Student of the Gun 1268 – Knife Attacks in NYC & FEMA in the Hot Seat

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one, two, six, eight. It's a new world. What have we got for you guys today? Knife attacks. See, we're going to go ahead and give you the stories that the mainstream news media will not give you or they're going to ignore because it doesn't help them to further their agenda. Yes, indeed. And oh, the FEMA story is not going, and I'm very happy about this. It's not going away.

They thought that they could do one of those. Oh, well, the person involved has resigned. So that's it. End of the story. Just go look other places. Nope.

Florida's not going to drop it. They're not going to let it go. And now that Big Don is back and they're going to be back in the White House, I don't think that they're going to wheeze a lot of this one. So we're going to talk about the weaponization of bureaucracies today. We've got an EOTech Tech Talk for you guys at Frogloop. We've got a student at the gun home room brought to you by a student at the university and a whole lot more. So listen up Buttercup.

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the questions for you. Yes, we will. We will do that for you. All right, Jared, do you have anything to say? Just thank you all for being here listening. Appreciate having you. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed.

I kind of, my projects, I don't have a hard dedicated forecasted schedule for reviews and projects. Generally, I review things and I discuss things and we do videos and as you guys probably know, if you're paying attention, I write for, not just us, but I write for shoot on.com or for shooting news weekly and the outdoor wire networks and so on and so forth.

And one of the assignments that I was recently given or requested or what have you is to review the ODS 1775 rifle. Yes, the ODS 1775 rifle, that is the Occam defense, the Occam defense rifle, as you guys should know, if you don't know, well, I'm gonna hip you to it.

If you missed it, I, myself and Brian Keeney and Joe Moe and Marco, of course, and Evan and Marty, of course Marty, because it's his show. We did the A.K. Corner Christmas Buyers edition.

We did the AK corner Christmas shopping edition last week. And one of the things we talked about were accessories and things that you could add on to your guns and things for your, the AK aficionado in your life, you know. And we talked about the Merck rail, the M-E-R-C rail.

and the ODS 1775 rifle that I have has the Merk Rail on it. And as you guys should know, and we discussed it last week, you don't want to be putting, you don't want to put optics on the sheet metal dust cover of an AK. It's just a bad idea, just not a good idea. And the other thing that Brian discovered, see Brian Keeney has not been, you know, most people in the gun culture like, what have they been doing, Jared? They've been shooting there, what?

Their whole life. I've been shooting my whole life. My entire life. I've been shooting my whole life. You know, Brian doesn't pretend that he's been shooting his whole life.

and he'll admit to you that he was raised by liberal hippie parents to you know be afraid of guns and so forth and he had to get himself into guns as an adult he had to get himself into the gun culture and of course he did he did it the exact right way he booked a seat at uh...

tactical response and he got into one of James Yeager's classes and that was the conversion process and then he became a believer. He became a true believer. So Brian, he came into it without a lot of preconceived notions, right? So when he would take a pistol class or a rifle class and use an AK, he was like, hmm, they're good.

There should be a better way to do this. That's something I love about Brian is he's got that genius engineer brain. He finds something and he's like, there's got to be an easier way to do this. There's got to be a better way to do this. Well, that's it. There isn't a better way. This is the only way. And he's like, I bet you I could come up with a better way.

But this way we've been doing it the whole time. Yes, this is how they are. Just normal. We should do it this way. Yeah. So he came up with the rear sight tower idea by replacing the original factory rear sight tower with one that had an M13 Picatinny rail and a notch cut in the center so you could use it for a backup site. Which is genius. If you guys don't know about that, it's freaking genius.

The problem with AKs is unlike an AR, you can literally, not figuratively, literally, by every single part you need to assemble an AR-15.

put it together, you know, on a Saturday afternoon on your workbench. If you have a vice, that's nice. I mean, you want, you want to have a bench vice and you need to have like an, you know, a dedicated AR 15 wrench, you know, something, you need some punches and stuff like that. But the reality is you can assemble an AR on your workbench in your garage and it'll work if you do everything right. I mean,

It's not so with the AK. There are things you can do to an AK. You can change out the hand guards, you can change out the pistol grip, you can change out the stock. You can even change out the trigger if you're careful. But when it comes to barrels and trunnions and stuff like that, now, that's something that a gunsmith with the proper tools has to do for you.

So the problem we became is with the rear sight tower is Brian couldn't just sell it to the average dude and he would install it in his AK and his garage, right? So people are like, well, I have to ship you the gun and then it becomes a whole thing and it becomes a whole, I have to ship you the gun. And then that's just it. So Brian,

being the smart guy, he's like, well, what if we figured out a way a rail system? And of course, 10 years ago or five, even five years ago, most of the AK rails were super heavy. Right? They added two plus pounds of additional weight to the front of the gun, which you don't want to do.

So he came up with this M-E-R-C Merc Rail, which is made of 60, 65 aluminum or 60, 61 or something like that. It's made of aluminum. It only weighs 16 ounces total for the rifle size one. And the smart thing that Brian did is he said, instead of putting, see what we did 10, 15 years ago is like, well, you got to have top, bottom, left, right, pick rail, right? That's what you have to have. Well, that's a lot of aluminum.

Right? And that's weight. So what Brian did, he's like, here's what I'm going to do. We're going to put rail on the top, fixed rail on the top where it needs to be. But we'll leave the bottom and the left and the right. We'll just put the MLOC, which was really smart, a mag pole. When they design that, that was a very ingenious thing. We'll just put the MLOC mounts. And if people want to customize it with a grip or a light or

this or that or whatever, well, they can just do that. And if they don't, then there's no extra weight. Pretty smart, huh? Yeah. And the one thing that you'll notice about if you have an ODS 1775 rifle, like I do, you'll notice that it is not front heavy, that it balances really well.

