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Broadcasting from behind the second amendment iron curtain

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in the shadows of the New York City

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skyline. This is gun for higher radio the

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voice of 1000000 New Jersey gun owners with

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your hosts,

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Sandy Bo, and master firearms trainer, Anthony Ka.

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I the land that created forgot

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with second of amendment the broadcast and then

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nature. Welcome to it.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. Show 6 87. We have

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2 esteem guests thunder the show today. If

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you hear any background noises, it's probably my

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2 head instructors drive firing,

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reloading,

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I don't know, practice in all kinds of

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tactical shit or whatever.

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So just just be careful

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I'm gonna tell you right now that these

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guys are the best the upper echelon,

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and, you know, they say they're... You're only

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as good as your people

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And without further ado have the director of

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all training at gun for hires, Tony Arena.

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Is at the show, Tony just say, hello

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real quick. Good morning, everyone. Beautiful.

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And,

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our head of all of our tactical training

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and weapon and urban series classes, etcetera, etcetera.

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Vlad Viva vale. Everybody knows him as vlad.

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Right? So I have vlad and Tony Vlad.

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Say hello. Good morning.

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Good morning. So Tony, you're the senior guy.

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I'm not going by age here. You've been

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with the gun for hire for about 10

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years now. Just give us a little background

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about yourself some bullet points what got you

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to gun for hire, your previous life, etcetera,

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etcetera.

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Before I begin, do you have a camera

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in my house because I am moving around

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doing things? I do have a camera in

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your house.

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Yeah.

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You, I'm better talk have a talk of

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my wife. So, welcome, everybody. My... My name

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is Tony Arena.

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Little background on me.

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I was 1 of those fortunate kids

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that I knew what I wanted to do

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real young,

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and that was to become

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a cop. So I kinda align my life

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to to to those goals. Got got a

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little sidetracked, but I managed to accomplish it.

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I wind up doing 8 years

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in the United States Neighbor reserve as a

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Cb. Thank you.

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Discharged.

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Thank you. Una billy discharge in August of

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1. Put in perspective. We got attack that

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September.

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I also did 25 years

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law enforcement with the State County Prosecutor office

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of

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wonderful training and experience. It was a, a

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great job.

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During the course of that career,

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I wind up also doing 14 years with

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the

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Pas County Swat team.

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As I was coming up through the ranks

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to. I wind up being the firearms instructor,

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and also the training officer,

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also wind up being the expert when it

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came to firearms

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use of force and testified to thousands of

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cases in regards to that.

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So what happened was and how we came

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to this day was,

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I took the training... Very seriously. I took

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the responsibility of gun ownership very seriously.

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John Ru,

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who who's now 1 of our, who's back

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being in 1 of our premier staff members.

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Had asked me about 10 years ago to

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to put a class together on long range

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shooting since I was

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sniper team leader on on a team,

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you he wanted to bring somebody

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to to kinda put that class together. And

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and I did it. I did 2 classes,

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and I and I kinda saw opportunity I

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had 5 years to go at that time

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to retire.

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So I said to homeless listen. And if

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you like my approach,

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and you like my mythology,

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if there's ever an opening

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to teach, and, you know, I'll be Be

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more than happy to and and that... That's

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I came on board.

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My retired 5 years ago, and an opportunity

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arose

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to take over training. And like, any good

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husband. I asked my wife permission. And

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needs sports husband.

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She said get out.

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You know, And and I've been here ever

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since, and and, you know, I'm I'm not

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afraid to say it. Like,

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this best job ever had. I mean, I

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have a great career, I loved it.

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No better. You know, being in a second

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second amendment community,

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you know, working with a lot of people

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and getting them involved in a second amendment

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and teaching them and and educating them and

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and

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know, 1 of the things that I I'd

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like to let the public know and and

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law enforcement know is that our our are

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people here, you know, they do the right

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thing. They are responsible gun owners.

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And they do everything right, you know? And

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it's been fun.

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And that's a wonderful thing to hear. Bro.

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I love that.

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And so you've been running

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the entire training department, which he does a

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phenomenal job. I have to get involved, like,

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1 1 percent every couple of months, which

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is a beautiful thing. So thank you for

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taking us to the next level tone. Now

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let's talk about the big man over there.

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Vlad. Let's talk about you everywhere. You torture

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all the customers. So keep it out but

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let's hear it. They're like the yin and

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yang. Tony's like really nice to him and

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then Vlad brings them in a range and

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then Vlad is on their back Yoda. Style

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as they're running through forces of fire.

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Okay. Just ask John A next week about

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vlad when him and his son are on

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the show. Go ahead Vlad hit us.

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Hey,

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so 25 years of service, retired about a

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year and a half ago.

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From 25 years of service with the New

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jersey Transit police department.

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First half of my career, a lot of

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different capacities, anti crime, Es asu

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1 of our primary goals as a state

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agency was counter terrorism, so counter terrorism was

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our niche.

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So I was on a counter terrorism team,

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statewide wide run counters the counter terrorism team

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for a while.

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And the second half of my career since

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October, I believe of of 2009.

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I was assigned to our training unit.

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And so for the second half of my

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career, I trained

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police officers full time. Like, everywhere at anything

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recruits in the academy level, all the way

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to members of service as well as teams

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guys. So that was my

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responsibility. I was a ranger master from my

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department. I handled everything in regards to firearms

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as well as defensive tactics.

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so come in a gun for hire though.

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I needed to... You guys with such a

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great help back in April of 20 17.

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It's crazy. It's been 7 years already.

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I needed

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I needed to a a return to service

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qualification 1 of our 1 of our officers.

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1 of our officers was out on a

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medical leave, and he needed to come back

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So I called it's tough to get ranges.

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We didn't have our own range. So it's

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tough to get police ranges

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on a whim, you know, quickly. So I

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called gun for hire, and

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I was helped out. They opened up for

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me early 1 morning so I can get

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this police officer back in service.

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So at the time, it was a guy

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named Dave Sa that was there. Yep. He

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fire Mon chief

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Yeah. So he kinda watched me as... Since

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there was nobody else around. He was just

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watched me as I ran my guy towards

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of for this qualification.

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Evan, he just kinda said, hey, listen, would

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you want to work as an instructor?

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So I said well, I don't know if

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there's... I can go back to the house.

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I would love, But I would go back

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to the house and see if if it...

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There will be any kind of conflicts or

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anything.

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So that's exactly what I. I went back

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to my chief, and then I said, hey,

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Gun hire was great and helping us out

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getting that officer back on the job.

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guess what? They offered me AAA

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position if I wanted it to start teaching

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the chief was like, yeah. Go ahead. There's

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no conflict at all. As was as long

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as I wasn't working an official capacity. I

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wasn't there locking people up and in. Kinds

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of stuff. Right? So so it was just

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as an instructor. So no conflicts I started,

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and, I'm the chief instructor now. I love

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it. Love it. Absolutely love it. You know,

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I wanna thank you right away, Anthony. I

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mean, sometimes cops have a a have a

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hard time

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transitioning upon retirement. They're very apprehensive about retirement.

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You've made it such a smooth transition ran.

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Like, like, continuing to love to do what

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I love, etcetera. It's just been awesome. Awesome.

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If I can if I can add to

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that, it's absolutely. 1 of the things we

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talk about is retired law enforcement. All the

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instructors is

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it it's a hard transition going from

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the kind of paramilitary,

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Yeah. You know, environment to to a civilian

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market. And then we put so much

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into a in into that career from our

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lives at the... There's a little bit of

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anxiety when when when we retire.

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You kinda need a reason to get up

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in the morning. And the structure too, you

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you all structure. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you

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spend most of your life, you know, I'm

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coming from a weird other background that's pretty

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similar.

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And you spend your entire

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lifetime not having to worry about what you're

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gonna put on that day. Right. You you

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might you wear the same, you know, you

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you put your uniform on and you go,

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my my wife still makes fun of me

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because it...

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You know, it's it's kinda how it is...

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I I need to, like, go to a

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place that's it's like, animals for adult, you

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know? Great. Now, vlad vlad

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aside from being retired and being our

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civilian

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tactical

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instructor here, you have a side this this

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too that you also use our range and

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you use other facilities.

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So anybody listening to the show who is

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law enforcement or family members, wife, children kids,

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especially if your children are just getting into

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a career of law enforcement, but this is

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vlad offers He has his own business yield

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courses for law enforcement only. Flat before we

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get into the meat and potatoes of training

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here at gun for hire, tell everybody about

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threat reflex. Please.

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Okay. So being on the inside for so

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long, spending 15 years about for,

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about 12 to 15 years as a full

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time trainer.

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I saw a lot of the

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the things that police officers just had to

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contend with in regards to training. So 1

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of my goals upon retirement was to make

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things a little easier for low force to

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get to train. So whether it be, you

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know, external

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approvals from their departments to get

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outside training, there's are so many mat. Right?

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If you think about police departments, the chief

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is probably thinking, hey, is this gonna cost

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me an but kinda over time, how long

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this police officer are gonna be off the

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road for? You know, do we have it

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in the budget? Does the officer really need

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to do this, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So

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a lot of times, officers don't get as

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much training as they need. So 1 of

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my goals was to make it more

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available,

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affordable

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and make it quick so that they wouldn't

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have to do those approvals.

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So

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I started threat reflex

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in order to get that done. So there

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were... It's there... It's twofold fold what you

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would get out of threat reflex. 1 is

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the ability to train when you want without

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an approval. So you can come in for

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4 hours before your shift or come in

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for for 4 hours after your shift and

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train, get some reps in because we all

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know repetitive practice is what's gonna make things

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permanent in your mind. Yeah. So so the

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more you practice, the better. So

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without having to take a day off without

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having to hurt the department to budget without

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having to... And I also make it affordable.

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So without having to, you know, dig too

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deep into your pocket,

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you can come in and get reps with

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your firearm.

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As well as this is the second fold,

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as well as make it more

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conducive to what needs to happen for for

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law enforcement out there. It's not just about

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qualifying and then calling it, you know, checking

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off that checking that off the list and

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then going back to work. It's more about

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dynamic shooting it get

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Decision making, you know, use of force. It's

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it's about doing things that are more practical.

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It's about movement. 306... 360 degree environments and

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and getting them really comfortable with their duty

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guns. So that they perform better when they're

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sir the public out there. And what's the...

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How do people find threat reflex?

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They can always find me at the threat

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reflex dot com? They can always always email

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May have vlad at threat reflex, and our

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social... We have social media.

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Sites also,

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whether it be Facebook or

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Instagram a threat reflex.

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It'd be

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the holidays are coming great gifts for any

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law enforcement officers in your family.

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Maybe contact vlad and is a lovely assistant

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and get some gift cards for them to

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do training for... Now, this is law enforcement

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only ladies and gentlemen. Okay? For civilian end,

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you'd go to gun for hire. That's a

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whole different division, whole different training,

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protocol.

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1 thing people think, oh, all the time.

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And you guys notice this and I'm not

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knocking cops here, but not all cops are

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gun people.

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The majority of cops are not gun people.

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They chose the job because they wanted to

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be in law enforcement. They didn't choose the

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job because they were a gun person like

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everybody listening the gun for higher radio.

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I always say it's about 10 percent, and

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I've gotten

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validation from many cops, including Tony and vlad

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that if you have a department of a

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hundred cops. You have about 8 to 10

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cops that are into firearms and advancing their

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training on their own. And then the other

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90 percent, it's a job and they carry

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a gun on their h. Am I right

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guys?

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Yeah. Correct. So it's funny. It's funny Sometimes

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I've asked, you know, when they've had some...

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We have some police officers believe it or

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not. That have issues qualifying

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and have issues of meeting certain standards. So

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at times, I've asked them, how much do

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they train. And, you know, sometimes they're saying,

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well, I I... You know, do they... Sometimes

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I asked, are... Are you even a a

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member at a range somewhere? And sometimes yes,

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sometimes well, they say, well, but I can

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only shoot it in a public port.

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There's only so much I can do inside

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of a port. So hence threat reflex. Right?

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Get outside the Board and train some more.

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But,

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it's funny how sometimes you get the police

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officers that say, well, know, I'm not really

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a gun guy.

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And I always say to myself wow, man.

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You carry a gun every day on your

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hip. Yeah. You know? And it's it's a

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life saving tool at time times like, could...

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Click... Maybe you should be a gun guy.

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Yeah. It's so to to add to that

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is just to put in perspective, I'm... And

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I'm sure, you know, black can confirm this

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with me. I I was I obviously, a

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I was already a gun guy when I,

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you know, the first time I ever shot

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AAA rifle in in boot camp and m

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16, I fell in love with it, and

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that's all she wrote.

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The only other time that's ever happened was

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when I met my wife. But anyways,

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Bravo. You know? So so

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I was already a gun guy, but then

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for anybody that might not remember and know

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there there was a supervisor I had, a

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good friend of mine... It was a... Is

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an alumni of gun for hire, Bob Pro.

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And Yeah. I I worked with him And

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1 of the things I noticed when I

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first came on a job and and the

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assignments that I had.

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I realized

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Wow, you know, I have this firearm on

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my hip. I'm very... I have to be

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responsible before. I have to be responsible for

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is is it's proper usage.

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And it may save my life or my

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cog life for us or or an innocent

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life 1 day, I should take my training

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seriously. Yeah.

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And that's where guys like vlad,

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and an eye and and the other instructors.

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We kind of rose to the top of

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our in our careers.

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Because we took it upon ourselves to to

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get the training even if we had to

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pay out of pocket,

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you know, and and Bobby came to me

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1 day and said, you know, and that's

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how he got me on a swat team,

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He said Tony. He said, 1 the things

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I like about you is you you take

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this training seriously.

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And and I did and and subsequently, that's

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why we become, you know, the the the

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the

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top of our fields just when it came

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to firearms.

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You know,

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for sure. Now let me ask you guys.

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2 working together,

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when students come to a class, especially an

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advance class. Any of our urban classes are

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whole or anything.

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Real quick off the top of your head,

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each 1 of you, what's the number 1

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problem

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that you see a student has? Is it

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the equipment,

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like it did they have the wrong thing.

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What's what what what do people knew need

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to do to be prepared? What type of

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research. I want the 2 of you. Let's

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start with you, Tony

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for more on the the beginning end of

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the classes? What what do you normally see?

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That people need help with.

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Equipment, now that we are cary state, that's

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been the largest.

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Mh. What's a proper h.

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So forth and so on. And that's why

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in our host drug class, we actually spend

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an hour with them going over the pros

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and cons

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of of h.

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That's the first 1.

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So I I spent a lot of time

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responding to emails talking to people, making

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recommendations,

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And the reason I like to do things

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by Bill, not that I'm not afraid to

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talk to you is I'll send multiple links

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of multiple

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manufacturers

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you know, different types of host.

