SIG P320 Controversy, Rare Breed Trigger Ruling & ATF Updates | Cap and Ball Saloon Ep. 8

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Hello, everyone. I’m Anders Herzberg, and this is the cap and ball saloon a podcast dedicated to the Second Amendment in the digital age. On today’s episode, we have a number of topics covered. We’ll be going over everything from recent developments with the sig P3 20 going over the rare breed FRT trigger decision, as well as other news on the ATF, the Hearing Protection Act, and more.

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Now back to the show. So for our first topic today, we’re going to be discussing the rare breed of trigger. So for our first topic today we’re going to be discussing the rare breed F settlement. Now this came down roughly about two weeks ago. And well, initial responses to it were quite positive. Mad over at FUD Busters had a little bit of a contrarian take, and from analyzing his arguments and going through the document, I do think that he has a point.

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So if you take a look at his video on YouTube, the rare breed triggers for a settlement snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, you’ll get a much more comprehensive breakdown. However, for the cliff note or the cliff notes version of this. Basically, he argues that the settlement was not the win, that it should be, that this particular settlement does not create binding precedent, as if the case had been allowed to go fully through.

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Instead of being settled like this, it would have created binding precedent, which future decisions and in future cases could lean on for guidance in terms of how to deal with similar cases in the future. But with this settlement, we simply don’t have that. Beyond that, Matt argues that this ultimately ends up being a pinky promise agreement between rare breed triggers and the federal government, or specifically the Department of Justice, which that can change in the future.

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We won’t always have a Trump DOJ in office, and I’ll extend, for better or for worse. There have been some things with Trump’s DOJ that they’ve done very well, but other things they haven’t done quite as quite as well, I would argue. And in the future, as we’ve seen previously with the Biden administration, it could end up being much, much worse.

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So having a precedent setting ruling would be very useful to. But beyond just that, there are also issues with it basically giving a almost tacit monopoly to rare breed triggers on the manufacturer of because there are clauses in here, I’m almost mandating, if I’m reading this somewhat correctly, that rare breed actually goes out and files lawsuits in order to defend their patent and it’s almost like the federal government wants rare breed triggers to go out.

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And basically patent trolls, with their blessing at least from what some of this particular court order or settlement is making it sound like. But even then, that might end up in a situation where if they do have to defend their patents, as Matt talks about in the previous in his video on YouTube, previous and prior art that is already expired, patents might very well invalidate the effort.

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A trigger patent that Rare Breed triggers has. So we might very well end up back at square one if something like that happens. But I mean, only time will tell. I’m of course not a lawyer. I would defer you to someone like Matt or other legal experts who have more experience with things like patent law or firearms law in general, or a little bit more in-depth analysis on this particular subject.

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But from my somewhat educated layman’s understanding of what’s going on here, I do have to agree with Matt that this is probably not the win that it really have been. Now, moving on to our next topic, we have a little bit of an update about Matt Hoover and Chris Firearms. First and foremost, Matt’s wife has launched only tactful fans on YouTube.

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OTF is a brand new channel. If you would like to support Matt Hoover’s ongoing fight to regain his freedom, get back home and see his family. I would encourage you to go check out the channel and subscribe to it. But as far as the updates go, unfortunately it looks like the judge in this particular case is being biased and there’s a hilarious amount of Orwellian doublespeak.

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If you take a look at the update video that is Hoover did.

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At one point in the case, they say that the auto keycard was a firearm. Yet, on the other hand, they turn around and say that it’s not. It’s this weird Orwellian doublespeak that’s just absolutely absurd to me. And a mere fact that this man is still sitting behind bars and has not been freed is a travesty. So I may have a small presence here on YouTube, at least for the time being.

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I am hoping to grow, but you see, the Is and you’re not familiar with IRS firearms or only taxable fans. So check out those channels, give them a like and a subscribe and a comment at the very least, and try and help them out. But in the meantime, I will continue rooting for it and bringing attention to this particular case as best I can.

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And for our next topic, we have a another, unfortunately rare other tragic incident coming from surprise, surprise, the ATF. Unfortunately, it looks like Ruby Ridge was not enough for them. They had to do yet another no knock bead on raid that resulted in someone life over at the armed attorneys. They covered the Malinowski case and the lawsuit in more detail.

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But to give you the rundown on this particular subject, he was being escalated essentially behind the scenes by the ATF for selling firearms through private party sales. For whatever reason, they believed that he was selling too many guns without a FFL license. Now, normally these particular situations would be handled by some letter or, you know, talking to him, doing a basic investigation and for years that at least tries to kill out the person that they are taking a look at.

