different shootings where the cops are shooting at the bad guys, bad guys are shooting at the cops. And on flat terrain, that bullet just keeps her out going until she runs out of energy. No matter what's in the way, well, of course, that's what's going to slow it down and help it to run out of energy. But in one instance of all the one from one magazine alone that a friend of mine have talked about before The bullet went through the front of the house through the couch Through part of a chair went into the cupboard went through a frying pan went out the back wall of the house and Lodged in a telephone pole in the backyard on the far end of the yard This was a 9 millimeter parabellum standard round fired into Smith and Wesson model 59 regular military ball because that's what they had to carry. Detroit police at different times have been in a roller coaster as far as what they're allowed to carry. At one point they allowed soft point and they told me they can only have ball ammo then they were to go to lead. Purely all political, no matter whatever horror that was in the command structure, you know, whatever magazine they read or whatever the lawyers told them to do that particular month. Okay. And again, this is why you have to think and especially think about backstops. It's another reason you also need to seriously think about how much junk can I put on the walls to make it that much more difficult? This is why a lot of people, especially people who were military experienced in World War II, you'll notice that most everybody was especially impressed when they were looking at a brick house. And even though it was brick fascia, what we call a brick house today would be called a fascia. The traditional brick is actually three, four bricks thick. So older structure built like that concrete cement block with a veneer is even better than just a veneer over a frame house. But brick still does a lot to stop, a lot of energy with a lot of rounds. You'll notice it was very, if you know your relatives, you might pay attention to what their eyeball was for what it is that they preferred. Part of that's just in the back of their head. and also because of the attitude of the time during the Cold War, that a brick building would be a much better choice in general for defense and to work protection. If you work in old farmhouses that are in outposts, you'll find when you tear off the inner walls, you'll find bricks lining the entire outer perimeter, sometimes only up to about the six foot mark, but in most cases, going from the floor to the ceiling. Was that for insulation? No, that was a bullet stop. Back then they were all lead bullets. So needless to say, between the solid oak walls, outer walls, and the bricks on the inside, two by four that were actual two inch by four inch studs made out of on-site cut green oak, they actually had a pretty much a reasonable firewall around the whole perimeter of the house that way. So just heads up on that idea. I'll tell you what, we're at the bottom of the hour. And at least one hour out of three, we're going to have the bottom of the hour of Weapons Wednesday break. Because it is Weapons Wednesday. Because this is. In our valleys there is danger, and there's danger in our hills. Oh, here you're not just singing of the views of wild and free. But soon you'll know of the rifle from the tree. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle. In our hands, the proof knows right from. You may ride a good lead speed, you may know it's turn to master Your forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back much faster When you meet our mountain boys And their leader, John, it starts Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove Noah's rifle Edward, that was the Bottom of the Hour, Weapons Wednesday. have a weapon you are responsible for it? Song. In other words, it's your buddy. You sleep with it, you live with it, and it has to be within literally arms reached to the point where it leaps to your hand as needed, your personal arm, your personal defense weapon, which is, of course, also your offensive weapon as needed. Most important is that it has to be directly and immediately available, and you need to get used to the idea that it never is out of your control. personal sidearms should be the same way. All of your firearms, all your weapons for that matter. Once we're in fighting a fighting situation, everything that is in your order of battle, your table of not authorized, but your table of standard equipment, what you're using constantly needs to be maintained and you need to be attentive to where it is at all times. You also have to have all the other work that goes along with operating a weapon system, especially side by side with other people, you need to be a master of the trade. You need to understand your weapon completely and you need to understand what is required to continue to make it operate. Every weapon's different, let's put it that way. Everything has its nuances or things that need to be dealt with with regard to designs. There is no weapon that is perfect, there's no Single system is the answer to all of the issues that are at hand when the time comes. So this is why you have different