That's the problem with adding crap to the front of your AK is it makes the gun front heavy. And then it becomes unwieldy and yada, yada, yada. Well, well, this is EOTEC Tech Talk. What am I talking about? Well, what I just did, I'm reviewing the 1775 for shoot on, the articles that I've got and submitted it. It's probably why it's not out yet. But I installed an EOTEC 552

And the difference between the 552 and the 512 is 552 has the night vision capability in the 512 dozen. But they both take the double A lithiums or just regular double A's or whatever.

So yeah, and that and with the Merc Rail, you can put the site right exactly where it needs to be. It doesn't have to be all the way, you know, people are like, I don't want to, I don't like the idea of having my optic like eight inches up on the front, like way out towards the gas block and stuff like we don't have to. You can put it right over where the site normally would be.

And the great thing with the Mercrails, you can still take off the dust cover and remove the guts and do all the cleaning and put it all back together. You don't need any extra tools. You don't need like special wrenches or whatever to disassemble it. Just put it on, put it off, and you're going to go. And it holds it stable, it holds it steady. And another thing, it kind of

It works with the harmonics of the barrel and it actually makes the gun more accurate. It makes it so you have a super accurate AK and you've got plenty of air circulating around the barrel for heat dissipation. And yeah, it's just a good product. And so for tech talk and tech talks when we talk about tech, right? So we talk about stuff. So look for that in the very near future.

We've got the HWS, the holographic weapon site, the EOTEC HWS mounted to the ODS 1775 rifle. We're going to be reviewing that. And if you want to see, if you want to see that gun, I actually held that gun up for the camera when we did our talking led AK corner. So there's that. You can check that out if you want. All right. Attention new listeners. All right.

Zach, you wanna, are you there to pick up the new listeners thing?

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Yeah, that's cool. For those of you that don't know, Zach started doing a Black Friday box. We've got some new listeners. So tell them what the Black Friday box is.

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Yeah, that true because mail is going to be crazy. But yeah, and our PO Box is on our our PO Box on our website. But yeah, the Black Friday Box, we've been doing this for what about eight years now, you think? Oh, I don't know. Did you start doing it in Saratoga? I think I started doing it. It might have been the last year we were in Mississippi, actually. Were you doing the shipping then? Yeah, I've been doing the shipping since before we got an office. Really?

Remember we had all the shipping stuff set up in the living room back in the old house. Oh, in the in the family room on the table. Yeah. Yeah. Pack of the old old days. Yeah, we're like. Oh my gosh. Apple computers. We started in a garage. Yeah. We started.

Yeah. I mean, we've been doing everybody years now, and every year somebody, some lucky SOB gets a whole bunch of extra stuff that they didn't even ask for, and they're very welcome for it. And again, no purchase necessary, send the staff, but just, but yeah, all our books will be on sale, our pocket of sales will be on sale. Black Friday box is back, and we're gonna have some new stuff. And of course, we're gonna have you having some additional free goodies thrown in with pretty much just every order, just because we love you very, very much.

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Yeah, you guys didn't realize it, but we had Zach set at 1.5 speed just there. He was set at 1.5, so you could listen louder, listen faster. All right, it's time for the pro tip of the week. Brought to you by frogboob.com.

All right. It's really super simple. Um, frog lube, your, does frog lube work on AKs? Yes. As a matter of fact, it does. Uh, for the, the ODS 1775, you want to say something? Yeah, I was just going to say there you go and AR versus an AK when you're, when you're applying lube cleaning and applying lube, is there a difference in that process? A major difference.

No, not a major difference. You just want to make sure you put it like a the most important part of an AK is in the bolt channel where the bolt runs back and forth in the in the bolt carrier receiver and not receiver the op rod mechanism. Yeah, the you'd put you clean up the spring in there and the apply loop to the spring or around the spring. What are you thinking? Now the spring what spring?

Yeah, I'm sorry. Did I say spring? Yeah. Wow. Like the BCG, the bowl area. Yeah, yeah. Like underneath the sheet metal.

Yeah, so you take the carrier off, pull the bolt carrier out. So that the AK is super ridiculously simple. As you guys who own them know, it's just two parts. It's the the operad and the carrier and then the bolt. And you just rotate it and pull it out and make sure you got lube in there. And then of course, you've got the area where

your your upper rod where your bolt carrier is running back and forth against the rails and you you want to obviously put lube there you want to don't worry about putting it on the on the piston

Don't worry about that. People get super, people who are in the military who were received punishment or ridicule or whatever for having carbon on any part of their M16. There's carbon on that side. There's carbon in the gas tube. And like, yeah, there's always going to be carbon in the gas tube. That's how it works. Don't stick a pipe cleaner in there and tell me that it's, you know, these freaking armor games.

carbon on the the piston gas piston area is fine it's fine now it bunches me up man it makes me I know you military guys like Jay Gibson who cleaned my AK

I was trying to figure out how many rounds I could put through that thing before it's, before it failed. Come on, man. Come on, man. It was like tens of thousands of rounds through into that. Now I have to start all over. You're like, what? Who's this Jay Gibson you're talking about?

Need to listen louder, buddy. But anyway, yeah, just frog. The main area to put it on is the bolt and where the channel, the bolts channel, and of course on the rails.

And that's pretty much it. You don't want to put a lot of, on the internals, you don't want to put a lot of lube in there because that's just going to make dust stick to them. And then of course, punch the bore like once every thousand rounds or something, you know, punch the bore if you want to, if you don't, that's fine. You're like, what? I guess I subconsciously asked a real question earlier.

