Far away place, the machines are running all night. Where the weavers and cutters test each stitch to see that they're woven in tight. Each strand and each thread is tested in true, while the knots are woven by hand. And on each rope, there will be a name, one who has betrayed his land. Our leaders have forgotten the oath that they took when they swore to protect and preserve. Our freedom and rights and religion too, in whatever church we serve. They lined all their pockets and deceived the people, and most went along with the flow. But tempers are short, and the memories are long. Each name the people will know. When each rope is finished, it's tested for strength, and packed in a bag with a hood. And upon the bag is the name of a traitor, who did his country no good. Some day we will hear that Nuremberg plea when the hour is drawing near. I was only doing what I was told, another lie, I fear. And for those of you who don't believe, be around when the party begins. What next will be stretched and cries will be heard and the traitors will sway. 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 is a free, it's 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. You've given government control. Those who do you harm, so they could burn down churches and seemingly farm. And keep our country deep. 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 can... Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedom 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 will fight to save? Or do you wish your children fear most sons of the republic? Arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republican, each God given right. And pray to God, as Iowaw keep vanished in the midst of once he came. His words were true, not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now, as parents trampled, each God given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside and screamed while you were asleep, and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer? he called out from the grave. in occupied territories, north, northeast, northwest, and east. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. And we're on satellite with our friends, both listening and then rebroadcasting, analog and digital. We're on a myriad of other communications technologies inside and outside these United States, and it is Weapons Wednesday, WW. It is the 9th of April. It is the 17th year of open, obvious, and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation. of America with a K. 2025 Old Earth Calendar. Give it all she's got, Captain! And 2025. Battle for the Republic. Book 2. The Winter War. Didn't get so cold last night though. Not as bad as it could have been. Actually was decent. We have little ducks and they're getting ready to stay outside. They've been in and out for a few weeks, but actually only a few days, or they've been outside, but they seem to enjoy it, as ducks always do. So the quackins are orienting to the new environment and happy to do so. And so are we. It gets them outside where we want them to be, nibbling and making eggs, which is, well, duck eggs are fantastic to be quit on. If you've ever had them, you need to try them. Anyway, it has been a beautiful weapons Wednesday so far, although it's been gray. Looked like we were going to have some storm aside here and that just backed right off and went to blah gray. So somebody got some rain, probably more to our west. But way out on the horizon, looked like it was rolling in this direction, then it pitched north the rest of the way. So that's good. We're happy with that. We got plenty of water. We still have plenty of ponds sitting where we normally don't have ponds and that's a good thing. We'll be happy with that. But we'll be also happy if we don't get any more. Just that simple. So, Weapons Wednesday, again, right across the get-go. Guys, right now the AR-15 is the gladius of the day. Most important here is it was cheaper. a month and a half ago than it is now, but it's still relatively cheap to build, in fact very cheap, to build an AR-15. Is that how we build most of our militia? No, I will tell you that. We focus on main battle rifles, so we're ahead of the curve, the federal government The police state has already started to shift back to and move up to, though they couldn't admit that the 760 by 51 NATO is where they should have stayed. So they just had to come up with another BS cartridge and pull it out of their ass, is what it comes down to. This is politics of saving a face, even though they would say, well, we're not an Asian military. Guys, we've seen this over and over again. The system, somebody passes a big brown envelope off to some ass hat. They write a whole bunch of articles up telling you all about how horrible and terrible one thing is so that they can get Bob's factory to crank out a whole shitload of something we don't need. And then all of a sudden they have this epiphany down the road and oh we needed that other thing after all. Now I'll give you an example of this. 9mm is so passé. Puny 9mm. Stupid 9mm. Oh dumb 9mm. You need to get rid of all your 9mm and buy a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson. A .40 cal pistol of some kind. A .40 cal. Cops gotta have .40 cal. Cops need to dump all their guns and get a .40 caliber gun. Or 10 millimeter, but 10 millimeter didn't went out in the competition. 10 and 40 were side by side there for when they started out. And then 40 caliber was the one that all the rags pushed, all the propagandists pushed, the police pushed because somebody gave somebody a brown envelope and they said, well, the only P.G. uses 40 Smith and Wilson. Oh my God, we should too. And the rest is history. So guess what's happening now? All 40 caliber is stupid. Who's writing these articles? 40 caliber is stupid. Everybody needs to get rid of 40 caliber. What do we need to go to? Oh, 9 millimeter. Now let me give you an example of propaganda, how it works with the Jewish mob slash the OiBoys. Anybody watch the remake of, what was it, the Day of the Dead? Johnny Cash, When the Man Comes Around. The song is the theme for it, basically. It's the biggest piece of the movie. You know, it's part of the intro. You can sing, you can saw, you can crawl. No, I'm joking. You know what I mean. But anyway, the idea is that one of them comes around, right? Well, if you recall and you watch that movie, here's, Uncle Mark will give you some homework assignments you might, you know, have fun with. Watch that movie again. Watch what they do propaganda-wise when they're talking about, well, Bob's got a 357 and so-and-so's got this and the guy there has got a bunch of puny 9 millimeter. Puny 9 millimeter, okay? So if you don't think you were being propagandized, understand that the system is permeated with a repetitious feed that's designed to baffle you with bullshit. and convince you to do something that otherwise you probably wouldn't have. Well, I invested a lot of money in my 9mm. Oh, your 9mm isn't as good as that 40s Smith and Wesson. Well, but it's been around for a while. Now, I've never been excited about nor have I poo-pooed 9mm. You know what? Any pistol you can get your hands on, a hand cannon of any kind. I don't care what it is. You know, I'm the egalitarian on this one. If it'll put a bullet down range, buy whatever mags you can for it, buy a pile of ammunition, and make sure you know how to use it. However, it's interesting, now we have all these 40 Smith & Wesson pistols that are becoming surplus because we're going back to the oh-so-sophisticated and wise, no, 9 millimeter. No, I thought you were doing 40 caliber. No, 9 millimeter. And the same just happened with MBR's main battle rifles have been our emphasis all along. We won. We won. But here's the problem. And it's not a bad problem. It's a good thing. Right now, just like the AKs when they were at their peak minimal cost, which by the way, if you're going to tell me that a CHI-COM AK is junkie, Let me ask you something you try to sell one right now or let's go and buy one Let's go buy that that that type 56 copy Chinese AK that came in back in the 80s How much is it gonna cost you to buy one now? Go do a quick search if you want to in fact I can point out something and I've been again I've talked about this on the air for decades not for just a few years decades decades This is what really it doesn't frustrate me just makes me laugh sometimes and it's like you know what I Personally believe and this is this is uncle mark talking from you know, just watching the cycle of things They didn't have a problem with you guys buying 760 by 39 a case no problem because in theory they keep maintaining control of that the SKS same way. It's obsolete Supposedly, no, it wasn't I don't care you dad is door delivered a doornail just like the AK. Well, isn't it the same route? Yeah, but it doesn't have a big magazine. No, but it does have a 20 inch barrel and it's pretty accurate. And if I put my bead on you, and I actually play, you know, at the game of war making, I'm not gonna pop up and be a silhouette target for you. I'm gonna be sneaky Pete, take that SKS, and hell if I can, I'll stuff that man head up your ass, at least in, you know, a couple of times. Oh, forgive me, in the back. A couple of times back? Yeah, in the back. Or, club you like a BBC with a hammer before I pull the trigger out of a gun, but I'll bet you if I have to use the trigger, the gun works just fine. Okay? It only costs $56. But the reason, in the big scheme of things, they thought it was okay to let us get the SKS and the AK, guys, the other side of the planet is where the ammunition inventory was. However, progressively, number one, we purchased a massive amount and didn't burn it out. A lot of people just sprayed and prayed once they bought that four cents a round and five cents a round, AKA ammo, but not everybody. In fact, most of us all just kept piling it up by the creek in places all over the Midwest, the East, the South. So a whole big bunch of the original surplus inventory was absorbed and maintained as a tactical reserve for us. Okay? However, they didn't have a problem with that. Yeah, because we'd only have so much ammunition based on them waging war on the American people when they were going to try to push the rest of NAFTA and get. But what happened, what was the benchmark that stopped the Chinese weapons from coming in? It wasn't their pistols. They had 30-toker-head pistols, broom-handle mousers, hell, we even got some knock-off pistols, and a bunch of surplus Browning High Powers. Those were in 9mm. But when the Chinese introduced a 556 AK-47, all of a sudden they had to turn the water faucet off. Why? Well, you may think it's not that great an AK because of the aficionados and all the flap yap always about weapons which, you know, I don't like your SS Chevelle because I have a Ford Mustang. Or I don't like your Ford Mustang because I got a Dodge Charger, which by the way, we do have a Dodge Charger still. 72.5, 73 model. Well, 73.5 here. There we go. Get it right. But anyway, fact is, they're all cool cars and they're all cool guns. What was most important here is that all of a sudden you have the reliability of the AK with a weapon that can literally be falling, being eaten like it's been eaten with alien blood from acid, you know, acid for blood. And amazingly enough, the weapon just keeps functioning. Chrome barrel, chrome parts, where it counts and where everything makes contact, it would keep going boom, boom, boom, boom, except to be doing it in 5.56 and we have all the ammo for that every day. Now, let me give you an example of why it is, again, that I'm pointing this out. I want you to go over to AGSales.com, and I want you to go look at the front page, and I want you to look at the items that are on the front page, and there's two things there. There are two items. They're not really critical items, but it demonstrates when I've told you about investment. Those 556 AKs took a 556 specific magazine for the Chinese AKs. It was proprietary, but you know what? They were only a dollar fifty apiece when they were coming in from China back then. A dollar fifty apiece. What's the price of one of those mags on the front page of JG sales right now? Do you know? Well, you can look. And by the way, that price is actually a very reasonable price. I'm surprised it's not gone. But to be quite honest, if you're looking for a made up magazine, not one that fits the right rifle, that mag is not overly priced, but it's still ridiculously priced. There's another magazine there. It's a phenolic slash bakelite plastic. It's phenolic plastic. Bean plastic, if you don't know. It's basically soybean plastic. And what's interesting about this is, look at the price of that mag. It's one of those that we were buying for, oh, about $2 when they were coming in for the AKs. In fact, at one point they were $0.75, but they jumped to $2. That same magazine, what's the, you can buy cases of those magazines, cases. Some of our people did. I just pointed someone towards that ad. because they have three or four cases of those magazines. Bought back when they were, well, when they jumped to $1.50, if you bought a case of $50, it was a dollar a unit, a dollar a magazine. So yeah, save money. So 25 cents from what they were, which means you probably could have bought a case for 50 cents, you know, an item, times 100 pieces, times 50 pieces, times however many you wanted. But the fact is, what's the price of that Chinese Bakelite magazine right now? Guys, if you had a box of them, and I've got a friend who's got three, every one of those magazines could buy an AR-15 right now. Every one of those magazines could buy a complete AR-15 right now. Heads up! But it's China junk! On the one hand they poo-poo it, but then it's like, yeah, but it's rare because there's no more and it's true whether it's over coming in. But there was a reason. And the reason is the 5.56 rifle, not the 7.62x39 issue. Now all those 7.62x39 guns are gonna sing gloriously when we put them to work. And ideally I like to use them symbolically to shoot Chinese troops because that way if they're gasping and dying, you can walk up and show them Chinese. Look, point at the rifle, get it close to them. Yeah, see this? Yeah, yeah, your people. We got it. We did it to you. There you go. So right now, the AR-15 is the most affordable. It's for some units, it makes sense, or for many units, it makes sense. It's just the idea that there's no reason not to have one. And it's really cool is that we virtually can have the same Marshall arm with a vast and deep supply component system available. What we need to do is get those parts off the shelf and into our hands. We need to absorb that inventory. We did it with the AKs and the SKSs. There are certain things you don't need, but here's the neat thing about all the AR parts. And for that matter, the AR-10. You know what, it's like I just mentioned that SS Chevelle. A lot of guys I know couldn't afford an SS Chevelle. So what did we all do? Well, we went out, we bought a Chevelle. And then we jack up the ass in with some lifters. Oh, by the way, it might only have a six under the hood. You do remember that, right? Chevy put a lot of sixes under all those Impala and Biscayne and yeah, they even did it with the Malibu. There were sixes under the hood, but nobody could tell from a distance. And so you know what you did? You put a wind scoop on the hood of the car. You grabbed one of those from a junkyard. You know, you grabbed the whole hood for that matter off an SS Chevelle. that was a wreck. And then you went to the parts store and you bought all the decals and even the raised metal decals for the SS Chevelle and you made a, you made a, what would you call that, a forgery. See it's not a fake, per se, came from the same factory, has SS on the side, it's got the Chevelle moniker, It's got all the extra trim. You could even buy the proper, you know, with the short time they had those factory spoilers that I don't think hardly anybody bought because they couldn't afford them. But you could put a spoiler on it. You could make that sucker look like it. Jacked up in the rear end ready to roar SS Chevelle, even with a six cylinder under the hood. Okay? So the AR-15 is the same way. Do you like it with a different stock? Well, son, this is America. Go buy one. You like it with a different barrel or upper receiver? Well son, this is America. By God, go buy another one. Don't get rid of the old one. Put the old one off to the side. Put the new one on the gun that you think you want to keep building. And now you keep adding parts off to the side. Look at what happened. You created a parts queen from scratch. One piece or two, three or four pieces at a time. Now you got two AR-15s. You know what? Two is always better than one. But then, you gotta burr up your butt, cause you read another article from Bobby Du Mitzenberger, and he's the latest and greatest competition shooter in guns and ammo, said that if you don't have the Schmidlap 406 upper receiver, and the complete module to go with it, and all the bells, whistles, and electronic, you're just not owning an AR-15, you're just one of those peasants that own one of those Chevelle's. You don't have an F Chevelle. Super sport. No, no, I don't, but my rifle will do everything his will do. What do you mean? Well, okay, let's put one of our enemy, let's take one of those trussed up Chinese. We got him, you know, gagged over there. Put him on a post. Now, you shoot the one on the right, plop, plop. He's dead. Hold on, let me try my $300 AR-15. Let me bring it to my shoulder, sight it, and plop. He's dead too! But wait, you spent $1200 on your rifle. Yes, and it makes me feel good. Alright, I spent $300 on my rifle and I feel good. Oh, but you shouldn't feel good because you don't have the Schmidlak 402. Yep, yep, well I still feel good. In fact, I feel good because one less Chinaman in America, one less invader in America. In fact, he's twitching still. Pop, pop, there we go. Ain't moment. Yours is twitching too. Pop, pop, pop. Yeah, it's that 5.56 round, sir. So anyway, build an AR-15. Build an AR-15. cdnnsports.com. CDNMsports.com, DeltaTeamTactical.com, DeltaTeamTactical.com, DeltaTeamTactical.com, Discount, AR15Discount.com, AR15Discount.com, MontanaAR15.com, MontanaAR15.com, RenierArms.com, Renier. All these people have bits and pieces. Today I went through Theoretically, you could build an AR-15 from all those companies, and you really only have to make two or three stops. But if you went through all five, you might just shave the price down a dollar or two more. But for about $258, you can build a complete AR-15 with the inclusion of an AR15 80% anodized lower receiver from CDNN Sports, no, forgive me, Delta Team Tactical in one of their combos, which is all the parts, GP buttstock, they have four or five different buttstocks, basically, it's just variations on the theme. What do you like? But the cheapest one knocks it down to about 104, 105 for everything if you take advantage of their 10% off discount thing right now, etc. And they've always got some kind of discount going on. Which you end up with as a complete rifle. Now magazines, magazines, magazines. Now I've spent half our talk about the AR-15 for a reason because it just makes sense to have one. And then I'm not going to crush anybody's attitude here I hope because then I'm going to tell you but if you can you need to buy a main battle rifle on MBR However, you will be able to and still build that AR-15 So yes, you can have your cake and eat it too right now. It is the most affordable time You can do it in pieces. You don't even have to do it all at once Buy a little bit the first time buy the critical part like that 80% lower kit that's available from Delcateen Tactical. There's about five or six variants. Pick out the one you like the best, which has everything there, including the low receiver in 80%. And then wait and as you have money available, because you were short a little bit this week, go back next week and buy whatever else you can in the way of an upper. or other components to make that upper useful. In other words, all the other barrels, gas deflector, tubes, hand guards, take your pick, whatever it is that's affordable, or what floats your boat because it looks exciting to you. Again, this is America. You can do that. I don't have a problem with that at all. Whatever you think is the best idea is probably the best idea for you. There's no debating that. And I'm not going to argue it. If you think after I present something, hey, stupid, you need to do this. OK, I don't have a problem with that. But did you go do it? Well, yeah, see, that's the most common thing you'll have from somebody standing there. Well, that's stupid. I would do this. OK, well, did the guy do it? The one that told you that I was stupid? Or he's just flapping his yap while he's telling you about how anybody and everybody else is. In other words, never doing anything. Just great about lamenting, complaining, or pissing and moaning about somebody else. There's plenty of that out there. So there's no purpose except, you know, stir in the pot for the sake of stirring the pot to create conflict, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay? We all understand how that works. We've seen it for decades. The fact is, follow through though. The Air 15 is a very fine rifle for what it is. It's a piece of junk, as Sergeant Ellsworth would tell you during his instruction. But it's a neat piece of junk. It's something we can make work for us. So