freedom files podcast episode 1

All right. Uh, hi everybody. Uh, my name is Fred. I own and operate Fred's Firearms here in Oakdale, California. It's my good buddy Jimmy Freeman right here. Uh, he owns and operates Freeman Custom Designs, uh, Freeman Custom Firearms. Um, this is our first little attempt at uh, getting some stuff out and recording our thoughts and going over some subject matter. So, um, cheers to you, buddy. Cheers.

So, normally on a Saturday after the shop, we head down to this place called Last Call Brewing. It's just a little uh brewery down the street. It's a couple blocks up. We usually walk over there. And that's what we're drinking today. We got uh the mobile Last Call Brewing. I'm drinking the Elfe. It's a great one. They got a lot of good stuff. Uh they call it the mobile. Uh I think they call this the mobile. Uh, this is actually called Elfe, but it's like this is their like, hey, if you're going to be mobile, you know, let me go get a beer and bring it somewhere else and drink it. Uh, they put them in these cans. Nice. Yeah, it's real good, man. So, I like the twisty better than the pop or the the twisties. I like drinking them out of cold glasses, man. So, that's what I like about that. Yeah.

Um, yeah, man. Let me introduce myself. Uh, my name is Fred Smith. Easiest name in the world to remember. Uh, I own and operate Fred's Firearms. Um, give you a little story in the history of Freds. Uh, let's see. Military. Uh, joined the United States Marine Corps very early age, right below 17. Uh, had some good and some bad, but mostly good experiences in the in the US military. I got out and decided I want to get into law enforcement. And, uh, I ended up getting into security first. Uh, prior to law enforcement, I did some government contracting and then I ended up, uh, following that up with, uh, law enforcement. Um, so I've been in the game for a while as far as guns go. Uh, while in uh security, um, and law enforcement, I decided, uh, hey, these guys have spent a lot of money on gear and gloves and guns and bullets and everything else. I could be a sales rep in that. So, with the help of my wife, I uh, kept bugging her and bugging her to get the FFL and the business license and all that other stuff. Before you knew it, you know, we were uh, you know, slinging product out of our home, a lot of my co-workers, everything. And then before you know it, we had contracts and all that going on. And uh one thing led to the next and uh we were needing a brick-and-mortar store to expand and get bigger. And yeah, I didn't have to go very far as far as the name goes. Fred's Firearms. Yeah. Uh, but uh that's what I started with. So that's where I'm at. And I love the store. This is my fourth location, my fourth building. Um, it's a really cool historical uh piece of the rock here in Oakdale. Um, and yeah, isn't the name so popular they even had it in Dexter? Yeah, let's take credit for that. Yeah. Yeah, Dexter. Uh, I haven't even watched that new one, man. The new one. So, the new Dexter, man, like uh I I was Me and Jennifer were so in love with the first one and then uh that new one came out where like his son comes back to visit him and he works at that Fred's gun store or whatever. Wow. Yeah. So, I just wasn't into it though. I I could I watched the first a little bit, but just because it said Fred. Yeah, of course. But then as it went, I'm like, I don't like this one as good as the first one. But uh yeah, anyway, so that's my story.

Uh Jimmy and I know each other. Um Stannis Los SWAT, Stannis Loss uh patrol uh Stannis Loss uh Sheriff's Office. I'll let Jimmy give you a little bit about his background. Jim Freeman. Uh, let's see. Started out in the late 2000s. Matter of fact, I think it was God couple weeks before um 2000. So, it was n December 1999. I started with the Stannis County Sheriff like it's 1999. Anyway, uh went with the sheriff's office uh operations department and I believe joined the military in 2004. Uh actually the Army National Guard and was stationed out of uh Oakdale, California. Uh during that time at the sheriff's office, I kind of got into 1911s and I loved the design and love what uh John Moses Browning did with that. Like I've always said that either uh John Moses Browning was an alien or was given the designs boss man of the gun. Yeah, no kidding. Anyway, I started uh tinkering with them and learning about them and uh next thing you know uh friends at the department would start asking me to do stuff on their 1911s and it just kind of grew from there and it was more of a kind of word of mouth thing. And then uh after meeting uh Fred from the SWAT team uh decided to kind of open it up and uh started working out of his shop and now we do them like backed up and do them for people everywhere. So it's it's it's been pretty awesome. Some of the stuff Jim does uh with these 1911s and we probably should have had one here to like show them and everything else, you know, but

Um, all right. All right, so we're going to keep on going. Anton, our guy who's like low crawling and everything around right now. Literally low crawling. He's the one that's got all this cool You guys or whoever's watching this, if anybody ever does, if we watch it again, whatever. Uh you can't see all these lights and everything else, but this is the first time I've ever been in front of equipment that's so advanced. And uh Anthony has been part of Fred's firearms for I think a little over a decade now. Like uh on and off here and there. Yeah. Uh but he also does um a lot of this videography and he's really been helpful with our gun broker. Um, you know over the years been expanding. We don't just do instore sales. Um we also do um gun broker. We do CCW classes and courses. Um we do a lot of online correspondence, that kind of thing, instructional stuff. You know, Jimmy's getting pretty good at his videos. But uh anyway, he's going to bring us a little gun just so we can like talk about them while we do that. But, you know, another purpose that we wanted to get into is everyone's doing this kind of thing right now. Everyone's publicating. Everyone's getting out there. Um, it's like a social uh networking world that we live in. And it's crazy for guys like us that, you know, have some gray on their hair that uh remember having like a home telephone number with either a rotary dial or buttons. Yeah. Well, there you go. Or no hair. Uh, and then coming along to these things where just your whole life kind of revolves around them. You know, I I use mine for communication, but I make money off of it, too. I use it for photographs and, uh, information and gun broker and, uh, everything. Uh, so anyway, um, we want to kind of reach out and say, "Hey, what gun's good for you? What kind of stuff do you like?" Um, of course, we're also trying to reach out to some of the guys, uh, in the industry, too, that might want to uh, become a a part of this. Um I think we offer uh some expertise and then we're also looking to be educated by others with expertise in this field or even be educated by others uh that are curious you know um so I deal with uh I got another guy that uh, you know God willing I'm having a good time drinking some beer so I hope this kind of stuff keeps going. Um, and you're talking about videos like people that Yeah, absolutely, man. Different videos, different people in the industry, you know, we want to learn, too, you know. Um, value tamement, hit us up. Who's Value Tainment? It's the guy that that told you I showed you that video earlier and they're they're really good. Really good. How about Joe Rogan? Maybe you can give us a call, Joe. Yeah, I listen to that guy every day. By the way, people are going to watch our stuff. It's going to go down in the anals of history. The anals, dude. the anals YouTube lore. I don't know if I want to go going down in anals, but uh something like that. Something like that.

All right. So, anyway, uh yeah, we want to we want to talk about different brands and products. Um I'm kind of an everything gun guy. I got into this because I just love the history of firearms. Uh you know, the nation we're in. I could get on a soap box all day long and and sound real patriotic about amendments and everything else. Uh but yeah, I just I don't know. I love guns. Um I've used them all my life. I've uh been in a career with firearms uh my entire adult life. Um and uh they're a extremely important element to uh why we even have a country today. You know, uh we we literally would not have them this country today. It wouldn't be what we have today and the choices that we're able to make if it wasn't for firearms in this country. The first amendment wouldn't be here. No. Nothing. No. It it it props up all other amendments. So yeah, with that being said, um Anthony gave me a little cheat sheet to kind of look at and uh we're going to deep dive into some history here. And uh let me get Jimmy started actually on his favorite, his 1911. He loves 1911. He talked about it a little bit, John Moses Browning and stuff like that. So let him let him talk about some of the stuff he does. And I'm just going to let you uh run with it. He's sitting here. He's got a cool Kimber um that I'm sure he's done a bunch of stuff to. It's like assembled and everything else. So, Jimmy, you roll with that.