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What we're at, if, if I can add

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to this is now that we have a

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gun store, I've been also directing a lot

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of people to the gun store and coordinating

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with them to carry a lot of the

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popular firearm h

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as well. So they can they can come

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in and feel and touch and and so

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forth to so on. So that... That's that's

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that's the first 1 because,

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I, I can remember when I first put

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a gun on my hip. It was weird.

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It was it was a of very odd

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feeling and and it took months to get

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used to it to find the comfort zone.

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So that's the first 1. The second 1

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is is is handgun.

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Smaller is not necessarily better.

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You get a lot of people. Okay. Now

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that I'm gonna care concealed. I'm gonna get

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the smallest gun possible.

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And then when they come into the whole

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drug class and and and black product can

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confirm this for me because we talk all

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the time, is

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they have a hard time manipulating the firearm

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or get good accurate shots because the gun

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is so small,

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they're getting a larger salt recoil,

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and and having problems with the with the

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follow ups shops and so forth. You gotta

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find that balance. You gotta find that balance

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of a good firearm

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that that that is consumable, but it's also

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you can manipulate it and and and better.

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So those are the 2 main things that

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I can think of.

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And vlad, now you've vlad vlad is running

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more of the higher level

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classes. I mean Tony runs those classes too,

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but Vlad is the guy, boots on the

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ground. Him and well, we have... If I

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don't plug Wayne Monaco. He's gonna be pissed

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off I gotta to say Wayne Monica Wayne

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Monaco, Wayne Monaco. Go go ahead. Vlad. Give

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us a give us some insight, please.

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Yeah. Tony hit on it pretty well with

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the equipment side, but what, I'm gonna hit

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on the training side a little bit. Prior

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prior to

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the Brewing decision prior to us carrying here

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in New Jersey,

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it was a lot of misconceptions that we

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had to hit on, where, you know, people

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were are so used to hitting AAA

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target in a port,

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and they would

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even though you can work on Mark's ship

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in a port, they would think that they're

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they're shooting at a certain level because they

540
00:19:31,813 --> 00:19:33,408
hit the target all the time where they're

541
00:19:33,408 --> 00:19:35,736
ripping through a bull's eye. But once they

542
00:19:35,736 --> 00:19:38,686
start to train with us, they realize wow.

543
00:19:40,201 --> 00:19:43,391
My shots are a mess because you've added

544
00:19:43,391 --> 00:19:46,842
some more movement. You've added some thinking, some

545
00:19:46,842 --> 00:19:49,479
position shooting. You've added so much more realist

546
00:19:49,479 --> 00:19:50,698
realistic because realism

547
00:19:51,077 --> 00:19:51,477
to

548
00:19:52,116 --> 00:19:53,235
to these engagements.

549
00:19:53,648 --> 00:19:54,364
That they...

550
00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,668
That's the struggle now. While,

551
00:19:57,384 --> 00:19:59,314
shooting out a piece of paper really isn't

552
00:19:59,530 --> 00:20:01,611
conducive to a true gun fight. So once

553
00:20:01,611 --> 00:20:03,539
we get once we start to get them

554
00:20:03,595 --> 00:20:05,342
to realize what what's needed,

555
00:20:06,771 --> 00:20:08,358
that's their struggle, they

556
00:20:09,168 --> 00:20:10,837
getting comfortable with that firearm.

557
00:20:11,871 --> 00:20:12,689
And now

558
00:20:13,461 --> 00:20:16,084
now it's all about getting the repetitions in

559
00:20:16,084 --> 00:20:18,151
so that they can get pretty good at

560
00:20:18,151 --> 00:20:18,230
it.

561
00:20:19,045 --> 00:20:19,285
Yeah.

562
00:20:20,085 --> 00:20:21,845
You know, a lot of times a lot

563
00:20:21,845 --> 00:20:23,684
of times people think, you know, I have

564
00:20:23,684 --> 00:20:25,125
a gun in my in my house. I

565
00:20:25,125 --> 00:20:26,085
can protect my family.

566
00:20:27,537 --> 00:20:29,601
Not so much. Right? You're probably... Somebody comes

567
00:20:29,601 --> 00:20:31,348
barrel through your door, you're probably not gonna

568
00:20:31,348 --> 00:20:33,253
get to the bedroom from closet on time.

569
00:20:33,491 --> 00:20:35,000
Or you're not gonna get to the shotgun

570
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,325
under the bed. So

571
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,032
a lot of times, it's it's clearing up

572
00:20:40,032 --> 00:20:42,504
those misconceptions that people have,

573
00:20:43,461 --> 00:20:45,627
so that they realize. Once you put them

574
00:20:45,627 --> 00:20:48,011
in a different playing field, they realize how

575
00:20:48,011 --> 00:20:50,475
much tougher it is. You know, besides the

576
00:20:50,475 --> 00:20:51,746
equipment, it's about the training.

577
00:20:52,541 --> 00:20:53,271
You training.

578
00:20:53,906 --> 00:20:57,957
Repetition. Right? Repetition over and over again. So

579
00:20:57,957 --> 00:21:00,419
you guys were so busy for about a

580
00:21:00,419 --> 00:21:01,944
year and a half when it came to

581
00:21:01,944 --> 00:21:03,795
concealed Carry. You saw every

582
00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:04,829
possible

583
00:21:05,521 --> 00:21:06,657
scenario and

584
00:21:07,031 --> 00:21:09,496
situation, walk in the door and walk into

585
00:21:09,496 --> 00:21:12,082
the range from people with vision problems,

586
00:21:12,460 --> 00:21:15,572
people with, you know, motor scale problems,

587
00:21:16,130 --> 00:21:18,067
age problems, youth problems,

588
00:21:19,096 --> 00:21:21,406
shooting too fast, 2 issues slow too slow.

589
00:21:21,565 --> 00:21:23,318
You saw it all. Am I correct?

590
00:21:23,955 --> 00:21:26,663
Yeah. Yeah. Pretty. We've we've learned a lot

591
00:21:26,663 --> 00:21:28,585
and we've ref fine. I mean, we literally...

592
00:21:28,982 --> 00:21:31,363
We... We've qualified to date, guys just so

593
00:21:31,363 --> 00:21:32,974
you know, 16000

594
00:21:33,030 --> 00:21:34,538
of the 42000

595
00:21:34,538 --> 00:21:37,977
people that have carried permission New Jersey. 16000

596
00:21:37,977 --> 00:21:40,374
have come through gun for hire. 16000.

597
00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:44,050
Crazy incredible. It's incredible. Yes. Yes.

598
00:21:45,022 --> 00:21:47,413
I mean, it it's it's just phenomenal the

599
00:21:47,413 --> 00:21:48,767
level we have. So what do you guys

600
00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:50,941
have planned up up your sleeve

601
00:21:51,477 --> 00:21:51,716
vlad.

602
00:21:52,289 --> 00:21:54,207
And and Tony gives some people an idea.

603
00:21:54,367 --> 00:21:55,346
If they're intimidated

604
00:21:55,726 --> 00:21:57,164
about taking an urban class.

605
00:21:58,043 --> 00:21:59,881
A perfect example I like to give is

606
00:22:00,041 --> 00:22:02,687
John A who had stroke and walks with

607
00:22:02,687 --> 00:22:03,800
a cane. Right?

608
00:22:04,675 --> 00:22:06,980
Did he not go through many of our

609
00:22:06,980 --> 00:22:09,524
classes successfully with the stress and the pressure

610
00:22:09,524 --> 00:22:10,239
on top of him?

611
00:22:11,844 --> 00:22:14,071
Yes he did. I mean, he is he

612
00:22:14,071 --> 00:22:16,638
is a great example that you're only limited

613
00:22:16,694 --> 00:22:17,967
by your mind. Yeah.

614
00:22:19,254 --> 00:22:21,886
You know, it's it's it's... He coming in

615
00:22:21,886 --> 00:22:23,162
and listen, obviously,

616
00:22:23,721 --> 00:22:25,794
for due to physicality or certain things he

617
00:22:25,794 --> 00:22:27,709
cannot do. They're just just you can't get

618
00:22:27,709 --> 00:22:30,200
old... You can't get over that. But there's

619
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,880
other things that you can learn to do

620
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,640
to overcome those deficiencies.

621
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,440
And and, you know, we're we're willing to...

622
00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:39,013
We'll work with anybody. Like, you mentioned, we've

623
00:22:39,013 --> 00:22:40,051
got to work with a lot of people

624
00:22:40,210 --> 00:22:40,769
I've had to work.

625
00:22:41,726 --> 00:22:44,199
I've given private lessons to people with with

626
00:22:44,199 --> 00:22:47,481
all different levels of of of disability, and

627
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,175
I don't really like to use a term

628
00:22:49,630 --> 00:22:50,983
disability. I like to look at it more

629
00:22:50,983 --> 00:22:53,132
as what's your level of ability?

630
00:22:53,704 --> 00:22:55,693
You know, Nice. Not everybody has the same

631
00:22:55,693 --> 00:22:57,842
looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. There's nobody... Everybody

632
00:22:57,842 --> 00:22:59,513
doesn't have the same abilities. Even even... Let's

633
00:22:59,513 --> 00:23:01,979
say, me and vlad as an example, We're

634
00:23:01,979 --> 00:23:04,940
we're, you know, healthy men. He's a lot

635
00:23:04,940 --> 00:23:06,772
younger than I am by the way. But,

636
00:23:06,851 --> 00:23:09,638
you know, Wow a lot. And right. And

637
00:23:09,638 --> 00:23:11,072
better... You know, better looking.

638
00:23:12,043 --> 00:23:13,798
Yet. Yeah. I'm gonna have to go... I'm

639
00:23:13,877 --> 00:23:14,755
I'm gonna have to agree with that.

640
00:23:15,871 --> 00:23:16,850
But but

641
00:23:17,307 --> 00:23:19,141
as an example of 2 healthy map males.

642
00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:21,055
Well, we still have different abilities.

643
00:23:21,549 --> 00:23:23,225
So I I look at as levels of

644
00:23:23,225 --> 00:23:25,779
of of abilities and and how to over

645
00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:29,052
her overcome those. And, you know, it it

646
00:23:29,052 --> 00:23:30,342
was great to see you know,

647
00:23:31,136 --> 00:23:33,995
mister Pent come in, and, you know, he

648
00:23:33,995 --> 00:23:35,266
blew it out of the water. He, you

649
00:23:35,266 --> 00:23:38,125
know, he he kinda gives... He's a motivator.

650
00:23:38,379 --> 00:23:40,216
To to me that somebody that motivates me

651
00:23:40,216 --> 00:23:42,531
to be better and say, okay, you know,

652
00:23:42,770 --> 00:23:43,010
not...

653
00:23:43,968 --> 00:23:46,203
I can do anything no matter what the

654
00:23:46,203 --> 00:23:46,842
issues may be.

655
00:23:48,214 --> 00:23:49,723
But, you know, he was he was he

656
00:23:49,723 --> 00:23:51,471
was he was phenomenal. It was it was

657
00:23:51,471 --> 00:23:54,172
a great experience. You. You qualify a g

658
00:23:54,172 --> 00:23:54,887
with 1 hand.

659
00:23:55,776 --> 00:23:58,082
Yeah. 1 hand. You qualify g 1 hand.

660
00:23:58,241 --> 00:24:00,943
Come on. Let's let's face it. Yeah. Yeah.

661
00:24:01,182 --> 00:24:02,056
So so Vlad,

662
00:24:03,345 --> 00:24:04,785
if you could pick 1 gun to carry,

663
00:24:04,945 --> 00:24:06,865
what would it be? Real quick. 1 gun.

664
00:24:07,105 --> 00:24:08,464
The only gun you have in your arsenal.

665
00:24:08,785 --> 00:24:09,744
Sig p 03:20.

666
00:24:10,719 --> 00:24:13,036
Sig 3 tweet p 03:20. I have 1

667
00:24:13,036 --> 00:24:14,953
of those in in Florida with a with

668
00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:16,152
a a thing on the front of it

669
00:24:16,152 --> 00:24:17,670
that makes it quiet. But anyway,

670
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,154
Not florida that's so nice. Yeah. Now now

671
00:24:22,154 --> 00:24:24,309
3 twenties a pretty big gun, not everybody

672
00:24:24,309 --> 00:24:25,906
could carry that. Why would you pick that

673
00:24:25,906 --> 00:24:26,065
gun?

674
00:24:26,796 --> 00:24:28,779
Well, we trans... That was the last gun

675
00:24:28,779 --> 00:24:31,237
that we transitioned to with the police department.

676
00:24:31,475 --> 00:24:33,616
So I'm very familiar with it. I'm a

677
00:24:33,616 --> 00:24:35,617
sig arm So I was able to transition

678
00:24:35,617 --> 00:24:38,002
to the entire department to that 03:20.

679
00:24:38,718 --> 00:24:39,990
I have 4 of them that I train

680
00:24:39,990 --> 00:24:42,375
with that I teach with. They're so modular,

681
00:24:43,011 --> 00:24:45,013
size, I can I can go up and

682
00:24:45,013 --> 00:24:47,580
down from size, whether it be compact to

683
00:24:47,636 --> 00:24:50,099
regular? It's a full size. I can go

684
00:24:50,417 --> 00:24:52,404
to x 5 legion type size and I

685
00:24:52,404 --> 00:24:54,972
can come back to compact Rx. They're... The...

686
00:24:55,212 --> 00:24:57,210
That's the beauty of the 03:20 is that...

687
00:24:57,449 --> 00:24:58,888
Yeah. I can do so much with it.

688
00:24:59,207 --> 00:25:01,579
Modular modular. Yeah. That that that's a good

689
00:25:01,619 --> 00:25:03,537
point. Alright, Tony, you had you had the

690
00:25:03,537 --> 00:25:05,934
chance to listen to vlad. You could pick

691
00:25:05,934 --> 00:25:07,293
1 gun to carry what would it be?

692
00:25:07,772 --> 00:25:09,051
The 1 I carry with me every day,

693
00:25:09,210 --> 00:25:09,850
block 45.

694
00:25:10,344 --> 00:25:10,584
Club.

695
00:25:11,702 --> 00:25:13,540
Yep. I'm I'm a gl guy. The reason

696
00:25:13,620 --> 00:25:15,298
I picked the gl 45.

697
00:25:16,017 --> 00:25:17,935
Very similar. My background is very similar to

698
00:25:17,935 --> 00:25:20,661
vlad we, before I retired, we transitioned to

699
00:25:20,741 --> 00:25:21,560
Gl 19,

700
00:25:23,133 --> 00:25:23,850
very good gun.

701
00:25:25,205 --> 00:25:26,855
We we transitioned from gl

702
00:25:27,371 --> 00:25:29,673
20 threes, which is 40 cow. I hate

703
00:25:29,673 --> 00:25:30,547
that round by the way.

704
00:25:31,817 --> 00:25:33,564
So we went to gl 19 for the

705
00:25:33,564 --> 00:25:34,676
15 round capacity.