tools in the toolbox or different golf clubs in the golf bag. Take a pic. Either one works as a concept idea about how to wrap your brain around it. Real quick here also, as we mentioned, the AR-15, why do I keep dwelling on this? We need a lightweight rifle. The weapon is the weapon of choice. Spare parts are up the yazoo. The big thing is we've gone full circle. We've made all kinds of heavier and heavier and bulkier and heavier ARs and added more doodads. But what we need is the basic rifle added. The foundation weapon needs to be in service or back in production a larger scale. Pencil barrels is the term that you hear, but it's the original design that's donor proposed. There is, there is the Harrington and Richards M16A1 rifle now being produced. It's made by Palmetto State Armory. They've got the company name, they bought it. Palmetto, Palmetto bought H&R. So the company is, the rifle to original full military spec is now being produced. Now I have not seen a quote on the price for that rifle. And if anybody wants to bring it up on the air, please, I just haven't had time. Every time I think about it, I don't go to check. But what is the asking market price for an AR-15, you know, AR-15A1, which is a knockoff of the M16A1. It's supposed to be virtually top to bottom, a mimic of the original rifle. There are only one or two little features that are different, but it should be a relatively reasonably priced weapon, but I got this bad feeling. Go ahead. I saw a small thing on YouTube this afternoon about the NRA meeting there, and they were showing Paul Meadows A1. I'm thinking it's around is around 1200. Yeah. Why? Why? Why should it be $1200? I don't know, but it was high. I mean, you know what I mean? It's I mean, I understand you charge it to market will bear. But it's a carry handle. I mean, first of all, everything we do with C and C. So what is there that's unique about it? It was plastic. Well, it's classic. As soon as I see the word classic, my brain turns off, right? Because this is what happens. Otherwise, with modern machinery, I mean, making a weapon exactly like they did during that period of time is already in the machine, so to speak. It's already there. The only thing that would be real, yeah, the whole thing that you'd be doing is changing the program for the barrel weight. That's it. Otherwise, the receiver, upper and lower, the upper receiver, a carrying handle model, which is a complete original pattern carry handle model, I don't think it has the disconnect. It's not an A3 upper. In fact, it's supposed to be exactly like the rifles that we carried. Yeah, and I'd like to have one I really would but I you know be and it's one of those things where Mad when you realize how many thousands of those we built and how many I've had past or my hands I mean literally we built them Yeah, we well we built them at night like I said, we were building that night when we buy kits from sarco for $125 and we were buying the lower receivers for 72 And we were putting air 15s together, 20 and 30 of them a night. No, eight ones. And it was a dead gun. Yeah, I love mine. And I well, there's a lot of other people. I don't know. I've let friends that the difference in weight and their stuff and mine. There's 16 inch barrel with the stuff on it weighs more than mine. Yes, that's in which is the very which is the complete reverse of the argument about why we had to have that rifle Because the the when you when you sit down with a 20 inch barrel gun that weighs seven to seven and a half pounds and then you Turn around and now you have I mean it's easily I think the average weight of the guys carrying the m4 knockoffs has got to be around 11 pounds I would think But if you throw all the electronics, yeah, the sights, the electronics, the laser and everything on board, still got to put a 30-round magnet just like any other AR-15. And you're ending up with more than the weight of the M14. And we were told we just couldn't handle the M14, man. It's just so heavy at nine pounds, man. It's so heavy. If we could shave two pounds off, you'll be Superman. And Owen was like, wait a minute. The new thing is a snag point. Everything you'll snag on something, the rails, the digits, the widgets and the stuff are just things that will get hung up. Like the old pickle fork. Just put a little tape on it. Well, that was the only thing about the, again, just that one little feature was significant enough with the equipment we're seeing right now. And again, guys, don't get rid of the guns you got. What does that mean about the AR-15? If you really didn't like the upper because Uncle Mark says something, you can experiment by popping two pins and buying just another upper. See? So, yeah, we're talking about this. We're not, what did I say about the AR-15, the Lego block gun? is you can experiment and find out if what we're talking about is true and you're benefiting because you're building more guns. So the sad part is well $1,200 puts that at the cost of a PTR-91, forgive me, you get the price of an M1A, I can get a nice M1A for $1,200. And so it... The only thing I could see is somebody's, I don't know, I've already put feelers out with a couple of the barrel manufacturers and