This one right here is a Kimber one of our customers purchased and it's supposed to be like one of their top-of-the-line ones. And don't me get me going down that rabbit hole. Uh, but anyway, he took it out and shot it and wasn't very happy with it. Well, hold on now. I'm going to get you on that rabbit hole real quick. Let me ask you a question. Kimber is a very, very well-known brand. Everybody kind of knows it. It may not be the most popular, but if you say Kimber to someone, Yes. for the most part, they've had enough marketing that over the years in the decades that most people, even if they're not into guns, understand them. So, why do you say it's supposed to be one of the best in a sarcastic tone? Why? Why? You're probably gonna get some hate for some Kimber lovers on this, but hey, don't get me wrong, Kimbers were amazing maybe like 20 years ago. I think they uh they were one of the big custom large kind of manufactured 1911s out there. Uh and then all of a sudden time started going on and the quality started dipping and they just started focusing on quantity more than quality. Like this one was over two grand. And uh what kind of camera is that? There's a what is that? The rapid rapid rapid. Okay. Rapid. Anyway, he got it and it was super loose. uh the frame to slide fit wasn't great and the barrel fit was horrible and uh you brought it back and said, "Hey, can you I need you just uh I know I just bought this, but can you just uh this is also like while you're talking like this is also a customer that Jimmy's done I don't know like seven or eight 1911 or something." Well, he wants to his goal is to be in the Guinness Book World Records for uh 1911 built in every caliber known to man. And matter of fact, he wants to get stuff that isn't around anymore. And he has money. So, he wants to pay for uh people to make the rounds and the barrels. So, he wants a custom build every one in every caliber known to man built by me eventually. Yeah. And I mentioned that too because I think you wouldn't know like I didn't know about the details until Jim um you know, was getting way indepth with what he does. I mean, the dude gets into the molecules of the item you know, right? Like I'm a shooter. That's what I am. I know a little bit about history here and there. I know the basics. Um and the stuff I tried to kind of finite or accurize myself with was actually like speed shooting. um, you know, your point of aim and your point of impact. Uh, you know, picking up motion, picking up uh uh details on uh faster reset, you know, your trigger, like what you slide stop. Um Jim's done all that, too. But with the 1911s, I think this guy's bringing this to you because he's had a taste of what what you're able to implement into that firearm and the improvements you're able to do. And then he's He's educated now with those improvements, right? So, that's something that's big. So, now he's like, "Dude, I won't even have one unless this guy Jim is like decking him out and doing all of his stuff." Yeah. I mean, it's cool because other people see it and it just again like you were talking about earlier and started doing uh Well, actually, it was because of you. You said I needed to start doing uh YouTube videos on the builds. Yeah. Started from there. It's a lot of education, man. I mean, dude, like the thing is like I don't even know about all that. And you know, I got the gun store. Everybody's like, "Oh, yeah. I don't know if I don't know." Like, I know what guns are going to work. And I don't care what gun you give me, I'll make it work. You know what I mean? And in my opinion, you know, there are some like real budget guns out there that, you know, I think that superior and inferior and the best and the worst is kind of a matter of opinion, right? You're going to get some guns on the market that have just put way more research and time into their development. And those guns, yeah, they might be in general better, but uh like what Jim's doing, the stuff, there's not a lot of people that have that education. We just looked at the 1911s today. Uh Marky and Tommy came in and they're like, "Oh, can you get me a so and so?" What was it called? The uh camera Reeves does the movies with them. Uh the Anyway, uh they're staccato. No, it's not a staccato, dude. Oh, the taran tactical. Taran tactical makes some crazy gun. It's called the Viper or something like that. Yes. The the the the one has at the very end it has it's sharp so you can stab the people when you run out. I guess. I guess, man. But those guns are like 10 G's, right? And they're online and Okay. So, like I've shot a $10,000 gun. I've shot a $1,500 gun. Until Jim started explaining this stuff to me, to be honest with you, I didn't I didn't really know, you know? I'm like, dude, I'm here to speed shoot and shoot targets and do this and that and everything else, you know? Like, I get it. The $200 gun, you're going to be able to tell the difference on that. If you get a high point or something compared because it's got different mechanisms on it, it doesn't lock up properly. There's, you know, you got to do stuff to it in order to even get it at the level of ease of use, you know. But, uh, yeah, what what you're doing with these, I think this is great because it does take some education on understanding like, wow, that's possible. That's tip of the spear stuff.

Yeah. Well, like you you've you've been there. We've had customers come in and they have never uh well, we've had ones that have never shot firearms before and wanted their first one and or never shot a 1911 before and they wanted me uh to build a custom 1911 for their very first. And I was telling them, I would love to build it for you, but do this first. And I'm going to get hate, but I would tell them to get a Rock Island because Rock Island is a very, very good, well-built, budget 1911. I know it's not made in the US, but still, it's a Filipino import, and it is made to US Colt standards. Exactly. Better than Colt does it now. Man, that's going to get a lot of hate, too. Jesus, that's going to get a lot of hate. Uh, anyway, I'll tell them, "Get this. Have this. Shoot it. Shoot the crap out of it. Get used to the 1911. Then come back to me and we'll build you a 1911 of your dreams. You'll be able to appreciate and know the difference." If I built you a custom 1911 all perfect and decked out, and you took it out and shoot it, you would be like, "What did I just spend six grand for? I don't understand." Now, you shoot it. you go shoot another 1911 or factory 1911 and a lot of custom 1911s and then you come in and have me build you one, you will see the difference. Totally see the difference.