let's do that. Let's get that thing squared away. And then let's get on to MBR's main battle rifles. Why? Because we're going to need them. Why? Because, well, the government's accepted the idea, although somebody got paid like a whore to probably promote the idea. We don't care. We'll run with that. It's okay. As far as I'm concerned, like I said, all guns are good guns. I will never poo-poo your weapon. I don't care what weapon you have. That's for the, you know, the tactile freaks on the other side. For me, okay, as long as you show up, if you know what to do with it, as long as you know how to do what you need to do, congratulations. You're our guy. Anyway, we're at the bottom and not only am I happy with Weapons Wednesday and with whatever you are doing to perform, but we also have a tradition on Weapons Wednesday at the bottom of the hour, and it is the bottom of the hour for this is, I hope, in theory, okay, application may be another thing, and you are listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, LibertyTreeRadio.org. And of course, don't forget at 8 o'clock we're on WBCQ, the planet, 6.160, regular shortwave. WBCQ, the planet, 6.160, regular shortwave. And, weapons Wednesday, and we're at the bottom of the hour, and we should be hearing the bottom of the hour break. So, I'm going to do this. If you'd like to make a music request, here we go. There's danger and there's danger in our hills. Oh, here you're not the singing of the view. The wild and free. Oh, the rifle. In our hands, oh, the rifle. Try to get a lead speed. You may not stand the master. You forward march with speed, but you'll learn the fact that you're much faster when you meet our mountain boys. And the leader just starts. Glad you make what little noise and always hit the mark. Oh, the rifle. Oh, the rifle. In our hands. Back in and if you could, music request, even Gilmore. Dash away David Gilmore Dash No way this is from the David Gilmore album that independent piece he did when he was fighting with the record label over his Music that's what was going on Kind of cool. So anyway a little history there working into some pink fluid and we'll close out with some Black Sabbath paranoid LP. As a matter of fact, one last little here, you know what, everybody does war pigs. Actually guys, if you're my age, we could do that half asleep, that song, half asleep, catch every cue, know the song. Here's one of those, this is like Ship of Fools from Bob Seger's, you know, again, Night Moves album. Okay, this is the song off of the same song that Rat Salad, that fairies wear boots, or the classic, let's see, Iron Man, or War Pigs. However, Planet Caravan, and Ed's gonna have to turn it up a little bit. And by the way, this song was resurrected of all the songs that have been resurrected. This one had a rebuild that was done by another band. You might run into it. Actually, it's got an excellent CGI music video that was done with it when it was reintroduced. But the original is Black Sabbath. It's off the paranoid LP at its... Planet Caravan. So you've been jamming, here we go. Almost that music, man. Well that's on the Paranoid album, dude. No way! Now, here's the thing. If you were listening, I kind of made sure I didn't talk over that with the intro of this song, that is an absolute quiet piece. You're listening to headbanging music on the Paranoid album. everything is tuned up and you've got it blaring but it doesn't make any difference because when it got to this song on 8-track or cassette it didn't make any difference. That didn't make the sound better. All of a sudden the sound disappeared and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, grab the volume control and you tune it up because you had to turn the volume control up about three quarters of the way to be able to hear that song. That's how mellow a piece it is in proportion to the rest of the album. Here's the problem. You're listening to it, you're thinking it's a great piece. It's kind of cool. This is great driving music. One o'clock in the morning. And all of a sudden the song ends and you're back to the rest of the soundtrack and it's booming, dudes. It blares. Your ears just went out. because you had to tune everything and turn that volume control up in order to hear that really cool piece of music and then in the process it took out your hearing. This is the reason for a lot of people having hearing issues coming out of that period of time, the late 60s and 70s. Let me trust me on this one. And it was an interesting thing because this song is totally a name to the rest of the album. It's like everything else is stomping, although some of it's got a little more airiness to it, some of the songs like you said, rat salad, whatever. But at fairies where boots, fairies where boots say you got to believe me. Why am I bringing this up? Music is a tool, dude. Music is a tool. It is a weapon, or it can be used as an effective weapon, or it can be used as a propaganda tool against you. Now, what's interesting is, you know, General's gathered in their masses, but I don't, I don't. Anybody starts out, anybody from I can start, we can sing that song all the way through, like I said, top to bottom, front to back, and everybody would try to sound just like Ozzy Osbourne, okay? The other piece, that's a cool bit of melody that it just disappeared in the mix. However, hold on caller, this is what's interesting to me. The song that survived the first remake of the whole album was that song that you just heard. Not Fairies, Ray Boots, Iron Man, none of those. Those are all out there, the original artists, everybody thought that was cool just the way it was. But they were willing and thought that it was worth trying to duplicate, although improved with new sound systems, etc., that song. And they did. They brought it back. And it sold in that window of time when it was reintroduced. Go ahead, call or jump in there, please. Yeah, Mark. You said music is a tool and a weapon, really? Well, of course. Yes. OK. Oh, well, that's fantastic. Well, the thing is, again, it can be used as an effective tool to inspire. This is my problem with the weezer environment we're in, with the piss willies that we have, everybody's rah rah rah-ing about right now. What was the banner music for the Trump campaign? It was about as wussified as you could get. Y-A-C-A. I was expecting to hear a duck. You know what? My friend wonders, why do you do that? Because when I hear the word song YMCA, I think like Disco Duck. Disco, Disco Duck, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack. Anybody remember Disco Duck? And so when I hear YMCA, I expect to see a chorus of ducks going Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack, YMCA. So we got this really wussy song. It does not, it just doesn't inspire me. Now, they threw a few other pieces in there, but all of them backdated kind of plastic. Also, again, with all the artists that are out there, and this is what the Patriot Movement needs to be doing. This is Weapons Wednesday. Music is an inspirational tool. It is a weapon and the enemy knows it which is why they have crapped out the sound systems. As we were talking history about with Communications Tuesday, they have crapped out the sound systems themselves. I was listening to a piece today that somebody did. Out of the millions of CDs I'm going through, I can only do, like I said, about 10 or 20 days, and I do a Reader's Digest sampler. I go through and I try to benchmark certain pieces, and I've still got, I don't know, I've got crates of music that is priceless. And I came across one, which is a 1972 headband, similar to the music we just heard with Planet Caravan. That style of music used to be called head music. Dude, why was it called head music, dude? Well, because unlike all the rest of the music that was on that album, this particular song, everybody goes, whoa, dude, that would be like, you know, you're mellowing back and you got some doobie, man. You're like, whoa, man, I could see the center of the universe, man. Oh wow man, you passed me that lid. Wow dude, you're right man, and the smoke is purple. Purple haze man, the smoke is purple. That's the black light over in the corner doing that. Oh wow man, the drugs are doing it too don't you know. Wow, wow man. Okay, that's the stuff they don't want you to remember about the 60's and 70's. Okay? So again, the laid back mellow, do some LSD, do some regular pot, whatever the hell it was, the idea was that it was taking you off into the well land and this is the kind of music. Now that I pointed this out, think about going back and listening to that song. However, to me that song, and I never did drugs, nothing ever Boy, you had to try. No, I didn't because I was around all the people who were and they were shipwrecks And it's I'm a guy named Mundinger. They went to school with Now just a related story here to help you understand how it is Uncle Mark, first of all, was on the track because I didn't believe that I needed the drugs to be able to actually take my mind somewhere. You should be able to do that if you properly focus and energize yourself, okay? But Mr. Mundinger was notorious when we were in junior high school, he took everything you can imagine. Guys, when glue sniffing became the rage, they had to lock up the model glue. Anybody remember that? Oh, I do. Well, we had people blowing their brains out with that left and right. He did that. He did acid. He did marijuana was nothing. I mean, it was like eating chalk water, okay? But he did everything. He did LSD. He did heroin. He did all of the high psychotropics, etc. Psychodelic, not psychotropics, forgive me, psychedelics. He could go to work at a factory locally down on Zeeb Road. He had to drive out from where we were out in the middle of nowhere. to work and they all knew that when he was at work, man, he would just stay absolutely focused. He was on the, the machine was the center of his universe. He always did production. He did quality work. But he would be driving along and all of a sudden the drugs would kick or hit or something would relapse, which happened a lot with LSD. And all of a sudden he had, he knew to pull off to the side of the road. So you could pass him at nine o'clock in the morning sitting on a mashed road. And I could come back after work at about 9 o'clock at night. He'd still be sitting there in the car, just staring. Now sometimes he'd be passed out and just lolled over. But then at some point he'd wake up. Cops didn't bother him. Sheriff's Department, this is back when cops were more peace officers than they were the nutcases we have now. But what's that interesting is everybody knew he was cool and all of a sudden he'd wake up, start the vehicle up, go turn around, go home, it was too late to go to work. But they didn't fire him, it was a small shop. He always did the job well when he was there. And he'd only bank out like that once in a while. But I'd find him randomly all over the path from home to where I would go into town. I checked on him once in a while, never bothered anybody, wasn't mean to anybody. Unfortunately it was terrible what happened because eventually it did kill him. But there's nothing you can do to stop him. When he was doing glue, he bought the biggest ink and paper Kmart bags he could find. And by God, he made sure that he had a whole tube of glue to when the time came. However that did for him, it did for him. But in the long run, it did do him in. Okay, so that's the period, okay? Head music was for that crowd. That's just how it works, dude. And nobody wants to remember that. Everybody would go, man, who? Peace look dope, man. The hippie age. No, let's talk about the rest of the hippie age. A lot of people are dead way before us because of all the crap that the government and the regime and the experimenters, and I don't know what I'm talking about, though. You mean the people who were really knowledgeable? No, the government experimenters who took and set these programs into play and made casualties of the population just like they've done with the public fools. And the latest generation that doesn't know how to work, doesn't know how to act, can't interact, and basically are going to be a bunch of nine-year-old blubbering babies for the rest of their lives. There's nothing we can do to fix that. It's not going to be fixed. There's a whole block of people just like what happened in the 60s and 70s. This is nothing new. This is all a replay, every aspect of what we're seeing. is a replay that these characters, these social manipulators have done ad nauseam. Well, what if we tweak things this way? How can we screw everybody's brain in this direction? And they do. So anyway, but music was part of that. And again, let me point this out. And I know I was going to talk about MBRs. I can do that the next hour. One last thing. Protest music of the early 70s. Are you hearing anything of it now? Have you noticed that even with the old cracker, you know, crazy town, fruit loop, leftists that are out there ranting about Trump, there's nothing of substances out there. Why? Because it was all white man, you know, white guy music, white man music. But there's a phenomenal collection of protest music, however, what was most of the protest music? It was anti-war. And these fruit loops are so far around the corner that they're shaking their fists at everybody because you don't want more war. But these are the leftists. Yes, I know, sir. They're crazy. They're just plain ape crazy. That's all there is to it. That's why they can't resurrect any of that stuff that was done. Because both sides, the Trump side and the fake Democrat side, both want war. And so they can't introduce any of those useful tools in the toolbox. Let's go to break. God bless our Republic. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. And we are on the march, both day and night. And that's why Uncle Mark was popular in one way. If you were kind of just a little too high, or if you've been drinking and you weren't supposed to, then Uncle Mark would be the one behind the wheel while everybody else was passed out and had their face smeared up against the side window with their tongue hanging out going bla-la-la. Trust me, I've seen this. Because everybody knew that Mark wasn't like that. Okay? Get the heads up. We're gonna take a break. We're on the use of the bathroom. Grab a cup of coffee, whatever you do. Don't take any LSD on the way to the bathroom, please. We'll be back right here with the second hour of the intel report. We'll get back on weapons, I promise, right here on Liberty Tree Radio. It's Wednesday. Each strand and each thread is tested and true, all the knots are woven by hand, and on each rope there will be a name of one who has betrayed his land. Our leaders have forgotten the oath that they took when they swore to protect and preserve. Our freedom and rights and religion too, in whatever church we serve. They lined all their pockets and deceived the people, and most went along with the flow. But tempers are short, and the memories are long. Each name the people will know. When each rope is finished, it's tested for strength and packed in a bag with a hood. And upon the bag is the name of a trader. who did his country no good. Someday we will hear that Nuremberg plea when the hour is drawing near. I was only doing what I was told, another lie, I fear. And for those of you who don't believe, be around when the party begins. What next will be stretched and cries will be heard and the traitors will sway in the wind. 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 land at home of the brave. 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, at 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 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 and a regulated press and you pay a tax You do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and they farm and keep our country deep. 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 and your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedom 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 will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear? most sons of the republic arise take a stand defend the constitution the supreme law of the land preserve our great republic and eat god given right and pray to god as i awoke he vanished in the midst of the once he came his words were true we are free but we have ourselves to blame for even now as tyrants trampled each god given right we only watch and tremble too afraid to stand and fight 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? He called out from the grave. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the second hour of the intelligence report I mark currently. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both gone and behind the lines in occupied territories. East, south, Northwest and West. We're in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States, and it is Wednesday! It's Weapons Wednesday. It is the 9th of April, 17th year of open and oh so obvious and in your face Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist occupation of America with a K2025 older calendar I'm giving her all she's got, Captain! One hundred and twenty-five bucks sent. But she might still break up. Anyway, also, that's right. Book two, The Winter War. 2025, but I think we're headed to the tail end of that. Got cool air out there right now. Don't you go out without a jacket. Don't need to see us sick. We need you for the fight. We need you to be 100% for the fight. It's just that simple. And it is The Winter War. So, and at the end of the Winter War, remember the colon moving down the road heading to the next action. War doesn't wait and it'll be right there for you when the time comes. Sometimes you don't have to go to it, it'll come to you. So, Weapons Wednesday, number one real quick here. Also, I want to mention Web Gear before going any farther. Over at Sportsman's Guide. Now, I've had a lot of guys asking for actual US butt packs. If you can find them, the problem is the Vietnam collectors, monolatoes or kids, have paid top dollar for original, which I understand there. And of course, they've become very much aficionados of the different era of web gear, the Type 56 or the M56 series. of web gear is actually a lot broader than you might think and there's different periods of time of production as far as how things were made. That is what makes things collectible because there is uniqueness, okay? Unfortunately that's made the items kind of out of price rank and again we're trying to make things affordable, we're trying to field an army, plus you got to be able to beat the hell out of whatever it is you pick up. So here's the solution. Just like eight suspenders and why suspenders, there's a bunch of other countries that made exact copies, not as aftermarket, but as a military issue. So right now, there are, I think, it's either Italian or I want to say Belgian, but it's a striated nylon, rubber-coated butt pack that's over at Sportsman's Guide. It is exactly as it should be cut. It is slightly larger than a standard butt pack, which is really cool. It's a little bigger. However, it has the straps, although it has Velcro retainers in the back to keep the wraparound strap for the lower cargo area. If you put your poncho with your liner on the bottom of your butt pack and you cinch it up, the straps are there, but they're rolled up and they're locked in place with Velcro. It has the two separate systems for hanging it. Both of them still require the J-hook type clip that you see on the M19-6 rig or the ALIS system. It doesn't make any difference. However, these things are cheap by comparison and they are actual military surplus. They are old inventory but new production. And that's over at sportsmansguide.com. Look under butt packs. And you'll see what I'm talking about. I believe $12 a unit approximately. And remember, if you take advantage of all the discounts you can, you can knock it down a lot. Why did I bring that up? Well, a lot of people have realized, and if you pay attention to how you're seeing the Web Gear and Field Gear, morph over in the Ukrainian war. Notice it's not a policing action. It's a conflict situation where you're actually having to fire maneuver in the traditional sense and you're having to take cover and move. You don't get to just run along and kick somebody's door and play super cop. It may be the whole city, but randomly the Iraq occupation, which is what most people experienced, Doesn't mean there wasn't all kinds of oleices fighting. Sure, people didn't really want us in their country, and rightly so. So guess what? Now we're looking at traditional field operations, and the battlefield doesn't go anywhere, and neither do you. And I've mentioned this a million times. That's what we needed to be ready for. Well, they're now acknowledging it, so the Army is behind the curve. We have already been here. Okay, we were way ahead of the game just like the main battle rifle issue. I'm going to be walking into that here next. But that's why I'm mentioning the Webgear. For each of the weapon systems that you may invest in, there are already, you don't have to buy brand brand new, but there are already a number of systems that are specific to the rifle. Example, with the FN FAL, Many of the German, some Dutch, and also even some Belgian web gear is still hanging around that is fit for the rifle, for the again slab FN FAL mags. Now the good thing about all MBRs, main battle rifles, in 7.62x51 NATO is that while there are variants