Um, the, like the, the carrier spraying. So would you, would you remove that when you, when you lube, would you have it there? Would you take the pieces apart from like the bolt and the carrier spraying? No, what I do with the spring thing is just pop that sucker out. And if you really are feeling energetic, just take a rag and just.

rub it down. You don't need to really put lube on that spring. If you do, you need to put it on there and then run it, run a rag. So it's a super light coating. You don't want to ever put a heavy coating. You know, like in the, in the Marine Corps, they made us pull the buffer springs out and clean the buffer springs. So there was no carbon on them. I'm like,

Dude, that's two reasons for that. The military thing, number one, they're teaching you to know that weapon upside down backwards so that you become an expert in field stripping. So you know everything about the internals of that gun, which is not a bad thing.

Right. I mean, you should have an intimate familiarity with the gun that you're going to use to save your own life, right? You're fighting gun. I don't have a problem with that. Um, but then I think this is going to, that statement will stem really well into something that I added to the SRTG homeroom section later. Oh, okay. And then you've got that, but then you also have this essentially, we don't have anything for the troops to do.

Well, have them clean weapons. That's the default. That's the default for troops. I mean, we literally, when I was in the infantry, not boot camp, like actual infantry, if there was nothing on the training schedule,

the lieutenant would just drop in weapons maintenance, right? Because there has to be, the rule is there has to be something on the training schedule. The training schedule can't be blank, right? So it's Wednesday, we're in Garrison, we're not deployed, there's, that we're not going to the field, there's literally nothing going on. So what do we drop from zero nine to 11 30 weapons maintenance?

So you come back from chow, and you go to the armory, and you draw your weapon, even though you haven't fired it since the last seven times you cleaned it. Dude, I carried an M9 Beretta, right? I was a rocket man, right? So I had a rocket launcher, and I had an M9 Beretta. Now, I hadn't fired either one of them in months.

I'd cleaned them like 18 times since the last time I'd fired them. So you know how long it took me to disassemble, wipe down, lube, putting and putting my bread back together? All the five minutes. So what are you, well, where do you do that? You put it back together, you throw it on your bunk and you go play cards until weapons maintenance is over with and then you walk back over to the armory and you turn them back in, you go to chow. That's what you do.

And for that, they don't, they don't inspect them. For that thing, they're just like, okay, cool. Just hand it to them. They're like, peace out. They give you your weapon card back and you, you go on with your life. So there's that. So.

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I went on full force gear and then I went to the helmet and I clicked by here and I went there and they didn't have any. You know why that is?

because they sold out. You done waited too long to buy the helmet. Because everybody else who was listening bought them. But I did contact them and they said that they did another manufacturing run on the helmets and that it will be three to four weeks from today when you hear this, that they should be back in stock. So pay attention.

That's what you need to do. Just pay attention. And hey, if you got yours, awesome. Because it's a good product. It's a good, it's a value added thing. It's a good deal. It comes with the cover. It comes with the, I mean, it's a good deal. And what do I go to do this again? Fullforgedgear.com. Fullforgedgear.com.

fullforgedgear.com. Awesome. Yes, I will check back here daily so I can get one of mine. Yeah, so fullforgedgear.com. Yes, indeed. So check those guys out. Have a good time. Check them out. Tell them the student of the gods sent you. I don't know how you can do that. That's no magic. There's no place. I was just thinking it was really nice of them to end the menu. You go underneath the armor and they put a ballistic helmet link for you so you can get directly there. There you go.

Uh, and, and they have their, they have their carriers and then they have the, uh, the plates. I actually kind of forgotten about the, the, the plates. Um, they have the level three A plate that is, this is what's crazy is it, it's so light. It's rated for three A, but it's so light that I put it in my shoulder bag in my single strap man pack shoulder bag. Uh, I put it in there and literally forgot about it.

Like, I was like, oh yeah, that's right. I've got that armor in there. I see that they've got three A and level four. Yeah, ballistic plates. What is the difference between three and four? Three A is a three A is a pistol plate. Three A is designed to stop pistol caliber bullets and buckshot and bird shot and stuff like that. Three A will not stop rifles and it will not stop shotgun slugs.

It's weird. The NIJ rating, it goes 2A, then 2, then 3A, then 3, and then 4. There is no 4A. So level 3 and level 4 is hard armor to decide to stop rifles.

And I was just going to say there's a book called the design of everyday things that that that naming system there with three coming after three a just goes against everything. Yeah, it should be in the natural design of things. Yeah, I don't know why, you know, they that NIJ decided to do that, but they did. So it was on purpose too. It's just like once I had it explained to me, I'd probably be like, Oh, okay.

So NIJ has been raiding. They have had a body armor raiding. Can you guess for how long? How long that goes back? Oh, 100 years. No, come on. They didn't have a body armor 100 years ago. What? Oh, they did. They did. They had shields. Oh, that's fair. Yeah. Well, actually 100 years ago was 1924.

Yeah, a hundred years ago wasn't the medieval ages. Crazy. A hundred years ago, we'd already been in and out of World War I. Yeah, that's true. Wow. I got to say 200 years now. Yeah. Maybe 300. I got to start saying a larger number. But no, but 1972.

So 50 years, NIJ's been rating armor for body armor for 50 years. That's how old the, that's how long it's been doing. Fitty. Fitty. Anyway. All right. So, uh, there you go. Now you've got your marching orders, uh, go forward and, and do good things. All right. It's time for what time is it? A student at the gun university, or I'm sorry, a student at the gun home room.

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All right. Before we get into the hot topic, actually, there's two hot topics. We've got a topic A and a topic B in today's homeroom. I'm going to remind you guys that we, at Students Against University, hi. Hi. That's us. We are going to be in Boulder City, Nevada at the Pro Gun Club twice in the next three months.

We're going to be there for our Marshall application of the rifle class. Grab your AR, grab your AK, come on out. I don't care. Grab anything. Grab your M1 carbine, your Steyer, Aug, whatever. Bring it out on the November 30th and December 1st. That's the last weekend of November.