What are the first characteristics of that weapons platform that you improved? If you could think back to when you started and you were taking some of those courses and those schools and stuff like what is Well, the very first thing I I did the very first thing that a lot of people want and it really doesn't have to do I mean, yeah, can it's checkering that was the very first thing a lot of people wanted. Explain what that is. The checkering this is not checkered. I didn't do this because it already had it. This is like the go the golf ball grip. Um, I don't know if you can see that. Yeah, but whatever. Can you pick that up? No, you have checking on that one right there. Yeah, this one's checkering. Okay. So, so this is checkering. Uh, there's a lot of them out there that aren't checkered. And what that is, it it makes a texture. And there's uh you have you can I mean that you can go really low. I've seen some of them that feel like a uh ancient what are they? Maces. Those round balls with the spikes on it. Aggressive. A bunch of little pyramids. Uh that one that the customer, we don't want to say his name, but the one that was having me do the bills. first one he got that he brought in and and it had the um what was it? The blued slide and it colored hardened uh frame and it was the 50 cal or the 50 Oh, it's a Desert Eagle. No, no, no. God, I can't remember the brand. Anyway, it was it was really nice. But that sucker was like 10 lines per inch. Remember we felt the grip and like dude, I don't have weak hands and they're not sensitive, but that one would hurt. I mean, I knew about checkering, too, until I watched you do it and then I was like, "Oh, that's how it's done." Because I never even knew like how checkering was produced on a firearm. And it's on wood, it's on brass, it's on steel, it's on aluminum. And uh this guy's got like a set of hand files. Well, now he's got like a set to put up on that machine and everything else, you know, but but you know, he started with a set of these hand files and just painstakingly, you know, one pass at a time uh checkering these by hand. Well, it's the LPI. The in the LPI when you hear it says lines per inch. And the the crazy part too is like you've seen on uh like the wood like rifle stocks or shotgun stocks up towards the front there'll be checkering but it's done differently. Uh they're they're it's kind of crossways like this and it's done differently. The checkering that are on these grips on different points of these grips primarily it's on the grips. I mean, it could be on any part of the gun, but what is the advantage of having a line per inch that is different than another? Uh, that's preference. That is preference. Um, some people don't like it as aggressive. So, usually I tell uh on checkering I will say don't go lower than 20 lines per inch. You get a really good uh grip on that. I mean, it's a little more aggressive than the I would say like say remember old school time you used to cut out like grip tape and put it on the gun people did in the past. Remember that stuff on the Glocks and stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Matter of fact, even at the sheriff's office, people would put that on if they were holding up to. Yep. It's like a skateboard tape. Yeah. Yeah. The Yeah. Um, anyway, so you'd have the 20 lines for it. So it would be uh kind of each in each shooter's preference of what they want. Some would want a coarse one would be the 20. Um, and then there you can go up to get really really fine. You can go like I've seen them to 40 lines per inch, which is super fine. And like this one that we just showed you, that would be about looks like 30 lines per inch. So the standard that's a uh I like to use because it's a kind of not too coarse but not too fine is 20 lines or 25 lines per inch. This one has 30 lines per inch right here. 30. Yeah. On this um timber target Elite available at Fred's Firearms. All right. A little little pitch. Uh anyway. Um, so it would just be a personal perspective what what feels good to you in your hand. And that's the difference too about customs. So this it already comes there and someone go, "God, I like the gun, but it's a little too fine for me." But I'll deal with it. That's the cool thing about Man, you suck that sucker down. I mean, you're milking yours. I'm bringing mine normally, right? That's all I'm doing. Let me take a quick drink real quick. We got another one of these in the back, too. Nice. So, anyway, uh when you have it done custom, you can say, I want this, you know, whatever. Uh 20, 25, 30, 40. It goes up to 50. But usually uh I have I don't have a 70 I was going to get a 70 lines per inch file. Um and that one's really fine to do machine uh when I do it on the machine. But usually like the 40 and 50 lines per inch, that's what I'll do when I uh I don't do it on this one.

What are the most common areas? Because we're on checking right now. So let's just dive into checkering. So what are the most common areas on the 1911 platform that are checkered? Uh well, you can go checkered or serrated, but uh the most common area is the front strap and then you also have the back strap or the main spring housing. Um, there's a lot just to assist with your grips. Gloves, no gloves. Yes. So you can get that good, you know, finite solid correct grip. Yeah. Yeah. And uh there's also you can do it under the trigger guard. That works out best when you do an undercut on the trigger guard. And what the undercut does is it helps you rise up your hold. And a lot of people say doesn't, but I'll argue with them until I'm blue in the face because it does. It helps you when you grip it and you're aiming it, it helps you helps you get a a natural point of aim and better control and you can also help the muzzle rise. Uh, but anyway, a lot of people will checker or serrate underneath the trigger guard, too. And then when I make the sights, oh, he has a little bit of serration on this one. This one was done by Kimber. But when I'm building a custom one, I also build uh custom rear sights and front sights. And I'll serrate the rear of the site. So that'll help cut down on glare along with which I did serrate the rear of the slide. And this one was 40 lines per inch. I had to measure uh the back of this rear sight so that way I can match the same lines per inch and put that on the rear of the slide like that.

Would you uh Dude, I have to put my glasses on so Oh, there they are. There's the serrations. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I like that, man. And I've seen the ones that you've done. Yeah. Um, and then sometimes you can give you advantage, too. Yeah. It cuts down on the glare. Yep. Cuts down on your glare for your site. And so, if you're So, here's a question for you, man. Because you've been doing this for a little bit, you've gotten a wealth of knowledge doing this kind of thing. Um, I've never known anybody that has gone so in-depth with uh I think since 2004, the three 2004 I started, that's when I started diving into it. Yeah. So I mean and then so that's what you started is with the checkering and from there it went to serrations and blah blah blah all this other stuff, right? And now you're this 1911 guy and your end goal which you've told me is one of these days you want to be in that 1911 guild, right? Yes. Yeah, that's the goal, right? Is and so I believe you're going to get that goal, man. So let me ask you this, man, if anybody is listening or anybody's wanting some advice, where would you tell them to start? Would you tell them, hey man, if if you're trying to get into this kind of thing and you want to do this, would it would it start with a check ring? Would you have done something different? [Music] Uh, I don't know. Telling someone where to start. It would be like for me I thought it looked cool and that's just something that I kind of wanted to start with. So, it's something like you start where your interest or what part, okay, I want to figure this part out at. That was the part that you're like, "Man, I want better checking on this 1911, you know, and then boom, you just did it." I love that, man. That's awesome. I took it down cuz it wasn't deep. Uh, it was on the Kimber that I had a long time ago. A long, long time ago. Um, and be careful, too. You, you know, one thing you do when you start working on them, work on your own first before, uh, hey, I'll do yours, buddy. Let me do that. And you never done it before. A lot of people have gotten I've had to 100% your I've had to fix people's screw-ups. Do your own get some knowledge. Get confidence. Confidence is what uh takes the show with all this stuff. Yeah. Um, and a Rock Island's a great great one for that because you you could pick up Rock Islands. We've had them on sale, I think, for like $4.69, $4.79. They're normally about $4.99 uh to $5.29 depending on what one you're going to get. But I, you know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, I guess that sounds kind of expensive, but I don't think that they've really budged too much on price since then. Not rock. No. Yeah. And and that's a great one. They use decent metallergy in in rock. Um, and and I mean, you could get used ones even, too, if you're just wanting to like try this kind of stuff on the side and hobby it out. We I've sold used ones, you know, as low as 300 bucks. Um, they don't come in the shop that often because usually when people buy a rock for like $4.99 or something, they're holding on to it. I mean, it's even though it's Philippineade 1900, they're very well built. And I hate saying that. I would love it to say made in the USA. Yeah. Cuz we have worked with, remember the auto ordinances? Yeah. And the USA, my god, what a headache. And auto's gotten crazy, too, because I was selling auto ordinances when we started for the, you know, low fives, sometimes even the high fours. Auto ordinances are now like 900 bucks, man. Crazy. It's the same gun. Yeah, it's uh No, I think it switched over uh they switched over ownership like CZ or CZ or Thompson or someone or someone owned them. I don't know. But CZ like the Borg. Yeah. But yeah, that that's crazy where they've heavily increased in in uh in price. But