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However, in this particular case, they ended up, as I was saying, doing a no-knock raid and all of the night raid on a covered up the ring camera so that he would have no idea who was barging through the door. There’s no body cam footage whatsoever. The only piece of identifiable information was that they were actually ATF agents, was a ballistics shield that was left behind and in less than 60s, I believe the exact number was 48 seconds.

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They go from barging in through his door to no Naski being dead and his wife being left a widow. Unacceptable. This is the kind of thing that needs to be treated harshly. I generally support the mission of law enforcement and first responders when it comes to keeping the community safe and dealing with criminals. However, this is not one of those cases.

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And when law enforcement agencies at any level from the federal government to what local and state police, they need to be held accountable when they do these kinds of things. In fact, more so than if it was a private citizen doing something similar. Honestly, it’s cases like this that is the reason why so many people have a problem trusting the government to its job correctly.

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Because when they try to, quote unquote, do their jobs, people end up dead. And it’s usually innocent people who aren’t.

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For the time being, I can only hope that this particular lawsuit moves forward and bonuses would always able to be successful in court. I can only hope that Trumps Department of Justice actually sees this case. Hello Pam Bondi. Please pay attention to this one and doesn’t try to put up any kind of a defense like they would do so as a knee jerk reaction.

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This is something where as as much as this is something that we know and cannot be made whole, I can’t be giving her husband back and be given all of the time and money that I’m already in to try and to actually get some measure of justice. He doesn’t need some kind of recompense, acknowledgment for the fact that the federal government and the ATF specifically messed up and got her husband killed.

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People who are responsible should be held responsible for that. But of course, I will be keeping an eye on this case, and I will be trying to give additional updates as new developments happen. But it’s all legal matters. This will take time, months, if not years, before any kind of a decision or even any new action or new filings end up happening in.

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These kinds of things are notoriously slow, and unfortunately, that’s just half of the course when it comes to getting justice from the federal government. A mess up. But let’s move on to our next topic. So in some slightly lighter fare in Shooting News Weekly, there is an article that I did want to point out. Congress should prioritize taking the anti-gun politics out of the banking business.

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Now I will say something that has been weaponized is both the ad system hello Obama, as well as the banking system against people who have well, dissident opinions. And it’s no surprise that the banking system could be weaponized and discriminates against FFL. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who have experienced this kind of thing firsthand, being labeled as high risk and being denied the merchant services that they would normally otherwise be entitled to.

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I think that in general, preventing someone from being able to bank, especially in our day and age, when it did occur, currencies, and I don’t mean bitcoin or anything like that, just the normal US dollar being digital and not transacting as paper currency. So important for you to be able to function in a society barring people from banking should be something that is next to, if not completely impossible to.

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Banking institutions should have a very and I mean very good reason to be able to prevent you banking with them or otherwise messing with or freezing your funds. And if a bank is targeting unfairly, FFL and others in the two community simply because they are part of the two way community that needs to be taken care of. If you’d like a little bit more information and some ideas about how to financially handle this particular issue.

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Go to Shooting News Weekly. I’ll have the article linked in the show notes. Moving on to our next topic, we also have an article in Shooting News Weekly from Brownell. But we’re seeing a flight to value in today’s gun business. Now, this is rather interesting given the disruption in the market from Covid and changing administration going from Trump to Biden and now back to Trump.

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The market has definitely been rather topsy turvy, and tariffs added into the mix are just making everything kind of nuts. So quoting from the article here, we’re seeing buyers are now evaluating more than just price. They’re measuring risk. They factor in replacement performance matters. Durability matters. Reputation matters. Strategy of chasing cheap has run out of road and I think I kind of have to agree with that particular sentiment.

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We are currently in a period where buyers are going to be much more, if not prices, instead of necessarily quality and value. People are going to be looking for the best bang for their buck. And while you will always have those market separations, we eye mid-range and low end products when it comes to buyers, especially who would normally be in that mid range to upper low range.

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Maybe they are really going to be starting to evaluate products much more on their value proposition and well, they might be willing to spend a little bit warmer money to get a better quality product. You as the seller or manufacturer, really do need to show and demonstrate that particular value in your messaging, but this is actually something that I would like to hear from others, especially FFA, Els, and people who are working the front lines of the firearms industry.