It's weekend after Thanksgiving. And then we're going to be back by popular demand at the Pro Gun Club in January. It's the weekend after the shot show. So we're going to be there in January for the 25th and 26th for our Marshall application of the pistol class. That's our two day.

Primary pistol class we were there last year had a great we had practically a full class last year We had a full class last year. We're hoping to have another full class this year. So you guys who live in California Nevada Las Vegas area Reno area. I don't know Arizona Utah New Mexico is a little bit far away, but

Yeah, if you guys are over on the West Coast, like I said, Las Vegas people, California people, Oregon people, Washington people, I don't know. We're gonna be at the Pro Gun Club in Boulder City, Nevada, and if you guys don't know where that is, it is essentially just a hop skip and a jump south.

of las vegas so yep if you google pro gun vegas it will appear yep pro gun vegas so it's not in the side for those of you that are booking hotel rooms that are not local i would highly recommend

making sure that the hotel supports your lifestyle. Because if they don't, then you probably maybe don't want to give them your money. And you can do something that's a nice way of telling them that you're not going to stay there because they don't support your lifestyle. And what I've started doing is telling people that I recognize that you no longer support a diverse crowd. And so your diversity is not

at a level that I would appreciate it being some semblance of that. I play the diversity card. And it has actually worked a couple of times. Ask them if they discriminate. If it's their hotel policy to discriminate against certain people.

and be like, no, absolutely. Well, no, we do discriminate against white Christian men who own guns. We discriminate against them. Anybody that came for gun training, they don't support you. So why would you support them? That's right. That's right.

But then you've got other really super smart people like, oh, I don't know what the situation is now, but it used to be. There was the antelope hills. That's right. Oh, man. I'm taking myself. I'm dating myself. There was a hotel in Paulton. Or was it where was it? Was it in Paulton? Was it in Prescott?

For when you went to gun site, you stayed at the Antelope Hills. That was the gun site hotel. And the people there that behind the desk, they were perfectly happy knowing that gun people were coming and staying in their hotel. And, you know, they ended up like, yep, rock on, we get it. And the truth is for probably 20 to 25 years, it was gun site that kept that hotel going 27, 24, 7, 365.

Because you've always got, you know, that's something with hotels is they have that touristy season and they all know when that is. But then you have the off season when you really got a hustle to sell seats in your, you know, to sell rooms. But if you've got a place like gun sight where people are coming all year long that keeps you filled. So, and those, and I don't know what the deal is now. I don't even know if Antelope Hills is still a thing.

But it was when I was there 20 plus years ago, 21, 22, 23 years ago. Um, yeah, we stayed at the Antelope Hills and they were more than happy for us to be there. They were absolutely tickled for us to be there. Uh, well, you know, when we went what two years ago, Jesus has been two years already. Has it been two years already that we went in March or was it a year ago, March?

I think it was a year ago, March. Yeah. Yeah. So well, this coming March will be two years. Anyway, the hotel that we stayed at wasn't there. And it's, that's a new hotel. It wasn't there when I was going to the, you know, I started going to a gun site. And I'm pretty sure that that's the new hotel of record.

Yeah, probably. It was a nice place. Yeah. And the reason I brought this up is because I've had people ask me if we've got group rates for the area down there in Boulder. And trust me, I have tried. I've called many a hotel and every single one of them asked me, well, what are you there for? And I'm going to be honest because they don't support what we're doing, that I don't want to support them.

And every single one of them is said, well, can your people just like essentially disarm themselves, leave their guns in their cars? I'm like, we're just not going to do business with you. Sorry. It's all right. First of all, it's Nevada. All right. Yeah, I know. And that's the thing is like, I know the reason that they're doing it because the insurance company blah, blah, blah, blah. But asking somebody to leave their firearm in a car is that that's literally what arms criminals. That's what arms the bad. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like, no, it's like, no, we're not, we're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. So we don't have an official hotel that we've got a group rate with yet. I'll keep asking. But at this point, you know, there's only a few of them around there. So yeah, maybe Airbnb if you students want to get together and grab an Airbnb, stay together in one place. That would be kind of cool. Yeah, that's, that's true. So.

Yeah, it's people we just got to keep pushing forward and get people to stop acting like. Stop being afraid of guns. Is there ever going to be a time that we get them? You know, and I think that we can. Because let's face facts. It's all the more the more people you pile up into a city.

the more slavish they become. Can we agree on that? Because where I live, where I live here, here Wyoming, you know, people carry guns all the time, people carry them open, they carry them concealed, they carry them like concealed, but everybody knows that that's a gun underneath your t-shirt kind of a thing. And no one bats an eye. No one cares. No one calls 911. No one freaks out.

it's perfectly fine, right? And so you're like, well, okay, what's the big, yeah, what are you saying? Yeah, but if you did that in a, you know, look at a metropolitan area. Why is it that people live in metropolitan areas and say, are a bunch of scared little crybaby sheep?

What makes them their brain that way? Because they're, I mean, the people who live here are human adult Americans. The people who live there are human adult Americans. The only difference is we live in a, well, I don't live piled up on top of other people like a bunch of rats. What is it that makes people that way?

I don't know. So I mean, I personally think could like a subject. Yeah, I like that. Answer answering in the student going to home room section that we haven't even got to yet. Yeah, haven't we? One of those things is certainly the the higher like if you look at the ratio, right, probability of threat.

there are certainly when you add more people, there's more anonymity, which means there's more crime because the community cannot hold the criminal responsible or the can, but the larger the community gets, the more it becomes, it doesn't become the responsibility of, but the responsibility seems to be transferred to the state, the city and the state officials, rather than the community making sure that

You know, they're people act accordingly. All right, let's get to the topic though. Go ahead and do this Q&A. Yes, so we have a question about training. And the question is, I've got arthritis and it's difficult to practice for long periods of time with my carry pistol. What do you think about using something like an MMP22 for practice, even though I am carrying a different gun? Do you have any advice?