All right. Well, cool, man. You you spouted out about your 1911 for a little bit. Hand me my Glock over there. Let's talk about that. That's fine. Yeah. 21's great, man. Yeah. Okay. The infamous Glock. While I unbox this, I'm going to give you just a touch of uh There's no gun in it, bro. It's just the It could be any Glock really. Just grab one out of the personal 21, which is in my holster. It's in my range bag or whatever. Yeah. All right, that'll work. This 34 gentleman in a scholar. Yeah. Hey, this one's actually, if anybody's out there, you know, I mean, I don't know when this is going to go, but uh this one's only 475. These are normally like 680, I think, for these 34s. Um, so Glock, interesting story. Uh, this dude Gaston Glock that just died like last year, the last couple years. He was in his 90s. I did not know that. Uh, yeah, he did. You didn't know he died? No. Yeah, Gaston Glock finally uh finally left the world. Yeah. Um, so back in the '70s he was contracting with the historian military and he was a Austrian himself and um in like 1978, '79 the historian military was looking to replace uh their standard military issue uh sidearm their pistol. And he heard he he was making let me tell you what he was doing for the military. He was uh making like door jambs and window sills and stuff like that. Oh, that's right. I remember you telling me about that stuff. Not just Yeah. Well, he had plastic made stuff too, but he So, a lot of PVC stuff he was doing for him. Uh polymer type of stuff, but he was also um it doesn't get into too much depth. I mean, I'm getting this information from his biography uh about like the actual kind of window sills and the door jambs and stuff that he was making. And I think he had some metal stuff that he was making, too. But he ended up getting this injection molding kit. Um, and he heard these, you know, high ranking military personnel talking in the hallway about how they're trying to replace the military sidearm. Well, he had been a gun enthusiast and he had used that to make some like prototypes, that injection molding kit for the for the lower of prototypes. And he's like, "Hey man, can I can I get in on this contract?" And in the biography, you know, it states that they kind of chuckled and they're like, "Hey, buddy, anybody can. So, if you're already hooked up with the Australian military and you want to go ahead and put a bid in, go for it." So, he did. And then in 1980, um the Australian military ordered 40,000 uh Oh, take the glasses off. Sorry, man. Glory. The Austrian military ordered 40,000 uh Glock 17s. So, we don't know if the Glock 17 uh in the biography it doesn't really state. It says it could be his 17th attempt to make the gun and that's uh you know, the the trial and error after 17 times he came up with a successful run or if it's because it held 17 rounds. But the Glock 17 was born in 1980 for the Atorian military, 40,000 of them. Uh it ended up coming overseas not too uh far later to the big land of the guns, the USA. And then we had a horrible FBI shooting in Florida. uh that left agents dead and they had the Smith and Wesson five shot revolver uh and uh dude mowed them down with a mini-14. They were actually caught with their brass. When was that? That was in '86. Man, I remember that's it was like a I can't remember it's called. It was a Florida like a shootout bank robbery guy or something like that. But there was that was a big push to semi-autos. It was man. Yeah. the FBI decided, hey, we can't have these five shot revolvers anymore when we're going up against the enemy that has, you know, semi or sometimes fully automatic firepower. So, um, you know, Glock was on the market and it was looking, there was a couple field reps in the USA trying to push the product and nobody thought it was going to be that great because of the polymer lower. Most guns were made in a Tupperware box thing, too. Remember that? Yeah. It was just ahead of their time, man. You know, so um, which are worth a lot of money now. Yeah, now they are, man. You got a you got a original Gen One or Gen Two Tupperware box from Glock, like that box I had up here earlier. That's that's standard what they're coming with now. But um, anyway, yeah, the FBI adopted it, followed by all other law enforcement and everything else, man. Um, yeah, I remember getting my first Glock uh when it replaced the 5906. Uh I went through uh my first uh tactical team academy. It was like six weeks and I used the the whole academy. I used that 5906 because they were using these armor academy only guns for that. So I had the decocker and all that stuff and uh, you know, dealing with the different actions and the hammer of that and then as soon as I got out they're like, okay, well cool, man, you're on the team now. So here's your Glock. I'm like, "What is this thing?" You know, and uh I think the sheriff's office, I think we went to them, trying to remember in 200 I think it was 2001 or 2002 because before then you you there was a certain specific what you could carry. I had the uh Sig wheels too. They were 66, you know, all the older guys, man. I mean, they know that. And then the SO was like, "Nope, everybody's just going to carry this. We're going to keep the same same calibers, same ones. So that way in a shootout we can use, you know, toss mags to each other if need be. The same ones. Yeah. So I think it was '01, '02 that we went to it. Yeah. I remember um the Gen 3, which is what I'm holding right now, I think came out in like '04, '03, '04. So they had already had in 1980 the Gen 1. It was introduced to America uh in '86. Um, you know, the Gen 2 came out in the '90s. Uh, and then, uh, you know, following up on the Gen 3, there's not a lot of differences other than like grip, couple components. I mean, this Gen 3, I think, only has 33 parts if you took everything down, including disassembling the magazine. Um, so it's just a real simple, easy gun. Make my safety check. Was it trigger? Uh, Gen 5 is when it kind of four and five changed it. It started it started trying to keep up with all of its competitors. It's kind of crazy how it worked because the Gen 4s came out strictly because everybody else copied uh the Gen 3s. I mean, they they outsold the world, right? But in the in the mid to late '90s, Glock was out selling every other pistol company uh on Earth. They're reliable and cheap. They're inexpensive to produce. They're easy to learn. When I uh the the lab sent me down in uh I don't remember what it was like 2011 or something like that. Uh I went down to Albuquerque and uh they did like this three-week uh armors course on all these weapons they use and they use all kinds of stuff through the DOE, man. They use um really cool stuff. Uh so I remember doing Glock like the first day and I'm like, why are we here for this long? Because because it was like a 4-hour course, man. you know, like it's like nothing. Well, then they got into Smith and West and then they got into SIG, you know, then they got into HK and you know, those were days of courses because they were just so much more complex than Well, they they literally built it for the lowest common denominator being able to operate it. That was that was Gaston Glock's uh vision. Is he he looked at it and said, "Hey, you know, you've got all of these complex uh pieces and components that all coincide together. I'm going to make this simple thing that anybody can understand it. Most people, if they want to really get I mean, this is a field strip, you know, with the tip of this pin, I could take the rest of the thing down. You know, it's it's a real easy um it's a real easy process. It's it's very very simple to learn. And it's and and you retain it. When you take the SIG, uh you you know, if I break a 229 down, okay, we're going to be here for a while, right? And um when we're all done, you're going to say, "How do I start to do that? What do I do?" You know, or the car. Yeah. The car is a different story, man. Yeah. CZ. My god. Yeah. So anyway, on Glock, um this is uh really really simple and that's what I think you know, that that Kiss Acronym that uh keep it simple. That's why it's so successful. On top of the simplicity, the reliability, I mean, say what you will about any other gun, including the Glock, right? I get it on the internet now. Everybody's got their opinions. Well, I'm going to tell you, I mean, I've got over a million rounds shot through my life. The majority of them have been through the Glock. Um, it's reliable. I don't care what anybody says if they don't like the comfort. How many did you put through that one? Oh, yeah. I don't know if they could see it, but I bought my SWAT gun uh back. So, it was um it was Griswell, I think, that had that first. I think he got it in like '04. Yeah. You know, and a ton of rounds through. Yeah. So he had it they trained typically between a,000 and 500 uh rounds um a month on the on the team because you get like different training days range days. Yeah. So if you do the math on that uh, you know, it's it's probably not 300,000, but it's pushing it. Our SWAT range days. Yeah. The SWAT range days were really really uh intense. They were really fun. Um, so yeah, I actually took a picture of it when we were on a a SWAT uh training day and you know, opening up my shop and stuff like that. I mean, things are special. It's like, you know, hey, uh, Gollum or whatever it might be or whatever. So, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to put the picture up. That's cool. Um, but yeah, and I've only changed one part. It's got the original barrel. It's got uh the original guide rod. It's got the original guide rod spring, man. It's got all of the original stuff that it came with. Um, I did uh change the um the little dog bone uh that keeps in the locking lug because ultimately as I shot it, the vibration of the shoot started like pushing it out. So, I just replaced that one part, like a $9 part and that's it. And that thing still shoots. I still take it out to the range. I give instruction with it. I have fun with it. It's just an awesome gun. So, um, yeah, the hell out of it and it'll still go bang. You can. The dependability is incredible with these things, you know, that's why they're so successful. So, when you get other guns, mainly with polymer lowers, because Gaston Glock wasn't the first one to try out the polymer lower. He was just the most successful and the one that it it just took off, you know, it grabbed a hold of everybody and and it was like, "Oh, this works." Um, but when you when you look at like your Smith and Wesson, like now it's like the M&Ps and the M&P 2.0s, like guess what they come from? They come from this. I mean, this is this is basically the rest of the industry saying, "Look, if you can't beat them, guys, let's join it. Let's the godfather. That's what we're gonna do. That that that's it." So, um, yeah, I I heavily recommend Glock. Um, but I recommend the other ones, too. They're all really good firearms, you know. Um, you're not going to find if you go into a gun store like Modern Firearms today, especially California, we have the drop test, which I completely disagree with, but um, yeah, I know. I don't like it either, man. We'll get on that in a minute. We'll get another thing. We can only get Gen 3s. Okay, so we can only get Gen 3s. The Gen fours, the Gen Fives are good, too. But the Gen 3s are proven and they last forever and hundreds, thousands of rounds. So, we'll get into like how we hate politics in a minute. Let me drink to that real quick. But um, but if you come into a gun store in California, and I can't speak for anybody else outside the states because they have other gun stores, but you're you're typically not going to find a POS gun. And when I say that, I mean a piece of [ __ ] gun, right? You're typically going to find guns that are pretty quality. Um, the the industry in general and all the manufacturers are uh advanced enough and they're making uh trials and tribulations and and failures and successes and for the most part because the gun industry is heavily regulated. Um, they're not making like piece of shits. They're making stuff that's good, reliable. You might not have the trigger you want. You might not have the feel in your hand that you want, but it should work. Um, there's a lot of good warranties out there, too. But I think that's owed to this right here. I do. I think that you you took the complexity out of uh something and the advancement was the simplicity and as a result he made it easier. He did. He made it easier. You've just got like incredible accuracy um and dependability and reliability. So, yeah, that's what I have to say about Glock. Um, Glock is incredible. I love them. And uh I love all guns, but uh this has definitely been one that I've shot more than most.