706
00:25:35,883 --> 00:25:38,505
Knowing now with with ballistic and the advancement

707
00:25:38,505 --> 00:25:41,843
in ballistic, 9 millimeters just as as good

708
00:25:41,843 --> 00:25:43,591
as any of the other caliber.

709
00:25:44,325 --> 00:25:46,005
So... But we have to think about what

710
00:25:46,005 --> 00:25:47,765
would be in the best interest. What would

711
00:25:47,765 --> 00:25:49,525
be in the best interest for the whole

712
00:25:49,525 --> 00:25:49,924
department.

713
00:25:51,125 --> 00:25:52,460
So we went to to

714
00:25:53,774 --> 00:25:56,903
gl 19, and we saw everybody's qualifications averages

715
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:57,359
go up.

716
00:25:58,235 --> 00:25:59,532
So that was my

717
00:26:00,242 --> 00:26:02,157
initial while, I... While I carried, I also

718
00:26:02,157 --> 00:26:02,976
had bought

719
00:26:03,672 --> 00:26:05,826
my own personal, so I can... If I

720
00:26:05,826 --> 00:26:07,341
left the state or I carried out of

721
00:26:07,341 --> 00:26:08,856
state and so forth, I would have my

722
00:26:08,856 --> 00:26:09,335
my personal.

723
00:26:09,910 --> 00:26:11,590
And then when the Gl 45 came out,

724
00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:13,049
I like it because

725
00:26:13,509 --> 00:26:14,970
I like the size of a 17,

726
00:26:16,070 --> 00:26:18,410
as far as grip, I I got long

727
00:26:18,804 --> 00:26:20,793
fingers. I got people tell me, Got piano

728
00:26:20,793 --> 00:26:21,031
fingers.

729
00:26:22,305 --> 00:26:24,214
So I like the 45 because it's a

730
00:26:24,294 --> 00:26:25,749
Gl 17 frame

731
00:26:26,442 --> 00:26:26,942
and

732
00:26:28,209 --> 00:26:30,127
but it has a Go 19 slide.

733
00:26:31,246 --> 00:26:32,764
So it's a little... It it kind of

734
00:26:32,764 --> 00:26:35,422
fits the the in between there between compact

735
00:26:35,481 --> 00:26:36,440
and and full size.

736
00:26:37,013 --> 00:26:39,005
And as soon as I am, I carry

737
00:26:39,005 --> 00:26:40,758
that well. I can seal it well. People

738
00:26:40,758 --> 00:26:42,830
are surprised when when they realize I have

739
00:26:42,830 --> 00:26:42,910
it.

740
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,185
So to go to kinda answer the question

741
00:26:46,185 --> 00:26:49,044
that's always asked about, you know, being too

742
00:26:49,044 --> 00:26:49,544
big

743
00:26:50,314 --> 00:26:51,290
with the proper

744
00:26:51,664 --> 00:26:53,252
clothing and h,

745
00:26:54,381 --> 00:26:55,974
you can carry a full size fine. I

746
00:26:55,974 --> 00:26:57,568
mean. It's just... It it might take some

747
00:26:57,568 --> 00:26:57,966
comfort,

748
00:26:59,241 --> 00:27:00,435
used to that comfort level.

749
00:27:01,392 --> 00:27:02,825
With these polymer guns sig,

750
00:27:03,477 --> 00:27:06,263
sig and in my opinion sig and gl

751
00:27:06,263 --> 00:27:08,036
are a 2 type 2

752
00:27:08,491 --> 00:27:08,991
premier

753
00:27:10,003 --> 00:27:10,481
firearms,

754
00:27:11,117 --> 00:27:13,282
manufacturers you can't go wrong with either of

755
00:27:13,282 --> 00:27:13,441
them.

756
00:27:14,637 --> 00:27:16,173
They're they're very great

757
00:27:16,709 --> 00:27:19,099
carry firearms. After to say the other manufacturers

758
00:27:19,099 --> 00:27:20,056
don't have them as well,

759
00:27:21,586 --> 00:27:23,261
but this clearly goes in line what I

760
00:27:23,261 --> 00:27:26,053
was saying before about finding that middle row.

761
00:27:26,212 --> 00:27:28,366
Like, a 3 65. 3 65, very gary,

762
00:27:28,605 --> 00:27:29,961
very great small carry.

763
00:27:31,731 --> 00:27:33,964
To to to to to put in comparison,

764
00:27:34,203 --> 00:27:35,559
I also carry a 43,

765
00:27:35,958 --> 00:27:37,633
which is the gl version of a of

766
00:27:37,633 --> 00:27:38,829
a of a sub compact.

767
00:27:39,547 --> 00:27:40,400
But unless

768
00:27:40,757 --> 00:27:41,654
you're very

769
00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:45,365
experienced or and and trained with it. You're

770
00:27:45,365 --> 00:27:47,565
gonna have a harder time manipulating a smaller

771
00:27:47,684 --> 00:27:49,434
a smaller gun. So you you can carry

772
00:27:49,434 --> 00:27:52,059
a good, you know, sub compact compact firearm.

773
00:27:52,775 --> 00:27:54,366
So now you first, Tony.

774
00:27:55,813 --> 00:27:57,166
Do you have an optic on that on?

775
00:27:57,644 --> 00:27:59,394
Yes. I do. I have A50 90 t

776
00:27:59,474 --> 00:28:02,180
Coincidentally today. Somebody asked my who makes that?

777
00:28:02,594 --> 00:28:05,230
That that that that's a h son. The

778
00:28:05,230 --> 00:28:07,089
reason I went to the 05:09

779
00:28:07,148 --> 00:28:09,145
t. It's a closed emit In other words

780
00:28:09,145 --> 00:28:11,395
is it's 2 windows. It's a big,

781
00:28:12,911 --> 00:28:14,747
nice big windows. I've gotten older. I need

782
00:28:14,747 --> 00:28:15,784
all the help I can get.

783
00:28:16,582 --> 00:28:17,082
Okay

784
00:28:17,793 --> 00:28:18,111
So,

785
00:28:18,984 --> 00:28:20,971
I like it on a larger frame. On

786
00:28:20,971 --> 00:28:23,593
my 43, I have a hollow son 05:07

787
00:28:23,593 --> 00:28:23,831
k.

788
00:28:24,943 --> 00:28:26,056
Fits very well on it.

789
00:28:27,264 --> 00:28:29,173
If I can take a opportunity to plug

790
00:28:29,173 --> 00:28:32,117
it, I, vlad put together for us and

791
00:28:32,117 --> 00:28:33,231
an urban red dot,

792
00:28:33,961 --> 00:28:36,766
class. I took it 3 times with him

793
00:28:37,060 --> 00:28:40,397
and phenomenal. It it's it's it's it's a

794
00:28:40,397 --> 00:28:41,771
tool that's invaluable.

795
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,240
But, like anything else you need to train

796
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,240
properly with it and know the nuances and

797
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,480
and and and the pros and cons of

798
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,799
of of the firearm. But those are my

799
00:28:50,799 --> 00:28:52,654
favorite. Vlad. What what do you do you

800
00:28:52,654 --> 00:28:53,615
have an optic on your gun?

801
00:28:54,255 --> 00:28:57,294
Yeah. I... Right now, I've been teaching with

802
00:28:57,294 --> 00:28:57,534
of,

803
00:28:58,255 --> 00:29:01,388
the Hollow sun comp, 05:07 comp. It's probably

804
00:29:01,388 --> 00:29:03,861
the largest window that they make. It's it's

805
00:29:03,861 --> 00:29:05,058
1 of their newer optics.

806
00:29:05,936 --> 00:29:07,292
Absolutely. Absolutely love it.

807
00:29:08,010 --> 00:29:09,933
I also have the 05:09 like Tony, is

808
00:29:09,933 --> 00:29:11,839
a really good optic also. It's probably what

809
00:29:11,998 --> 00:29:14,460
I've run for the most amount of time

810
00:29:14,460 --> 00:29:15,992
with an optic, but

811
00:29:17,018 --> 00:29:18,292
but I love the H sun.

812
00:29:19,009 --> 00:29:20,146
Now if you go

813
00:29:20,762 --> 00:29:23,789
on gun for higher range on Youtube, which

814
00:29:23,789 --> 00:29:25,085
we have 65000

815
00:29:25,223 --> 00:29:25,723
subscribers

816
00:29:26,114 --> 00:29:28,500
or any of our social media or our

817
00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,887
website, Vlad has been publishing videos,

818
00:29:32,398 --> 00:29:32,898
testing

819
00:29:33,526 --> 00:29:33,924
optics,

820
00:29:34,878 --> 00:29:36,151
explaining different handgun guns,

821
00:29:37,025 --> 00:29:40,127
core belt system, etcetera, etcetera. Tony shot a

822
00:29:40,127 --> 00:29:42,115
whole video with Matt and and Phoebe in

823
00:29:42,115 --> 00:29:44,277
the crew, good to get your concealed carry,

824
00:29:44,913 --> 00:29:46,663
so they're all out there for all of

825
00:29:46,663 --> 00:29:48,810
you to look at. When we come back,

826
00:29:48,970 --> 00:29:50,640
I wanna I wanna talk about optics, and

827
00:29:50,719 --> 00:29:52,721
I wanna talk about training and what people

828
00:29:52,721 --> 00:29:54,944
can do at home. So let's let me

829
00:29:54,944 --> 00:29:56,850
take care of some housekeeping right now.

830
00:29:57,644 --> 00:30:00,281
The first thing is our our our little

831
00:30:00,281 --> 00:30:03,464
warrior out there needs some help. Okay? She's

832
00:30:03,464 --> 00:30:06,011
trying to get the final number head count

833
00:30:06,011 --> 00:30:07,205
for her Nra a dinner.

834
00:30:08,096 --> 00:30:11,142
Which is Saturday, September fourteenth at 5PM

835
00:30:11,596 --> 00:30:13,131
at the Cologne fire

836
00:30:13,586 --> 00:30:16,053
in May landing, New Jersey, tickets are a

837
00:30:16,053 --> 00:30:16,553
whopping

838
00:30:16,865 --> 00:30:18,085
75

839
00:30:18,625 --> 00:30:19,025
dollars.

840
00:30:19,505 --> 00:30:20,865
Okay? You can go to,

841
00:30:21,664 --> 00:30:23,184
friends of n nra r a dot org.

842
00:30:23,345 --> 00:30:25,904
You could go to sandy number 2 at

843
00:30:25,904 --> 00:30:28,468
a 2 sanctuary at gmail dot com.

844
00:30:30,059 --> 00:30:30,855
We're looking...

845
00:30:31,570 --> 00:30:33,639
She's looking to sell for the Atlantic County

846
00:30:33,639 --> 00:30:35,804
friends of the En nra dinner or friend

847
00:30:35,804 --> 00:30:36,283
out there.

848
00:30:37,402 --> 00:30:37,902
Basically,

849
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,837
you know she works hard for everybody in

850
00:30:40,837 --> 00:30:42,115
a second amendment community.

851
00:30:42,608 --> 00:30:44,437
Last week, I was at Aberdeen Guns and

852
00:30:44,517 --> 00:30:45,869
Ammo, and there was a lot of heavy

853
00:30:45,869 --> 00:30:48,017
hit there and Rosie and c and J.

854
00:30:48,733 --> 00:30:51,625
Please please please like share and follow, get

855
00:30:51,625 --> 00:30:52,825
on her Facebook page.

856
00:30:53,865 --> 00:30:56,664
She's looking for sponsors. She's looking for donations.

857
00:30:57,464 --> 00:31:00,749
Again, tickets are 75 dollars at Saturday, September

858
00:31:00,749 --> 00:31:02,422
fourteenth. I'm not sure. I'm gonna be in

859
00:31:02,422 --> 00:31:04,414
new Jersey if I am. I will be

860
00:31:04,414 --> 00:31:05,472
at this dinner

861
00:31:05,863 --> 00:31:08,807
Please reach out this week to Sandy and

862
00:31:08,807 --> 00:31:11,512
get your tickets. She she's 04:11 and a

863
00:31:11,512 --> 00:31:13,596
half excuse me. I almost cut a half

864
00:31:13,596 --> 00:31:15,425
inch she would she would beat me.

865
00:31:16,856 --> 00:31:19,480
I think it's very important that we support

866
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,468
everybody, and I'm gonna continue pitching it, but

867
00:31:21,468 --> 00:31:22,741
don't wait to buy your tickets.

868
00:31:23,232 --> 00:31:25,297
Friends family and everybody get over there and

869
00:31:25,297 --> 00:31:26,487
and show your support.

870
00:31:27,202 --> 00:31:28,710
Again, if you live in New York,

871
00:31:29,346 --> 00:31:31,251
you need a legal defense phone. The only

872
00:31:31,251 --> 00:31:32,099
1 that is

873
00:31:32,619 --> 00:31:33,019
legal.

874
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In all of New York as Ny tax

875
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defense, m ny tax defense dot com, mentioned

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your monthly membership

878
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49 other states,

879
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Us Law shield. I personally have Us law

880
00:31:46,201 --> 00:31:48,111
shield that covers me in New Jersey, and

881
00:31:48,111 --> 00:31:49,861
it covers me in Florida or any of

882
00:31:49,861 --> 00:31:50,896
their 49 states.

883
00:31:52,188 --> 00:31:55,325
Remember decoding firearms to Penn patriot John Pet

884
00:31:55,384 --> 00:31:57,621
is doing god's work. He still can't get

885
00:31:57,621 --> 00:32:00,500
the attorney general to address why we are

886
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:01,794
racially discriminating

887
00:32:02,326 --> 00:32:02,826
against

888
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:05,502
black people for carrie permits in the state

889
00:32:05,502 --> 00:32:06,216
of New Jersey,

890
00:32:07,028 --> 00:32:09,024
they want equity, and they want everybody treated

891
00:32:09,024 --> 00:32:10,221
the same in New Jersey, but not when

892
00:32:10,221 --> 00:32:11,738
it comes to gun permits, Of course.

893
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Stan strong dot biz, 500 businesses

894
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895
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896
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wellness and jay optimal health wellness and jay

897
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is Doctor Joseph San Pet.

898
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Lake Island Rifle and Pistol club in Carter,

899
00:32:29,774 --> 00:32:31,850
New Jersey is looking for Junior rifle members

900
00:32:31,850 --> 00:32:34,085
12 to 18 years old to learn fire

901
00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:36,146
safety and to compete in small bore air

902
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rifle competition, visit LAKEIS

903
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dot org

904
00:32:41,156 --> 00:32:43,695
zen float centers, zen float center dot com.