Uh, yeah, actually the M&P 22, I have one. Uh, it's, it's a good gun. I haven't shot it in a while. I should probably rip it out, whip it out and shoot it. Uh, you know why I don't shoot it much? Cause it doesn't have a threaded barrel and my other 22 pistols do have threaded barrels. So it's easier that way. Um, yeah, the, the great thing about, and we, I wrote about, I did an article way back when, when we used to kill trees and scored ink on them and sell them with staples in them. Um,

Yeah, I wrote an article about that, and it's essentially, it's maybe seven-eighths the size of a pistol. It's not quite a full-size gun, but I believe if memory serves that I could put it in the same holsters that I could put in M&P in. Yeah, that's, I mean,

Good. I mean, I would rather do that than not shoot, right? I mean, I'd rather do that than not shoot. So, oh, and start drinking more water. If you got arthritis.

Take note of your, your water intake and start making sure you're drinking more water. Um, that might help you out a little bit there, but yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. And of course it gives you, you know, because the M and P 22, although they, they had the, I don't know what it is with 22 pistols. I guess it's, they, they think they're selling them to, to neophytes or amateurs or, um, something about 22 pistols.

that they all, even, even like this one right here. Like all of my, I have more than one M&P nine millimeter handgun. I've got the long slide version. I got the regular version. Now you gotta, they don't have manual safeties on them, right? Right. Well, in California, stop. If you're about to say, well, in California, I don't wanna hear that. But the 22s do, they have the flipper thumb safety on them.

And I don't know what it is about that that they feel like. You know, of course, because if you designed it exactly like if it was a striker fired gun, I think it's probably because the internal firing mechanism because it's a rimfire is different than the center fire mechanism and they feel like they have to have it there. The Glock 22 pistol. We haven't talked about that in a long time.

The Glock 44, which is a 22, which Glock is just like, you know what? We're going to call them whatever we want to call them. And if it confuses that you, then it's your fault. It's just your fault. Yeah, but the Glock 22, I believe has essentially the same or an identical firing system as the bigger guns. And to tell you the truth, I've never fired one.

They came out and, I don't know, we were just doing other stuff and we weren't like, okay, cool. And some people, there were a couple of companies that made a lot of money doing 22LR conversion kits for Glock. Do you remember that, Jared? Do you remember that? No, I don't remember. Yeah, there was a, there were like two major companies that,

did 22 conversion kits for things like the Glock and the 1911 and so on and so forth. But yeah, so the answer is, yeah, go for it. Go for it. All right, disarmed people can still be murdered. And I remember a student in the gun homeroom was all about being dangerous on demand. Part of that is training. Part of that's actually carrying a gun. We got a story from the, you're probably not going to hear about this because this does not help

the media to further their anti-gun disarmament agenda.

doesn't help at all. So since it doesn't help, and of course, it doesn't help the Democrats, because this is a city that has been run by criminal Democrats for a long time. Uh, where the mayor's like, we need more gun control. We need more gun control. Ah, Mayor McCheese goes out and he's like, do you know why we have crime? We have crime because we don't have enough gun control. Okay.

So how would more gun control have stopped this from happening? Uh, what? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So we got a story here. This is what happens when, well, this is what happens when you disarm your people and you make them a bunch of a bunch of victims and slaves.

Says knife wielding maniac goes on unprovoked NYC stabbing spree, leaving one woman, two men dead. Huh, a blood covered lunatic toning two knives tracked across Manhattan in a savage broad daylight stabbing spree, a spree that left a woman and two men dead Monday. Wow, that sick gun control is really working out well.

The six suspected stabber, a mentally ill homeless man with eight past arrest in New York City alone, was stopped by a hero cop thanks to the help of good Samaritans. Including a cab driver and a British tourist, said NYPD chief of detectives, Joe Kinney, and police sources. Ramon Rivera, 51, was identified by sources as the person of interest in custody.

seen with a long beard and unwieldy hair in a grizzled mugshot obtained by the post. Police have no other suspect in the spate of unprovoked random attacks, said Mayor Eric Adams during a morning briefing. As Mayor McCheese hasn't resigned yet, huh? After all the corruption charges. I think he's just going to he's just going to fight it out until until it's time for election time, then he'll go away.

Today, we have this is a quote from, from Mayor McCheese. Hey, Adams. Yeah. Today, we have three innocent New Yorkers just going about their lives who are the victim of a terrible, terrible assault. It is a clear, clear example of the criminal justice system, mental health system that continues to fail New Yorkers. Hey, can I, can I raise my hand here? I got a question for Mayor McCheese. Who's in charge of that?

Who's in charge of the criminal justice mental health system in New York? Is it Donald Trump? Is Donald Trump the evil mean, the mean tweeter? Is he the one that's in charge of it? What do you mean? This isn't a political thing. That does nothing to do with that. Hell, it doesn't. Is this the same New York that has the zero bail policy where you can rob a bank? Is Jared is robbing a bank of felony?