How did you care for? Okay, so here's the deal about maintenance. The rule of firearms is u unless you're a hunter that wants a fouled shot, and we can get on to that on another day. Um, make sure you put your firearms away uh clean, you know. Um, you know, people are like, "When should I clean it?" When you put it away. And you should put it away in a dry uh clean environment. So, you shouldn't have to worry about, you know, mildew, mold, moisture, that kind of thing attacking it. Um, it should be safe. So, if you put it away for a day or if you put it away for two years, it should be the same as when you pick it back up. So, if you put it away dirty, right, that's when your carbon has a chance to start slowly eating away at the elements it's made out of. So, you know, um, take it out. It's it's going to be clean from the manufacturer. Go shoot the hell out of that thing, you know. Um, beat it up, you know, put 200 put a thousand rounds through it if you want. There's a reason in remember boot camp they they had us just constantly all the time. Oh, yeah, man. Even when you didn't shoot the rifle, clean it. Clean it. Clean it. Your downtime was cleaning it, getting you to know because it's it's kind of getting you used to this practice because it's your lifeline. Yeah. And you want to keep it clean so it will go bang. Oh, a lot of new gun owners too that buy Glocks um don't clean it before you shoot it for the first time. Glock. Uh Glock actually puts a copper sulfate honing compound um inside of the slide rails. And that is basically, you know, they're pumping these things out in such mass production that uh some of the parts and pieces that actually u marry up to the slide may not be honed very well. They might not be rounded off because the machine just cut them out and spit them out. So they put this uh compound in order to do that as the gun cy kind of like a lapping. It is. It's a lapping compound basically. Yeah. Um, so don't clean that stuff off before you go shoot it. Just take it right out of the box, go shoot the [ __ ] out of it, and then

Once you're done, before you put it away, that's when you clean it. And when you clean it, you want to wipe all that stuff off dry first. And then you want to use some type of lubricant or oil. Um, the I like to use stuff that's, you know, thin viscous. I don't like to use grease. Uh, I know a lot of people like to use, you know, some kind of a butter or something like that. For pistols, it's not really necessary because it can gum up over time. Um, I've had my issues, especially with tight tolerance ones, too.

Yeah. If you're getting something that like especially when you get advanced and you have like this guy make you a gun or this guy modify one of your guns, you use what he tells you to use because uh you get yourself into something like, "Cool, man. I got the best in the market and this is like the butter or the jam or whatever kind of cleaning compound you think you're going to use." His stuff is not all loosey goosey like this, you know. Um, his stuff is like he's getting it down to that tolerance that is at expert level. So, um, use a thin viscous oil. Just use the oil he gives you. He's going to, if he does it for you, he's going to give you a Well, besides that too, we like ballast. I love ballast. I really do. Balistol is awesome, man. um that stuff.

Well, I was introduced by a customer probably a little over 10 years, maybe like 11, 12 years ago. And uh I do a lot of like restoration and uh reconstruction of like older firearms with wood stocks, you know, teak woods, walnuts, that kind of stuff. And uh he's like, "Are you selling ballast?" I'm like, "What is that?" He goes, "Bro, you own a gun store. You don't even know what ballast is." You know, well, educate me, dude. Tell me what it is. You know, so he did. He gave me the rundown. And he like, dude, like the guy was a Bistol fan. Like he gave me the whole rundown. He's like, "Man, this stuff was made in 1904 in the Germans. They used it in World War I. They blah blah blah." And he's telling me all this and uh I'm like, "Do we have enough bottles?" Yeah, there's a bunch of bottles over there. Yeah. Okay. Um so anyway, man, I I got it. And then uh then I start talking to the people in the industry around me about it and they're like, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, the ballast doll is great." You know? Um I love it, man. I've I've adopted that stuff. I absolutely love it. It works really good. It It works great. It cleans and lubricates. Yeah. It's got like mild detergents in it. It's non-toxic, you know. Um in World War I that the Germans were using it to like suture wounds and all that stuff, you know. So, it's got different applications. You could use it on leather, wood, vinyl, metal, anything. Um it's actually good if you're like if you're into cars and auto parts and stuff, too, you know. It does a pretty good job for that, you know, because it like revitalizes different plastics and vinyl. Shines up. Yeah. Shines it up. Uh anyway. Yeah. And you can like mix it with water too. It's water soluble. So like the black powder shooter guys make this stuff called moose milk out of it. It's like a 50-50 mix of water. You can use it as for cutting fluid too. That's right. You can use it machine oil. Yeah. And this is like a total ballast commercial. Yeah. No kidding. Like a 7525 water that type you can use for different things. You can go to Bistol's website and get those different uh mixture ratios. But uh No, it's good stuff. So I use that stuff. uh primarily like we have it in the back. We have it in squirt bottles and everything when we're doing this. It's not the only thing on the market. You don't have to use that, but I mean it's really really good stuff. So, I'm I'm I'm picking that, you know, something to talk about. But that's something good to put your stuff away with because you clean your gun, you get done shooting it, now you're going to put it away. You don't know if you're going to see it in uh you know, 6 weeks, 6 hours, 6 months. Hey, maybe you don't even touch it for six years. Um use something like that because that'll keep it clean. uh it'll keep it protected and uh the corrosion the corrosion will have an opportunity to get at your gun if you do that. So, yeah.