905
00:32:44,489 --> 00:32:46,393
Check out Sharon Decker, Tell her we said

906
00:32:46,393 --> 00:32:48,879
hello. Of course, Aberdeen Guns and ammo 2

907
00:32:48,879 --> 00:32:51,773
year anniversary. I got to meet the brains

908
00:32:52,071 --> 00:32:53,907
behind the whole outfit. I thought it was

909
00:32:54,066 --> 00:32:57,105
John Z. The owner of the organization, but

910
00:32:57,265 --> 00:32:59,730
I got to meet a George Z, who

911
00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:02,354
is the dad, who is the patriarch who

912
00:33:02,354 --> 00:33:04,277
told me I had to mention him on

913
00:33:04,277 --> 00:33:06,025
the show, and he said it in a

914
00:33:06,025 --> 00:33:07,614
way where if I didn't do it, I

915
00:33:07,773 --> 00:33:09,680
I'd probably get a limp the next time

916
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,394
I get down there. So George Z. Thank

917
00:33:12,394 --> 00:33:15,249
you for bringing Aberdeen Guns and Ammo to

918
00:33:15,249 --> 00:33:17,605
us and giving us your son who is

919
00:33:17,723 --> 00:33:19,469
1 of the guys fighting with the 2

920
00:33:19,469 --> 00:33:20,183
8 community.

921
00:33:20,976 --> 00:33:24,150
Varsity Firearms podcast, John Vale valencia, please listen

922
00:33:24,150 --> 00:33:24,785
and follow.

923
00:33:26,308 --> 00:33:28,933
Don't forget to follow garden state guns on

924
00:33:29,012 --> 00:33:32,194
Reddit, and the New Jersey firearm Syndicate 2

925
00:33:32,194 --> 00:33:32,910
on Facebook.

926
00:33:33,563 --> 00:33:35,240
Between the 2 groups, they cover a wide

927
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,794
base of New Jersey gun owners. Alright? And,

928
00:33:37,874 --> 00:33:40,029
of course, there's n j liberty cards, n

929
00:33:40,029 --> 00:33:41,785
j liberty cards dot com. All my guys.

930
00:33:41,959 --> 00:33:43,869
Have been having their cards made. If you

931
00:33:43,869 --> 00:33:46,177
want your sag card, your F card, your

932
00:33:46,336 --> 00:33:49,201
Rp card, Emt card, anything like that,

933
00:33:50,095 --> 00:33:52,255
your carry card, go to n j liberty

934
00:33:52,255 --> 00:33:54,734
cards dot com. Tel chad. I said, hello.

935
00:33:55,535 --> 00:33:57,215
Coming soon with fucking optics.

936
00:33:57,629 --> 00:34:01,463
The entire of month of August is vortex

937
00:34:01,598 --> 00:34:03,503
month at gun for higher vortex is gonna

938
00:34:03,503 --> 00:34:06,124
be offering a ton of specials, so you

939
00:34:06,124 --> 00:34:06,624
wanna

940
00:34:07,250 --> 00:34:09,235
check that out. The North Jersey friends at

941
00:34:09,235 --> 00:34:11,219
the Nra dinner, we're gonna talk about that

942
00:34:11,219 --> 00:34:12,966
next week and we're gonna talk about Sandy

943
00:34:13,045 --> 00:34:14,236
Hi and dinner as well.

944
00:34:15,289 --> 00:34:17,369
John, customers are asking me how they can

945
00:34:17,369 --> 00:34:20,329
buy the raffle tickets. Bart in particular. Ask

946
00:34:20,329 --> 00:34:22,784
me how he can buy raffle tickets. So

947
00:34:22,983 --> 00:34:24,491
please, when you come on the show, have

948
00:34:24,491 --> 00:34:26,872
the answers, and I know you're working with

949
00:34:27,031 --> 00:34:29,889
Matt on the brochure. Gun for hire continuing

950
00:34:29,889 --> 00:34:31,969
to offer range days where we bring all

951
00:34:31,969 --> 00:34:34,286
of the manufacturers and reps in, many more

952
00:34:34,286 --> 00:34:34,606
to come.

953
00:34:35,326 --> 00:34:38,442
Tony is spear Eddy Eagle. Well, first 1

954
00:34:38,442 --> 00:34:40,655
is August first. We're running Eddy Eagle course

955
00:34:40,854 --> 00:34:43,484
for children from pre k to fourth grade.

956
00:34:44,121 --> 00:34:46,193
Any kids over fourth grade if they show

957
00:34:46,193 --> 00:34:48,106
up, I will be giving free head slaps.

958
00:34:48,839 --> 00:34:49,659
Anybody under

959
00:34:50,118 --> 00:34:53,155
fourth grade is welcome to attend 4 free.

960
00:34:53,794 --> 00:34:55,233
Okay? Eddy Eagle classes.

961
00:34:55,871 --> 00:34:58,203
Obviously, we're doing the pistol shoot Scott went

962
00:34:58,203 --> 00:35:00,115
worth in Phoebe, and and my rest of

963
00:35:00,115 --> 00:35:02,424
my crew were doing a phenomenal job, and

964
00:35:02,424 --> 00:35:04,358
the plate rack matches are

965
00:35:04,734 --> 00:35:06,860
blowing out the door. It's

966
00:35:07,457 --> 00:35:10,164
unbelievable thing with people are are signing up

967
00:35:10,164 --> 00:35:10,403
and

968
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:11,358
shooting.

969
00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:13,906
Obviously, we got a lot of stuff going

970
00:35:13,906 --> 00:35:13,986
on.

971
00:35:14,782 --> 00:35:16,945
Was found guilty on all 12 counts, but

972
00:35:16,945 --> 00:35:19,252
he ain't resigning because he's gonna appeal it.

973
00:35:19,809 --> 00:35:22,329
Obviously, Trump got shot in here and Corey

974
00:35:22,608 --> 00:35:25,708
laboratory with with firefighter or retired chief was

975
00:35:25,708 --> 00:35:28,568
was tragically murdered that day and 2 other

976
00:35:28,568 --> 00:35:29,864
people are are in

977
00:35:30,173 --> 00:35:33,187
critical condition. I just wanna offer my

978
00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:37,050
my heartfelt condolences to the family and everybody

979
00:35:37,729 --> 00:35:39,965
we we could probably have 5 shows on

980
00:35:39,965 --> 00:35:43,002
the secret service and local Pd, but we

981
00:35:43,002 --> 00:35:45,489
really don't know everything yet. It's kinda too

982
00:35:45,489 --> 00:35:48,035
soon to tell. So I really don't wanna

983
00:35:48,035 --> 00:35:50,819
address that based on, you know, he said

984
00:35:50,819 --> 00:35:51,217
she said,

985
00:35:51,948 --> 00:35:52,985
John T, who,

986
00:35:53,702 --> 00:35:55,456
great gun for Heir alumni who's been with

987
00:35:55,456 --> 00:35:56,014
us forever,

988
00:35:56,492 --> 00:35:58,724
brought his 15 year old daughter, Ella to

989
00:35:58,724 --> 00:36:01,047
the range, and he wrote Dear Anthony C

990
00:36:01,047 --> 00:36:02,796
and Tony U. As you both know my

991
00:36:02,796 --> 00:36:04,465
daughter Ella came in and took her basic

992
00:36:04,465 --> 00:36:07,248
pistol with Vic Rivera, she had an amazing

993
00:36:07,248 --> 00:36:10,130
time The staff was great. Etcetera etcetera Tony.

994
00:36:10,289 --> 00:36:12,519
You saw her targets. Right? Yes. I did.

995
00:36:13,077 --> 00:36:14,511
Oh my. Her up.

996
00:36:15,402 --> 00:36:17,311
Figure you guys think of a pie and

997
00:36:17,311 --> 00:36:19,061
then think of a group the size of,

998
00:36:19,221 --> 00:36:20,891
like, a 15 year old girl's fist.

999
00:36:21,926 --> 00:36:23,755
That's that's the group she shot, Sandy.

1000
00:36:24,726 --> 00:36:25,124
Phenomenal.

1001
00:36:25,601 --> 00:36:27,831
Also, last week, I talked about what to

1002
00:36:27,831 --> 00:36:30,378
do when your doctor asks you if you

1003
00:36:30,378 --> 00:36:32,702
have guns or any medical profession, I got

1004
00:36:32,702 --> 00:36:34,613
an email, Cindy, did you get doctor Redeem

1005
00:36:34,613 --> 00:36:36,206
email? Did. Hey, Jonathan.

1006
00:36:36,843 --> 00:36:38,675
Doctor John Ad. He's gonna be here in

1007
00:36:38,914 --> 00:36:40,586
September. We'll probably have him on the show.

1008
00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:44,496
He said that, we followed everything perfect. He's

1009
00:36:44,496 --> 00:36:46,721
a member of and a founder of doctors

1010
00:36:46,721 --> 00:36:48,493
for a responsible gun owner. So

1011
00:36:48,803 --> 00:36:50,711
Again, go back to last week if you

1012
00:36:50,711 --> 00:36:52,381
missed it, and please

1013
00:36:52,938 --> 00:36:54,449
discuss it with your friends and family what

1014
00:36:54,449 --> 00:36:55,903
to do should a medical

1015
00:36:56,278 --> 00:36:56,778
professional

1016
00:36:57,088 --> 00:36:58,441
ask you if you have guns in the

1017
00:36:58,441 --> 00:37:01,465
house. Remember they are medical professionals, they're not

1018
00:37:01,465 --> 00:37:01,965
firearms

1019
00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:04,648
professionals. The last thing I wanna talk about

1020
00:37:04,648 --> 00:37:06,023
we had 2 court rulings

1021
00:37:06,888 --> 00:37:07,388
Fp

1022
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,851
had a win in Minnesota that's saying 18

1023
00:37:10,851 --> 00:37:13,229
to 20 year olds can carry guns. Okay?

1024
00:37:13,546 --> 00:37:15,559
Because us if they can... If they can

1025
00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:17,719
defend their country and fight for their country,

1026
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:19,480
I believe they should be able to carry

1027
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,400
a gun. If they're a responsible 18 to

1028
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:21,880
20 year old,

1029
00:37:22,934 --> 00:37:26,036
welcome to the club. And our judge in

1030
00:37:26,036 --> 00:37:28,979
our assault weapons mag band case in the

1031
00:37:28,979 --> 00:37:31,377
third search here, Sandy has re... Or already

1032
00:37:31,377 --> 00:37:33,202
a appeal... Appeals court has retired.

1033
00:37:33,917 --> 00:37:36,457
Now I wanna make lemonade out of lemons.

1034
00:37:36,695 --> 00:37:38,655
Maybe we'll get assigned the judge that is

1035
00:37:38,853 --> 00:37:41,317
more pro gun. I don't think we really

1036
00:37:41,317 --> 00:37:43,304
lost that much time because our case has

1037
00:37:43,304 --> 00:37:45,847
been on hold because the Appellate Court was

1038
00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:48,491
waiting to see what the the Supreme Court

1039
00:37:48,491 --> 00:37:50,483
was gonna do with vac all the other

1040
00:37:50,483 --> 00:37:52,634
2 way cases they had. So our case

1041
00:37:52,634 --> 00:37:54,967
has been idle for 6 or 8 months

1042
00:37:55,104 --> 00:37:57,509
anyway. Okay? Sandy, I think there's a raven.

1043
00:37:57,748 --> 00:37:59,661
Are you reading the telltale park what the

1044
00:37:59,661 --> 00:38:00,856
hell is going on? Are there are a

1045
00:38:00,856 --> 00:38:02,369
vulture a raven or something?

1046
00:38:03,087 --> 00:38:04,760
Actually, a frog who hangs out of here.

1047
00:38:06,209 --> 00:38:07,798
I'm a little scared. I'm a little scared.

1048
00:38:08,354 --> 00:38:10,261
So yeah. So maybe we'll get a judge

1049
00:38:10,261 --> 00:38:12,009
who is more pro gun. I don't know,

1050
00:38:12,247 --> 00:38:14,313
but let's make lemonade out of lemons right

1051
00:38:14,313 --> 00:38:17,055
now, lady. And gentlemen. I really don't know

1052
00:38:17,827 --> 00:38:18,146
you know,

1053
00:38:18,941 --> 00:38:20,930
how it's gonna go. So guys, I got

1054
00:38:20,930 --> 00:38:22,539
the 2 of you back now, we got

1055
00:38:22,539 --> 00:38:23,578
the... We got the rest of the show.

1056
00:38:23,737 --> 00:38:25,975
Oh, and don't forget threat reflex dot com.

1057
00:38:26,215 --> 00:38:29,731
Threat reflex dot com is, val baby where

1058
00:38:29,731 --> 00:38:29,971
he's,

1059
00:38:30,690 --> 00:38:30,930
you know,

1060
00:38:31,902 --> 00:38:35,246
treat out teaching law enforcement officers reps. 4

1061
00:38:35,246 --> 00:38:37,476
hours. You come in, hit it hard, hit

1062
00:38:37,476 --> 00:38:39,728
it fast and get those repetitions in

1063
00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:43,068
God can save your life. Alright. So let's

1064
00:38:43,068 --> 00:38:43,866
talk, gentlemen.

1065
00:38:44,424 --> 00:38:45,939
Let's give some people some

1066
00:38:46,736 --> 00:38:47,055
some

1067
00:38:47,932 --> 00:38:48,432
advice

1068
00:38:49,143 --> 00:38:52,256
some tips. So I always do, like, training

1069
00:38:52,256 --> 00:38:54,092
tips. We try to go over stuff that's

1070
00:38:54,092 --> 00:38:54,491
going on.

1071
00:38:55,369 --> 00:38:56,407
Vlad, you go first,

1072
00:38:57,539 --> 00:38:59,137
and then Tony, you go second. I'll switch

1073
00:38:59,137 --> 00:39:00,655
you guys off. So if, like, give us

1074
00:39:00,655 --> 00:39:02,812
some tips on what people should be doing,

1075
00:39:02,972 --> 00:39:04,902
What can they you do at home, to

1076
00:39:04,902 --> 00:39:07,206
increase their skills or train, and then what

1077
00:39:07,206 --> 00:39:08,478
what they can do when they come to

1078
00:39:08,478 --> 00:39:10,544
a flat range if they haven't taken any

1079
00:39:10,544 --> 00:39:13,007
of our advanced urban classes. Let's start with

1080
00:39:13,007 --> 00:39:13,166
you.

1081
00:39:14,294 --> 00:39:17,235
Well, dry firing is huge. You know, it's

1082
00:39:17,235 --> 00:39:18,984
funny. We had the Max Michelle, you know,

1083
00:39:19,143 --> 00:39:20,255
a time World champion,

1084
00:39:21,368 --> 00:39:23,532
Captain of the Sig team. And he talks

1085
00:39:23,532 --> 00:39:25,128
about the importance of dry firing.

1086
00:39:25,847 --> 00:39:27,602
So if the best shooters in the world

1087
00:39:27,602 --> 00:39:29,357
do it, we should also do it.

1088
00:39:30,489 --> 00:39:32,394
Spending time at home, Ammo cost money, you

1089
00:39:32,394 --> 00:39:35,014
know, spending time at home, getting those those

1090
00:39:35,014 --> 00:39:35,411
draws,

1091
00:39:36,046 --> 00:39:37,316
gaining that site alignment.