Last time I checked, even in New York, robbing a bank was a felony, right? This is the same New York where you can rob a bank, they arrest you, you sign a piece of paper, walk out the back door, and go rob another bank the next day. And then get caught the next day. Let's not forget this happened. A guy robbed, was it three or four banks in one week?

and they kept letting him out. That's New York, okay? It wasn't mean, evil, racist, Nazi Republicans that came up with the catch and release program where we catch criminals and we release them like as fast as we can like they're on fire. So this, this dude has been, how many times? Eight?

eight prior arrests in New York alone. Yeah. So Mayor McCheese is the same person that would tell you, because he has. He is an anti-gun pro-gun control. Well, he's not anti-gun, he's anti-civilian gun. You know, he thinks that the NYPD should have all the guns they want.

because they work for the state but the people mmm mmm no no no i love how they say they're stopped by a brave new and why paid the officer and some good Samaritans a hero cop how does that help the three dead people well what do you mean paul it doesn't it doesn't help the three dead people so

Maybe just putting this out there that if people were allowed by their masters in the government to actually defend themselves, now I got a question for you, Jared. So we got three dead innocent people like Mayor McCheese. He's acknowledged the three dead innocent people. People died for no reason. Oh, they died for a reason.

So the families of the deceased, they can sue the city of New York and the NYPD for failing to protect them, right? To keep failing to keep them safe, right? That's for you, Jared. Well, according to the Supreme Court, at least have no duty to protect you.

Well, according to the state, yeah, at large, according to the New York State Supreme Court, the police of New York City have no duty to protect you either. So how does somebody like Mayor McCheese jive these court decisions? See, the New York, New York has been sued by victims of crime and they weaseled their way out of it.

to say, well, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, no. I mean, it sucks to be you. Sorry, you got stabbed to death by this whack-a-do. Sorry about that, but we're not responsible. And then you say, okay, cool, so we can carry weapons to defend ourselves, right? Oh, no! You can't do that.

What do you mean? I can't do that. No. So on one hand, you're telling me that the police have no constitutional responsibility to protect me from violent criminals. Yep. That's what we're telling you. So I can protect myself, right? Nope. You can't do that either. How do you jive that? Okay. And I'm just a dude on the radio. How is it that no, that no one has been able to throw that in their faces?

You know, when Mayor McCheese goes out and he's like, he does this real somber news conference and he's like, we're very, we feel really bad for these people. No, you don't. If you felt bad for those people, you would let them defend themselves. Well, you just don't understand that the solution isn't letting people carry guns. But what's the solution? I'm waiting. Help me out.

What's the solution? Knife control. We're gonna, we're gonna ban knives. We're gonna make people, you know, get knife licenses. We've got somebody who's living on the outside of the system. We've got a homeless man who somehow ended up with two kitchen knives, you know, not tactical knives, just regular old, you know, kitchen knives.

And just decided he was going to just stab people. Yep. And the, you know, the, if this was in a free state where people were armed to protect themselves and good Samaritans saw a guy chasing a woman with a knife, well, they could shoot him into the ground until he stopped doing that. What do you think?

I think we should just ban their knives. Yeah, that's we need to life ban that knife. Yeah, we need to, we need to, we need knife. That's what they need. That's what they need in New York. They need to follow their, their, uh, the lead of the slaves in London and put knife surrender boxes on the street corners so people can surrender their knives.

Yeah. Yeah. And people say, well, what should I do if I go to New York and when I'm not allowed? Well, another thing, and we haven't even talked about the Daniel Penny thing about the guy who actually, it's funny how they praise

In this story, they're like a hero cop and good Samaritans. Yeah, we had a dude in New York that actually stepped in to protect people from being assaulted on the subway and the bad guys subsequently died. Sorry, not sorry. And New York's like, you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna prosecute you to the full extent of the law.

Why should anyone want to be a good Samaritan and step in and help and help their neighbors or help people when they obviously know that the state, the state's more concerned with prosecuting good Samaritans and they are, we got a wackadoo here who's been arrested eight times, now has murdered three people.

State didn't seem a whole really concerned about him until just recently. And I, Jared, I didn't, I didn't read the, the all the way down to the bottom. Did the hero cop shoot this dude? No.

No, there was a taxi driver that saw what he thought was a robbery. But it was actually the guy stabbing the last suspect. And then so the cab driver told a Popo that there was a suspect over there that he watched Rob somebody. So the Popo went and detained him. And then after the detention of the criminal, the officer quickly realized that, oh, there's something else going on here.

So he'd already, he wasn't like in the act. He was like done. He was all done. Like across the city, like 19th street and 8th Avenue to 30th street and FDR drive, which is from the one side of the city to the other. And then the third one was about, uh, probably, I don't know, six to 10 blocks away from the second one.

So the gap between the first and second attack was about about two hours. So we had enough time to traverse the city. And then the gap between the second and third attack was. I can't find that information quickly. I think it was about another hour. Thirty six year old woman was knifed multiple times in full view of several witnesses. Well, there you go.

Full view of several witnesses. This is just pathetic. It's pathetic. But don't worry, New York. Now that they have this guy in custody, they're gonna spend a million dollars to try him and then incarcerate him and they'll probably keep him locked up for a while. They definitely won't execute him because it's New York.

It's all right for the citizens, for the people to die. It's cool for them to die. But we don't execute murderers in New York because that's just mean. In New York, remember, remember the Kumo when he smiled and all of his ghoulish minions smiled as he signed the bill allowing infant murder up to the day of birth?

Yeah, that's New York for you. You're like, what are we supposed to do? I don't know. Fix your own problems. But you don't want to fix your own problems, right? We can't. We don't want to fix your own problems. We want someone else to fix them for us. Cool story, bro. All right, soon to the gun.com slash culture.

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and others and others all right so uh let's go and jump into the main one i love love love this so as we mentioned we talked about this like a week or two ago right after it came out that that uh they had a paper trail they had actual evidence that a fema supervisor had instructed her field troops

when they went into the hurricane-ravaged areas to skip over any houses that had Trump flags or banners or signs or whatever. Yes. Well, there were whistleblowers, people were like, hey, this is, they screenshotted that. They're like, yeah, they told us to not help the Trump people.

Don't the Trump people pay taxes? Well, what's your point? Isn't FEMA funded by the American taxpayer? All of the American taxpayers? Not just Democrats, but Republicans too?