in the dimension in terms of girth, thickness of the magazine, the narrow side, The basic dimensions are consistent the good thing Well, that means that if somebody made something in America It will work with most of what the Germans built or the Belgians built or the British built and vice versa The other neat thing about the TA 90 gear the M56 gear the Brit 58 and the American 58 which is not as common, but it's still out there the American Army 58 gear actually became Marine Corps equipment, which is why you usually see Marines during Vietnam, especially the middle of Vietnam, with what is basically the hand-me-down Army 58 and I think it's the TA-60, the M6061 snap system web gear. There's differences in how these things work. What's interesting is with the For instance, with the FN FAL, mag is close enough to the M14, everything slides and glides just fine. The odd man out, which for the longest time you couldn't afford, was the HK91 slash G3 slash now the PTR91 dominant rifle. The CETME is out there, it's a good weapon. Now each of these weapons have peculiarities. If you're committing to them, you're going to find out about them soon enough. So I don't think we have to dwell on the tiny stuff. But the basic macro motion issue is being able to carry sufficient magazines and carry more magazines. While still, number one, balancing out your combat comfort obviously is in there. But the other issue here again is sustainment. How long can you sustain? The discussion now is reducing the combat ammunition load of the infantry. That's stupid. Now, it means that what happens, I mean, traditionally, despite the official agenda, is that what troops will do is they will reconfigure and adopt other pieces of equipment or move towards other ways of shaving weight off. But more ammo, more mags, and more grenades and pyrotechnics are what's going to be needed. And yes, you're still carrying that big ass heavier main battle rifle cartridge. Wow, surprise. You're saying, like we didn't know this was coming. Okay? With the HK and the CETME rifle, they are again a different weapon system all the way around from the other. Each rifle is independent separate. The FN FAL is its own system. But the mag pouches and support items including clean kits and everything else that are surplus will fully integrate with the HK91G3 PTR90 and the M1A M14. The third rifle, forgive me, the fourth rifle system out in this category is the AR10. Now somebody is going, you are excluding a lot of other rifles Mark. No I am not. The other rifles that are available, SVD for instance, the Luzhiman rifle, any number, FN49. The FN49 takes stripper clips from above, does not take a detachable magazine. The Luzhiman on the other hand, takes a detachable 10 round magazine, both in the 6.5 or in the Hakim 8 millimeter variant. So you need a separate pouch system, but you also have to try to find more magazines. More on that maybe in a little bit. So these other weapons are all It can all be supported from existing off-the-shelf combat tactical gear. We have other alternatives to make those weapons work. Each one of them is a very fine rifle, by the way, and I wouldn't hesitate carrying the FN49, and I would probably linger, as I've told you, a million times on the air. I would carry the Hakim. If the Luzhieman was around, I'd grab that, if it's the only one that was sitting there, because most people wouldn't know how to use it, but if I had ammunition to keep it running, The Lujumun rifle is a phenomenal firearm. It is incredibly comfortable to shoot. It is incredibly accurate. It's just that it's the odd man out. So we're looking at standard RMBRs that are presently inventory and readily available for everyone. OK, we've got a caller. Who do we have? Hey, Mark. This is Irish Whiskey. Real quick, in regard to AR-15s and AR-10 builds, I just wanted to relate one of my experiences. So, I have had building AR-15s over the years. If you stick with US made mil-spec parts, I've built basically Lego AR-15s from Delton parts, from Anderson parts, and I've not had any feeding issues. Everything has just worked first time. I put them together and they fire, they cycle, they work. So I've always had great success with AR-15s with US made most spec parts. Now, on the AR-10, on my first AR-10 build, I purchased arrow precision parts and the entire rifle was arrow precision except for I had a ballistics advantage 18 inch barrel. Now I've got the AR-10 built to get out to the range and the very first thing this rifle did it was short stroking on me and Which made it just into a single shot. It wasn't cycling and I ended up doing a lot of experimentation I ended it was short stroking on me and Which made it just into a single shot. It wasn't cycling and I ended up doing a lot of experimentation I thought of I thought era precision parts this ar-10 is beautiful. You know it costs a lot of money It's great. You know if I'd assumed that then I would have had a single shot if I just taking it out and naturally used it That's all I had to say just wanted to mention that excellent no again This this is the issue we're dealing with a different breed a different family of weapons It doesn't mean they're inferior in any way shape or form but typically And this is true with the exception of maybe the AR-10 in this day and age because like you said you can pretty well go through what you need to. You can find parts everywhere right now for the AR-10. So you can shop and act accordingly. If you're satisfied or dissatisfied with performance of one component you can switch out with reasonable, minimal economic hurt. In other words it doesn't bite your wallet. The big thing here again is that many of these rifles still required an armorer to go over the weapon if it was a factory, even if it was a factory built gun. When they came through to the system, the armorers that operated the FN-FAL were virtual tradesmiths. And they knew how to tweak. There was what we call the black books of armory operations. They would go by, it's the Bibles for the particular weapons that you might be working on. And the FNFL had certain quirks for tuning to bring it to optimal condition and you still typically had to, just like you just said, sir, had to break the gun in. You actually had to work the rifle in. It is a different grade of weapon, a higher quality in reality. We are pampered, this is something that I have warned a lot about with the AR-15, is we're pampered with that rifle and it's because we're at the zenith of its production. We are right now in the window where mass production from pretty much everybody is consistent, the industry knows what needs to be built, Reliability is incredible, even for the least expensive of firearms. There are still things you need to know about the weapon, but the fact is that we can put more of them online faster with less likelihood of any kind of issues developing that might plex the builder operator. If we were just buying off the shelf though, and even if you do buy off the shelf, you know, I always joke about this. Remember, Hugo Vorsoff builds most of the weapons for Century Arms International, you know, CIA International. Oh, I'm sorry, Century Arms, CAI. Not CIA. Yeah, well, you tell me. We always just know it as old CIA, just like ABC. What do I mean by that? Well, for a company that's been building guns for most all of my life, Century Arms International, isn't it amazing how many times they've screwed up on building weapons that they've had problems with, even though they've paid to have somebody put them together. They don't really have an industry. They buy manufacturers and laborers, and they build these guns from parts that first they cut down, then they put back together. And Century has been notorious for being a bastard. Now, it's not accidental. Since they're part of the CIA, and they are, these people have a very specific mission, and that is to waste your time. What have I talked about before? Remember, their logic is that either A, they get you bollixed with an odd weapon, and of course then you sink money into it, trying to fix it, trying to fix it, trying to fix it. or the weapon right off the... just can't be fixed. I mean, there are some weapons that... AKs that came out in the 90s that Century Arms International through their UGO of Warsaw, whatever manufacturing operations had sites misaligned, barrels were, you know, barely the tolerance for, you know, for chamber space, etc. And these were supposedly factory built guns. We put in brackets there because first they cut the weapon up and made parts, then they turned around with a new semi-automatic receiver and made a new gun. They made a whole bunch of them, by the way. So again, knowing the nuances, don't panic with regard to issues with these different weapons out of the box. Typically, the traditional designs have a wearing in that needs to take place. Even when we built 1911s, it was expected that you were going to have issues for the first 200 rounds. You need to work the weapon in so that all the integrated parts were to spec. They were already at spec, but they typically still would need some shoot time in order for them to be properly functional. Everybody knew this, nobody was frustrated, nobody wrote any things on YouTube or some little piece on X. Oh my God, it's a crappy gun. I got it out of the box. I've heard two magazines. One magazine, I had a misfeed. Oh my God, it's a crappy gun. It's like, well, what did you pick up? Well, it's a .45. Well, it might be threaded and it might be tuned, but then again, depending on who built it, it might not be. Many of the weapons like with the 45s from Rock Island and the others, they gotta build those guns. But they're still built in the traditional spec and pattern. So you have to figure that you're gonna break the gun in. A couple hundred rounds usually does it. Now does this mean you're gonna even have the kind of malfunction I'm just joking about? Maybe not. But you'll find that you have hesitation and pickup. In other words, it didn't do it. But it just didn't do it right. In other words, it was a bit of a hesitation. Boy, that could get me killed. So, you get it to the range, you fire the weapon up to break the baby in, and from that point forward, you're in the groove for however long until you might need to replace parts. But that's going to be way down the road if you do everything right, which especially is preventing maintenance. With main battle rifles, now there's two things, as was pointed out by our callers, like if you're building the gun, The most common rifle you'll probably be building now, let's go in proper pecking order, because it's the most reasonably priced and cost effective across the board, is the AR-10. And so the AR-10 has all the same basic features and construction that we have with the AR-15. But there are intentional variants in design, which shame on them, they should never have done that. That's what bollocks up the AR-10. is you have to know what platform you're specifically committed to for one of the proprietary parts, specialized parts that you have to have in order for that weapon to work. Because in other words, those parts work, the other guy's parts don't for the other model of AR-10. That should never have happened. And I wish somebody would go back in time and take a stick and beat the hell out of somebody. Because all that's doing is causing problems for us that we don't need in a situation where it was to fight over the market is what it comes down to. And the AR-10 otherwise is the most logical for most people if we're trying to get you up to a main battle rifle but keep it reasonable. At this point in time, like I said, the AR-10 is the most affordable in the basic rifle platforms and the most common. Here's the thing, you can still build an HK from scratch, you can still build a CETME from scratch, you can even still build an FNAL from scratch but it's going to be pricey, okay? And the M1A, well, same thing. It's going to be pricey. The M14 rifle is to A, number one, despite everybody that's an AR operator trying to poop on the M14 every way that they can. And other people are trying to market other guns to do the same thing. The M14 is completely, it was worked through its cycle. It is completely viable. It's completely functional. Wait, Mark, you're going to have a butt here. But here's the thing. The M14 is from the machine age of America. We are into the Lego block age of most people couldn't find a tool or know what it was. They picked it up out of the toolbox even if their life depended on it, okay? Sadly enough. When the M14 and the first M1 Garand and then the M16 logical step despite all the propaganda and crap, the M14 was a logical step for a combination of training and armory operations because despite the fact that there were changes that had to be made to understand how to make the shorter stroke gas system work, would the 7.62x51 NATO It was a very short turnaround time for those armorers to adapt from the Garand to the M14 and that's what made the difference. And anybody who understood logistics would accept that, but everybody's too busy just mimicking what anybody else says about the M14 rifle. It's the same parrot crap over and over again. The M14 that I was issued ran like a singer sewing machine. In fact, as I've told you many times, we had a number of the M15 rifles. What was the M15? Squad gun. Okay. Now the squad gun was a half-year barrel, bulk-year stock with later on the E-type pistol grip stock with a bipod and it was supposed to replace the BAR. The program was aborted almost as quickly as it was created, but a massive number of M15-configured rifles were built. What did they do? They took the bipod off, and if it had the basic, basically it was the chubby stubby stock, well it wasn't stubby, the chubby stock, they just left it on the rifle. And they put them in the racks with all the rest of the M14s. Why do I know this? Because I inspected God knows how many tens of thousands of them. And I love the rifle so I always be kind of paying attention. Ooh, look at that right there. Well, when I was first issued a rifle, it was the M14. When I was issued the M14, we had a whole armory full of them. And so what we did, because the two team leaders we had were both SF, one was, both of them had been sergeants in Vietnam, spent four tours in SF. What we did is they went through the whole inventory and we found all of the M15 squad guns that we had, which ended up being, I think, about out of 500 rifles, we had, I think, 11 or 12 that were complete. Either the bolts were correct, the trigger groups had not been changed out, and if they weren't, what we did is we went through the other M14s and we found the rest of the integrated parts where they crossed over to the M14s from the squad gun. We reconsolidated them, scrounged up some bipods, which we had to go out and buy, by the way, and we made M-15 squad rifles, which again were parallel guns to the M-14 standard. What did they work? Well, I fired them. They worked every time. You know, bang, bang, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup, pup And again, they were select fire weapons. Now, contrary to what they seem to argue, if you actually paid attention, and especially when they came up with the M-E2 stock, which by the way we used to go by for $5 a piece of surplus, now it's a $1,000 stock. Just like all the rest of this stuff. We backed when it came up. Nobody wanted it. Why? We didn't have any M-14s around. Any M-1As. Anything. So if you were smart, Uncle Mark was, I made a fortune off these things. I mean, a fortune that I spent, turned around and spent on more weapons. But again, once we put that stock on, it was even more controllable. Although it lightened it up and lightning isn't what you wanted to do with the weapon. You wanted the weapon to stay relatively heavy forward and that helped with the control of the firearm, to be quite honest. When it was in select fire, when it was used as a squad gun. We took B.A.R. belts and carried two of those. with the M15 configured M14s and they worked fine. Gave us more mags, it was easily put together, cost a couple dollars off the surplus market and very quickly we had a complete set, I think a total of, the final count was probably 15 in the arsenal. Which were not on the books, they were still listed as M14s. Then later on they were all taken away, every one of them, and made to disappear, sadly enough. But for the time that we had them, they worked and they worked well despite the propaganda. So the M1A is a solution, but it is also a heavily precision machine tool. By the time we get to TRW making the M14 in the middle 60s, that was the zenith of the American steel production period. We went downhill from there every step of the way. So the M14 was built with some of the best metallurgy that money could buy anywhere on the planet. Now once they got to tweak it, and the armors caught up with the idea of the weapon, and how it worked, and its nuances, then a new batch of black books were written, and everybody knew how to make an M14 sing all day. Like any new weapon system it took time to bring into service. The garand wasn't the way you see the garand when it first came out. Now everybody's writing all kinds of articles about that. Oh, you know the garand you get that's not the garand they originally had. Well duh. And why did they change certain things? To tweak the system to fit the mechanical end of the industry. That's really what mostly happens. Now the FN FAL goes through a number of transitions. The rifle itself is an excellent firearm. It was the weapon that we possibly could have gone over to in the competitions. In fact, they were ready to buy the FN FAL. More on that in a minute. We're at the bottom of the hour, and I'm not going to try to get too far from it because at the bottom of the hour on Weapons Wednesday, we do one thing before we go anti-fire. Before God! And for everybody out there listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com LibertyTreeRadio.org And, I'll tell you what, keep your rifle by your side. One of the standbys for Weapons Wednesday, so Ed, if you could, I'll be around to hear from songs of the Second Civil War, American Civil War. Again, keep your rifle by your side. And we'll look low, we'll look everywhere we go, and the Luther's will know that they can't hide. They come loud, they come fast We'll shoot first, we can last Keep your rifle by your side Oh Lord, they just won't stay away singing Oh Lord, for this I won't repay When we take a stand No, we must protect our land Keep your rifle by your side They'll come night, they'll have our children in their sights Oh, stand guard in every pass from north to south Oh, they can scream and they can shout They will never push us out Keep your rifle by your side They just won't stay away singing Oh, Lord, for this time we'd pay when we take a stand No, we must protect our lands Keep your rifle by your side And they'll have tanks, cause they've got funding from the banks But we won't fall as long as we can fight Since they'll go on and save me But they won't get past the gate Keep your rifle by yours, won't stay away Singin' for this I won't need pay when we take a stand No, we must protect our lands Keep your rifle allies in these From the Great Plains to Tennessee They help us hold with all that we do need But from the west come another way from red sand fran or burned LA keep your eye full by yourself they just won't stay away so this I won't need pay when I see your face no I must protect my place keep my eye full by myself I'll stay away singing no long pay when I see no I must protect my place keep my Keep your rifle by your side. The US rifle, 7.62mm M14 is a lot weight air-cooled gas operated. I think it's the E-FEDS, shoulder weapon designed primarily for semi-automatic fires, sir. It is the finest of battle rifles. Well, of course there are other weapons out there. Each one is the finest rifle the government's ever made. They will tell you that. They will repeat that to you many, many, many, many times. And when the next one come along, it's better than the last one. Well, not always, but hey, come on, they're trying to pump you up. So anyway, F&F AL, it is out there, but it's in the pricing scale, I guess the best way to think about it is this. The FAL is presently at the top of the list cost-wise. There are a wide number of manufacturers, and there are a wide number of models available. If you go to Atlantic Firearms, you can see the best examples listed of what's in the market there. And again, quality is fantastic for the product. Make the mistake about it. Now, how can that count? Typically, cost prohibitive for a lot of the people out there looking at it. If you need the best or you feel that you want to, and you're willing to spend the money on such a resource, fantastic. Don't hesitate. Don't wait. But just understand that these are part of the restrictions slash limitations on the system, how it crunches your wallet when the time comes. We know how that is. The FNFL, in all these cases, all these main battle rifles have short pistol versions, don't go near them. You need that, buy a CAR-15 or get a pistol caliber AR of some kind, that's your solution or high point or whatever. You're not buying .308 so you can turn it into a pistol caliber. What you want are main battle rifle performance. weapons and again a 20 inch or the standard length barrel is your first best choice. If those weapons are no longer available you go to the next longest which typically is 18. After that the 16's