I haven't had time to, I need to sit down on the phone and just talk with somebody and say, hey, you know, look at where people, people are interested in the original rifle. Even if they just did a straight cut barrel, it does not have to be a Coke, no, I don't say Coke bottle, but you know, it has a gradual taper to it. You could do more of a coarse, but tapered barrel and shave all the weight down to bring it into the comparable spec. If you weren't worried about absolutely giving it the fit, finish, and impression of the original rifle, you could come up with the next mimic of it that would be much more reasonably priced because it wouldn't be any big deal to crank it off the production line. I don't need the finish to match. I don't worry about the phosphate finish looking exactly like it did in 19, say 71. If I'm looking at just, I need a seal finish on the rifle. I don't care what shade you picked. I need the barrel to be lightened down. I want a sandbag front grip and give me some regular iron sights. And I'll tell you what, with the carry handle, I'd go with an A3 on the rear end with a pop-up and use a standard A, or forgive me, I'd take the A frame on the front, but put an A3 upper into the formula and just use a rear sight that's a pop-up. Now, I'd be happy with that, in a 20-inch barrel. Go ahead, Paul, or Jim, over there. Yep. Yeah, hi. Ed from Chicago. I just threw out the M1A 1200 dollars right now, I guess, but gosh, it wasn't too long ago at Knapp Creek. I picked up over the years three M1As off of a guy's shoulder, you know, they got it for sale on there and 500. Yeah, I got one for 400, you know. But they exactly... Sprinkled arms, the, you know, what's that Chinese? Yeah, it was a Norinko or it was a Polytech. Polytech. Polytech the other way. I got one of each. You know, it was an M1A for 500 bucks, you know, and I'm like, okay, I'm scarfing this up right now. And I just wanted to mention that how things have gone crazy with the prices. Yeah, the thing about it with that M1A for $1,200, that'd be brand new out of the box. That'd be something coming in right from one of the companies. But you're right. I know you could still find an M1A for under $1,000 without a problem right now if you look around. If you're patient, you can... It shoots like a pro. It's just beautiful. It's unbelievable. It's great. You know, the argument was why that we got those so quick, you know why we got the politics so quick in the US? Those were made as a clandestine warfare gun by the Chinese the way that we made certain other firearms for use in infiltration with the you know with the with the Chinese and the Russians and the Chinese have been producing that particular rifle for a very long time and because remember Korea, Taiwan, and several of the other countries used it. And the Polytech, that's why it was polished so well and really pretty well worked out. The Narinco was the Pontiac. Yeah, it's like, it's okay, but looks like it's got a few pockmarks here and there and the Castee's got some flaws, and the stampings are kinda right. But the polytech was the dusted gun. That was the polished weapon. And there was a reason. That was a weapon they outfitted infiltration units with when the M1A was still with M14 was still one of the viable arms to see in forward area troop operations. So if they wanted to waddle amongst the troops, you had to look like the troops. And they had the capacity to build them. Plus they also marketed them into third-party markets where the M14 actually was still in service. I believe they also sold some to the Vietnam ended up with a bunch of M14s. They didn't like them, but they did use them. And they still ended up appreciating them. And so China provided the spare parts, which makes sense to me, and then probably offered more guns in the process too. Go ahead. Anything else, guys? She's a beautiful weapon. I take that over the air any day that we... Actually over the AR-10 as well. Thank you for indulging me. I'll be out of here. No, you're absolutely right. And again, everybody's missing Knob Creek, by the way. You know that. Go ahead, caller. Got that right. Yeah, thanks, Mike. Hello? Yeah. We got you. Oh, yeah. Hey. This is Texas McSia. You better bump up those numbers on the M14. I think I'm pretty sure the rack grade model is closer to 1,400 right now. And I'm going to gun shows, and I'm looking at M1As. And if it's got anything, what do they call it? Loaded model or national match model? Oh, it's close to $2,000. So they're not really cheap anymore. And as far as the lightweight AR, I built, or I shouldn't say built, I put one together because it's a Lego kit. I put one together under eight pounds, 18 inch barrel, heavily fluted barrel. I put an upper with it that had a lot of lighting cuts and What was it a a a a milled? Milled lower and a lot of lightweight parts. Unfortunately, I went ahead and went without the forward assist to cut a little bit more pounds put an a cog on it and it's less than eight and a half pounds less than eight pounds and Presidio a couple of weekends ago. I ran from 100 to 620 yards with no problem hitting hitting steel Was it an 18 inch barrel? Yes Excellent. Well, the 18 is the odd man out