Well, after it went public and they couldn't hide it anymore, then they're like, oh, well, we're doing an internal investigation and the person in question has resigned. So it's over with, we're done talking about it. No, Florida said, no, not good enough. No, this is Florida is going with, this is pattern of behavior.

This isn't a one off. This is, this is the criminal government in DC weaponizing bureaucracies against their political opponents. So what's going on?

He says, Florida sues FEMA for conspiring to deny disaster relief to Trump supporters. The suit names FEMA director, Deann Criswell, and now fired supervisor, Marney Washington, who told workers to ignore Trump supporters.

Florida is suing FEMA for allegedly discriminated against supporters of President-elect Donald Trump after a daily wire report revealed a supervisor-directed relief workers in the Sunshine State to avoid homes advertising Trump. The suit from Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody alleges that FEMA director Deann Criswell and now fired Supervisor Marney Washington conspired against the civil rights of Trump supporters in Lake Placid, Florida.

The suit comes after whistleblower told the daily wire. They were directed to bypass the homes of people with Trump flags or yard signs when canvassing homes in Lake Placid to see if they qualified for hurricane assistance after Hurricane Milton.

While the facts will continue to come out over the next over the weeks and months, it is already clear that the that defendant Washington conspired with senior FEMA officials, as well as those carrying out her orders to violate the civil rights of Florida citizens, the suit says the suit which sites reporting from

The Daily Wire accuses both Criswell and Washington of illegally depriving Trump supporters of federal aid. Moody filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Port Pierce Division. Moody here says that hurricane season is not over in the federal agency in charge of emergency response is embroiled in scandal.

caught withholding aid from storm victims in Florida who support President Trump. I am taking swift legal action to find out how far this political discrimination reaches and to make sure all Americans who fall victim to devastating storms are served, regardless of their political affiliation. The suit also points to an interview Washington gave

to Roland Martin, where she said that FEMA has widespread policy of avoiding politically hostile homes. Politically hostile, meaning Republicans. How do you define politically hostile? Oh, they get to decide it. Criswell has aimed, has claimed the guidance was an isolated incident and not in accordance with FEMA, FEMA policy.

Yeah, do you see the November 12th link in there? A fired employee speaks out, says it was not an isolated incident, that they were instructed.

to do so. This is magnificent. This is awesome. Ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly what you don't want your government to do. This is why free speech is so important. Remember we talked about this? Why is amendment one there? Why does it forbid the government from punishing people for political speech

Because in the history of the world, our founders knew, they're like, hey, this is what happens. People get in charge, and then as soon as they become the in charge person, they go after their political enemies. They make it so that their political enemies aren't allowed to speak out against them. That is and was the history of the world. And our founders knew that.

That's why the ex post facto clause is in the constitution so that you can't get elected or come into power, however you did, and then go after your fricking political enemies. Our founders knew that. They're like, hey, this is what goes on in the world. People get in charge. They become an emperor, a czar, a king, or whatever. And then as soon as they get in the big chair,

They go after their political enemies. They're like, well, the ex post facto means you can't charge someone. You can't charge someone with a crime for something that they were doing that was legal. Well, I changed my mind. I've decided that this is no longer legal and you were doing that last year. So since it's against the law and you were doing it last year, I'm going to arrest you, throw you in jail. I'm going to make it so that you can't speak out against me. No.

Weaponizing bureaucracy. Jared, you don't remember this, but one of the things that Richard Nixon was accused of was using the IRS to target his political enemies. Did you know that? I heard of that, but I don't have many details. Yeah, one of the things that they went after Nixon about, they're like, hey, he used the IRS. You got a green screen cup there.

He used, they said, they claim they're like, well, he used the IRS to target his political enemies. And that was wrong and he's bad and he's mean and he's evil. And we're like, okay, good. But we didn't address the bigger question. Like if you can use a bureaucracy, if you can weaponize bureaucracy, maybe the system that creates the bureaucracy that gives them that much power

See what they try to do, like say Republicans are mean and evil and bad, because they're gonna use the IRS to target their enemies. So the solution is get rid of Republicans because the Democrats never would use the bureaucracies. They would never use the ATF, the Department of Justice, the IRS. They would never use them to target their political enemies. Yes, they would and they have and they do and they did.

all of those things. The solution isn't, well, which party is in, the solution is we need to make sure bureaucracies don't have enough power that they can be used to target our political enemies, their political enemies. This is exactly what happened here. And there's no way you can convince me this was in isolation. It was just one woman.

Who just decided on her own? It says defendant Washington. Let's see. So Barney Washington. Now she's on the hot seat. The now fired supervisor.

Right. She says here, according to the suit, the defendant Washington says that similar conduct occurred in North Carolina and throughout areas affected by hurricanes, Helene and Milton. And she represents that senior FEMA officials claiming not to know that the agency was discriminating against Trump, supporters are promoting a lie. Ha ha, which takes us to the New York Times store and New York Post story.

We're still waiting on the NYT. Now, NYT is New York Times. Now, remember after Helene Ann Milton, president candidate, former president Donald Trump came out and said, Hey, they're, they're deliberately avoiding or targeting people with Trump signs. And the New York Times said he was a liar.

And that was propaganda, that was conspiracy. Yeah. The thing that he said in the debate did not help him in this regard. As he said something about the animals being eaten in Ohio, he said something about, well, I saw it on the TV, so it must be true.

Yeah, but here's the thing, after he said that, the people from Springfield, like they went out and they talked to the residents and the residents like, yeah, he's absolutely 100% correct. This is going on. Like the residents of Springfield confirmed it. They're like, and they're like, oh, okay, we're done talking to you. Bye. Sorry. You were supposed to give us a different answer. You were supposed to tell us, no, that never happened. And they're not cooking rats on the street of New York City.