1092
00:39:38,363 --> 00:39:41,562
Being able to do a a emergency reload

1093
00:39:41,618 --> 00:39:42,492
you know, quickly,

1094
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:46,461
accessing your gear, especially if you're permits a

1095
00:39:46,461 --> 00:39:46,937
carry holder,

1096
00:39:47,828 --> 00:39:49,501
you wanna be able to access that other

1097
00:39:49,501 --> 00:39:52,131
mag. I'm hoping that you're carrying another mag.

1098
00:39:53,327 --> 00:39:53,725
That point.

1099
00:39:55,254 --> 00:39:55,572
So

1100
00:39:56,288 --> 00:39:58,832
all those those things are very important, as

1101
00:39:58,832 --> 00:40:00,900
well as getting into different positions as if

1102
00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:02,411
you were, you know, you if you needed

1103
00:40:02,411 --> 00:40:04,581
to take cover behind a car, that knee

1104
00:40:04,717 --> 00:40:04,876
position,

1105
00:40:06,807 --> 00:40:09,285
those reps are very important and it doesn't

1106
00:40:09,285 --> 00:40:10,804
cost any money that you don't have to

1107
00:40:10,804 --> 00:40:12,961
buy Ammo. It doesn't cost anything at all

1108
00:40:12,961 --> 00:40:15,291
besides time. You have to put a little

1109
00:40:15,291 --> 00:40:16,965
bit of time into it because it's gonna...

1110
00:40:17,124 --> 00:40:19,276
It's gonna be very worth your while.

1111
00:40:20,073 --> 00:40:21,348
If I could if I can add to

1112
00:40:21,348 --> 00:40:21,507
that,

1113
00:40:22,559 --> 00:40:24,315
please. There is a little... There's a little

1114
00:40:24,315 --> 00:40:25,990
money that I do recommend that they can

1115
00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:29,661
spend. Get caps. Get caps or or dummy

1116
00:40:29,661 --> 00:40:30,034
rounds

1117
00:40:31,114 --> 00:40:32,795
I had an instructor that got triggered every

1118
00:40:32,795 --> 00:40:34,315
time I call them dummy rounds. But anyway,

1119
00:40:35,674 --> 00:40:36,174
so,

1120
00:40:36,795 --> 00:40:38,849
you know, they... They're not expensive. They're in

1121
00:40:38,969 --> 00:40:39,449
expensive

1122
00:40:39,929 --> 00:40:42,646
tool that can assist with the dry firing

1123
00:40:42,646 --> 00:40:45,523
that that Vlad was talking about. And, like

1124
00:40:45,523 --> 00:40:47,041
he said, work in your reload and stuff

1125
00:40:47,041 --> 00:40:48,320
like that. When you wanna do stuff like

1126
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,648
that, Please. Please. Please no ammo in the

1127
00:40:50,648 --> 00:40:51,445
same room with you.

1128
00:40:52,721 --> 00:40:55,990
Triple check. Yep. Triple check everything. I I

1129
00:40:55,990 --> 00:40:57,800
don't wanna hear that you accidentally shot your

1130
00:40:57,999 --> 00:40:59,275
screen because you wanted a bigger 1.

1131
00:41:00,790 --> 00:41:01,030
So,

1132
00:41:01,907 --> 00:41:02,226
you know,

1133
00:41:02,943 --> 00:41:05,097
you you know, practice. Like, like, I've I've

1134
00:41:05,097 --> 00:41:07,091
done drills. Sometimes I put a baseball game

1135
00:41:07,091 --> 00:41:09,014
on or football game on, and I'll just

1136
00:41:09,014 --> 00:41:11,795
take some dummy dummy drills and work my

1137
00:41:11,795 --> 00:41:13,860
reload without looking at the at the firearm.

1138
00:41:14,257 --> 00:41:15,846
I to do You know, stuff like that

1139
00:41:15,846 --> 00:41:17,931
just Yeah. Just to get ingrained memory,

1140
00:41:18,967 --> 00:41:21,197
keep that going. But, yeah, that that those

1141
00:41:21,197 --> 00:41:23,267
are huge. What what foot lot of same.

1142
00:41:23,586 --> 00:41:25,352
Very very good. You could also. Yeah. You

1143
00:41:25,352 --> 00:41:25,829
could also,

1144
00:41:26,941 --> 00:41:30,754
add a responsive laser bore that that responds

1145
00:41:30,754 --> 00:41:32,525
to your firing pin. So

1146
00:41:33,534 --> 00:41:35,938
I have that here at home. The in

1147
00:41:35,938 --> 00:41:37,776
my workshop, I have a few targets hanging

1148
00:41:37,776 --> 00:41:40,014
up, so I have this laser bore cider

1149
00:41:40,014 --> 00:41:40,733
in my bore.

1150
00:41:41,692 --> 00:41:43,850
Like Tony said, no live, Ammo anywhere around.

1151
00:41:44,263 --> 00:41:46,961
So I'll practice my draws. I'll do a

1152
00:41:46,961 --> 00:41:48,706
trigger press, and it'll give me some sort

1153
00:41:48,706 --> 00:41:50,452
of feedback on that target as to where

1154
00:41:50,452 --> 00:41:52,766
my hit was. Those don't cost any money.

1155
00:41:53,163 --> 00:41:55,302
It's it's it's a good training tool, and

1156
00:41:55,302 --> 00:41:56,808
you'll be able to see whether you were

1157
00:41:56,808 --> 00:41:57,522
accurate or not.

1158
00:41:58,964 --> 00:42:00,960
So those are... I love I love that

1159
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,275
tip. What else you got for our listeners

1160
00:42:03,275 --> 00:42:05,431
out there. Oh, so real quick. I used

1161
00:42:05,431 --> 00:42:07,347
to take an old army blanket and put

1162
00:42:07,347 --> 00:42:08,305
it at the foot of a bed.

1163
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,280
And I used to put my my my

1164
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,359
knee standing against the foot of the bed,

1165
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,039
and I would practice my workstation, right, with

1166
00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:17,679
snap caps.

1167
00:42:18,173 --> 00:42:19,602
And on the head board, I would put,

1168
00:42:19,682 --> 00:42:22,381
like, a little dot sticker, like a posted

1169
00:42:22,381 --> 00:42:24,842
dot sticker. And I would practice Mag changes,

1170
00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:26,906
and that would practice this racking the slide

1171
00:42:26,906 --> 00:42:28,595
and practice loading and a unloading the gun

1172
00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:30,907
and h ring and re h the gun.

1173
00:42:31,864 --> 00:42:33,698
Because when I used to compete everything, I

1174
00:42:33,698 --> 00:42:35,930
didn't wanna look like that female secret service

1175
00:42:35,930 --> 00:42:37,940
agent was trying to h her into her

1176
00:42:37,940 --> 00:42:38,260
badge.

1177
00:42:39,377 --> 00:42:41,532
Right? Isn't that all about muscle memory? Isn't

1178
00:42:41,532 --> 00:42:43,686
there something positive we can learn from this

1179
00:42:43,686 --> 00:42:44,006
gentleman?

1180
00:42:44,659 --> 00:42:46,567
Right? So so so... Yeah. So so 1

1181
00:42:46,567 --> 00:42:48,871
of my things that I'm... I'm huge on

1182
00:42:48,871 --> 00:42:50,699
is quality quality

1183
00:42:51,574 --> 00:42:52,527
quality over quantity.

1184
00:42:53,974 --> 00:42:55,969
Those same things is just take just take

1185
00:42:55,969 --> 00:42:58,384
1 drill or 1

1186
00:43:00,437 --> 00:43:01,449
you know, tech tech

1187
00:43:02,287 --> 00:43:04,919
a technique. And and and and, Drill, you

1188
00:43:04,919 --> 00:43:05,579
can always

1189
00:43:05,956 --> 00:43:07,391
build up on it later.

1190
00:43:08,588 --> 00:43:10,103
For example, if you come into a range

1191
00:43:10,103 --> 00:43:12,275
and and you're gonna practice a but don't

1192
00:43:12,275 --> 00:43:14,275
worry about shooting hundreds and hundreds of rounds

1193
00:43:14,275 --> 00:43:16,035
for that hour that you're in the port,

1194
00:43:17,155 --> 00:43:18,515
take something and work it, like,

1195
00:43:19,394 --> 00:43:22,123
if I'm not using my snap caps, then

1196
00:43:22,202 --> 00:43:23,317
I'll go into the range and that day,

1197
00:43:23,476 --> 00:43:25,228
I might work only my re reload drill.

1198
00:43:25,387 --> 00:43:26,900
So I'll just put 2 rounds in each

1199
00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:28,731
magazine and work my re reload drills.

1200
00:43:30,341 --> 00:43:33,134
And and and and practice that specific technique.

1201
00:43:33,373 --> 00:43:34,730
And another day I might come in and

1202
00:43:34,730 --> 00:43:36,485
practice something a a little different.

1203
00:43:37,135 --> 00:43:38,481
But those are all things that could be

1204
00:43:38,481 --> 00:43:40,091
done at as home

1205
00:43:40,463 --> 00:43:42,443
at home as well. And 1 of the

1206
00:43:42,443 --> 00:43:44,281
things you mentioned about a post it you

1207
00:43:44,281 --> 00:43:46,108
know, sometimes I tell people when when I'm

1208
00:43:46,108 --> 00:43:48,729
trying to teach them, eye dominance and and

1209
00:43:48,729 --> 00:43:49,762
so forth and so on is, you know,

1210
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,032
you can also use a light switch. Or

1211
00:43:51,032 --> 00:43:53,194
anything that's about 3 or 4 feet off

1212
00:43:53,194 --> 00:43:53,672
the ground,

1213
00:43:54,628 --> 00:43:57,414
AAA certain point on a wall somewhere. But

1214
00:43:57,414 --> 00:43:58,688
a sticky note is good too, if you

1215
00:43:58,688 --> 00:43:59,324
don't have anything.

1216
00:44:00,692 --> 00:44:01,409
That you wanna aim at.

1217
00:44:02,363 --> 00:44:04,192
Correct. It's it's just... It's just... And again,

1218
00:44:04,351 --> 00:44:06,817
you gotta check 35 times to make sure

1219
00:44:06,817 --> 00:44:08,908
the gun is empty, You gotta make sure

1220
00:44:08,908 --> 00:44:09,967
there's no ammo

1221
00:44:10,905 --> 00:44:13,622
anywhere in the room, your magazines and everything.

1222
00:44:13,782 --> 00:44:15,792
You know, like, I used to go I

1223
00:44:15,792 --> 00:44:17,304
would have my all my gun stuff in

1224
00:44:17,304 --> 00:44:18,896
a different room, and I would grab my

1225
00:44:18,896 --> 00:44:20,727
gun and my gear and my rig and

1226
00:44:20,727 --> 00:44:23,274
everything, make triple check everything's empty and then

1227
00:44:23,274 --> 00:44:24,945
go into another room is where I would

1228
00:44:24,945 --> 00:44:27,996
crack this my work workstation. Right? And That's

1229
00:44:27,996 --> 00:44:29,913
really what you wanna think about because otherwise,

1230
00:44:29,993 --> 00:44:31,611
you could end up in a really tricky

1231
00:44:31,910 --> 00:44:33,600
situation here. You do not wanna have a

1232
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,151
negligence discharge in your house or condo or

1233
00:44:36,151 --> 00:44:38,940
something. And please know your backstop and what's

1234
00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:41,025
beyond it. Make sure you're aiming when I

1235
00:44:41,025 --> 00:44:42,930
lived in a condo a hundred years ago

1236
00:44:42,930 --> 00:44:44,224
when I first got married

1237
00:44:44,835 --> 00:44:46,184
between the units was a double,

1238
00:44:46,740 --> 00:44:47,875
con double firewall.

1239
00:44:48,184 --> 00:44:49,942
Fire break, they call it, and that's the

1240
00:44:49,942 --> 00:44:51,701
wall I aimed at. Not the sheet rot

1241
00:44:51,701 --> 00:44:54,098
wall, but the but the concrete wall. You

1242
00:44:54,098 --> 00:44:56,016
know, with a ci blocks, 2 2 rows

1243
00:44:56,016 --> 00:44:58,506
of ci box, ga tone You mentioned you

1244
00:44:58,506 --> 00:45:01,297
mentioned in your bedroom. So, you also mentioned

1245
00:45:01,297 --> 00:45:03,052
about going into another room to practice.

1246
00:45:03,531 --> 00:45:06,003
But, that's that's huge right there. So if

1247
00:45:06,003 --> 00:45:07,141
you do wanna practice

1248
00:45:07,612 --> 00:45:11,267
or or pretend that maybe you hear something

1249
00:45:11,267 --> 00:45:12,618
and waking up in the middle of the

1250
00:45:12,618 --> 00:45:15,637
night, practicing in your bedroom, you know, lay

1251
00:45:15,637 --> 00:45:18,849
bed you know, practice able find, your firearm

1252
00:45:18,905 --> 00:45:20,570
have have certain things you know,

1253
00:45:21,522 --> 00:45:23,267
the book that you wrote is phenomenal about

1254
00:45:23,267 --> 00:45:24,713
certain things that you wanna you a nights

1255
00:45:24,713 --> 00:45:26,704
stand, you know, flashlight, cell phone, stuff like

1256
00:45:26,704 --> 00:45:27,820
that. Practice.

1257
00:45:29,174 --> 00:45:30,529
You know, we used to... When we're growing

1258
00:45:30,529 --> 00:45:31,644
up. Right? 1 of the things we were

1259
00:45:31,644 --> 00:45:33,637
taught is it's always to have AAA fire

1260
00:45:33,637 --> 00:45:35,717
drill point and in your home. You can

1261
00:45:35,717 --> 00:45:37,782
do the same thing. Now the thing that

1262
00:45:37,941 --> 00:45:39,449
I would caution you you is like, if

1263
00:45:39,449 --> 00:45:41,435
you are gonna do that, then sanitize that

1264
00:45:41,435 --> 00:45:43,102
room. Sanitize it completely.

1265
00:45:44,948 --> 00:45:46,302
You know, and and practiced in a in

1266
00:45:46,302 --> 00:45:47,179
a safe environment.

1267
00:45:47,895 --> 00:45:50,524
Tony, Tony was 1 of the... He he

1268
00:45:50,524 --> 00:45:52,436
contributed to my book, Sandy, you know that.

1269
00:45:52,848 --> 00:45:54,757
He read it. He added some stuff, and

1270
00:45:54,757 --> 00:45:56,905
we used his pictures in crime proof think

1271
00:45:56,905 --> 00:45:58,257
like a criminal and beat them at their

1272
00:45:58,257 --> 00:46:00,744
own game as well. So is available for

1273
00:46:00,744 --> 00:46:01,144
autograph.