are what are out there but they should be not your first choice. Now I understand the preference by some people and if you did it and because and you like it I'm not arguing with you about it. But most of our people, if they ask, what should we be buying? And I've recommended a main battle rifle. We want all the performance out of the cartridge that we possibly can. We are looking to achieve the greatest ranges possible with the weapon. And for that reason, we need the original pattern or enhanced with other improvements to barrels. The gas systems have some. Again, they've slicked parts up. They've been able to tighten things up because of quality of production, et cetera. So, there's the variance. It's kind of like I said, the difference between buying that Chevelle or buying that SS Chevelle that had all the bells and whistles already attached. It was already tuned up and ready to run like a rape gate down the road. All you had to do is turn the key and vroom vroom. Well, the same is true with the rifles. Now, the basic weapon though is sufficient for most all of the shooters out there that are listening. And with the pecking order for cost, FNFAL, second is the M1A, third is the G3HK, and the AR10 is the cheapest in the inventory of the four right now. Why Uncle Mark has been pointing towards the AR10. If my personal preference, M1A, that's me. I grew up with it. I've said this a million times. I have combat packages set up with everything necessary so I have to slide into the gear and hook it up. Now somebody needed to go, what would that be? Well, I've got a combination of M1956 Web Gear, the eight suspenders, set of the Y suspenders, standard pistol belt, but one you wouldn't recognize because it's from the 1953-54 era. It's specifically set up so it can handle a greater range of different types of Web gear that were by the army during the end of World War II or should say World War II through to Vietnam Fanny pack standard canteen configuration Standard e tool on the left rear side. I've closed my eyes. I could just I'm wearing it right now I just can reach for it's where it needs to be and then typically three mag pouches, front left and three front right if I can squeeze them on. If not, it'll be two and two. And then in addition, whatever bandoliers I can strap or when I say bandoliers, I mean stripper clip ammunition. And in addition to that, breakout bags with 20 round slab M14 magazines. Now, in no way, shape, or form, I'm pooping any of the other weapon systems because all of them are viable. And right now, we have a massive quantity of them in service. PTR-91, well, let me not leave the M14. I don't want to make things confusing. The M14 requires very specific support that you need to keep in mind for long haul running. Number one is obviously the bolt. If you can, you want to buy a complete bolt for any of the rifles we're talking about. Spares are available right now. Yes, they are pricey. I don't care which of these rifles except for the AR-10. The AR-10 is the most affordable. But for the M14, if you have an M14, you should have a complete spare bolt. If you have the G3 rifle, HKPTR-91, you should have a complete bolt. Complete in that, if you know what that entails, you'll understand how the gun's built. We're talking about everything that supports the internal trail and operation of the bolt. With the F and FAL same thing, parts are available for all of these systems. Again, the Air10 is the cheapest at this point in time because the others historically have been around longer, most of the cheap, cheap surplus is gone, and even the cobbled up cut up parts kits are missing parts nowadays, if you'll notice. Unfortunately, the government realized that the barrel was the key to the gun, so right off the bat if you're buying kits now, the better quality mil-spec barrel has been chopped into five pieces and isn't even with your kit anymore. They don't even give you the barrel. The barrel they cut up. Have you noticed that? In pecking order again, the next thing is the one that requires more sophisticated maintenance is the first rifle I mentioned for me, the M14. Why? The next thing that you need to invest in is an op rod spring and an op rod. But, let me point something out. How many of you have M1 Garand? If you have an M1 Garand and you're thinking about carrying the M1 Garand into service, and we have millions of them, I don't even know how many. We carried more of them back from World War II, and guys carried a shitload of them back from Korea. There are massive quantities of Garand, not just the ones bought from the DCM or anything like that. But between the render revolution companies, the DCM, the new civilian marksmanship program, and weapons carried back, the M1 Garand is going to be out there in force. We have a lot of them. They are going to need to be maintained. If you have the Garand or the M1A, you need, or I slash, M14. You need to buy an op rod. You need a spare op rod. Ideally, and I know this is where it's going to bite you, You need to buy a new op rod. There are lots of used op rods. Not all of them are bad or shot completely. But if you buy a used one, most likely it may need to be redressed. Most people don't know how to do that. And what it means is we're going to re-crisp or sharpen up that seal point at the end, which is that piston point on the op rod. So you need an out prod, you want all the springs you can get for the M1A and they are all available and they actually are quite reasonably priced. There's a bunch of stuff that's mil-spec parts that are showing up like these British Enfield parts are. Now immediately somebody's asking me here on the screen, well what about foreign parts? Taiwan built the M14 also. Korea also had the M14 in service. I don't know if there's anything left of the Korean M14 spare parts inventory, but Taiwan still has a bunch of stuff laying around. Now, years ago, a bunch of their magazines showed up. Somebody said, will you buy those? Yeah, heartbeat. Why? Taiwan's life counted on its M14s working. When you're racing the communist Chinese horde you get real motivated to build well so Taiwanese parts are cool The big thing is they just aren't any available So you're gonna be looking either American mill or you're gonna be looking at aftermarket But American produced and then the m14 goals will be quality. There's some really great guys out there doing some great work Call or jump in there, please. I heard you Yes, the text mics. Yeah. Of the three that you mentioned, the first three, the M14, the FNAL, and the G3, of those three, the bolts, do any of them have to be like lapped in or fitted or they like the AR, just drop in, you know, you just drop a bolt carrier group and you're ready to go. For the most part, they're drop-in. Now, here's the thing. They're like the PTR 91 or HK. There are, as we know, remember, PTR's manufacturing came from Portugal. No, Portuguese. Portuguese. But they're not the only country that was making or is making contract HKs. So there are parts in the system from Greece. There are parts in the system from Pakistan. Not because they were made up in Peshawar, way up in the northern country. Pakistan was a, and has been, I think they still are, a contract builder of HK91s, G3s. And so there's several other countries that have their parts in the system, but because they are HK contract, half the time, well initially they'd be running off HK tooling, and then eventually they would be building their own tooling. So consistency in parts is pretty decent for all of the HKs and for the F and FALs. Now the other issue with, we hadn't gotten the FALs yet, but like the FALs, the biggest thing is remember you have metric and inch. Here's the thing, most parts are integratable from the metric to the inch, but there are proprietary parts. With the HKs, this is what's really cool, the Setme kits, which were always cheaper, right now they're the same price the HK parts are, HK parts kits, but most parts, most, the lion's share of parts for the Setme will interchange with the HK. If you know anybody who is an old builder on the HK rifles, everything will move back and forth between the HKs and the set mes and what little isn't can be, as you pointed out, could be tuned to the gun if there was a need. And that means lapping and the armor doing a little bit of constructive surgery. Now, but for the most part, mil-spec, modern industrial age, most all these parts drop one into the other. That's why the HK parts kits are so, you know, everybody's so satisfied with them and has been for quite some time. The biggest issue with the HKs is not so much the parts you got from the military, whichever one it was. It's the receivers themselves that were built, you know, what was the quality of the product when they were put together, you know, put together over the last, what, 40 years worth of imports. So again, would I be concerned about parts? The biggest issue is going to be how high a mileage some of those part kits might be. That's the big issue. And again, you can pretty well tell whether or not you got something, you know, because the surface ding and beading doesn't necessarily represent the inside operation of the rifle because remember, it can be ugly on the outside and pristine on the inside. But you know, you can judge the kits, take a look at them, I'll tell you. Probably seen a few years worth of real service, might even have seen a war or two depending on the weapon. In that respect, Spain hasn't really been at war. I mean, they've had internal problems on and off. So the set mes that you see, they did sell those as contract rifles into North Africa, which I've always wondered is that where these came from. For the most part, it's wear and tear from actual issue, but for service training, not combat operations. Whereas many of the FNFLs actually have seen combat service because the weapons came from countries that have randomly been at war with each other for the last 50, 60 years. The M1As, it varies. Some of the rifles that were cut up never saw service in their life, sadly enough. Many of those, unfortunately, though, never even got to be sold as scrap. They were, I should say, as parts for us to buy. They were chopped up and destroyed as slag. So it's quite a mix, and it's typically the case when we're looking at surplus inventories. The present batches of any of these weapons we're seeing are either, one extreme or the other. They're either pristine because they're from these arsenals where they're making some money on what they consider to be outdated firearms and they're taking that cash capital and buying other items with it. The other extremes are long in the tooth. They definitely have seen some operational time for decades and they look it. You can rate the parts that way. What I'm fascinated by is just as a subcategory, there's a whole pile of World War I automatic weapons coming out of the inventory right now that were still in service until just a few years ago or have been in service but got captured in the two or three different wars that are going on right now. Anybody might notice there's a ton of MG 13 parts. And, my God, that's World War I and before people. You know, although the MG13 was used in World War II, obviously, the big chunk of the parts that seem to be coming out are virtually brand new, old inventory World War I parts for the MG13. Why? Well, the gun was actually relatively simple to maintain. It's a magazine-fed automatic weapon like the Bren or the BAR. But it has larger 25 round magazines, well bigger than the BAR, smaller than the Bren. But that's an example of where randomly these surplus inventories come out and they're literally as if they came from the factory. I mean like literally from the factory a few minutes ago, even though that was a hundred years ago or more. In this case all these rifles After we get past, as was pointed out, Texas Met confirming bolt, you know, where the parts come from. This is why it's nice when you're buying German because the German inventory of G3 parts from the 60s and 70s, that was the zenith for their production too for steel. They lingered on longer. I think they did a better job for a little longer. But Germany did a phenomenal job with fit and finish. They were at their peak at that window of time. And so the G3 rifle is one of the better off-the-shelf other than American kit rifle systems out there. FN, FAO's always did well, the BRIT guns, Belgian guns. But the Germans, they were ahead of everybody in making it simple and it working every time out of the box. Even though they hate us. H.K., why? Because they hate us. We know this. So, other issues, again, more mags, more mags, more mags. Here's what's going to be a funny situation. If we were to fight on North America and the Mexicans side the way we know they're going to side against us, guys, every weapon that I just mentioned is in inventory with the Mexican military. H.K., G3s. FN, FALs, AR-10s, and guess what? They have M14s too. We've pointed this out many times with the border operations. If you look at the Mexican cartels, but also where the cartels came from, which is the Mexican military, Mexican police, and the Mexican federales, guys, you have units that carry every weapon we just mentioned all together at the same time. Well, that's kind of hodgepodge. Yeah, it is rather interesting. Again, I don't know what the criteria is, but in the same breath, they have a significant inventory of all these overlapping weapons to choose from, and apparently they have a certain amount of opt-out on the weapon of choice. Now, the cartels, they don't care. But the Mexican military, I can show you image after image, you'll see one unit carrying FN FALs on the border over towards the bottom of California. But then you'll see another Mexican unit from the same area closer to the coast. And they've got G3s and FNFALs. Then you go farther to the east. And it seems like you see more of the Americanized units with the combination of any type of AR-15, M16 variant you can imagine, but still with a sprinkling of MBR's main battle rifles in 760x51 NATO. So, again, guess what? There's mags, ammunition, spare parts. You know, it might be coming at you in this thing from a very strange, oblique angle. If our system continues to fail us, as they are right now, they're still failing us, despite all the pickle-smoking mirrors. The situation is we've got a major, we've got a significant fighting force literally right next to us. So Mark, and that's separate from the fact that we have 300, or forgive me, 30 million illegal aliens that came in and they're unfought. Remember that, especially those Chinese age military personnel. Call her, go in there, go ahead, jump in there. I think he's text Mexican. Yeah, it's me again. Yeah. Hey, I saw a picture one time of a Mexican soldier. It was in a magazine, a Mexican soldier, and he had a... He had one of the G3s that had it across him, but he was so short, it looked like the rifle was as long as he was. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're right. No, no, you're right. In fact, some of those FNFLs are slightly longer, and the guy standing here is like, you know, again, there's a lot of short Mexican troops. Five foot two, five foot four is the average. And some sure are still because you've got them from all over the Mexican states and you've got native population and you've got European population in there mixed in. We're at the top. Absolutely. Remember guys, the most important thing is whatever you choose, master it. Get it to the range. Don't spray and pray. Don't try to show off. Figure out what your weapon does and how it performs. Take it to its maximum range. Hits, count, misses, don't. We need accuracy over volume fire. We're going to be in this for the long haul. I don't care what rifle you've got, even your AR-15. Well, Mark, I can pull the trigger a lot more. Yeah, well, how about you pull the trigger just as slowly, and you hit what you're shooting at, and then you can pick another target and take the bullets you thought you were going to crack over somebody's head and put them in their gut. Because that's where the bullets need to be, okay? And again, we may also be dealing with and we'll be dealing with mechanicals. They're talking about that practice We're already prepared for that because we've already committed and we are. I'm gonna get out of the way Craig from Wind Knowledge coming up next. God bless Republic. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the Empire is on the run. We are here live, if you're listening live, it will be April the 9th of 2025. actually snowing here in Michigan at the moment, believe it or not. I think probably it was April showers bring me flowers. Anyway, we are, we talk about mostly daily events, weekly events, things have really been happening. Boy, it's like the half-life of news right now is just incredible. Week by week, meeting day by day, or hour by hour with Trump. It's like a whole new world. So while I talk about some of the most recent changes, maybe you haven't kept up with what's going on today or this past week as much as I have, but I have been keeping track because I'm really worried about what's going on. Two things, two major points from Trump, both of which are unconstitutional from Trump. There would be terrorists and war. Seems like he fell down to get us into war and destroy our economy. Kind of seems that way to me, so I've been watching it. Yeah, unconstitutional, if you don't know, Congress. is the one that declares war and Congress is the one that sets tariffs. He is doing it by executive order and by his supposed power of emergencies, which was the emergency. Why we need to start bombing Yemen? Because they were going to attack ships in the Red Sea where we have no business being. Now our ships, ships from other nations, ships heading to Israel mostly. Of course we're protecting Israel because we are the United States of Israel after all. When tariffs, well he's He's talking big talk. He's going back and forth on that and that's worry. So I mean the markets have been reacting. If you don't know the, let me see. I do, I did bring up because every time there's a huge jump in the market, either up or down, I do talk about them and compare, get some things in context. Because sometimes when you're listening to mainstream media, it's either rumor doom or something amazing and this, not really, not really this much, so much this time either. Well, last week, at the end of last week, we saw like a 4,000 point drop from the Dow over a two-day period. Probably the weekend it sat there, of course, until Monday and then it went back up, went back down some more. They kind of stabilized out. And then today, after Trump announced what he announced today, they set the market up again. The Chinese tariffs. Now he's because of the huge market fluctuations and investors get nervous he declared a third a 90-day moratorium on some of them the Tennessee is implemented to the study was going to implement I kept on his employee place and because China Escalated their tariffs to counter ours Trump up the anti-alien and now Chinese tariffs are at 125% Well, if you don't think anything is going up in price, you're sadly mistaken. You realize how much stuff we get from China. If you get time to go to that great China raw, Mark, most everything in there is actually Chinese. So you're going to be paying more for anything. I have a list of your, also, those things too, and over those in a minute here. But I got on track of the stock market. Stock market today went up about 3,000 points. So I recovered a lot of their losses from this past week. And that is a, let me see, is that the largest, I think that is, yes, that is the largest daily point gain in the Dow's history. Up about 7.8%, 7.87%, almost a 3,000 point rise in the Dow. Now to put that in perspective, That only places number 19 in the largest daily percentage gains. Okay, we're talking difference between point gain and percentage gains. In the percentage gains market, it's only 19th on the list of the top 20. So just to put that in perspective, the biggest losses and gains percentage-wise in the Dow has historically been in between the years 1929 and 1933. Great depression going on there, don't you know? So the stock market going crazy and that doesn't really affect most of us. It's mostly just investors, but it might affect your 401ks, your other investments, maybe retirement. It could affect a lot of you. Anyway, back and forth, back and forth. We're going to see that with these tariffs. Because especially now that he's created so much uncertainty with the back and forth movement of how many times has he implemented the tariffs and backed down from them? I think it was the third time? or back down the salt. His gender term though, he wants to go to tariffs big time and it's going to be our economy down probably. Certainly in a short time, we're going to have some cotton gear I'd say, probably double digit inflation. Are you ready for that? Are you ready for double digit inflation? How much stuff comes from China? A lot. Are you ready for double digit inflation? I think during Biden it got up to like 9% and people were really screaming about that. I think it was, I can't remember now, I think it was roughly 9%. What if we get double digits? He's not going to be able to blame that on Biden this time. Making him blame it on Iran because if he attacks Iran, price of fuel, price of our gasoline is going to go up more than double. Price of crude oil is going to go up $200, $300 a barrel. The