because they weren't really offering that before, but it's been up with Bear Creek. I know they've got them. And is it a Bear Creek or Pimento Barrow? Where'd you get it? Oh, I got it. It's a ballistic advantage. So it's a little old. I spent a little more money on the kit on what I put together, but I researched everything and the whole idea was to make it super accurate. And as lightweight as I could get it. Yeah. Well there again, that's where we get into the middle grade rifles, and I don't have a problem with The big thing here is like I said if you're if you're trying to balance it out There's such a combination of parts There was a company making remember I mentioned this a few years back There was a company making titanium internals And that would shave your weight down by 50%. If they actually made every part, now you know what would be a god-awful expensive gun, but if you made a titanium AR internal parts kit and you drive all the rest of the parts the same way, they're aluminum or, you know, again, titanium. then you probably can keep it right back down around the six pound mark or five and a half, like I was saying, even with a 60 inch barrel. With an 18, you're still gonna get that extra weight, but not much. So it's one of those things where you can mix and match between everything. And by the way, don't forget, they are making lightened bolt carriers too now. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought about that, but... They're a little finicky because you got to adjust them. They're adjustable. So I wanted more reliability, but I did go with one piece of titanium on there. I went with a titanium gas block. So I could say, yeah, I got some titanium on it. That part of the gun will be around and they'll find it in an archaeological dig when all the rest of the metal is eroded away. And they'll tell you it was a religious artifact. From the the gun mania the gun mania period yes, we know is from the gun mania period What is it? It's called a gase block? Oh? It's a religious symbol. They wore it they wore it on their arms, and there is a bracelet and as around their necks Yes, yes, I can tell you a thousand years ago remember. He said in Indiana Jones You know if I take this watch and bury it thousand years from now priceless But in this case, you know, think about it. Everything else in a roadway, that little titanium part would still be there just staring at everybody and look just as crisp as what it was made. That's what's cool. On that note, then the toss up, you know, we're talking about light, lightening the weight. The other thing is magazines. And we talked about this before. is that you can shave off some weight here and there. One of the considerations even is, if you don't mind, 20 round mags were the original idea. And again, that knocks the weight down a little bit more for carry weight or for concealer, concealer, conceal ability dimensions. See, because one of the other things that the Air 15 originally was really promoted for in that XM model, is the same way that they gave the air crews the MP5s here, you know, what, 20, 30 years ago. Lightweight, small, tiny, fits into any space, lots of firepower when you need it. And so that was the other area, again, was in aviation security slash aviation personal defense. And it still wouldn't make sense today. Whoa, we're getting a lot of background noise from something. I'm hearing a radio or a conversation. Needs to mute up. Appreciate that. Anyway, before we go any farther, all of our callers that are out there, anything else? Jump in there, please. We're almost to the top. Okay, very good. Now I'm going to say something. One of our callers, they preferred the M14 myself. I'm the same way. I'm not a spring chicken. But I do understand and appreciate the performance of the M14's last M1A and I know what it can do. And I have enough of a background that I have no problem dotting the I in crossing the T at 750 yards and I do not need optics. I can do that with iron sights. Now put optics on the rifle and pretty much anything is mine within the air, you know, field of view. But is it my first choice? A long time ago, I pretty well decided that the until my eyes go and my eyes are actually not bad right now. In fact, I can work more commonly. I got a pair of glasses sitting right here. More often than not, I don't wear the glasses. It's not that I can't. They don't help out a little bit with detail. But my eyes are I guess they're adapted pretty well. I've been trying not to squint. And so I can actually achieve a target with, you know, with my regular eyes, no optics, my iron sight line up works just the same as it always has. Squeeze that titty, get the target down range, nag it, and then, you know, recover and look for another one. Or follow up if it looks like that one needs another bullet to keep it happy. The big thing here again though is that we're not ridiculing any of your arms out there, any of the weapons that are out there. We have preferences. Preferences are good. The big thing is that we all keep the weapons that we have and we make sure we help our friends, relatives, and brothers in arms keep their weapons. So when the time comes, I am not going to ridicule