All right. So, I've gone off on a kick on a Glock. You talked about 1911s. What other does Antonio Heather? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's teach about gun laws. Let's get all Let's get all pissed off about gun laws. Any morning there? Um, let me grab you more, man. Oh, wait. All right. So, all right. We're in California. Here's some of the stuff that I disagree with. I mean, I could go on. Like, I could literally talk about there's there's like probablyund something that I disagree with in California. There is um like eight real big ones. So, let me talk about the 10-day wait. All right, 10-day wait, 10 24-hour period wait. Come into a gun store, you want to buy a gun. All right, forget about all the other stuff. We're just going to talk about the 10-day wait. You get done with the registration. It's uh paper submitted and electronically submitted. Now, you cannot gain actual possession of the firearm or take it home, take it out of the gun store for 10, 24-hour periods. Now, I understand to an extent where that might be applicable because it's called a cool-off period. And where it's for is like this, right? So, when I say this, it's going to make sense to anybody that hears it. You know, let's say you're arguing with your spouse or your roommate or your neighbor and you're like, "F this person, man. You know what? I'm going to go buy a gun and I'm going to freaking shoot them." Bad news all around. So, the idea of the state of California implementing a 10-day cool-off period is that you will in 10 days literally change your mind. You'll cool off. You'll think about it and you're like, "What the [ __ ] was I thinking, man?" you know, I'm gonna [ __ ] shoot my neighbor. Hell no, I'm not gonna do that. I can't believe I just spent all this money on this [ __ ] gun, you know. All right, that's that's a valid thing right there, you know, but it applies for people that already own guns as well. So, this is where I get like messed up with it.

Um, yeah. You mean to tell me that somebody that came in and bought a firearm on March 1st and then is waiting 10 days now they come in to pick their firearm up on March the 10th or 11th and they see a gun that they like. Well, they've already got possession of a firearm because they just came on their 10th day to pick it up. You mean to tell me that they have to wait another 10 days for the one that they just I mean that to me doesn't see that seems like it's infringing on an amendment right to me. Yeah. Okay. Here's something else. Now this person is a CCW carrier. Meaning, not only have they been a gun enthusiast for a while, but they've been such an enthusiast that they've decided, hey, I'm gonna take my Smith and Wesson Model 60 or my Kimber Ultra Carry or whatever, and uh I'm going to go to the sheriff's department, fill out an application, get vetted, take a class, okay, shoot the firearm, prove to a certified instructor that I am okay, get the certificate, turn it in, pay for uh the CCW certificate. Get a certificate from the state of California through my local law enforcement entity that says, "Hey, I'm a responsible gun owner and I am okay to carry a firearm in public." That person has to wait 10 days. I mean, dude, if they wanted to if if that person, they could have done it already. They had the gun on their person to do it, right? It it it the way it feels is California comes up with common sense gun laws that have zero common sense. You know it's like it's like they go, "Hey, let's write some crazy stupid [ __ ] for laws." Each one everybody write write down one. Let's put it in the thing. We'll have Shake it up. We'll have Joe Bob pick out one. We'll put that. Watch. That'll piss them off. Swear to God, that's what it seems like. Well, I you Yeah. So, as these gun laws continue to tangent, but No, it's true, man. You're absolutely right. As these gun laws start to progress, I feel the same way. Like, I I'm, you know, I'm suspicious about it, and I honestly think that there are senators um and and individuals that have a certain following that have hyped up on their own. They have hyped up their following and their voter base to vilify the firearms industry and firearms people that are interested in the industry and that's how they're getting more votes is like they have to have something that they can be the hero for, right? Like we're the hero. We're making you wait 10 days. Make evil. Yeah. You know, m if you've got a CCW carrier I just read the article from the CP. That's right. Uh this morning actually, man, before we opened up, you came in. And I was I was just now finishing up that article, man, on statistics of negligent discharges, injury discharges, and death discharges that were caused by firearms owners. Um to wrap it up, man, uh comparatively to everything else, it's like 0.03% of all injuries and deaths uh are owned by a CCW carrier. So like they're basically non-existent, man. So you're looking at um I don't know the numbers, man. That's in the article from the CP. They do a really good job, which is a California Pistol and Rifle Association. They've been around for a long time and they're a Second Amendment Litigation Group. I got to be honest, I'm glad we have guys like that, man. I mean, I as a consumer, as a business owner, I always think like, man, our guys aren't being aggressive enough. But if we didn't have them, I don't know if I would have a gun store, you know? I don't know if I would have um the right to carry or you know I really think that California if if California could and the powers that be I think that they would say look the guns are for the law enforcement entities that are active that protect our political viewpoints and that's it. We don't want them for anyone else because it it does give someone that freedom. It gives them that level of that playing field of it doesn't matter how big or small you are like I can protect myself. You know what I mean? An an unarmed society is a controlled society. There you go. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. You know so yeah the you know the 10-day weight man um I think that needs to be looked at. I know it's I know it's being litigated against.

Um, the drop test dude. How frustrating is that? It's it's um it's extortion. We were talking about it earlier. It's extortion. So, if you don't know what the drop test is, a California, it says, "Hey, we'll let the manufacturers sell the guns in our state. However, there's some conditions behind that. We don't trust that they've spent multi-millions of dollars on research and development. Uh, and we don't trust that they're safe with these firearms. So, we need to have our own third party out-of-state laboratories to do whatever they do with the guns and uh that will ensure that they're safe. And then there's a few things that they have to do which like your Glock generation 3 is actually exempt from [Music] because these things were produced prior to 2007. In 2007, our own Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is the one that signed in the drop test. So, if these guns um don't have a magazine, they go. Okay. Anything after this uh that's not grandfathered uh that doesn't have a magazine in it, it it's called a magazine uh disconnect. So, basically, the magazine being uh uh out of the firearm will disconnect the ability for the trigger to send the firing pin forward to ignite around. A loaded chamber indicator. They also have to have a loaded chamber indicator. Um, yeah. So, there's a lot of stuff that they need for that drop test. So, companies like Glock, okay, that are huge and really don't need the California market. And the California market's huge. By the way, anybody that's listening or watching, um, if you're in the state of California and you think gun sales are bad in the state of California, gun sales are not bad. Huge. This state out sells every other state every year. Okay? Texas does not sell as many guns as California. Florida does not sell as many guns as California. Tennessee does not sell. There's no other state. Crazy. We still get outvoted here. I don't get it. Well, we have so many people. So, there's different people that buy those firearms, but we still sell a ton of guns and we have these regulations on these firearms and it is an extortion. It really is, man. It's all It's all money that the the government They have other ones that they're coming up with like uh I was talking to you about that uh uh AB133. Oh yeah, man. Uh, what's by That's not out yet, though. That's No, not yet. But they're trying to push that one by uh Rick Zabur. It's the same thing that law enforcement went through like four years ago. Uh maybe five years ago. The self-defense law. Yeah. Yeah. It's changing reasonable to necessary. I mean, it's it'll turn self-defense on its head. I mean, it's bad. Well, getting back to the drop test, um, this is something that is not this is something that uh that the the test is is California, the government of California is saying, "Look, unless you go through our regulations and our additional specifications, you can't sell your product in our state." Sigour, I think, has probably been the best, followed by Springfield. Um, Ruger's been really good, too, about that. Um, Smith and Wesson's been really good. Um, but these guys are saying, "Look, we want the California market. We want the public to be able to appreciate quality modern firearms. Uh, so we'll go ahead and submit and we'll do the magazine disconnect and we'll do the loaded chamber indicator and and we'll send out and pay the extortion fee and get our products into California." So now you've got Sig Sauer producing a multitude of uh products. Um, what really really changed that man was last year in 24 uh taking away the micro stamp rule and that's a whole other state man. That was Arie too, dude. Like the Terminator. Thanks a lot, Arie. I know, man. The guy was like watching all the cool movies and stuff, man, when I was growing up, dude. Like that guy did all that. But whatever. Um, I still like Arie movies. Yeah. Yeah. What are you gonna do, man? But uh is what it is. Yeah, he you know the drop test I hate as a as a sales as a salesperson that owns a store in California, you know, um these are some of the rules and regulations. Like, okay, the 10-day weight, give me a break, man. Like, I get it. You know, you're a first-time gun buyer, but you already got them at home. You have the ability to do this stuff. Like, don't make somebody wait 10 days. Okay. And a perfect example is like, oh well, we're going to do ammo background checks, which I don't know what other states do them, but I know California is like the tip of the spear on that, which I disagree with. Yes. But if you can do an instant background check for ammunition, then you can do an instant background check for firearms, you know. Um, I get so many people that come that, you know, are from the Bay Area that have cabins or whatever up in the hills and 10 days is like a huge inconvenience for them. So, it it's costing everyone. Like, it's costing me, it's also costing the state for tax revenue. Uh, when they they come in and they want to buy it and they're like, "I got to wait another 10 days." I'm like, "Yeah, man. Sorry. Sorry. Well, it's it's a massive infringement also. Yeah, I believe it is tooassive. Not just a not just a cost factor behind it, but I think it's an infringement because you're denying individuals the right to their products. And then there's modern products that are out there, right, that you're that have that are safer and you're denying them from that. So, yeah. Oh, yeah. It doesn't make any sense. You'll have a lot of though the opponents to that saying, "Well, what does it matter? What does it matter? So they have to wait 10 days or the 30 day thing." I mean, so what? It's still going to get it. Doesn't matter. Oh, it does. It doesn't say there in the Second Amendment. You have to wait for a while. And I get that the amendments need to be amended because I understand we're not, you know, I get it. We're not living in these colonial times and everything else. I know things get modernized. that we got to keep up with some kind of a time. I just feel that the report especially, man, that came out that I was reading where it stated that the regions of CCW carriers uh decreased in crime, violent crime especially. Criminals are, you know, they're criminals. You say what you want about them, but every human being, whether you're a criminal or not, has an intelligence to them. And the criminals understand, you know, they're not out there trying to attack the people they feel have the ability to stop them or hurt them. They're looking for prey. They're looking for prey. They're the predators looking for prey. They're wolves looking for sheep. There you go. Unarmed sheep. Yeah. You give that sheep an uzi. Yeah. Turns into a sheep dog. It is a sheep dog. Exactly. Heck yeah.