streets of Hormuz will be blocked. China and Russia will be, oh god, it's just a big mess he's getting us into. Either way, he's going to destroy our economy and destroy his legacy. He's not going to destroy his legacy with no more president, right? He claims no wars. But he's always said, too, I mean, essentially, he's now, we're not attacking guys that are good. I say we because we are the United States of Israel. We're giving them weapons, we're giving them money, giving them the aircraft. How are we allowing it? Any time it comes up against the UN or any other jurisdictional body, we veto it. Anything that's against... Israel. And then of course now bombing Yemen. And Yemen was a threat to our national security because of why? Excuse me. Again, only Congress could declare war, but he decided to do it on his own. If this, I mean, MAGA people listening right now, you're going to be kind of pissed at me and call it if you want. But, helps destroy us at the moment. I mean, long term, the terrorists possibly could work, but I don't think they will. I've been through that many times before in my program, why they don't think they will in this case. But they could. I'm willing to admit that. The tariffs could be good, but he's still violating the Cockney's oath of office. The defendant protected the Constitution of United States of America against enemies born in the domestic. Well, he's turning himself into a domestic enemy by violating his oath of office and destroying the Constitution. Of course, Almost none of our politicians have been paying much attention to the Constitution anyway. We'd grant you that. But Trump's doing it, wait, simply, right in front of your eyes. So, you maggot people, you can get mad at me. I'm not a mag person, I'm also not a Democrat either. I'm not a Republican either. Why would I be the one? Any of those. Makes no sense. They're all destroying our country. Trump says, you're going to make America great again. Well, it doesn't look that way to me, at least right now. And getting us to the war with Iran is certainly going to be the end of his presidency as far as his legacy goes. Okay, I also looked at the price of gold and silver. And silver hasn't really moved much in the last week in relation to what the stock market is doing. The price of gold and silver has kind of been staying the same. So gold has actually gone down about 2% in the last week. We're talking about, you know, since the stock market generations, it's gone down about 2%. It's still about, and right now it's at like $3,100. $3,100. Can you imagine that? Silver, I'm going to click on my silver chart here. Silver has gone down more, however, percentage-wise, it's gone down about 8.5% in the last week. So bigger loss for silver. But right now it is actually at $31.16, so high compared to what we've had historically, obviously. But gold and silver didn't change much through these stock market generations. You would kind of expect if investors get really nervous they might go to the safe haven, a relative safe haven of gold and silver coins. Or gold stocks for that matter. But I'm talking about the stock prices here. I'm not talking about the stocks. Paper gold. Which makes more sense to me. I don't recommend anybody daily out. If you got money in the stock market and you got money in gold and silver, hey, stay put. Don't worry about it. If you have any investments, if you have them diversified a little bit, you probably should just stay put. Wait to see what happens. You can try to play the market if you want. If things go even more solid, those silver probably will go up a lot. If we get this double digit inflation, it's certainly going to go up. Although... It really won't have gone up. The rest of your money will have gone down is what really would have happened. The gold would maintain its value. That's the beauty of precious metals. It will maintain your value. So it may not be worth more. It could be. But it really won't change much as far as the actual net value. At least traditionally, historically, for the last thousands of years, that's the way gold and silver have always been. maintain your value even in high inflation. And then also go down inflation more likely. All your, the value of the rest of your money is going down because the prices are going up. Maybe this is going to, maybe this is part of the big plan, part of this new world order that people talk about where this story basically you got to bring down this country to match the other countries on their worldwide socialist, totalitarian government. Maybe that's what it's all about. If we get double double inflation, okay, we've done away with the penny now. But now you might as well just do away with all coins. Close down the US Mint. There you go, Doge. Close down the US Mint. Save a lot of money on those pesky coins. And while you're at it, might as well close down the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and go straight to a digital currency since we can save money by closing down. Doge can close down the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as well. Again, part of the master plan, we know this. Anybody who's listening to this program for a while, it's not just my program, but other programs on this network, know that you're getting rid of actual paper money and coins. They've already got rid of unreal money, and now they're going to try to get rid of the first one and fake money and go with even more fake money. Get rid of the paper money and the coins, then go straight to... a digital currency. That's been a goal for a long time. So if our economy does collapse, we can double digit or triple digit inflation, the economy collapses. By that pesky money, that was no good. We'll just go to this digital stuff. How many are going to enjoy that? Of course, most of you already spend most of your money through a card or some kind of digit or byte through a computer anyway. So you're already used to it. It got you used to it over the last 30 or 40 years. I'm not an old enough member of the song, what was the name of the song? or how did song go, I don't know the name of the song, but part of the song was the blues song. Bank of Manicard, what was it called? Let me see, what was the line? It's been a while now. Master Charge, yeah, Master Charge Bank of Manicard. We're talking like 40 years ago, maybe 50, I don't know how long ago that was, but they got used to it little by little. Now they're doing away with your coins and starting with your penny. The nickel's already under deficit, so they're going to have to get rid of the nickel alone. And again, if we have hyperinflation, then it's just going to, Michael just created a wall coin. It's no more than you could do with a Smith. Okay, so, let's see. I've looked up a bunch of exports and imports. Because the China one is going to affect us, well, it's going to affect most of us, the China one. And China has raised bears. Against us and we raised the house, again, against them and now we're at 125%. So we got a real life trade war here going on through tariffs. Now the United States, okay, we're going to talk about exports first. It's a tough weekend to China. In 2024, the United States exported 143 billion worth of goods to China. with oil, seeds, and grains, oil and gas, and electrical machinery being the top exports. But also in that list are aerospace products and parts, pharmaceuticals and medicines, semiconductors and components, basic chemicals, resins and synthetic fibers, industrial machinery, navigational and measurement instruments, meat products, medical equipment and supplies. One thing at the top of the list And our farmers are really going to be hurt by soybeans and it's the lesser extent corn. Because I think I heard a figure about one third of what we produce here in the United States goes to China as far as soybeans go. I'm not sure about the figure with corn, but every year around here, and this may be very similar around most of the country, The two major crops, aside from California, let's say, the two major crops in this country seem to be at least around here, I've noticed. I guess I don't even have any numbers in front of me, but soybeans and corn. Corn and soybeans, back and forth. I have a few of them around here near me. One year of soybeans and the next year is corn. They rotate back and forth. It's always been that way for many decades. Corn and soybeans is probably going around here anyway, for the most part. Probably 95% of what we grow here, out here, and probably most of the country is kind of similar. Quorum soybeans. Quorum soybeans. Well, both of those are going to be affected by this. And what the hell are farmers going to do right now? Right now, where I'm at, farmers are contemplating what they're going to be planting this year. They're about ready to be planting. I got a field next to me where I'm sitting right now. I'm about 500 acres. Last year was soybeans. This year, pie becord. But who knows? Farmers are going to have to make a big decision now. You're going to destroy a lot of farmers here. And a lot of farmers aren't set up to be planting anything else but quorum soybeans. Sometimes it takes different equipment and different things to be able to plant and harvest different crops other than corings and soybeans like they're all used to. So we find this to be in the world of hurt here if these tariffs stay. If Trump gets his act together and gets his tariff situation straightened out, farmers are going to be hurting the most in this country. Corn and soybeans. Soybeans especially, about 30% of what we make goes to China. That's the last number I heard. Let's go to the top of my head. I hope I got that number totally correct. I don't know the number about corn, but it's also on this list here. Oil and gas. Now, if we start bombing Iran, and Iran walks the Straits of Hormuz, China is going to be into this war big time. Because if our tariffs are... Taxed him 125% on oil and gas that we sell to them right now and they should set the straighter hormones Close the straighter hormones which China impulse about 30% of their oil and gas It goes through the straighter hormones to get to them China is going to be hurting and they're going to be getting involved in this war that Donald Trump's trying to start against Iran Let's hope his army of the dealer is doing something magical with his mouth as I'm telling him because his mouth is giving the way as being a warmogger all the way so China is involved in this war in Iran and Seoul and Russia. As I said last time on this program, China, Russia and Iran have been running military exercise, joint military naval exercises for the last, I think, nine years. Something like that. It's been quite a while. China and Russia aren't going to sit back and watch Iran get destroyed and watch prices. And then we'll just destroy the economy of China and us. We'll destroy economies around the world. Trump is all around the world would be collapsing when this happens if this does happen to Trump Trump's stress that he's been making I'm not liking the looks of this at all. Trump is making a big big mistake in a lot of fronts unless he's just bluffing us all and it could be part of his train of deal or that's maybe makes this train of deal deal of the century. What is his what called? I just said it a minute ago. Anyway, I hope he has those ways in because it sure doesn't look like it. Now he's getting some countries to the table to start talks and he's making some exceptions for certain countries because they come and talk to them. They even cleaning the master, the king of Israel, to reduce their tariffs. And that's what's happening here. He talks about them and then does something else sometimes. That's kind of disturbing and certainly disturbing for any investor in this country. Because even if all this talk of tariffs are going to raise our economies because We're going to start making things in this country anymore. One of the things the newer ones is to bring that down to this country. Socially, militarily, morally, economically. Gotta bring us down to the level of the rest of the world in order for a worldwide socialist totalitarian form of government to work. And this tense that he's trying to implement and the idea is sound, the basic idea is, okay, now we should start making things in this country again. used to be able to go in the store, used to be able to buy things that you look at the labels that have made the USA. And now it's in China. We were a manufacturing economy. Now we're a service economy. Used to make all of steel. Used to make steel for the world. I was part of the steel industry for 24 years, working a major integrated steel maker. Used to export steel all over the world. When I hired him, there were 25,000 employees raised to work at the mill, at the, again, big integrated steel market, 25,000 employees. By the time I left there, 24 years later, it was like 4,000, 3,000, somewhere in that area. And we were importing, remember we were buying bullets from Germany to roll in our mills. There was a huge chunk of steel that won, anyway, made waves like. 50 tons or whatever depending size of the bill. Big chunks of steel that they would take and reheat and roll in our mills. We were buying them from Germany by the time I left that mill. We couldn't roll in our mills. We couldn't make our own steel anymore. And now, if we do roll in our steel, we allow ships going to the bottom of the ocean. So, by the way, who do you have been successful in doing any of that yet? Although that seems to claim otherwise. Anyway, we're all making a deal for it, and let me go to that story, since I just kind of skimmed over here. Trump's been bombing Yemen now for more than two weeks, because... Why? Because of Iran, supposedly. We're bombing Yemen to threaten Iran. That's part of his assumption here. We're really doing it to protect Israel, the United States of Israel. That's why we're really doing it, because VB wants us to. President Bebe wants us to bomb Israel, wants us to do a little bit of Israel, get rid of their nuclear weapons, take over the country. That's what Bebe wants, that's what Bebe gets, right? And recently he said, they will never seek our ships again. Okay, hold on, does that mean they've sunk one of our ships? Because that's never been in the news. Have they ever sunk one of our ships? I don't recall that happening. Is that a Florian slip on his part? Are one of our ships about to sink? Will it be hit by the U of the who do you will be hit by Israel? It's like the USS Liberty to guess in a war with Iran still quite enough the climate to be That Iran did it then we all sudden get in the war with Iran like in 1967 during the US bombing of USS Liberty attack on the US delivery Well, then he said that they will never say our ships again. It was a great quote here is What we call tweets. We still call them tweets. No, we only need tweet has become a verb We don't call them exes, do we? We don't call them two socials, do we? If we still call them tweets anyway, he says, they will never sink our ships again. And he shared a video with us about a circle of men in the desert and dropping a bomb in the middle of them. And there's probably close to 100 people in the circle. I'm looking at the picture now. So it's an oval shape. But anyways, there's people in a large oval shape and they're bomb drops in front of them. There's probably close to 100 deaths there, oh yes. and bragging, they will never accept that shit again. Well, did you know that, as been stated by Yemeni officials, that he's quite a terrorist, right? Well, in Yemeni tribal traditions, prayer circles, also referred to as dances, are sacred practices involving hymns, prayers and gestures that foster unity and prepare persistence for spiritual experiences, particularly around important events like births, weddings and funerals. There's about anywhere between, depending on what source you read there's anywhere between 200 and 400 tribes in Yemen. So according to a whole lot of reports this was actually a prayer circle that had to do with terrorists or sinking ships and yet Donald Trump is there bragging about it. This makes him just as bad a baby to me in my book Paul. I don't know about you. We've got civilians. We've now killed hundreds and hundreds of civilians. There's been boots on the ground in reporters, reporter boots on the ground in Yemen showing and reporting on what's been hit and a whole lot of apartment buildings. I think one was at a hospital as well. Sounds very much like Israel, doesn't it? Well, he's gone too far already and it looks like he plans on going farther. Let's hope he's not, let's hope he's just got diarrhea with the mouth. Crap just running out of it all the time. But not me being honest or truthful or even legit literal about what he's saying. Let's hope not. Because if not, we're probably going to be going at war. I ran pretty soon. And it's not going to look good for us at all. And no, we won't win that war either. Did any of the reports? Have we won any of these wars? We know we're just going to destroy countries. They can listen they were going from a semi-functional dictatorship to a one that doesn't work at all. So we do. General Wesley Clark, remember that name? Let me find that article here. I got somewhere here. Unless I got rid of it. Well, there it is. General Wesley Clark. He was once a presidential hopeful, but he heard of a plan after 911 from the Bush administration But an attack a plans to attack seven majority Muslim countries has been revealed in a book he published the former NATO commandant forces of the in Europe Clark claims he met senior military officer in Washington in November of 2001 who told him that the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first member weapons of mass deception Iraq first before taking actions against Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and Iran We've known in all those seven countries so far except for Iran so far all that we've really been able to do in Iran is be able to get sanctions That's all we've been able to do. Oh, by the way, did you know that about one third of the world's the world's population is affected one way or another by US sanctions One-third of the world's population. I didn't say Iran there or Russia The world's population, one third of the world. Why wouldn't everybody be mad at us? We're becoming a pariah state just like the United States of Israel is. Just like Israel is. The United States of Israel. Ahhh. My country is being destroyed. Sorry, I'll you magga people, but I hope you've heard me wrong. It doesn't look like it. So he's bombing civilians, has no justification for doing so, and has no lawful authority to do so in the first place. He's committing murder on a mass scale and then he becomes the White House and he was yesterday buddy-buddy again The guy's playing she should have been shot down over all the countries he traveled over to get here But no country is willing to stand up to the United States right now the United States of Israel No country's willing to stand up against us. I consider myself a Patriot American, but I don't like what our president is trying to call he's trying to destroy our country right now Not that Biden was doing any better, mind you. Again, I'm an equal opportunity presidential attacker here. Biden or that woman wouldn't have been any better. So Trump's taking it to another level. He's escalating it very quickly. He wants to try to be as much as done, as much discussion as he can do over the four years that he has. He's even commenting about even a third term, right? Which is also against the Constitution. But he's actually... The conference is contemplating it. There's been others that say, well, yeah, you should do a third term with no regards to the Constitution whatsoever. Because you can't. Is it the 22nd Amendment, I think? So I'm not liking where our country's heading here, folks. Okay, back to the tariffs. Congress is going to be hit the worst, but all of us are going to be hit in the pocketbook. And it's another tax, because that money is going to the United States government, the federal government, not your state government. Your local government your federal government. Oh, no state will benefit a little bit out of because if you have a sales tax You're going to be spending more to buy those things when you're in your you'll be spending a little bit of money to the states because of the sales tax that you have on your states the items you buy in your state, so I guess the states will benefit a little bit with most of the US government so another tax on us now as far as Chinese Chinese exports to the United States going the other way now In 2024, the top exports from China to the United States, here are the top exports from China to the U.S. Broadcasting equipment, that's kind of a mystery to me, I didn't know that. Computers, office machine parts, textiles and apparel, and other noble imports such as electrical machinery, TV parts, nuclear reactor parts, mechanical appliances, toys, games, sports equipment, shoes, Plastics, smartphones, clothing footwear, various fabric materials. Anything you're buying with that great China wall marked is going to be more money. Just about everything is going to be more money. In the neighborhood, I've been hearing numbers of about 45% more than what you're paying now. It's like a 50% inflation rate on Chinese goods. In fact, if this holds true, 50% on Chinese inflation inflation of 50% on Chinese goods to this country roughly You don't think that's going to end up to be double