anybody that shows up with whatever they're carrying. And don't you ever do that either. Don't forget it. My basic attitude with most militia formations is if you're willing to carry it, if it's a if you want to carry a 105 howitzer. We always joke about that one, it's not likely. But whatever you're willing to carry into battle, we'll be more than happy to see you when you get there. And a lot of guys have bought barrets. Now until you, until you slap one of those around for a bit, then you're not going to fully appreciate why it is that we consider those team weapons. You should always have a buddy helping you to move them through the woods. I know you can do it by yourself. I'm Johnny Jit Jock too, or at least I used to be. I'm a big guy and I still would recommend that carrying like boys 55 guns. We got a lot of them. Lonnie 20 millimeter cannon, shoulder-fired guns. We've got a bunch of them. Barrett 50s. We got a bunch of them. Zelsman Ackerman. And I'd still recommend for each of those guns, especially the Lottie, by the way, is two men work on moving that through the woods. Ideally with the Lottie, I'd put a three-man crew out of it, although each one of these guns, because I don't want to lose them, and they all work flawlessly. The the big thing is again understanding once you got them in place your king for that distance granted There's always a bigger weapon that's gonna show up But as far as once you plop down in the first few moments of whatever action Until the enemy has the ability to compensate for what you've done You can literally control the area with these weapons, especially with a combined integrated arms team guys The ARs provide volume fire, the M1As, the GRANs, the FNFLs provide accuracy, not down power at range. Something pops up. A good combination is an M1A with a guy with an AR-15, kind of like a sniper team. The AR-15's job is anything that looks like it's going to start being a little aggressive in a short team like that of two men. It's the AR-15's job to put more bullets down range and still try to hit. We're not just spraying and praying. It's not the absent-minded suppression fire. It's try to hit it. Okay, hits count misses, misses don't. The big thing is, if you look at the next step up, a three-man Marine team, a fire team from the early part of World War II, One man with an automatic rifle, which was a full battle rifle caliber, one man with a submachine gun, the other man with a main battle rifle. Now the main battle rifle would fit the niche of any standard infantry rifle. So if the squad automatic weapon were perceived to be an M1A, M14, FNFAO, HK91, M1 Garand, and then you take where the rifleman is, use the AR or the carbine, And in the SMG, it could be another of the same or it could actually be a pistol caliber gun. The concept because of what the weapons could do in military arms, each one had a very special niche. That submachine gun provided phenomenal firepower. The squad gun took care of area defense farther to greater distance and created more effective firepower on target with automatic weapons fired. The rifleman's job was to pick and choose and to destroy specific threats in the process. So this three-man team was quite complimentary, one to the other. The difference today, two AR-15s and one man with the main battle rifle. An MBR of whatever kind it is. And, you know, it's preferably semi-auto, but there's a lot of guys with manual guns out there. Now in reverse, that guy with the big gun doesn't step up in center. He actually can be back into the rear a little bit because he's a placement shooter and the rifleman, the two little guys, are the screenings. They don't get in the way of each other, but the idea is that, remember, the threats that are closer, especially with the same combined type, or I should say with the same light rifle system, is what the ARs deal with. And in the process, those heavier riflemen are reaching farther and putting the enemy to ground sooner because that's really more critical than anything else. We need the enemy to ground and going to tactical fire maneuver. They have to consume ammunition. They have to waste energy. They know they're under fire. You're in the defense. They're in the offense. In the offense, they have to take ground. No matter how hard they try, they've got to take ground. They can beat around the bush, but they still got to do what they're supposed to do. They have to consume ammo, they have to burn energy, adrenaline, everything is part of the formula. And as long as you keep pulling that aggressor while falling back through a defense in depth with a broad screen, then you're able to absolutely consume their energy. Never give them anything in the earliest stages of any kind of defense, anything tangible to grip. Be like smoke. That's the one thing to remember about an effective mobile defense in depth. You know the terrain in advance. You've picked your positions to fight. Whenever you do fight, you fight at your discretion. You take advantage of the conditions of the environment and your weapon systems. Anyway, we're at the top. So for everybody out there, it's Weapons Wednesday coming to a close. And we should hear the music in a moment here.