1274
00:46:02,744 --> 00:46:03,704
And then photos,

1275
00:46:04,184 --> 00:46:05,785
anybody wanna a picture of him, let him

1276
00:46:05,785 --> 00:46:08,025
know. Vlad, so Vlad talked to us

1277
00:46:08,824 --> 00:46:09,791
visualization in mindset,

1278
00:46:10,188 --> 00:46:13,357
home defense, gear you carry. So Edc. Vlad,

1279
00:46:13,515 --> 00:46:14,625
what do you have in your pockets at

1280
00:46:14,625 --> 00:46:16,542
all time? I'm gonna ask Tony second Tony

1281
00:46:16,542 --> 00:46:18,529
carries like 40 things, but go ahead vlad

1282
00:46:18,529 --> 00:46:22,026
you first. Tony's left. Pop I know. Exactly.

1283
00:46:22,265 --> 00:46:23,536
What you got more real estate?

1284
00:46:25,545 --> 00:46:27,299
What do you carry on any given day?

1285
00:46:28,177 --> 00:46:29,793
So might p 03:20

1286
00:46:29,851 --> 00:46:31,925
or 3 65 depending on what I'm doing.

1287
00:46:32,404 --> 00:46:34,811
Sometimes things vary to depending on what I'm

1288
00:46:34,811 --> 00:46:36,247
headed to do for that day.

1289
00:46:37,763 --> 00:46:39,539
Usually a blade usually,

1290
00:46:40,155 --> 00:46:40,873
a flashlight,

1291
00:46:41,272 --> 00:46:43,800
definitely an extra mag, and my phone

1292
00:46:44,315 --> 00:46:46,378
That's basically it. My phone, my wallet, my

1293
00:46:46,378 --> 00:46:46,696
keys...

1294
00:46:47,568 --> 00:46:49,473
That's it. Alright. So you're clean.

1295
00:46:50,187 --> 00:46:50,425
Tone,

1296
00:46:51,633 --> 00:46:52,133
So

1297
00:46:52,829 --> 00:46:53,467
very similar.

1298
00:46:54,265 --> 00:46:56,658
But yeah. Right. Go ahead. Well, yeah. My

1299
00:46:56,658 --> 00:46:56,977
firearm,

1300
00:46:58,333 --> 00:46:59,848
dependent same thing. Most of the time is

1301
00:46:59,848 --> 00:47:00,726
my gl 45.

1302
00:47:01,538 --> 00:47:02,811
Doesn't matter winter or summer,

1303
00:47:04,244 --> 00:47:06,156
but it, you know, occasionally depending of if

1304
00:47:06,315 --> 00:47:07,191
I'm going out of state.

1305
00:47:08,067 --> 00:47:09,261
Maybe I'll take my 43.

1306
00:47:09,753 --> 00:47:11,103
Since I I can carry in all 50

1307
00:47:11,103 --> 00:47:12,532
states, but I still have to follow little

1308
00:47:12,532 --> 00:47:13,087
state laws.

1309
00:47:13,722 --> 00:47:15,469
So if I'm going to the city, then

1310
00:47:15,548 --> 00:47:17,057
I gotta make sure it's 10 rounds or

1311
00:47:17,057 --> 00:47:17,349
less

1312
00:47:18,739 --> 00:47:21,755
but, you know, self defense knives, same thing

1313
00:47:21,755 --> 00:47:24,376
flashlight, even though my firearms have lights attached

1314
00:47:24,376 --> 00:47:24,614
to them.

1315
00:47:25,264 --> 00:47:27,019
It's always good to have a an additional,

1316
00:47:27,577 --> 00:47:28,375
light as well.

1317
00:47:30,050 --> 00:47:31,724
And then same thing wallet it's cell phone,

1318
00:47:32,762 --> 00:47:35,568
the the the normal stuff every day I

1319
00:47:35,568 --> 00:47:36,068
forgotten

1320
00:47:36,446 --> 00:47:38,599
my cell phone and my wallet before I

1321
00:47:38,599 --> 00:47:39,956
forgotten my my firearm.

1322
00:47:40,674 --> 00:47:43,164
That's, that's that's good training. You know. And

1323
00:47:43,164 --> 00:47:45,005
so so those are the things that that

1324
00:47:45,164 --> 00:47:45,565
I carry.

1325
00:47:46,844 --> 00:47:48,445
Again, my situation is a little different,

1326
00:47:49,085 --> 00:47:51,260
but I also carry it... My... All my

1327
00:47:51,260 --> 00:47:54,460
vehicles are especially my truck has... I have

1328
00:47:54,460 --> 00:47:56,059
more additional mag in my truck,

1329
00:47:57,019 --> 00:47:57,739
with a trauma kit.

1330
00:47:59,505 --> 00:48:00,778
All my cars have trauma kits.

1331
00:48:01,811 --> 00:48:04,118
It it's very important. You know, Cpr certified.

1332
00:48:04,356 --> 00:48:06,503
I recommend everybody gets Cpr certified and and

1333
00:48:06,503 --> 00:48:07,696
take stop the bleed classes.

1334
00:48:08,189 --> 00:48:09,783
Yeah. It's huge. You know, 1 the things

1335
00:48:09,862 --> 00:48:11,137
I learned when I took the training many,

1336
00:48:11,297 --> 00:48:13,927
many years ago, and and I continue to

1337
00:48:13,927 --> 00:48:16,570
update it every so many years. Is that

1338
00:48:16,570 --> 00:48:18,240
it's not only for yourself, but maybe your

1339
00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:19,830
family, You know, how to be able to,

1340
00:48:19,910 --> 00:48:21,182
you know, they may get hurt, you know,

1341
00:48:21,421 --> 00:48:23,250
the wife is not my wife is notorious

1342
00:48:23,250 --> 00:48:23,886
for cutting herself.

1343
00:48:25,256 --> 00:48:27,649
You know, you'd be able to to to

1344
00:48:27,649 --> 00:48:29,005
to have that plan. But that's that's what...

1345
00:48:29,324 --> 00:48:30,839
That's mean when I when I carry.

1346
00:48:31,478 --> 00:48:33,551
So so so the 2 of you guys

1347
00:48:34,523 --> 00:48:36,117
a lot of people just belong to a

1348
00:48:36,117 --> 00:48:37,949
flat range, like we have here with ports

1349
00:48:37,949 --> 00:48:40,339
and they don't have the opportunity. So I'll

1350
00:48:40,339 --> 00:48:42,509
jump back to vlad vlad What I I

1351
00:48:42,509 --> 00:48:44,347
step into a port. I'm by myself. I

1352
00:48:44,347 --> 00:48:45,945
got a couple of magazines in a gun.

1353
00:48:46,345 --> 00:48:48,422
What what what what would you recommend somebody

1354
00:48:48,422 --> 00:48:50,420
would do to practice to elevate their skills

1355
00:48:50,420 --> 00:48:51,140
to the next level.

1356
00:48:51,714 --> 00:48:54,348
Without getting thrown out for rapid fire, without

1357
00:48:54,348 --> 00:48:56,264
getting thrown out from, you know, breaking a

1358
00:48:56,264 --> 00:48:59,137
hundred and 20 degree arc or whatever? What

1359
00:48:59,137 --> 00:48:59,856
would you recommend?

1360
00:49:00,588 --> 00:49:02,177
They so just some little drills.

1361
00:49:02,892 --> 00:49:05,753
So just like, in our classes, we have

1362
00:49:05,753 --> 00:49:07,978
2 things that are really primary. Right? The

1363
00:49:08,773 --> 00:49:12,065
safety being number 1, and number 2 would

1364
00:49:12,065 --> 00:49:16,405
be accuracy. So always always always work on

1365
00:49:16,625 --> 00:49:18,565
accuracy and marks shift as your primary,

1366
00:49:18,958 --> 00:49:20,952
so you're gonna aim small. You're gonna hit

1367
00:49:20,952 --> 00:49:22,865
small. So you'll start at 5 yards. This

1368
00:49:22,865 --> 00:49:24,779
is what I usually tell people, especially when

1369
00:49:24,859 --> 00:49:26,693
I've done some private with beginners.

1370
00:49:28,061 --> 00:49:29,570
You're going to aim small hit small, you're

1371
00:49:29,570 --> 00:49:31,872
gonna work at 5 yards or 4 or

1372
00:49:31,872 --> 00:49:34,412
3, whatever it is. Right? But you're gonna

1373
00:49:34,412 --> 00:49:36,342
work up close because you can't fix anything

1374
00:49:36,556 --> 00:49:37,844
at 25 yards away.

1375
00:49:38,561 --> 00:49:39,061
So

1376
00:49:39,914 --> 00:49:42,860
once you're able to aim small and hit

1377
00:49:42,860 --> 00:49:45,423
small and have your proper triggers threes and

1378
00:49:45,423 --> 00:49:47,419
your proper grip on your gun. So those

1379
00:49:47,419 --> 00:49:48,775
shots are becoming accurate.

1380
00:49:50,531 --> 00:49:52,367
At... Also, at 5 yards, you're able to

1381
00:49:52,367 --> 00:49:54,215
self analyze. While I'm shooting a little low.

1382
00:49:54,454 --> 00:49:56,286
I'm shooting a little left, etcetera. So you're

1383
00:49:56,286 --> 00:49:58,677
able to make those changes In regards, you,

1384
00:49:58,757 --> 00:50:00,908
you know, you're also linked to whatever you've

1385
00:50:00,908 --> 00:50:03,471
been taught. Right? So training is key That's

1386
00:50:03,471 --> 00:50:06,171
the underlying factor to all this. But accuracy

1387
00:50:06,171 --> 00:50:07,600
at the 5 is the first thing that

1388
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,459
you wanna work on. Then you're... You're gonna

1389
00:50:10,459 --> 00:50:11,968
do that until your bored.

1390
00:50:12,779 --> 00:50:14,297
Then you go to 7, and then you're

1391
00:50:14,297 --> 00:50:16,534
gonna do it again until you're bored. You're

1392
00:50:16,534 --> 00:50:18,052
so good that you're getting bored at it.

1393
00:50:18,371 --> 00:50:19,980
Then you go to 10. You're gonna do

1394
00:50:19,980 --> 00:50:22,120
the same thing, then you're gonna go to

1395
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,578
15 and do the same thing. So you

1396
00:50:24,578 --> 00:50:27,170
wanna work especially inside of 15 on acura

1397
00:50:27,289 --> 00:50:29,443
see because that's more than likely where things

1398
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:31,197
are gonna happen and your gun fight, your

1399
00:50:31,197 --> 00:50:32,713
possible gun fight that you're training for it

1400
00:50:32,713 --> 00:50:33,590
that you're preparing for it.

1401
00:50:34,388 --> 00:50:36,780
If you're 25 yards away, you can probably

1402
00:50:36,780 --> 00:50:39,660
escape. Right? Get back in your cargo. So

1403
00:50:39,660 --> 00:50:41,490
work on the inside is the most important

1404
00:50:41,490 --> 00:50:44,768
thing. First thing is accuracy up close Second

1405
00:50:44,768 --> 00:50:46,284
thing is to start to bring in distance.

1406
00:50:46,603 --> 00:50:48,757
The last and third thing would be to

1407
00:50:48,757 --> 00:50:50,672
make it faster and bring into speed.

1408
00:50:51,231 --> 00:50:53,709
So Nobody's interested on how fast you miss.

1409
00:50:54,185 --> 00:50:54,344
Right?

1410
00:50:55,456 --> 00:50:56,170
Per good point.

1411
00:50:57,203 --> 00:50:58,338
Good. So you

1412
00:50:58,791 --> 00:51:00,697
accuracy needs to be first and foremost.

1413
00:51:01,188 --> 00:51:03,972
And then bring in distance, and then the

1414
00:51:03,972 --> 00:51:05,802
last and final thing would be to speed

1415
00:51:05,802 --> 00:51:06,120
it up.

1416
00:51:08,364 --> 00:51:09,884
Perfect. And tom.

1417
00:51:10,924 --> 00:51:12,924
Yeah. The... It exactly right. I mean, there's

1418
00:51:12,924 --> 00:51:15,005
not much at... III can add to that.

1419
00:51:15,164 --> 00:51:17,324
And And, but there's little things like, 1

1420
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,149
little trick I've learned, and you you mentioned

1421
00:51:19,149 --> 00:51:20,815
safety and get yelled at maybe about a

1422
00:51:20,815 --> 00:51:22,561
rain safety officers or stuff like that. I

1423
00:51:22,561 --> 00:51:23,617
was talking about the

1424
00:51:24,323 --> 00:51:24,482
the,

1425
00:51:25,754 --> 00:51:28,695
work my reload. And 1 of the have

1426
00:51:28,695 --> 00:51:29,990
bad habits we see

1427
00:51:30,762 --> 00:51:32,113
with a lot of students is that they

1428
00:51:32,113 --> 00:51:34,199
wanna they don't wanna drop their magazines when

1429
00:51:34,199 --> 00:51:36,197
they're empty. They're afraid it's gonna break. And,

1430
00:51:36,356 --> 00:51:37,555
and we can understand that. You paid a

1431
00:51:37,555 --> 00:51:39,174
lot of money for your for these firearms.

1432
00:51:40,432 --> 00:51:42,110
You know, you don't wanna break them and

1433
00:51:42,110 --> 00:51:44,361
damage them, but you you're building what I

1434
00:51:44,361 --> 00:51:46,356
call training scars. Alright, Bad habits,

1435
00:51:47,552 --> 00:51:49,148
especially when you gotta work reload. So what

1436
00:51:49,148 --> 00:51:50,026
can you do in a range?

1437
00:51:50,838 --> 00:51:52,912
And worried about that that dropping in that

1438
00:51:52,912 --> 00:51:54,985
magazine and bouncing off the table and going

1439
00:51:54,985 --> 00:51:56,262
forward the line. And now you have to

1440
00:51:56,262 --> 00:51:58,096
get an artist so to sweep it or

1441
00:51:58,096 --> 00:51:59,474
or call a fire

1442
00:51:59,851 --> 00:52:03,367
is get a nice old heavy duty bath

1443
00:52:03,367 --> 00:52:03,867
towel

1444
00:52:05,117 --> 00:52:06,708
and fold it up and put it on

1445
00:52:06,708 --> 00:52:08,793
the counter. When you do your reload, that

1446
00:52:08,793 --> 00:52:10,785
magazine is not gonna bounce off the counter

1447
00:52:10,865 --> 00:52:13,414
Yep. And and land forward. Little things like

1448
00:52:13,414 --> 00:52:13,653
that,

1449
00:52:14,449 --> 00:52:16,622
you can do to enhance your your training

1450
00:52:17,014 --> 00:52:18,453
And and and you mentioned,

1451
00:52:20,210 --> 00:52:22,608
a comment that's... That I also prescribed to

1452
00:52:22,608 --> 00:52:24,386
that's very important is

1453
00:52:24,845 --> 00:52:28,283
visualization. You know, shooting paper, sometimes cannot be

1454
00:52:28,283 --> 00:52:31,568
realistic. Safety safety is also an inherent flaw

1455
00:52:31,625 --> 00:52:33,389
in any training. Because you can't do it

1456
00:52:33,389 --> 00:52:35,771
for real. Some somebody's is gonna get hurt.

