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Mark Koernke hosted the evening Intelligence Report on October 11, 2021, featuring guest Craig from Forbidden Knowledge discussing the final Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Craig reported record attendance (approximately double normal crowds) due to the event's cancellation after 50 years, with significant logistical challenges including food shortages, traffic congestion, and overwhelmed concessions. The conversation covered the economic impact on the local region, speculation about insurance costs and regulatory pressure as reasons for closure, potential for new management to continue the event, ammunition consumption at the shoot, and the historical significance of Knob Creek as a gathering place for militia and gun rights advocates. The show also addressed Chicago's controversial release of gang members involved in a deadly shootout under 'mutual combatant' doctrine, contrasting it with how self-defense cases are prosecuted against ordinary citizens, and discussed federal corruption involving stolen firearms from property rooms.