What else is on the agenda? All right. We bitched and moaned. What do you think, Anton? Where are we at? We're only 436. Man, I got Anthony giving me notes saying the current climate of firearms address legal challenges, which we're doing, self-defense rights, and uh cultural shifts. So, I can kind of talk about that a little bit with these rules and regulations culturally. Um, so I've only been doing this since 2008. Um, I started out of my house by like 2010, you know, I think I got the first brick and mortar store. Uh, it was a pretty rapid advancement for me. Um, I've seen a lot of laws change. I've talked to guys that have been in the industry to get advice uh, for a lot longer than me. people, you know, that in in in when I got into this business in 2010 or 2008 and brick and mortar in 2010, I sought out advice uh from some individuals that had already had brick and mortar stores for 40 years. So, they have seen a lot, man. I mean, you you look at that and you say, "These guys been doing it in the 70s, you know." Um, it's a different world, I think. You know, I didn't experience it back then. I can't imagine what it would have been like. I bet the 80s were probably great, man, with all the surplus stuff going on. You know, you're buying it for next to nothing and just flipping it. You used to be able to go into like a gas station or a bait and tackle. Yeah, man. Well, absolutely. I get out of Marine Corps, man. I remember doing that. I remember going uh, you know, bait and tackle gas stores and everything would have ammunition or firearms. Hardware stores would have them. You still find some in California. back east, man, where the gun laws, uh, when we go to Arkansas to visit Garrett, we always stop into pawn shops and gun shops and stuff just to say hi, see what's going on in the climate, you know, it's still the same over there. It's like they're like living in uh our past, right, where we were like 30, 40 years a Yeah, they're living there because um and they'll you talk to those guys and there's some just like straight meat and potato gun stores, but for the most part, it's like guns are everywhere. So if you're going to do that, you have to supplement that income with, you know, hardware or furniture or something else, you know. So you'll get most of your Ace Hardware is back east, you know, they sell guns. They got an FFL on file, you know, from from the feds and they're selling them. Um I've seen it change pretty dramatically. Like I remember when Obama was president, man, um the 2012 uh Sandy Hook shooting happened and um you know, very unfortunate event. Obama never said he was going to take guns away. He just got behind a podium and stated uh we need to have an adjustment in the nation and there possibly needs to be some restrictions. It's kind of all common like a common sense. Yeah. Common sense restrictions for for guns, right? And uh dude, it just like everyone went nuts with that. And they're like, "Oh, I got to go buy an AR. I got to buy anything I can buy." So like uh that was the time, you know, that my brick-and-mortar store and everything was early and it was just explosive. Um, and of course in the state of California you had uh was that Jerry Brown? That was Jerry Brown was governor, right? I think 2012. Yeah, I think so, man. Yes. Yeah, I think it was Jerry and he he was making No, I don't think it was Arie, dude. I think Arie was out, but I think anyway, man, whoever it was was also making statements in support of that, like, "Hey, yeah, yeah, it was because that's when Paris was uh Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Bobby was Yeah, that's right. And Brown fell asleep in the front row. Yep, that's right, man. At his funeral. Jesus gravity. That's a whole other story to talk about, too. But yeah, um that that occurred and then California kind of like, of course, the California way, the tip of the spear, we're going to lead by example and everything. And they they just started like getting aggressive. You had Senator Anthony Portantino, uh who's no longer a senator. I think ship took his place or whatever, but he uh he's always been aggressive and his whole game is like get guns out of California. Um and that just like ramp sales through the roof, man. Like everybody was going crazy. Uh yeah. So you you saw that evolution happen. um people from there and legislation from there decided to change. So now it's a different world, man. It's like we've got laws upon laws upon laws. Every year, multiple times the dro system kicks out something new, different acknowledgements of laws that have happened. Uh some of those, you know, like because we're in California and we have this party of state where the Senate and the House and the Governor's office are all the same party, they can make decisions without getting some of this stuff on the ballot. Uh so you just get surprised with it. You know, you come in like first of the year or midyear and you log on the DRO system, you're like, I got an acknowledgement and I'm like, what? We got to do this now. When did this happen? We didn't vote on this. So none of it's even like really the power of the people. It's just kind of like your government making these rules and regulations. And it's been a power of the agenda. It is the power of the agenda, man. I I believe that it's been a huge turn. It really has. It's been huge. I' I've noticed in the limited amount of time that I've been doing this, which in one lifespan is starting to become, you know, more and more. Uh, but the amount of time if you look at overall with guns in America, it's not that long, you know, that I've been doing this. And there is a massive change, man. A huge change in the restrictions of citizens. And yeah, I do believe it is infringement. Yeah. And like we were saying, the agenda, it's like a a push to change culture. And they're starting it young. I mean, like schools talking about guns are bad. Guns are bad. Uh, my little one got in trouble for well, not trouble, was told not to wear it again, a Shot Show t-shirt. Okay. Yeah. So, so it's being taught. Yeah. At a young age, you can't wear a Shot Show t-shirt. I don't know what Shot Show t-shirt he had, but the ones that I've got don't even have pictures of guns on them. No, it just says Shot Show. Says the Shot Show Ven has like a picture of uh one of the bombader girls or whatever painting on the bottom of a plane or something like that. Well, it wasn't that one. This one was just said shot show and then the year of it Vegas and that was it. But it it it's like it's, you know, you teach them while they're young. This is bad. This is bad. Don't listen to anybody else. Listen to this is bad. They grow up and then they don't like firearms and then it just gets bigger than there. Get them while they're young, man. pretty soon it no one likes it. That's That's I just had a conversation with someone uh about youth and firearms and like we do so much adult training and I don't know what it would take to get like a youth someone reached out to me I think yeah reached out to me a while ago man I don't know if he was with the scouts or what uh what youth organization he was with but he was talking about hey man is there any way we could get like the OPD range. Well, my insurance said no to it because most of them were under the age of 14. Yeah. You know, so they was like, "No, man. We're directed towards this, but it does. I mean, you need to, you know, I don't know if the boy scouts are still doing it or the scouts or whatever are doing anymore." But, uh, there does need to be something for the youth to I think you you you train someone, you know, on like little single shots and everything else and get them kind of excited for these kind of things and then let them have the understanding of the devastation of this firearm and then they grow up just knowing like don't Yeah. Teaching them like don't abuse this. You know what I mean? This is just like, you know, this is a kid, right? Like don't abuse this. We should also be doing that stuff with credit cards and everything. It's a tool, not a toy. Yeah. It's I don't know. It's just a lot of times it looks like we've lost our way. Hopefully we're getting it back, but I don't know. Maybe I don't know what the future of firearms is. Um I know the industry is pumping them out like mad. Yeah. Like there's a bunch of new stuff. You go to the shot show and uh technology is diff definitely advancing. Um was it you that just showed me the video of the round counter and stuff like that, man, on the firearm? Somebody just show uh No, it was Chris. Oh, that's right. Lewis was in here. He's like, "Dude, have you heard about this? It looks like it was at the Shot Show. Did you see it?" I didn't. It was a space gun. It was crazy. Yeah, it was crazy. It had like a digital back plate on on it, you know, and it shows you Yeah. Oh, yeah. And in uh in perpetuity of the life of the gun, it kept track. So, like the gun that they were uh showing it with had like 4,000 rounds on it or whatever. Well, show you how many how many you shot. How many you shot? How many you have in the magazine? You could take it out, you could load it up, and it didn't register that amount. It was It was pretty insane. It was like a Robocop gun or something. It was It had a little on it to charge it. The barrel was below usually where the recoil uh the guide rod was. The guide rod was where the barrel was and the barrel was where the guide rod usually is. It was upside down. Oh, that's right, man. That's like the Rhino The Yeah, it was it was it was crazy. It was Robocop gun. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah, it it's going to be interesting to see where things go. So, if we have advancement in firearms like that, are we going to have legalities that allow the public? Because I think America I think as far as like America goes, you know, like we're not our country without the ability to arm ourselves up a little bit, you know, like that's how it was founded. The Second Amendment is what makes us. It is. It's what makes us for sure. Um and I don't think some of these amendments would be what they are without the other ones. They would be gone. They're taken away. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yep.