1457
00:52:36,009 --> 00:52:38,098
So how do you overcome that is

1458
00:52:38,472 --> 00:52:38,630
visualization,

1459
00:52:39,822 --> 00:52:40,536
train realistic.

1460
00:52:41,029 --> 00:52:42,384
You know, even though you're shooting at a

1461
00:52:42,384 --> 00:52:42,941
piece of paper,

1462
00:52:44,376 --> 00:52:46,925
you know, work those accurate shots like vlad

1463
00:52:46,925 --> 00:52:47,164
said,

1464
00:52:48,534 --> 00:52:50,675
it's like a baseball player or a soccer

1465
00:52:50,675 --> 00:52:52,340
player. They never practice to miss.

1466
00:52:53,054 --> 00:52:54,109
You always practice

1467
00:52:54,878 --> 00:52:55,195
to hit.

1468
00:52:56,557 --> 00:52:58,063
And you just gotta keep just gotta keep

1469
00:52:58,063 --> 00:52:59,806
doing us. But there's are some suggestions I

1470
00:52:59,806 --> 00:53:00,465
that I.

1471
00:53:01,311 --> 00:53:01,866
So tone,

1472
00:53:03,213 --> 00:53:05,772
roughly narrow it down to the nearest hundred.

1473
00:53:06,090 --> 00:53:06,988
How many h

1474
00:53:07,363 --> 00:53:08,795
did you go through it before you found

1475
00:53:08,795 --> 00:53:10,878
that 1 sweet spot h that you to

1476
00:53:10,878 --> 00:53:12,546
lean on most mostly every day.

1477
00:53:13,340 --> 00:53:15,429
Jesus. I got 02:25 pound

1478
00:53:16,041 --> 00:53:17,551
rubber made containers in my attic.

1479
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,152
Of of stuff of stuff that I've gone

1480
00:53:21,152 --> 00:53:22,986
through. You know, stuff that, you know, I

1481
00:53:22,986 --> 00:53:24,341
came on and the old guy Was like,

1482
00:53:24,421 --> 00:53:25,856
hey, hey, Listen. I got this gun and

1483
00:53:25,856 --> 00:53:27,309
and host I can sell you, and then

1484
00:53:27,390 --> 00:53:28,829
I realized that I just got taken.

1485
00:53:30,269 --> 00:53:30,670
You know,

1486
00:53:32,590 --> 00:53:34,030
some of them... Some of them have... I

1487
00:53:34,030 --> 00:53:35,844
was a victim of of

1488
00:53:36,201 --> 00:53:38,023
of movies too. You know? When I when

1489
00:53:38,182 --> 00:53:40,083
I got hired, I got thrown straight into

1490
00:53:40,083 --> 00:53:41,747
narcotics, I grew up in the air of

1491
00:53:41,905 --> 00:53:44,302
Miami device, so First host I get is,

1492
00:53:44,382 --> 00:53:46,212
you know, a shoulder h, you know,

1493
00:53:47,166 --> 00:53:49,552
the the Miami jackass h. You know,

1494
00:53:51,241 --> 00:53:52,836
until I got into my... Until I got

1495
00:53:52,836 --> 00:53:54,192
into my first fight, and I'm like, oh,

1496
00:53:54,351 --> 00:53:55,947
no. This is this is not gonna work.

1497
00:53:56,744 --> 00:53:58,100
And it's been sitting in my attic for

1498
00:53:58,100 --> 00:53:59,775
30 years now. And, you know, it's on

1499
00:53:59,775 --> 00:54:00,070
4,

1500
00:54:01,142 --> 00:54:02,039
we didn't have

1501
00:54:02,572 --> 00:54:03,072
the

1502
00:54:04,797 --> 00:54:05,829
resources we do now.

1503
00:54:07,433 --> 00:54:09,342
We didn't have Internet. We didn't have Internet

1504
00:54:09,342 --> 00:54:11,568
to... We didn't have research. We didn't have

1505
00:54:11,727 --> 00:54:13,715
Q x was huge, you know, We since

1506
00:54:13,715 --> 00:54:15,702
progressed from leather h at a hundred percent.

1507
00:54:17,069 --> 00:54:18,985
You know, you had to take, you know,

1508
00:54:19,463 --> 00:54:21,379
what you got from me the more experienced

1509
00:54:21,379 --> 00:54:24,013
people or unfortunate, you know, trying it out.

1510
00:54:24,253 --> 00:54:25,942
Now we got some stores that we can

1511
00:54:25,942 --> 00:54:27,054
we can come in and you can take

1512
00:54:27,054 --> 00:54:28,483
a look at stuff. You can do a

1513
00:54:28,483 --> 00:54:29,913
lot of re resources.

1514
00:54:30,707 --> 00:54:32,216
We do it too. We go over, you

1515
00:54:32,216 --> 00:54:34,281
know, our experiences, our pros and cons things

1516
00:54:34,281 --> 00:54:35,178
have we've learned

1517
00:54:35,487 --> 00:54:38,579
the hard way, but unfortunately, sometimes he's still

1518
00:54:38,579 --> 00:54:40,323
gonna deal with that. We can minimize it.

1519
00:54:40,481 --> 00:54:42,726
I think now than what we went through

1520
00:54:43,193 --> 00:54:45,427
but, you, unfortunately, I tell people yet. It's

1521
00:54:45,427 --> 00:54:46,224
a trial and error,

1522
00:54:47,022 --> 00:54:47,501
sometimes.

1523
00:54:48,936 --> 00:54:50,532
Same thing with firearms, you know, we didn't

1524
00:54:50,532 --> 00:54:52,047
have the resources to go to a arrange

1525
00:54:52,047 --> 00:54:53,732
to rent the fire. Either had to have

1526
00:54:53,732 --> 00:54:56,213
a friend that had 1 similar. Yeah. And

1527
00:54:57,536 --> 00:54:59,859
I've been lucky. I only had 1 firearm

1528
00:55:00,965 --> 00:55:02,985
that I got burned on that have just

1529
00:55:03,204 --> 00:55:05,364
didn't work. And and once you buy that's

1530
00:55:05,364 --> 00:55:07,284
used, you're not getting the money back. Right.

1531
00:55:07,445 --> 00:55:09,605
It and Vlad what about you what

1532
00:55:10,813 --> 00:55:12,481
Tony. What what host are you wearing

1533
00:55:12,957 --> 00:55:14,387
normally every day? Is it Q?

1534
00:55:15,499 --> 00:55:17,405
Yes. It's a Kayak x H inside the

1535
00:55:17,405 --> 00:55:17,881
waistband.

1536
00:55:19,411 --> 00:55:20,050
Appendix carry,

1537
00:55:20,848 --> 00:55:23,322
I started doing that after I retired because

1538
00:55:23,322 --> 00:55:25,876
we carry 03:00. When I was on a

1539
00:55:25,876 --> 00:55:27,801
job, I found it to be a lot

1540
00:55:27,801 --> 00:55:29,789
faster, a lot smoother. I lot safer.

1541
00:55:31,141 --> 00:55:33,685
Let's contrary to most people in popular. But

1542
00:55:33,685 --> 00:55:35,514
it's 10 core. 10 core right now is

1543
00:55:35,514 --> 00:55:36,284
my is my host

1544
00:55:37,363 --> 00:55:37,763
to go,

1545
00:55:38,722 --> 00:55:40,559
but I recommend the other ones. I I

1546
00:55:40,559 --> 00:55:41,838
recommend there's a lot of good companies on

1547
00:55:41,838 --> 00:55:44,795
there, you know, tier 1 conceal, bravo consume,

1548
00:55:45,210 --> 00:55:46,650
Cn and g that we're selling in our

1549
00:55:46,650 --> 00:55:48,489
store right now. It is is a is

1550
00:55:48,489 --> 00:55:49,050
a good 1.

1551
00:55:50,329 --> 00:55:51,769
But, yeah. It's a 10 core right now

1552
00:55:51,769 --> 00:55:53,784
is my is my go to. Yeah. Like,

1553
00:55:53,943 --> 00:55:55,222
choose that may change in a year or

1554
00:55:55,222 --> 00:55:57,778
2, but, you. Of course. Of course, Vlad,

1555
00:55:58,178 --> 00:56:00,575
you'll have more real estate as Tony said,

1556
00:56:01,068 --> 00:56:02,659
I absolutely do.

1557
00:56:06,876 --> 00:56:07,512
Yeah. So,

1558
00:56:08,228 --> 00:56:10,654
I I carry a tier 1 sealed. So

1559
00:56:11,033 --> 00:56:13,371
the idea conceal, it has

1560
00:56:13,989 --> 00:56:16,067
it has all the things that you need.

1561
00:56:16,226 --> 00:56:17,719
If you're... If you're sitting through our host

1562
00:56:17,838 --> 00:56:20,063
class we explain at all. Right? The nomenclature,

1563
00:56:20,222 --> 00:56:22,526
there is also nomenclature to add and inside

1564
00:56:22,526 --> 00:56:25,068
the waistband h. If it has a wing

1565
00:56:25,068 --> 00:56:27,072
or a claw to be. To to have

1566
00:56:27,072 --> 00:56:28,988
the ability to bring your belt line a

1567
00:56:28,988 --> 00:56:31,782
little further from your body, therefore conceal the

1568
00:56:31,782 --> 00:56:34,255
firearm a little bit better. Wedges on the

1569
00:56:34,255 --> 00:56:35,702
back that it makes it a little bit

1570
00:56:35,702 --> 00:56:38,802
more comfortable. Wedges are soft foam against your

1571
00:56:38,802 --> 00:56:40,311
body to make the h a little bit

1572
00:56:40,311 --> 00:56:42,855
more comfortable. And the most important thing about

1573
00:56:42,934 --> 00:56:43,434
H

1574
00:56:43,984 --> 00:56:45,979
is the clips. Right? How it's gonna be

1575
00:56:45,979 --> 00:56:48,932
retained on your body. So a good sturdy

1576
00:56:48,932 --> 00:56:52,937
belt with 2 clips, 2 quality clips is

1577
00:56:52,937 --> 00:56:55,327
important in order to keep that the, from

1578
00:56:55,327 --> 00:56:58,434
moving while it's concealed. And the ability to

1579
00:56:58,434 --> 00:57:00,843
adjust the ride height So a good draw

1580
00:57:00,843 --> 00:57:02,681
starts at your h. So you have to

1581
00:57:02,681 --> 00:57:04,758
have the ability to to adjust the ride

1582
00:57:04,758 --> 00:57:06,596
height of your firearm so that you can

1583
00:57:06,596 --> 00:57:08,606
have a proper grip on it from your

1584
00:57:08,606 --> 00:57:10,594
waistband span because there's really no time to

1585
00:57:10,594 --> 00:57:12,503
make any adjustments while you're drawing.

1586
00:57:13,298 --> 00:57:15,525
The right height of your h. See, that's

1587
00:57:15,525 --> 00:57:17,195
a term I've never used before. That's how

1588
00:57:17,195 --> 00:57:19,358
old I am. The right height of your

1589
00:57:19,358 --> 00:57:21,269
host. I just learned... I just learned something

1590
00:57:21,269 --> 00:57:23,499
new. Seriously. You know, I'd like to add

1591
00:57:23,499 --> 00:57:26,127
something. Please. So I have I have the

1592
00:57:26,127 --> 00:57:26,627
same

1593
00:57:26,939 --> 00:57:29,651
trunk of stuff that Tony does. Like, when

1594
00:57:29,651 --> 00:57:30,470
it comes to.

1595
00:57:30,927 --> 00:57:34,197
So... Yeah. So much somebody... What's crazy is

1596
00:57:34,197 --> 00:57:35,713
you can't even give it to anybody because

1597
00:57:35,713 --> 00:57:37,484
if you didn't like it, you don't want

1598
00:57:37,484 --> 00:57:39,402
them to use it. Right right. So right

1599
00:57:39,482 --> 00:57:41,320
So it just yeah. So it just kinda

1600
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,158
it kinda just picks up us. Like you

1601
00:57:43,158 --> 00:57:44,916
almost wanna cut it up and and chop

1602
00:57:44,916 --> 00:57:46,690
it up or something to try to get

1603
00:57:46,690 --> 00:57:48,449
rid of it. Get know but? That's a

1604
00:57:48,449 --> 00:57:50,369
really good point, though. I think everybody really

1605
00:57:50,369 --> 00:57:53,510
needs to to hear as the fact and

1606
00:57:53,823 --> 00:57:54,323
that

1607
00:57:55,415 --> 00:57:57,962
this is not an uncommon thing.

1608
00:57:58,599 --> 00:58:01,248
So it would serve you well

1609
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:04,380
to take the H draw cores

1610
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,719
and save a ton of money in time

1611
00:58:07,719 --> 00:58:08,219
and

1612
00:58:09,094 --> 00:58:11,255
a lot of embarrassment and years to come,

1613
00:58:11,655 --> 00:58:14,054
looking at that crap. In a hundred percent.

1614
00:58:14,215 --> 00:58:15,655
A hundred percent. 1 of the things that

1615
00:58:15,655 --> 00:58:16,934
we do in a wholesale class and we

1616
00:58:16,934 --> 00:58:18,785
just did it last night. Now, Granted that

1617
00:58:18,785 --> 00:58:21,014
they already coming in to learn how to

1618
00:58:21,014 --> 00:58:22,923
draw from a h or They may already

1619
00:58:22,923 --> 00:58:25,311
have a h and and Vlad said it

1620
00:58:25,311 --> 00:58:27,300
last night very big, and he tells all

1621
00:58:27,300 --> 00:58:28,932
the classes this is

1622
00:58:29,470 --> 00:58:30,667
when you train, this is where you're gonna

1623
00:58:30,667 --> 00:58:33,780
find out what works. Right, equipment wise and

1624
00:58:33,780 --> 00:58:35,217
technique wise, what may work for you it

1625
00:58:35,217 --> 00:58:36,175
may not work for you.

1626
00:58:37,387 --> 00:58:40,178
So there's already a commitment there, but I

1627
00:58:40,178 --> 00:58:42,012
have no problem, and I did it 3

1628
00:58:42,012 --> 00:58:42,911
weeks ago

1629
00:58:43,289 --> 00:58:45,203
even before you come into wholesale a class.

1630
00:58:45,601 --> 00:58:46,160
Come see me.

1631
00:58:47,375 --> 00:58:48,175
I'm not gonna charge you,

1632
00:58:48,974 --> 00:58:51,454
I'll spend an hour with you, and I'll

1633
00:58:51,454 --> 00:58:53,375
go over to pros and cons and host

1634
00:58:53,375 --> 00:58:53,875
and

1635
00:58:54,255 --> 00:58:57,617
recommendations. Yeah. Huge. You know, And and, you

1636
00:58:57,617 --> 00:58:59,125
know, people been very happy to the last

1637
00:58:59,125 --> 00:59:00,952
person I did it with was, like, you

1638
00:59:00,952 --> 00:59:03,096
know, he's he's he's all in. He he's

1639
00:59:03,096 --> 00:59:03,572
all in now.