digit inflation in the economy in general because how much stuff we get from China each year 35 billion worth of textiles and apparel alone that clothes shoes. That's all gonna go up. They're making here. I'm a this up here in decades for the most part. It'll make anything here in deck for decades to the most part Again, that was part of the plan to bring us down. They did a good job. And Trump's trying to do something about that. And I pardon for that. I think he just might be going about the wrong way or too quickly. Because this has been a long-term process. Because all these investors who are super nervous right now about anything because of what Trump's doing, they're about to invest in a new steel plant or a new clothing factory here in the US because the Biden lookalike, whoever that might be coming up, in four years, out of spite for the Democrats, and because he has Trump derangement syndrome, we'll just start canceling all the stuff that Trump did. And so the investor just invested millions or even billions of dollars on various plants here in this country, all of a sudden lose their investment because now the tariffs are gone and Chinese goods gone way down again and it puts them all out of business. All the new factories that they were planning to get going. They're about just about there after four years. Well, they're just about there now. We almost got this plant built. Then all sudden, boom, tariffs gone. Because the new guy has Trump derangement syndrome. There are the tariffs reversed, and then our plants just sit empty. We like ghost towns. Country destroyed. Mine won't. So I would not expect any investors to file into this much unless the U.S. uses some of that money for incentives in their abilities factories. Because lower prices are going to do it. Lower prices meaning if we build goods in this country at a lower price we make more profit because we can then compete with China, whatever country we're trying to compete against. It's not going to work unless they get some kind of incentive to it. Depends on what the product is, I guess. Some products may actually be successful. Then yes, we need to start making things in this country anymore. We need to be self-reliant. That's why Russia hasn't been affected by all the sanctions all around the world on them. Because they started doing things for themselves. Their economy is actually doing quite well, thank you. Regardless of what kind of sanctions the US or any other country has on them, they're doing quite well. And they're making enough ammunition to keep their oil going, too. We aren't. We're depleting our ammunition supplies, our missiles, our rockets, or whatever. We're depleting all that. We don't build them as fast as we're using them right now. What's going to happen, we start getting a war that we're at. Yeah, it's about 3,000 missiles immediately pointed at us and our ships. Our military bases in the area and Israel, our first state, I'm sorry, our first state, what's going to happen to all those? Where else is this going to end up? Israel has already proven they can't shoot all the missiles down. They've had a bunch of drones and such, sucked at them last year and their iron dome got all around and then all the missiles are going through. We've been shooting down a whole lot of them. Same with our missiles on the ships. When we tire all the missiles out of our ships, they don't have like more in their head. They got to go back to ports and have them reloaded with craze and such. I understand, I don't remember the type of missile, the major types of missiles they're using right now. It has a magazine of 96 missiles in it. And once those 96 missiles are shot, and the humans, if they send out a single drone or two, and they're using three or four of the missiles to try to shoot down this little drone, it's probably not going to do much damage anyway. millions of dollars for each missile that we send out against a thousand dollar drill. Then they have to leave the area to resupply with new missiles that they may not even have because we're depending on stockpiles. This is not going to go wrong for us, folks. It's not going to go wrong for anybody in the world if we get into war with Iran. But that's what Donald Trump wants. I'm sorry, that's what B.D. wants. That's what we're going to do, right? Trump could put an end to all this right now. Get all our ships out of the area, bring all our military bases, close down our military bases around that area, bring them all home, stop sending money to Israel, stop sending weapons to Israel. This would all stop in a heartbeat. Israel would probably be doomed, no question about that. Because Israel can't defend itself against the entire Middle East. It's all pissed off at them. They would not survive. Of course, they would have never survived without our help anyway over the last, what is it, 70 years? 75 years, something like that, it wouldn't have survived anyway without our help. Israel, nothing I'm saying here is anti-Semitic, talking about the Zionist government in Israel, nothing against Jewish people whatsoever. Israel should have never existed at that location. Probably shouldn't have been allowed to exist anywhere actually. Isn't it a rather racist idea to think you're going to create a... a state where only Jewish people are allowed. That's what they want. If you're trying to do, try to get rid of all those dirty Palestinians by the Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and expand their territory all the way through Jordan, into Syria, Lebanon, Egypt. That's a rather racist idea. Racism in the form of religion. But there's probably a different name for that, isn't there, that I'm not thinking of. What is the equivalent of racism for religion? I don't know. I can't remember if there is a word. Probably is. Anybody want to comment? All the tabs that I have brought up here, I've covered a lot of what I want to talk about here on the computer I'm looking at right now. Can we go on another topic, unless you want to call it and talk about this? Anybody want to put in your two cents with? You like what Trump's doing? There probably are some people that will always do him. I mean, he is trying to do something. None of our other presidents, they make all these promises with their campaigning and none of them ever do it. They rarely do anything, they accomplish any of what they promised. But Trump's trying to accomplish those things that he promised. But he's had a whole lot of new things in there, like war, and Canada, and Greenland, and Panama. What's going on here? We have empire building right under our eyes and we have a king king club. Okay, so nobody wants to call in and talk about any of this I will move on to something I'm doing that You know interest some people maybe it will maybe we'll Here is a good idea for you. This is what I found to be a good idea for me. Anyway, it may not be a good idea for you Yeah, a bit of us. Yeah, call it there Yeah, yeah, hey, I'm sorry. I was trying to, I had my phone muted. But my name is William and I was invited by a gentleman named Grant earlier today on this call. And I would just let you know. Go ahead. Okay, can you hear me okay? Yes. Okay, okay. Yeah, I was just chiming in when you were saying about talking about the Jewish question. I know a lot of times people have to tip toe around that question because of the, like, the accused of being anti-Semitic, they like that, but I was agreeing with what you were saying, and I think Trump, you know, the terrorist thing, I like what he's doing with the terrorists. And, you know, I'm a black guy, and I'm trying to convince the black community on, you know, similar to the stuff that you're saying. because most of us have been hoodwinked by the Democratic Party or a lot of us would be hoodwinked by the Democratic Party. And I'm just saying, listen, within the last four years it was a disaster. I mean, Trump's trying to willingly undo that. So I mean, I'm just agreeing with what you were saying, or that's what I was really doing. Well, thank you. I agree with Crystal that the tariffs could work. I just don't know if they will, and I'm skeptical. In the meantime, we're going to do it real bad. I got you. I got you. Okay, buddy. Okay. I'm gonna get you on the micknet. Okay, thank you. Okay. All right. Now, the, uh, and then something else has been happening here recently, and this has been happening here in the last few weeks. He's attacked the First Amendment as well. Now, right now he's only had adjusted immigrants of various kinds, legal immigrants, for the most part, if you speak out negatively towards the United States of Israel, or if you speak up in favor of Or let's say anti-genocide, if you are anti-genocide and stick up about it in your tweets or whatever posts. You're a terrorist. You support terrorists. You support Hamas. So you need to be deported from this country. Put you on a plane, take you to Cuba or wherever, get you out of this country. That's a clear First Amendment violation. For those that are illegally here, it's a violation of First Amendment. Right now you're just hacking immigrants. I mean, if this continues and escalates, I'd probably be next, I suppose. But you declared an anti-Semite and I'm a Hamas terrorist and I need to be removed from the country. Don't know where to. I guess we got prisons all over the world, don't we? Anybody who talks negatively about Zionist Israel or anti-genocide or pro-Pilostinian, you might be declared to be a terrorist, sporting terrorism. You may have to come jacked with thugs. You may need to be knocking at your door. There's a lot of things going on here folks. It's not looking good. So I see I got almost 15 minutes. I'm going to say my phone is calling here. I found a pretty decent solution in my case for storage. Okay, this is completely off topic here, completely different topic. I'm just filling up the last 10 or 30 minutes of my show. A lot of us are familiar, especially if you move out in the country, build some sheds or barns and the maintenance and up-cape. critters, insects, the weather, the rain, and snow. All the attacks are just them, your buildings or ships that you build. I'm going to keep maintaining them. I found a solution that I think is good for me because I have some things I need stored. I recently bought two shipping containers. 40-footers, they call them high cubes in my case. There's two general sizes, a 20-foot one and a 40-foot one. I'm sure most of you don't know what a shipping container is. It's these big metal boxes they put up on ships and they ship them across the ocean. And there may be a whole lot more of them that don't even get used nowadays because of the China and the US thing, right? In fact, I have a story that some Chinese explorers, they may recall their ships that are on the ocean right now because they won't be able to make a profit on them anymore on the price that they sold them for. They may turn the shifts around and bring it back to China. Anyway, shipping containers come in two basic sizes, 20 foot and 40 foot long. They pick them up with cranes and put them on the shifts, right? And move them around with big four trucks. There's also a version called a Hi-Cube, which is a collar, about a foot collar. Anyway, I bought two 40 foot Hi-Cube shipping containers. You buy them used. Right now, the general prices I saw are generally used ones. They're generally under $3,000. Delivered. It depends on where you're having to deliver to. If you're a long ways from any kind of port, like Chicago or New York or whatever, Houston, if you're a far way from any kind of port, they're going to cost you more because of the transit charges to bring it to you. But I went both of mine for around $5,000 delivered for two 40-foot high-cube shipping waves. Then now that you get the drop them on your site if you're lucky you can get them delivered right where you want them dropped and you don't have to move around They just sign them on the ground and then you got instant. What is it? 400 and how many square feet of storage space not good at math in my head. They're 8 foot wide and 40 foot long so that's probably easy calculation, but they have 408 times 40 is... oh, 320 square feet. A little less than that because of the thickness of the walls and so on. But anyway, at least 300 square feet of instant storage space. The thing about this storage space is it's... these shipping containers are essentially watertight. If they ever fall off a ship, they generally float for a long time. They're essentially watertight, so they're impervious to the water as far as the weather goes. They do have vents at the top, so they... They do allow moisture in, and sometimes moisture can be a number problem depending on humidity and the temperature of the air, different things that happen and what you have stored in them. You could have some humidity changes. You could alleviate that by dehumidifying if you really can afford to do that with electricity. But the floors are made of wood. The walls and ceiling are made of steel. They're strong enough to drive a fork truck into them, and that's how they unload them. They're very strong. One piece no assembly required. They just drop on your property and you got instant storage for under Let's say between 2500 and $3,000 again depending on where you live That's current prices. They fluctuate they go up and down depending on what's going on during the pandemic. I Understand they were much much higher Because all the ships trapped in the ports or something. I can't remember exactly the reason but anyway between And these are used ones. They're going to look perfect. They'll be banged up a little bit. If you buy new ones, they're going to cost twice that, at least twice that. You can buy these ones they call One Trip, which means you might have paid $2,500 for that 40-foot shipping data. Now it's going to cost you over $5,000, because it's only been on the ocean once. It only gone one way, and then that's it. They put them out of service, and they sell them as basically the new. They still may have some scuffs on them, but they're going to be as close to new as you can basically get. And so if you're willing to pay that price, that's great because you have a better container. Because mine, I actually spent a couple thousand dollars trying to get them repaired to the point where, well, first of all, most of these companies will guarantee for weeks. But one of them that I got had a, and they were both the same, from the same company and same dockyard, you could tell they had the exact same painting on them and everything. One of them was more rusted, the other on the roof. These are in a saltwater environment most of their lives. They're on the oceans with saltwater. Now the steel is made, they call them conics sometimes. The steel is a very higher quality that is rather rust resistant. If it's not rust proof, of course, no matter who it really is. Well, I guess I shouldn't say that. But when they get dented up, Like another shipping container, a crane picks it up and maybe misses a mark and the hooks hit the top of the shipping container. They'll have little dents in them in the top. Neither will the four corners. They lift them up by the four corners. And they hold about, they weigh about, the 40 foot ones weigh about four tons, about 88,000 pounds. But they can hold about, I think it's around 30 tons worth of material inside. And that's always supported by the corners. So you can put it up on concrete blocks, let's say, some kind of blocks. Only about a quarter. It doesn't have to be supported all the way. It only has to be supported by the four quarters. And you can put about 30 tons of material in them. So they hold a lot of instant storage out of the weather. Mice cannot get in there. Anybody who's ever had storage, any kind of building, you know, mice could be a problem. They build their nests and destroy your things a lot of times. Mice cannot get in there. As long as we're shipping containers, solid, there's no poles in it anywhere. Mice cannot get in there. And also other critters can't get in there. Although termites might be able to, I put termite shields under the bottom of mine at the post. So I only have mine supported by the four quarters. I have them eight inches off the ground. I didn't put it directly on the ground. Probably something that is some give me a few tips here in a few minutes I have left. If you want to consider this idea. Don't go building a house on them. Yeah, I know people have done it. Don't go build a house on them. As soon as you start cutting holes in them for windows and doors and such, you ruin the structural integrity of them and they're not nearly as strong as you have to start reinforcing. They're hard to insulate and they're very narrow and eight foot wide. You're not going to be able to make a really nice living space. I know people do it and people swear by it, but it's a lot more work and a lot more hassle and it's not a very good idea. Just don't do that. That's my opinion. Anyway, you'd have instant storage. The, I line mine with shells. I just have both of mine basically. I just have like a two foot walkway all the way down the middle of it with shells on either side basically is what I'm doing with mine. I had to redo the roof because this, okay now I need that dense in all the corners on the roof because the crane mix is missed. You know, dozens of times at that shipping container has been across the oceans. Because they're going to be generally about 15 years old. You buy used one, typically. You can buy ones they ask you to look and do. They're going to be a lot cheaper than what I told you. But ones that are considered usable, they're going to be around one of the prices I told you. And then you have dents in the corner. So what happens is the water stays, because it's essentially a flat roof. There's like crown of the roof. The roof has a little bit of crown. It goes about one inch of a crown, kind of a little bit of a hump on the roof from the edges. The wrong way. So one, I'm sorry, a short way. So it's one inches higher going in the short direction. So if the roof isn't then, then the water will shed. But the roofs are typically not crown still. They're dented in, especially at the edges. And the water collecting, what they want is salt water. And so they corrode a lot there. And even though they're double thickness right at the corners, they're a lot heavier steel at the corners, they'll still corrode there and you'll get leaks. And you'll get leaks everywhere, especially if it's been pushed in or dented anywhere on the roof. So if you get one, you have to inspect the roof very carefully. The first thing you do is go inside and look and you're looking for daylight. See little holes. If you go on top and see a lot of rust, then what's happening with mine is I did find one hole in mine, but then we'll start going up there with a wire brush and grinding it down a little bit. I'm making a lot more holes. So it's been in a lot of places. So if the roof has been quiet for any amount of time and there's rust going on, you're going to have holes and you try to clean it up to do a new paint job. You're going to have more holes. You're going to discover. I think there are nine holes in one of mine. They don't even have any holes in the roof. They didn't have a couple holes in the walls actually from forks, fork trucks cutting into the steel. Those are a little bit easier to deal with. But on the roof you have to try to restore that crowd, which isn't necessarily an easy thing. Pushing it up on the other side essentially was jacks. That's what I did with mine. You may still not be able to get all the spots out. So all the spots that I couldn't get out, I basically filled with a rubber. Well first I ground the whole thing down the roof. I mean, I'm in the walls yet all. Ground the whole roof down with the wide brush, all the parts had any rust on it. Grounded it, rut galloped it, loose rust off. Painted out a special paint that was good for rust conversion. I knew that. Getting it ready for prep. And my final prep, the final coat for me was a layer of rubber. Got a sheet, but the paint, the paint on rubber. And all those low spots. Now, instead of being filled in, it cost me some money to do this, but I couldn't figure any other way to fill in these voids. I wanted to fill them in so at least I had a flat roof on those spots that had dents in them that I could not take out near the corners to prevent the water from ponding anymore, because the water will pond. So I filled those gaps, those dents, in with the rubber. I just let the rubber run, leveled itself off. I used probably about 4 gallons more of rubber than I needed to use to do the roof. I think I probably used it for close to 10 gallons for the entire roof, for each one. So the rubber now fills in all the ponds in all the spot where water would pond. When it dries it becomes a solid mass and now it doesn't shrink. This type of rubber gets the type of rubber that doesn't shrink much. And now I have not only waterproof, but it's going to be good for my entire lifetime. And water won't pond up there anymore. Some water will stay up there. If you're in the desert, I mean, this is not as big of an issue for you. But now the water won't pound up there. It'll be nice and flat, and the water will evaporate pretty quickly. And anyway, it's rubber. Anyway, you could actually have rubber roots. You could actually have ponding water. It won't damage it. So, yeah, so you're going to spend some more money if you can afford to get the... In the