Oh, just because there's cell phone videos of people cooking rats on the streets in New York City doesn't mean that's happening. Yeah, but the people like people see it and like take pictures and videos of it happening. Well, just because shut up. We don't want to talk about that, but let's let's go here. So New York Post wants to know when is the times going to apologize to President Trump?

Zach, can you play this video? It's only a one minute video. It's at the top of the story. I can do whatever you want. Yeah, it's Adam Smith of Savage Operations, who was actually on the ground up there. You know, let's just give a little bit of enlightenment here.

One second while I navigate through the hell that is through your post-1800 thousand. Yeah, it's awesome. The title of the story, Zach, let me know when you're ready and I'll just read while you're doing that. New York Times has yet to issue correction for wrongly claiming Trump falsely accused FEMA of avoiding supporters storm ravaged homes. So now we know that they do it. All right, go ahead and play it.

first to get your reaction. When you heard this news about FEMA and avoiding what appears to be some 20 homes in Florida.

Well, to say that I was surprised would be a lie. I don't necessarily want to demean or demonize every FEMA employee or worker that's out there. I think there are a lot of them that have a good heart that want to help people. The question that it leads me to is to ask the question of what sort of culture has been established in order for FEMA personnel on the ground or leadership for that matter to provide this sort of instruction to FEMA personnel that want to provide help.

And more so, I had an interaction with local FEMA officials as well, and they wanted to help people, help people. And what was the interesting thing was, is it was stated that, hey, we can't have our fingerprints on this, which I think leads back to the actual question, which is, what sort of culture and what sort of fear is there in place at some of the lower levels of FEMA personnel, where they're afraid they're going to lose their job, if they don't speak up against actions that are blatantly not aligned with what the organization is supposed to be doing.

Yeah, we don't want our fingerprints on this. It's like, well, we're going to do it. We don't want to make sure we don't want to get caught. Bring a towel, avoid homes advertising Trump. Make sure you drink plenty of water. Bring a towel, avoid high salt and coffee, and avoid homes advertising Trump.

Yeah. That is called the weaponization of government. That is called the weaponization of bureaucracy against your political enemies. And that is, that is the last four years of this shadow government that exercised a coup in November of 2020 in order to gain power. This is what you get. This is why elections matter.

We, I mean, there's, there's so many other things we could talk about, but we have to hold these people accountable. There has to be a reckoning. There has to be a reckoning. These people have to be held accountable, but because if we do not hold them accountable, we guarantee, you guarantee, I mean, it's, it's, it's not hard. It's like,

You know, if your five-year-old throws a tantrum in the grocery store and in order to get him to stop, you give him a cookie. What you've done is you've guaranteed that that kid is going to do it again. Look at New York. When you arrest someone for a felony, for felony bank robbery, and then their punishment is they have to sign a piece of paper

and promise to come back in nine, 10, 12 months for a trial, but they can go now. Well, they wouldn't do it again. I mean, because they know we're super, super serious about crime control in New York. Really, you're super, super serious about crime control in New York. Well, yeah, we're so serious about it that we let felons go on zero bail because bail is racist. Is it now?

What about the people that are the victims of these criminals? Yeah, we got plenty of people. We don't care. What's three dead people? What's three dead New Yorkers compared to our political agenda? Our political agenda is way more important than three dead New Yorkers. Heck, we'll go on TV and we'll cry about them. And then we'll tell the people that in order to keep you safe, you just need to give us more power.

Yeah, it's almost like that book examining the armed citizen, which talked about how tyrants and criminals in the state. They love criminals. They love terrorists.

Because that's their excuse to control you. That's their excuse, and dude, Jared, what is the first thing they, you know, the mayor or the governor or whatever comes out there? Oh, crime is out of control or crime is bad. Okay, what's your solution? What's the first solution, Jared? Gun control, I think. Well, besides gun control, that's obvious one.

I guess it's probably more policies which is money money money money money money we need more money money money that's what we need well crime is our control we need more money like we already gave you billions of dollars and we still have crime yeah but but but we need more money for for surveillance cameras and drones and and no you don't you need to need to catch criminals and punish them

catch them, punish them, hold them responsible for their behavior or can't do that. That's something we can't do. Well, that's that we can't do it. It's something we won't do. We're not going to hold bad. See, that's, you want to know conservative versus liberal Democrat versus Republican when it comes to platforms. You have one party that believes that the innocent should die and that the guilty should be protected.

That's it. I've talked about this for years because the, the left, the liberal Democrat communist scumbags, they can never get on board with personal responsibility. They can never get on board with, we need to hold people responsible for their behavior. They can't because if they do that, if they go down that road too far, then you eliminate the need for them.

Like, well, if we start holding people responsible for their own behavior, then people won't look to us to be their saviors. But that's what we need. We need the people to be slaves. We need them to look to us to fix all their problems. If we tell people that they're responsible for their own behavior and their own safety, then what are we here for? They can't do that. No, instead you are a victim.

You're a victim of the system. You're a victim of criminals. You're a victim, victim, victim, victim. And you need us and you need to pay us and you need to be subservient, disarm yourself and give us your money. And maybe we'll keep you safe, but probably not because history has shown that we're not going to protect you and we're not going to keep you safe, but we will keep taking your money.

That's it, New York. They're not gonna protect you. They're not going to keep you safe, but they are going to keep taking your money. And if you're good with that, have at it, brother. Have at it. But boy, if you're in New York City and you decide to go rogue and actually defend yourself, they'll bury you under the courthouse.

Because we can't have citizens defending themselves. Not going to have that. We can't have good Samaritans stopping bad people. Not going to have that. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. And they even said so. All right. I guess that brings us right up to the end of student of the gun radio for today. Here's what I'm going to tell you guys. I'm going to tell you this.

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