1640
00:59:04,862 --> 00:59:07,176
I spent time with him. It's it's not

1641
00:59:07,176 --> 00:59:08,612
taking time away from my day. You know,

1642
00:59:08,772 --> 00:59:10,208
we'll we'll schedule it. That's what I'm there

1643
00:59:10,208 --> 00:59:11,325
for. I'm I'm there to help.

1644
00:59:12,218 --> 00:59:14,770
And educated if I can. And to avoid

1645
00:59:14,770 --> 00:59:15,408
those pitfalls,

1646
00:59:16,525 --> 00:59:18,439
or to minimize it at least. Because,

1647
00:59:19,476 --> 00:59:21,231
Anthony, you had a a common saying,

1648
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:23,869
for a long time that Karen a gun

1649
00:59:23,869 --> 00:59:26,411
is not comfortable, but it's comforting. Yeah. That

1650
00:59:26,491 --> 00:59:29,034
Colonel Jeff Cooper learns So So But we've

1651
00:59:29,034 --> 00:59:30,717
learned, but we've progressed from that. And none

1652
00:59:30,717 --> 00:59:32,224
of us that's caring for a long time,

1653
00:59:32,938 --> 00:59:33,969
does become comfortable.

1654
00:59:35,396 --> 00:59:36,531
To the point where

1655
00:59:36,983 --> 00:59:38,331
see you get so used to it you

1656
00:59:38,331 --> 00:59:40,410
forget there or you or you know enough

1657
00:59:40,410 --> 00:59:41,918
that it's there that if you leave home

1658
00:59:41,918 --> 00:59:42,870
without it, you feel naked it.

1659
00:59:44,378 --> 00:59:45,830
But that requires

1660
00:59:46,459 --> 00:59:47,417
trying different things.

1661
00:59:48,056 --> 00:59:50,450
As an example, tier 1 doesn't work for

1662
00:59:50,450 --> 00:59:52,706
me. The tier 1 Ms p

1663
00:59:53,564 --> 00:59:56,074
is is a very good h. I highly

1664
00:59:56,211 --> 00:59:58,303
recommended. I just sold mine

1665
00:59:58,917 --> 00:59:59,634
to somebody,

1666
01:00:01,226 --> 01:00:03,708
because it it locks into the light. So

1667
01:00:03,708 --> 01:00:05,462
no matter what handgun you have.

1668
01:00:06,259 --> 01:00:07,613
As long as you have 1 of the

1669
01:00:07,613 --> 01:00:10,960
prescribed lights that it accepts, it locks into

1670
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:12,484
the the light. So if you have a

1671
01:00:12,484 --> 01:00:13,278
6 03:20,

1672
01:00:13,992 --> 01:00:15,737
it'll lock in with the light. If you

1673
01:00:15,737 --> 01:00:17,166
have a gl. And if I wanted to

1674
01:00:17,166 --> 01:00:18,197
switch that out to a gl,

1675
01:00:19,486 --> 01:00:20,921
it'll lock in. I can still use a

1676
01:00:20,921 --> 01:00:23,152
host. The problem with it it was it

1677
01:00:23,152 --> 01:00:25,225
was digging into my fe tomorrow artery.

1678
01:00:26,834 --> 01:00:28,666
The the way it was designed and made,

1679
01:00:29,065 --> 01:00:31,375
it it... Even with the with the wedge

1680
01:00:31,375 --> 01:00:33,287
or pillow they, they they call it the

1681
01:00:33,287 --> 01:00:35,292
wedge. It's it's the foam thing that that

1682
01:00:35,292 --> 01:00:36,804
you put behind a h to make it

1683
01:00:36,804 --> 01:00:37,360
more comfortable.

1684
01:00:38,076 --> 01:00:40,144
I couldn't make it comfortable. I couldn't make

1685
01:00:40,144 --> 01:00:40,621
it

1686
01:00:41,114 --> 01:00:42,701
if I sat down for long periods of

1687
01:00:42,701 --> 01:00:44,527
time, it was digging into into my hip

1688
01:00:44,527 --> 01:00:45,820
bone. So

1689
01:00:46,511 --> 01:00:47,860
that was 1, but that... It's brand new.

1690
01:00:48,019 --> 01:00:49,862
I didn't work. F long. So for a

1691
01:00:49,862 --> 01:00:51,452
discounted rate I sold it to 1 of

1692
01:00:51,452 --> 01:00:52,645
the Rs o's, Tony.

1693
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:56,462
You know, Yep. Your your nickname is Bones.

1694
01:00:57,114 --> 01:01:00,144
You're very skinny. Yeah. Any little thing, Any

1695
01:01:00,144 --> 01:01:01,899
little thing that you're put on is gonna

1696
01:01:01,899 --> 01:01:03,574
dig in dig into some sort of bone.

1697
01:01:04,929 --> 01:01:06,859
Thanks thanks for asking me like that. Brad.

1698
01:01:08,297 --> 01:01:08,797
This

1699
01:01:09,576 --> 01:01:10,934
for a public update. This is what I

1700
01:01:10,934 --> 01:01:13,411
keep coming back for more than Or exactly.

1701
01:01:13,890 --> 01:01:14,664
Or abuse

1702
01:01:15,183 --> 01:01:17,179
more you say yeah. But, you know, we're

1703
01:01:17,179 --> 01:01:19,255
we're talking about training a little. We talked

1704
01:01:19,255 --> 01:01:20,851
a lot about what you can do at

1705
01:01:20,851 --> 01:01:23,166
home. But the importance of training is just

1706
01:01:23,166 --> 01:01:25,966
that. Right? The ability to pressure test the

1707
01:01:25,966 --> 01:01:28,034
equipment. A lot of people... A lot of

1708
01:01:28,034 --> 01:01:29,942
people, they get them, they get their permission

1709
01:01:29,942 --> 01:01:32,089
to carry, and they carry a gun and

1710
01:01:32,089 --> 01:01:34,570
their idea is... Alright. I'm going to get

1711
01:01:34,570 --> 01:01:36,400
something nice and small that I can conceal

1712
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,706
real well and put it on my on

1713
01:01:38,706 --> 01:01:41,668
my waistband and have at it. But until

1714
01:01:41,668 --> 01:01:43,823
they start to come into our classes, like

1715
01:01:43,823 --> 01:01:46,059
host draw and pistol 1 because pistol one's

1716
01:01:46,059 --> 01:01:48,454
is very mechanical. We go over 1 handed

1717
01:01:48,454 --> 01:01:50,471
shooting, we go over a lot of reload

1718
01:01:50,784 --> 01:01:53,184
and and malfunction, like, you know, fail to

1719
01:01:53,184 --> 01:01:55,344
fire, failed to feed, stove pipe, double feeds.

1720
01:01:55,824 --> 01:01:57,984
Will you learn how to manipulate the firearm

1721
01:01:57,984 --> 01:02:00,632
through all those malfunction and mitigate those malfunction

1722
01:02:00,632 --> 01:02:02,930
and get the gun to work. So until

1723
01:02:02,930 --> 01:02:04,435
you pressure test your equipment,

1724
01:02:05,069 --> 01:02:06,995
you're not really knowing whether

1725
01:02:07,303 --> 01:02:09,128
you can do those reload. You can clear

1726
01:02:09,128 --> 01:02:11,192
those malfunction. You know you. You're not really

1727
01:02:11,192 --> 01:02:13,255
testing whether that draw is exactly going gonna

1728
01:02:13,255 --> 01:02:15,574
work. If you think about it, the ability

1729
01:02:15,574 --> 01:02:17,722
to draw your firearm in in a response

1730
01:02:17,722 --> 01:02:20,427
to an attack, let's say. Right? The ability

1731
01:02:20,427 --> 01:02:21,954
to draw your firearm and get a well

1732
01:02:21,954 --> 01:02:24,186
place around on a target. And under 2

1733
01:02:24,186 --> 01:02:25,802
seconds is what you're looking for

1734
01:02:26,418 --> 01:02:29,049
because you're probably gonna get hit if you're

1735
01:02:29,049 --> 01:02:30,086
if you're doing it slower.

1736
01:02:30,579 --> 01:02:32,510
So your equipment and your firearm

1737
01:02:33,204 --> 01:02:34,420
needs to be conducive

1738
01:02:35,033 --> 01:02:37,657
to that kind of response. So you have

1739
01:02:37,657 --> 01:02:39,979
to pressure test the equipment. You have to

1740
01:02:39,979 --> 01:02:42,466
see how good you are. If you're not

1741
01:02:42,681 --> 01:02:45,543
learning to a certain standard, you'll never really

1742
01:02:45,543 --> 01:02:48,539
know if you're getting any better. Right? So

1743
01:02:49,058 --> 01:02:51,773
So you have to pressure test. Otherwise, you'll

1744
01:02:51,773 --> 01:02:53,449
never know what's gonna go wrong, and we

1745
01:02:53,449 --> 01:02:55,764
all know about Murphy's law. What's gonna go

1746
01:02:55,764 --> 01:02:57,702
bad. Is gonna go bad. So

1747
01:02:58,653 --> 01:03:01,205
Yeah. Guys, I think that's pretty much a

1748
01:03:01,205 --> 01:03:02,003
rap. Tony.

1749
01:03:02,561 --> 01:03:04,874
Say goodbye, and thank you for everything. And

1750
01:03:04,874 --> 01:03:07,826
then Vlad is gonna plug his threat ref

1751
01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:09,910
reflex x and Sandy gonna take it over.

1752
01:03:10,308 --> 01:03:11,581
You guys sign up for some of these

1753
01:03:11,581 --> 01:03:13,253
urban classes. Tony You first.

1754
01:03:13,969 --> 01:03:15,958
Thank you very much everybody for, giving me

1755
01:03:15,958 --> 01:03:16,675
this opportunity.

1756
01:03:18,202 --> 01:03:20,431
Any any questions, any comments or anything like

1757
01:03:20,431 --> 01:03:22,101
that or anything you will... You need help

1758
01:03:22,101 --> 01:03:23,932
with. Don't be afraid to email me, tony

1759
01:03:23,932 --> 01:03:26,333
at gun gunfire dot com. Is is best

1760
01:03:26,333 --> 01:03:28,320
way to reach me not that I'm afraid

1761
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:29,591
to to to talk to you, but I

1762
01:03:29,591 --> 01:03:30,703
don't want you to call on a day

1763
01:03:30,703 --> 01:03:32,690
that I'm off, and then I'm not getting

1764
01:03:32,690 --> 01:03:33,881
back to you for 2 3 days.

1765
01:03:35,172 --> 01:03:36,527
Send me an email I can send links

1766
01:03:36,527 --> 01:03:38,840
or anything like that. Or at least respond

1767
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:40,595
to you that I got your your your

1768
01:03:40,595 --> 01:03:42,190
message. And and next time I'm in the

1769
01:03:42,190 --> 01:03:43,467
range I'll I'll be more than happy to

1770
01:03:43,467 --> 01:03:44,994
call you and and and talk to you.

1771
01:03:45,392 --> 01:03:46,289
Every retirement

1772
01:03:46,664 --> 01:03:48,811
denied. Yeah yeah. Everybody have a...

1773
01:03:49,607 --> 01:03:51,436
Everybody have a great summer, and I'll hope

1774
01:03:51,436 --> 01:03:52,152
to see you in a range.

1775
01:03:52,803 --> 01:03:55,191
Thank you. Vlad. Tell us about threat reflex

1776
01:03:55,191 --> 01:03:56,544
and give us a final word.

1777
01:03:57,578 --> 01:04:00,938
So always remember, right proper repetitive practice that

1778
01:04:00,938 --> 01:04:03,093
automatic permanent. So continue to train. But my

1779
01:04:03,093 --> 01:04:05,408
law enforcement officers out there. Come see me,

1780
01:04:05,488 --> 01:04:08,122
man. Those reps are important. Get better, get

1781
01:04:08,122 --> 01:04:10,372
better, get better. Those it's not getting any

1782
01:04:10,372 --> 01:04:13,723
nicer out there, so prepare. Right? Get better

1783
01:04:13,723 --> 01:04:15,877
at what you're using your tools and your

1784
01:04:15,877 --> 01:04:18,687
thinking process though a whole use of force

1785
01:04:18,687 --> 01:04:21,084
decision making, everything. We hit on everything. See

1786
01:04:21,084 --> 01:04:21,244
me,

1787
01:04:22,602 --> 01:04:24,201
find out all about it at threat flex

1788
01:04:24,201 --> 01:04:26,048
dot com. A Thank you so much, Anthony.

1789
01:04:26,526 --> 01:04:28,515
You're welcome. Thank you, guys. And. You're you're

1790
01:04:28,515 --> 01:04:30,186
the best trainee team ever. You make me

1791
01:04:30,186 --> 01:04:32,989
so proud. I love it. Alright, Sandy. Boris

1792
01:04:32,989 --> 01:04:35,147
us with the rack. And it looks like

1793
01:04:35,147 --> 01:04:37,624
you've done it again. You've wasted get another

1794
01:04:37,624 --> 01:04:40,022
perfectly good hour listening to them for higher

1795
01:04:40,022 --> 01:04:42,235
radio. Except for heart rate is kind to

1796
01:04:42,593 --> 01:04:44,822
production and music using broadcast who managed by

1797
01:04:44,822 --> 01:04:46,277
cosmo new York.

1798
01:04:46,811 --> 01:04:48,483
On they behalf of our show host trainer,

1799
01:04:48,642 --> 01:04:48,881
Anthony

1800
01:04:49,518 --> 01:04:51,996
Offer the of trying push of the criminal

1801
01:04:51,996 --> 01:04:53,902
and them at their own game which calling

1802
01:04:53,902 --> 01:04:54,617
around to help with.

1803
01:04:55,411 --> 01:04:55,887
With

1804
01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:00,111
is available wherever craig purchase soul. It's or

1805
01:05:00,111 --> 01:05:02,574
have his all piece shit. But you can

1806
01:05:02,574 --> 01:05:04,639
find it at the gunshot hooks shop gun

1807
01:05:04,639 --> 01:05:05,751
stone is gun for hire.

1808
01:05:06,466 --> 01:05:08,949
We love you guys from shadows of the

1809
01:05:09,028 --> 01:05:10,327
New York City skyline

1810
01:05:10,706 --> 01:05:11,186
and

1811
01:05:11,665 --> 01:05:14,222
right here in middle rain store. We hear

1812
01:05:14,222 --> 01:05:15,761
it. Oh. I got pee

1813
01:05:16,313 --> 01:05:18,532
and kermit the frog who decided to show

1814
01:05:18,532 --> 01:05:20,990
up. We love you guys. God go Jesus

1815
01:05:21,069 --> 01:05:22,972
Time and the batteries hold out, we will

1816
01:05:22,972 --> 01:05:23,686
to see you.