end, I spent almost as much as I would have if I would have bought one trip once. Honestly, it'd be close to the same price. I still save some money by doing that, but I also spent several days doing all this. I still haven't done the walls yet. I have started the walls. I started grinding down the walls, the rust spots on the walls, and spraying a little bit of rust converter on there. Then here in the next month or so I plan on going in and spraying the walls and making them a, in my case I'm going from rain to, I'm going to go to a brown. I'd rather have them blend in with nature as much as I can. Kind of a flat brown. Odie Green kind of works, but Brown actually works better if you think about it, especially the wintertime here in Michigan, where unless you have a lot of pine trees everywhere, Odie Green doesn't really work that well in the wintertime. The brown, the color of bark, color of deer, it blends in more if you painted the color of a deer, color of bark, color of the ground, dirt. So that's what I'm doing with my hand. I'm painting in kind of a... A flat or at least an eggshell finish brown. Might paint some darker brown stripes on it or a little oldie rianna one. Might do something different with it later, who knows. And then I'm good for years. Now I have mine off the ground, 8 inches, because... If you put a mitt-rack bandit on, once you get strapped underneath, that starts surrounding your floor. You would rather have ventilation on there. So I have mine on eight inches block, or concrete blocks. If you just set them directly on the ground, you probably won't get taxed on your property tax either. You probably will not get an increase on your property taxes, like you will with any other structure. Like a, like a trailer, like a semi-trailer, or a shipping container on your property. You probably will not erase your, you check with your local laws, but you probably will not get a reassessment on your property taxes. I have mine laying in the engine off the ground because I want to answer it. And I don't want, because a lot of times ground hogs or whatever will dig under there and you'll be living under there and die and you might start smelling things. A lot of things will have to live under there. So you'd rather have them off the ground to where any other kind of predator could get under there. So anything that actually goes under there that things are going to hide, if a double animal can get under there and get them, they're going to chase some lands. But you won't have things living underneath there. The only thing I probably will have, the jury's to law on this because I haven't. gone through a whole season with us yet. Probably have wasp and harness nest built under there is probably what will happen underneath my wood floor. They won't get inside the container though. I don't think there will be that big of a problem. And maybe other animals will go in there and enjoy a nice delicious meal or some honey or something. I don't know. One of those animals that might not be susceptible to bee stings. So a shipping container, in my opinion, is a good thing to get for instant storage, secure storage too. You're not breaking into one of these things nearly as easily as you could with somebody, a barn or a shed of some kind. Or you can break a window or a pump kicking in the door. You're not kicking in these doors. You can still cut locks. You can get better locks. You can get locks that are basically impenetrable. Sometimes they'll have these shields where the locks are completely covered. Where you can't cut them off either with bolt cutters. You'd have to really cut off the shield first with a torch and then get in there and cut off the lock. So they're very secure. You're not breaking into these things easily like you would a shed or a barn or something of that nature. So very secure storage. Waterproof instance. Other than the maintenance you're going to have to do initially when you buy the thing unless you buy one trip. You're gonna have storage is good for a long time. It's gonna be secure Safe instant to me that was a good solution for the price I paid around $5,000 for two of them drop them up now. I had to move them with me was that easy I had to move them with a crane and my My car one of my collar loaders the one that I when I bought recently because I had to buy another one just to get some work done And my color order couldn't even lift up one end of it. I had to put wheels on it. It was very difficult. I had to move them 500 feet through the woods to get them into my property. So you still have to move them unless you can drop them directly where you want them. If they'll drop them right where you want them as long as the truck can get in there. But in my case, it was a long, windy hillary that couldn't get in. I had to bring them in myself with my own equipment. And it took about a week getting them both back in there. So anyway, thanks everybody for listening. I ain't told enough. I am Greg Siney, Office of Video Knowledge. I ain't been so long. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock and 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 secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hope you could 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 is 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 attacks you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan and you've traded in your name. 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Anyway, we're also on satellite and we have a fantastic group of people there who are rebroadcasting us beyond our control and doing a fine job of it because we get a lot of response both from our shortwave and from the satellite system. So I want to say thank you. We appreciate the work you guys are doing. And we're in a myriad of other communications technologies both inside and outside these United States. And it is mmm, it's Wednesday and I'm going to tell you something, it is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 9th of April. It is the 17th year of open, obvious and in-your-face Fabian socialist and so-yet socialist occupation of America with a K. 2025, old earth calendar. Um, get her all she's got, Captain 125%. Ugh! And she might still blow up. And 2025 Battle for the Republic, Book 2, the Winter War, and it is snowing outside. We have big thumb-sized lake effect flakes coming down even as I speak. Oh, we're buried up to our eyeballs in snow. The lakes have frozen over. Everything is dead. The wisps of snow and rolling waves of frozen tundra are exterminating all life in the bottom of Michigan. We are doomed. We are doomed. Help us. Help us. We are doomed. No, actually, it's just snowing. Oh yeah, no, it's just snowing. It's just doing what it does. It's winter not giving up on giving up the ghost right away, but trying to fight back and it's not going to win. However, it is impressive. It's a lot of moisture. We're going to keep most of it. The one good thing about snow is that we get this progressive downpour but it's not as mean as if this were rain. So I'm not complaining about this at all. You get a deluge like we had twice already in the last week and a half and what you get is a lot of runoff with erosion. Well this snow is slow motion moisture and guys the ground's not frozen, the lakes are not frozen, it's not even really freezing temperature out there. It's a good way to get more moisture, to fill up the aquifers the rest of the way without all the punishment. So we'll take all of this we can get for the time being. It's cool in more ways than one. It's cool. But otherwise, again, very exciting week. It's only Wednesday. It is the middle of the work week. It is Weapons Wednesday. The discussion over the last two hours of the Intel report were about main battle rifle concept ideas, you know, history mostly. But it's the idea, you know, thinking through if we're going to be fighting a conflict and as militia, we have been ahead of the curb because we already heavily committed to the last three or four generations of main battle rifles. I mentioned the Garand, for instance, and even though that's not first in everybody's mind, it certainly is out there in force in private possession on a scale comparable to any military out there that ever was issued the Garand. Interestingly enough, a lot of them out there in patriot service and going strong now for decades. many decades. In fact, since their creation, since the Grand's creation. So we have a lot of those piled up. They are in service. They have been maintained. A lot of people have done some TLC on the systems that are laying around. And even if the weapon was long in the tooth with whoever had it, the work that's been done to rebuild these guns has brought pretty much the entire inventory up to standard mil-spec. The grant is just as lethal today as it was when it was first introduced. So it is a viable firearm. We're not going to go invade another country. We don't plan on following the Israelis' orders, not us. Our purpose is malicious to defend the United States. The regular military is the knuckle monkey for the Israelis to go steal something from someone when they order it to be done. That's not our job. We protect the nation. The government, military, doesn't seem to care for that anymore. They do anything but, and they try desperately to lick the artists of the people that are giving them their orders from outside, from top to bottom. So, hey, we have the technology in hand. What we need to do is understand its usefulness and how to properly employ. First, deploy, and then employ once deployed. And main battle rifles are foundation weapons, battlefield superiority arms. We have greater penetration, greater range with these weapons. We can enhance them with overlapping more modern or sophisticated technology and optics as needed. But the basic weapon itself is viable as a weapon solution right out of the box. The FN FAL, the G3 PKR-91 family slash HK-91 family of rifles are out there. Also, that's two. There's the M14 M1A, that's three. And the fourth in the dominant series is the AR-10 for our purposes. Now guys, there are a whole pile of other weapons. Hell, there's even the SCAR. is out there in 308. Now if you choose to pick that weapon, I will remind you, it is very parts specific. Proprietary, very proprietary. There is no surplus parts inventory to feed off with many other weapons. Another batch of weapons I hadn't even mentioned in the tour are block the Sega guns. Guys, remember back when the Sega rifles and shotguns came in, they dropped to as low as 125, 145, and $165 apiece. And you could buy an AK gas operating system in 7.62x51 NATO for $147, then it went to $165, and they hovered there forever because nobody jumped on them. Is it a viable weapon? Oh, it's a murderous weapon. It's in fact, it will do exactly what it's intended to do. And in fact, you can build it up to be a poor man's dragon off, you know, SVD-type sniper rifle if you want, only in .308. The same is true with many of the other weapons that have been introduced. The example is the .308 Yugoslavian large frame AK knockoffs that are out there right now. They just came in. Centerfire has them in the 7.62x51 NATO. I know some of you listeners have them. They're fine rifles. I carry the gun in a heartbeat. To maintain it though, it is a much more of a minority part specific weapon system that if you invest in it, and I haven't mentioned this enough about that particular rifle, these .308 AKs that have come in are Yugoslavian. You can buy a complete rifle or you can build up a rifle for a pretty reasonable price. Considering that the average hover price for a .308 in a brand new gun is about $1,200. Have you noticed that? F and FALs go to Atlantic Firearms, $1,200, plus or minus 50, 60, or 80. HK PTR-91 used to be a gopher gun at $650 to $700. Now, $11 to $1,200 is your hover price for a PTR-91. Why? Well, they work, and everybody knows it, and it's as though they charge what the market will bear. M1As, well if you can find one for 1200, doing pretty good, you can find a few laying around for less, not many. It used to be there were more. So 1200 is the hover price, but more than 1200 is very, very common. AR-10, like I said, $500, $600 right now without having to piece a rifle together. You can go buy a brand new complete 7.62x51 NATO AR-10. for under $600, your choice of model, for under $600 right now at BearCreekArsenal.com. BearCreekArsenal.com. BearCreekArsenal.com. With these Yugo rifles, what I would do, as I was mentioning, what would I buy for each of the weapons, you know, in the 308 rifles during the two-hour block, go listen to the program if you didn't hear it? I would buy a complete parts kit right off the bat if I was serious about that gun. And if you're listening, because remember, the magazines were cheap. There's a couple of window opportunities here in the last month where the magazines were five for $100, $20 a magazine, not bad for a very proprietary magazine, and there are 20 rounders. Well, those maggies are here and there, but again, now the mags have already started getting been scarfed up. And so the price is kind of moving up progressively. Well spare parts are the other thing. Extractor, bolt carrier, bolt system, springs, everything that's specific to your Yugo 308 rifle, 7.6 QX51 NATO. Well, there's your opportunity right now. Buy a complete separate second parts kit. Don't care what it looks like. If you could, I'd buy more. And by the way, if you're serious you might like the rifle, you might want to build another one. Again though, I won't say it's an orphan, but it is close to being an orphan in that it's an opportunity, there is a parts inventory, it's not the only parts inventory. I guarantee that there's a pile of those guns still operating in Yugoslavia, Croatia, Serbia, etc., because those guns are out there and alive and well in other people's hands. At some point they'll be collected, they may be offered on the Red Revolution market like they are right now. But for the moment what you got is all you got. So if you're serious about that gun, I recommend that you again buy all the mags that you can, pick up another parts kit complete because it'll have all your operating springs, it'll have your bolt, everything else you need to keep the gun running. Okay? And that's a big plus. In fact it's also, like I've told, how many times have I quoted How many different prices you buy it and it's relatively cheap by this era of devalued currency? What will it be worth down the road? Only good. Who knows? Number one is again, there aren't any more, let's remember that. We might end up in a situation where if the economy flops and that's all she wrote and then all of a sudden everything becomes an obtanium price. Weapons in a black market, weapons in a war time situation, don't go down in price. They go up in price. And in some cases, as everybody said, well, I wouldn't sell my gun. No, I wouldn't sell a weapon during war time. I don't want to arm an enemy. And besides, where would I get more? Until I get into a fight, and it's no guarantee I'll get one from the bad guy. Hell, I might blow him to pieces and take and destroy the weapon he's holding. See, you can't count on always enemy resupply. We do look at our enemy as a resupply pod, a mobile organic resupply pod waiting to be harvested. That should be how you always look at your enemy. But there's no guarantee at any given point how much you're going to be able to pull off that corpse. If you aim low and go slow, maybe you just blow their gonads out, blow their hips out, blow those arteries out. Everything above the belt line might still be intact, but there's no guarantee of that. So another reason I would say aim for the groin for that reason. And of course, again, there's still other stuff hanging down there too, like, you know, pistol hangers and magazine pouches up legs, but you got to shoot them somewhere. You know what I mean? You got to get them someplace, people, in order to be able to run up there and strip them bare-ass naked and get on with the rest of business. So again, each of the weapon systems has their advantages in different windows. We're in a short window with those Yugo guns. That doesn't mean it's which model it is. If it's in 1076Q by 51NATO, it is the real odd man out in the AK family. Let's not forget that. The Segas are like that. They're beautiful guns. There's a lot of them out there. There were a whole bunch of them that came in years ago. Now it doesn't seem like it, but it's been decades. Wow, time doesn't wait for anybody, does it, remember? Now another thing about our main battle rifle selection here with the AR-10, and I know Uncle Mark seems to be harping on that. If you can afford the other three rifles, go, you know, please invest. If you find deals on them, absolutely invest. However, again, as I said in the 2R block, if you commit to the M1A, the M14, M1A, M14, You want, for instance, to take advantage of all the spare parts that are critical working parts right away. You want a spare bolt, complete bolt assembly. You want to make sure you have all minor and major springs again. And then right now, the M14, there's a window here where that actually is possible to do with a reasonable not too excessive bite on the wallet. Why do I say that? Well, right now I just saw, I think KeepShooting.com has M14 trigger assemblies, M1A trigger assemblies for, what did I say, $65, but as low as $45. Now, they also had Grant. Now, which one sells out first? Well, that's a roll of the dice. OPRODS, this is the bite on the M14, is the OPROD. You want another OPROD. Ideally you want three. Oh God, Mark, that's like buying another rifle. I know. But if I were going to maintain an M14 slash M1A for an extended period of time, I'd want a complete bolt. I'd want spare firing pins, extractors, ejectors. We talked about this with every weapon no matter what it is. But with the M14 specifically, you want another Op-Rod, at least one right away. You preferably should go out and buy a new one from a manufacturer. You can buy surplus and get new still. There's still some out there in the Cosmoline. But they're a god-awful price. Now, new manufacturers aren't cheap, but are more reasonably priced. And there are three or four really, well, nobody that's making them is a sloth. Everybody who is making parts for the M14 right now pretty much are people who have developed their skill and know what they are doing. You have reached a perfect window for the M14. Right now there are some fantastic people that were kids. When I say kids, when they got into the business they were 25, 27, they knew what they wanted to do. They've grown up in the industry. They do show up at the shot shows. They produce a fantastic product in the rifles that they produce. But they produce parts for the whole of the inventory, the whole of the system. But an op rod is a priority. Two or three would be best because if you're looking on the long haul, if I'm not just going to walk out, shoot it until it breaks and drop it, then the parts that we know are issue parts in the long term. If you don't have the arsenal experience or armory experience, the brand new Op-Rod would be a very, very high priority. And an Op-Rod spring, also another forward gas, you know, gas site system. That would be another thing with the M1A that you definitely want to do. Beyond that, it's whatever you run into that happens to be cheap because there are parts laying around. Eventually, you might get to the point where you feel you can build another M1A, which you can do. If you do it in parts, it will still not be any cheaper, not really, because nothing is getting cheaper. The military surplus parts inventory for something that dates back to, you know, 1950s, 1957 to 1960 on. and through a window of about 15 years of major production and that's it. Though again, that counts even post-war rebuilds and such. Because you've got to remember they didn't chuck any of those weapons out after Vietnam. And I was at the end of Vietnam and we had a significant inventory of M1As, well, M, click correction, in this case, M14 still in service. Now with the G3, One of the other things I definitely would invest again in is a complete parts kit. Shop around, doesn't have to be pretty. There's only a handful of sources for both of the parts kits, and there's only one real significant import source for most of the accoutrements, including the magazines. and that company has been around, yeah, an importer for a very long time. They've done a pretty good job of sorting out the inventory. It's gotten thinner, but the HK, again, is a weapon that you can easily maintain magazines even though they've crept up in price. They're not a dollar apiece anymore. Jay, what a surprise. But they're still very reasonably priced for being actual German manufactured military mags. They're very high quality mag. Now I will put a sub note in here with the German mags. Number one, they made aluminum and they made steel. You all know that. You're offered that when you look at the inventory. The aluminum mags, up until a particular date, initially the magazines were repairable, but what's interesting is Germany chose to use an aluminum that will not re-heliarch or cannot be alloy, aluminum welded back together, you know, heliarch back together. In fact, if you try to operate the metal with any kind of rebonding system using electricity, the aluminum was designed to react and open up rather, in other words, to fail, rather than to reconnect or rebond. It's like acid for blood in aliens. That