All right, so let's see what else we got going on here in our uh in our first uh BS session. Uh, let's see. Address common uh misconceptions. Do you really need to clean your gun after every use? Yeah, we talked about that. We talked a little bit about that. I I think you you don't like have to, you know, but it's very heavily recommended. It's good practice. It really is, man. If you I mean this is kind of jumping back to that certain subject, but if you I would just say like you know make it like a religious practice you know like hey man, put the thing away clean, you know, because if you put that thing away if you use some ammunition, you know, maybe your buddy's making reloads and he thinks that they're like really good and they suck. I can tell you and now you've got like unburnt trying to figure out how to tell him dude your stuff sucks what you just did. Yeah. Uh, final thoughts, shout outs. Yeah, this and that. Firearms, optics, accessories. Well, we get a lot of people that come with reloads and want to show us reloads. We used to not allow them on the range, man. And now I'm like, "Hey, if if you trust your reloads and you want to come out to the range, that's cool. But if your reloads fail you and it's holding up the class, because every time somebody gets, you know, a malfunction on their firearm, you know, micro, I have to go out there and we have to help him out. And sometimes it's real quick. It's a little tap rack bang, no problem. But sometimes it's like, dude, it's happening again. It's happening again. It's happening again. Well, if that's because of the quality of that those ammunition, um, which we've had mostly with reloads, reloads, reloading is like an art, you know? you you uh like when Columbomo was doing those reloads, man. Um, dude, he went through a lot of stuff to hone down those recipes to get them precise, you know? He really did. And when he did, dude, hats off to him, man. They were way better than factory ammo. They were like so quality. When you went to clean the firearm, it was so easy to clean. The accuracy was just bar none. It was awesome. But it took him a lot to get to practice. You remember that? Like I was saying, I mean, we had that one cut, right? If you remember, it was an older dude and he brought it in. It was something we did some work on something. It was a reload. And uh that's all he was shooting was reloads. And he brought it back. Hey, it's not working. The gun's not working. And what were you shooting? I think you asked, "What are you shooting?" He pulled it out and we look at it. Not only was it steel casings, they were all it the they were loaded all over the place. Like we were trying to tell the guy, "You need better. Sucks, bro." People were trying to say, "Oh, yeah, but this and that." Well, the only Glock frame I've ever seen uh cracked and busted was from reloads. It was a Glock 20, a 10 mil. dude was putting rifle powder in his 10 millimeter uh pistol cartridge and loading it up to the top. And I think honestly if it wasn't a Glock, I think there would have been injury. I do, man. Um so he shot the thing. It had a big old cracked frame. He's like, I don't know what's wrong with it. I'm like, I've never seen this before. There's a first time for everything. You're right. I've had people bring me guns constantly and everything. There's the first time for everything. cracked, just ruined frame, overloaded it. And yeah, he overloaded a 10m, which is already a hot round. Yeah. You know what I mean? And uh he's like, "Oh, man." And then he's telling me later I'm tell, you know, cuz I'm talking to him, telling him like, "Look, dude, I've never seen this. I don't know where it is." So now we get into like the uh the meat and potatoes about like what were you doing? What's going on? Truth starts coming out. Okay, man. I was shooting reloads, everything else, you know, blah blah blah. And then he's like, "Yeah, yeah, man. I spaced it and put my rifle ammo where my pistol powder was. My rifle powder where my pistol powder was. Like, dude, that stuff's so explosive, you know? Don't do that. So, you got to know what you're doing. You really do. Well, we ask them all the time. Where were you shooting? Were they reloads? Yeah, that's what we ask people all the time. Any kind of damage to the firearm, any kind of like serious not working right. It's not always the case. Sometimes factory ammo, too. And sometimes the guns, I mean, you have a fail rate of a certain percentage. You know, even Glock, the almighty Glock that I say never fails and stuff. They have failure rates, too, man. It happens, but it doesn't happen that often. So, yeah. Um, you definitely make sure that your firearm is clean. Um, you could take reloads out to our class if you want. Um, we used to not allow it. Now we say go ahead and do it if you're confident with it. The first thing I hear out of people talking about reloads is like, "Well, mine shoot better than the others." Maybe. And everybody says that though. I know they do. Everybody says that. Maybe they do. All right. So, go ahead and do it. Just don't don't uh don't hold up the class or other other people that are there to get something out of it, you know, for for foul-ups that might happen that we have to stop the class for to fix your stuff or whatever. But, um, yeah, put them away clean, man. Put those guns away clean. Absolutely. I feel like we're getting to a point kind of wrap it up. Reaching. Yeah, we're reaching. So, uh, let's close it up, man. Yeah, that was fun, dude. I had a good time, man. Let me get you a cheers. Drink a little beer. Talk a little [ __ ] I want to do it again. So, that means stay tuned. Stay tuned. Fred's Firearms. Um, Tuesday through uh Friday. Sometimes 5 o'clock, sometimes six o'clock, but 9. 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