sounds weird, but it's not. HK hates you. They want to sell more stuff. They don't want you to be able to fix it in the field. The countries, a lot of countries that did buy the HK rifle in Central America, South America, even some African countries, they wanted to keep a short leash on the inventory of parts. So they made a point of specifically hockey-pucking up all of the systems that they could to their benefit. They changed the barrel specs, although they still have a very fine barrel. Originally, both the FNFAO and the HK had barrels that had a cyclic survival rate of up to 100,000 rounds, which was insane. But the fact is that many of the FNFAOs that they imported into Africa were still biting them in the ass with all of these third world African conflicts over and over again, and they weren't dying. They ran out of ammo before they'd run out of the universe. They'd constantly run out of ammo because these countries are all poor before they would burn the weapons system out. So one of the things that the Epic National Guard did into Germans is their export rifles have a different barrel. You've probably seen conversations about this. And for that reason, again, most all of the surplus parts we have that we're seeing are German regular spec military. The one reason that they started cutting the barrels on all of the guns is because the quality of the barrels that were out there that were coming in with the AKs and with the Western European rifles were superior to most commercial barrel rifles available. So they realized, well, if you kill the barrel, it increases the cost and reduces the likelihood that people will be able to resurrect these kits. They might buy them, but they get brushed off because of the restriction in being able to actually put them back into service. The big thing there is that even if you do buy an aftermarket barrel, it's not a comparable spec to the originals. They'll come as close as they can and they do a good job. And the rebuilt barrels are fine for the work we're doing. But understand that the governments, both the foreign and America, consider you the first enemy of the state. Americans are the first enemy of the state. And that's why they've set up the regulations to damage or destroy these critical components. Receivers, that was understandable. But you know what? Anybody can build a receiver. Barrels require a lot more in the way of developed expertise. This is another reason I will tell you to invest in barrels right now. I don't care what you do. AR-15, AR-10 barrels, uppers for AR-15s for instance are the most affordable but it's like putting money in the bank. Right now, as Mary pointed out over at AR-15discount.com, they have AR-15 barrels parkarized. five, six different models for $49.95 a piece. Now these are for AR-15s, not for .308 weapons, 7.60x51 NATO, but they're still an investment cash capital opportunity because they're in the low end right now. There's a little bit of a window here. You buy the barrels, you put them on the shelf. People are going to learn something here. You want, you can build most all of the other parts and or develop another completely different weapon as long as you have the barrel as the foundation. More on that in a minute. But the big thing here again is whatever weapon you choose in a main battle rifle, magazines, magazines, and more magazines, every paycheck you should be investing in magazines for your weapons. take your pick of which one, but you should have a cyclic process to build up more of your main battle rifle or light rifle magazines wherever possible. Especially with the commonality of magazines available right now with the AR-15 and 5.56. The Glocks for the 9mm, I would go Glock in most everything unless you've got a certain weapon you're carrying. They do make some 9mm AR knockoffs with SIG mags. But I would go Glock for most everything because Glock has been around for so long, the Glock mags are so dominant, there's so many manufacturers that you can find an economical solution and buy a pile of them. I mean you should have a hundred mags for a 9mm rifle if that's what you're going to put together as a 9mm shoulder gun. Seriously. And that way you got a couple of Glock pistols by those Gen 2's instead of Gen 3's or Gen 3's instead of the latest. Even Gen 1's because they're cheaper. You can have more of them. So you got two, three pistols and you have a really cool light rifle. The magazine's interchanged. Congratulations. Anyway, we're going to congratulate everybody we got to the bottom of the hour listening to me. And that means that we're going to go to the bottom of the hour break. And at the bottom of the hour... Your forward march is at speed, but you'll learn the back as much faster when you meet our mountain boys. And your leader, John, is dark. Glad you make what little noise you always hit the mark. Hold the rifle, hold the rifle. In our hands, we'll prove no strife. A jitty must come as well as a tooth's life. But it's the way the job must do, and as soon as it is begun. If Lyndon's figure holds the bus through, the quickest will be done. Hold the rifle, hold the rifle. And again, this is LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, LibertyTreeRadio.org, and we are on WBCQ, the Planet 6.160, regular shortwave. Ed, if you could, Johnny Horton and Gary Owen. Gary Owen. For everybody out there, again, a classic piece. Most of you might recall that they've done everything they can to kill the history of a lot of what people used to watch. And you might recall this was the theme for the 7th Cavalry. Gary Owen, Johnny Horton, of course, did a massive number of examples of our classic songs, patriot-oriented. In this particular one of the best right here. Let's follow that up with... on the other side of the Mason Dixon line. Let's follow up with Riding a Raid. And this is for all my raiders out there here in the bottom of Michigan. Right now, it's snowing outside. It's still snowing. Since we started the program, it is still snowing in the bottom of Michigan. It is not sticking, but it is accumulating. Okay, we've got to call it real quick. Jump in there. Okay, hold on. Stay there. Here we go, riding the raid. Everybody out there? Again, if you'd like to make a music request, you can send me an email at liberty at ProVy.net title. Should it be an all caps music request? And in the process then, also lift the author or band, in other words, artist or band. The album, if you can, and the name of the song. If I got the name of the song, that's fine. And if you could, send me a posting, a connection, a link to a version of the song that you might want to hear, since we have the ability to do that. And that can be Vivo, it can be YouTube. Whatever source, it doesn't make any difference. We'll find it, we'll go to it and check it out. That'll help us out a great deal when it comes to the inventory. I like to also see if you've got something new or unique or different, maybe a different version, rather than the production or studio version, which is most common. That's fine. I always love hearing new or different versions of songs. You never know. It might be something we use more extensively for other purposes. We got to call her. Who do we have? Paul in Tennessee. I want to ask a question. I know what they did to unfinished receivers against us, but what have they done to barrels? Well, barrels, number one, is for kits, they destroy the barrels. It used to be when you'd buy a kit, for typically under $100, you would get everything except the actual restricted receiver. It is an arbitrary decision to cut up barrels on gun kits that they've been selling. Example, if you buy a surplus FNFL kit, you'll get Well, the receiver is missing, both. And then on top of that, they're chopping the barrels up. Now, they were giving you the barrel with the kit, even if it was cut up. Now they're not doing that mostly, which is rather interesting because they don't even want the parts of the barrel out there. And there is a reason. If I have part of a barrel, I can make a barrel for another gun if I have that piece. It's true. I can do that. So they help me with barrels. Could I still buy a pistol or rifle barrel easily? Yes, you can, except that in California, it depends on what it is. If you're buying something brand new, yes, right now you can go to anybody and do that. You can buy a Glock. In fact, right now, Glock barrels, I recommend if you're listening and you've got a Glock, figure out what model you've got. Go to AIMSurplus.com, go to Delta Teen Tactical.com, go to, hell, even Montana Air 15. Any of the companies that I've been mentioning... Well, they have Glock barrels for as little as $39 apiece right now. And you'd be crazy not to buy another barrel. $39, $49 will get you a barrel for your pistol. Oh, my gun should be converted with the barrel change and magazine change to 40 Smith & Lesson or 357 Sig too. Well then, that's the barrel I'd prioritize. If you have a 9 already, I would buy additional barrels in whatever chamberings you want right now. Price will be up and down because the 357 Sig chamberings cost a little more for the barrel but not much. And again, you can get them in a number of different finishes. I wouldn't worry about any colors. I would find the cheapest barrel out there. And again, go to AIMsurplus.com, Delcakine Tactical. In fact, even CDNN Sports, they have barrels also. But if you're listening, I don't care who you are, and you included, talking to me right now, buy another barrel right now. That's priceless the fact that you can actually get them And again, you can get them threaded or unthreaded thread it's gonna cost you more personally I just like right now. I'd be looking for having a spare barrel Having more than one would really be good because and again for that price There's no reason not to have a spare barrel for your pistol Now if you've got the ability to change out because it's interchangeable well if it's interchangeable I would get the magazines And I would get the barrel to match up to say 40 Smith and Wesson. Then I would get a barrel and 3-5-7 Sig. And I would get, well, if you got 3-5-7 Sig, your 40 Smith and Wesson magazines work for that. So you're all set. But I would do that right away. Seriously, that's one of the... The one interesting thing is... I think, isn't it? The 3-5-7, it said. Right, it's a negative 40 Kelvin. Yeah, that's the 357 SIG is a pretty decent round. Actually, it's an excellent round because it's typical for the bottleneck pistol rounds in that you can increase velocity dramatically while not introducing extreme cup pressure to the design, which is really critical. The 30 Tokarev round, remember, was considered a Magnum round for the longest time. And in body armor, the bottleneck 30 Tokarev, you have to have a... The body armor has to be rated for 30 Tokarev to protect against it. And a lot of body armor didn't have the protection for that. It's an ice pick round. They don't talk much about 30 Luger, but 30 Luger has a pretty close to comparable performance range to 30 Tokarev. Now the interesting thing is or some six two by you know, whatever Hold on. The other thing is that the bottleneck three five seven fits into that niche The advantage is you're only problem with bullets because today three five seven diameter bullets are all over the place So, you know doing three five sig for reloading isn't isn't a problem at all. I heard the voice caller jump in there. Oh, you're from, Ohio Oh, good. We got two. Let's do Mike first. Go ahead and do Mike. Jump in there. Go ahead. I just wanted to point out that Glock has announced, I guess it might have been months ago, but I just found out they're not going to make any 40 Smith & Wesson or 357 SIG models anymore. Interesting. Well, is that the five which you... Yeah, get one of those police straight in 40s now while you can. I would recommend it because, and here's why, that like I've said, if you've got a Glock, you can also buy other guns to be able to perform with that round. I mean, you've got high points, but if the Glocks are good serviceable weapons, there's nothing wrong with them. The big issue is again, while you can, you'd want to invest in a .40 cal gun, so you cover 9 mil, .40 caliber, .357 SIG is a sidebar. You want something in .45 ACP. And those three basic calibers are out there everywhere. So that one way or another in the overall picture, you'd be able to acquire ammunition and keep one gun or the other fed. See, that's the other consideration in the long haul, is what ammunition will be available. Now, then after that, pick up something in 380 Auto, and certainly as I've said a million times, buy a wheel gun. Buy a .357 or a .38. .357 means you can always use .38 Special, but Let me remind somebody about something there. If you buy a 357 Magnum and you feed it a regular diet of 38 special, you want to stick with standard 38 special, for instance like wadcutter or semi-wadcutter or a standard load in whatever FMJ. Why? Well, what happens if you constantly feed a 357? with a 38 projectile, 38 case, is that the cylinder and the cylinder walls internally with each chamber are receiving an additional pulse and energy strike deeper into the case channel. Now, when you go over to 357, you won't notice this right away, but if you were eating a lot of 38 special plus P or 38 special plus P plus, That's a magnum load, but you're shooting it and discharging it deeper into the cylinder itself. What happens is it will stretch the cylinder to a limited degree when you use regular .357, and this varies depending on the gun and how heavily you've digested that other ammunition and used it in that weapon. When you use .357, the case will form to the cylinder wall. The cylinder wall has a step and it has a tendency to be aggressive at retaining the brass. You've distorted the chamber if you do a lot of shooting. Now this was especially a problem with guns like the Star Revolvers, even the .44 Magnum with .44 or Smith & Wesson. The Comanche was bad for this. Because the metallurgy was different. The stars, the llamas, even the toruses, although they're good guns, excellent guns, I'm not bad-mouthing the torus in any way because I used to sell those. And it still is one of the guns that you want to be careful with. You use only standard velocity in .38 if you can. All you got is plus P. You run with what you got. But for standard shooting or taking to the range and to shoot cheaper you don't shoot plus P plus 38 and the 357 Because you want to you want to maintain the basic form of the weapon just a heads up That's an oddball sidebar, but it's something as long as I was thinking about it something most people don't know about and So I can save you some heartburn. Why? Well, there's a whole bunch of 30 357 revolvers showing up as police service weapons right now They're being gotten rid of apparently they're from France So a bunch of 38 special model 64s have just come in. A bunch of model pens have just come in. A bunch of model 19s have just come in. The 19 is in .357 Magnum and a K-frame. Those are at places like JGSales.com. JGSales has a really good price on those, by the way. JGSales.com. That's a sidebar. In the Glocks, I would buy all of, well, here again. Because of the 80% option out there, guys, everything you need to maintain your Glock is now so much cheaper. You would be foolish not to buy a complete parts kit for one of these 80% guns and have on the shelf. Because everything you need to keep your weapon running or keep that frame running is available for half the price of buying Glock. Well Mark, I want Glock OEM. I know you might, but can you afford to spend that kind of money? And if you can buy three, four, or five for the price of, well, two for the price of one, you're better off with more spare parts on the shelf. The same as with these barrels. These barrels are insanely cheap. For a standard factory Glock barrel, $39 to $49 in plain black, nothing to write home about, nothing special, but they work. So definitely invest in those. Just like we're talking about these main battle rifle kits, invest in the stuff now because it's still reasonably priced. The moment they pass another bill, the moment there's an attack by whoever it is the Israelis are going to order to attack America. The Israelis are going to order their minions, whichever ones they are, to attack America. When this happens, Trump is going to demand gun control grudgingly. And when he grudgingly demands the gun control, everybody that's wearing a red hat is going to go, we got to, well, the boss, the boss, we got to, you guys, how dare you challenge the boss and not follow his orders. All you have to do is bring your guns in and register them. How dare you? How dare you not follow the boss? That's coming. That's not an if, that's just a when as far as I'm concerned. So we need everything to be prepared for when the card flips and when the game flips over. And for that reason, spare parts and pieces are especially critical to overall combat operations. We're going to break the CIA formula that they've used for years because we'll have the system and the inventory in place. And by the way, we're still into all the other cool upper tech stuff too. We know how to use that also. So again, I'll tell you what, forgive me. There was another caller. Jump in there, please. Go ahead. Yeah. I do a lot of reloading. Okay, hold on. We had another caller before you. Go ahead. Jump in there, caller. You've been patient. All I wanted to ask was who had the M14 trigger groups? The ones that are at, that's a good question. I think that they could be TRW. The ones we were talking about go over to KeepShooting.com, KeepShooting.com. But here's the thing, I don't know if we have any of the Asian and their good parts, like I said Taiwanese would be cool with me, but we need to find out. I saw that they were listed, I don't know how long they're going to last, but I thought it was a very good price. There are Chinese, we haven't talked about that in a long time, when the both Polytech and Norinko sent in a bunch of M14 knockoffs that everybody should be familiar with. By the way, they're a stupid price right now too. If you got one, don't shoot it, sell it if you think you want to make a lot of money because those guns are even rarer in terms of just being unique items in the collector's sphere. However, they worked well enough out of the box. The biggest issue was that they did not have a serrated, the flash hider because of gun restrictions coming in at the time when the M14 knockoffs from China came in. They did not have the slots cut for the flash hider. So a lot of guys broke out the Dremel tools and did a real crude job on that. More commonly, people just took the front sight assembly off and put an M14 sight assembly on it. But they could be Chinese even. I mean, the Chinese made them. Somebody asked me years ago why they did that. And one of the things to remember is China used to make clandestine warfare weapons and market weapons to sell out into the third world rental revolution market. Everybody goes, why would China make an M14? They made an M14 to issue to special warfare troops to create the illusion of American forces. That's why they were able to build those guns years ago because they were already building them to sell into the market to undercut us and to, again, also use for their own purposes. I'm sorry, go ahead, please, forgive me. Oh, I was just wanting to ask who it was that had them. It was Keep Shooting. KeepShooting.com was one. KeepShooting.com. Go check them out and see if they still have them available. And there was another location, and I even looked at the image and I said, wow, that's a hell of a price, like about $55 for a complete trigger group assembly. And I'm looking right at the image of my brain. I could see it, but Keep Shooting was the one that sent me an email. And it was in the listing of all the other stuff that they had that had come in over the last couple of weeks. They sent out notices, email notices, KeepShooting.com, KeepShooting.com, KeepShooting.com. And they also had mags. Oh, that's kind of the only one. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Also real quick is I think you might want to check AR-15 discounts. Check them also because they had a couple of odd niche things that were a skew for their normal inventory. Because obviously they're AR-15, but they do have other gun parts. So in fact, I'll go look that up right away because I had a whole pile emails of Florida and they had listings for these parts So tomorrow if I'll play catch up and make sure we offer the rest of release let you know where to go Thank you for all your input. We appreciate that. We are at the top. God bless the Republic We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the Empire is on the run We are on a march both day and night. And remember with collectible items, if they're simply rare, they aren't necessarily the best quality product. They're just unique to the degree and they have an interest in the following. And so the value goes up into some really strange directions. Guys! Buy a whole lot of other stuff with just one odd item you put on the shelf and you really got it for a little of nothing Don't forget that you don't assume. Oh, it's not worth anything Because you could probably buy all the other trinkets you were thinking about with just that one item if you're careful Anyway, thank you. WBCQ Edward is taking over and we'll be back tomorrow same time same hour. So pretty free radio and WBCQ 6.160 regular shortwave. God bless