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What are you guys seeing from customers? Are you seeing any price concerns? Are you seeing any changes to buying behavior? Are people buying more? Buying less? What are they kind of seeing generally? I’m curious, and I would like you to leave your comments down below. And I’d be very much interested in seeing what kind of things you guys are seeing frontline the industry.

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But going back to the article, quoting again, USA made products speak directly to this shift. They offer reliability. They offer craftsmanship. They last a good product. Now it feels like an investment. Buyers aren’t asking how little they can spend. They’re asking how long it will last. So if you are say I manufacture that term or is someone who’s making accessories, I think that’s something you really should be hammering home.

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Is. And if you do have to price things a little bit more or you are making things exclusively in America with American parts and supply lines and things like that, as I know quite a few people are doing already. And if that means that your product has to be more expensive. Speak to those reasons. Be transparent, open and honest.

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Say that you say that you are delivering value, that you are offering performance and justify why your products cost what they do. I don’t think that the consumer, especially in the two way space, is really going to be overly concerned. If you can make a good justification for why your products are a little bit more expensive than the Chinese knockoffs, especially if they are good quality.

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But if you’d like to read the article in full, check out the show notes. I’ll have it linked there for you below. And last but not least, in this particular section for industry news, we do also have a article in Dealer Wire understanding the ETF’s latest inspection memo and how 4473 Out can protect your FFL. Now, not so much interest in 44 over 73 cloud, but this does have some interesting insight into a partially released memo that has been rather heavily redacted.

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So oh, is zero tolerance really gone? Quite the more nuanced approach. The remnants of zero tolerance language remain, and the memo affirms that a single X action with no prior warnings or violations and still result in license revocation if willfulness is established. Now, what does that mean? Willfulness can be something like payments or admissions by the FFL or its employees as violations, especially repeat offenses, training or publications that were provided to you or were easily accessible to you.

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Your compliance with similar rules showing that you knew the requirement. Experience level. The more seasoned you are, the less slack you’re likely to get and your internal records, or lack thereof. If you don’t have written policies, the ATF might assume you’re winging it. So as far as willfulness goes, this is something that the ATF is not necessary early able to really change.

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This is something that is codified by federal statute and defined by the federal courts as well. However, there are some mitigating factors that in this article points out that could help you in this particular. There are circumstances which you find yourself off in some kind of issue. Did you self-report the issue before inspection? Taking responsibility demonstrated genuine willingness and ability to fix the problem.

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If it was an employee fault, did you take appropriate corrective action with the employee, etc.? So well, it looks like the zero tolerance policy hasn’t been gutted out. It does look like the ATF is working on a more flexible set of rules, and is slowly returning to a more case by case analysis standard, where they look at the totality of what’s going on and not simply trying to remove files from businesses simply because it’s a misplaced initial or letter or typo or anything like that.

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So things are improving. It does look like the ATF is changing their tune somewhat, but only time will tell how this particular memo and the parts that we haven’t seen publicly take out in terms of real world enforcement by the state, hopefully we’ll see a lot less F of L’s get their license needlessly revoked than we have in previous.

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Now moving on to our next topic. Who else but sig? Of course, sig can’t seem to spend any kind of extended time out of the news, so let’s talk about researches. It ends today. Video. In this video they actually took a look at no less than four separate P three point unease and discovered a number of the different things.

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But the biggest thing, at least for P 3.9 owners, is the revelation that there is a specific issue with the combination of a 10 millimeter or 45 millimeter magazine safety LA ever being installed in a 940 or 357 sigma fire control unit. I believe previously I had misstated based off of of other reporting that this was an issue with the 40 Smith and one as in my mistake, I just wanted to quick, quickly correct that ad here.

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For the record, I’m not on as well. The lead research showed that in this particular configuration, these parts can be combined together and caused incomplete and improper sear engagement and result in what they are able to demonstrate, which is literally a sig P3 20 being shaken slightly and going off well in a SIG Sauer P3 20 holster. So well, this is not necessarily a smoking gun for literally every single P3 20 unintended discharge video that’s floating out there around internet.

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This does, at the very least, give us a solid thing that we can point to, as this is likely the major root cause for the issues and concerns. Another piece of reporting and things from of these research that can be shown is they looked at a number of different pistols from a range of model year years from I believe was about 2016 or so, all the way up to about 2022.

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The four different pistols all showed changes between them. And actually some of the previous reporting was suggesting that SIG Sauer moved from a stamped to a MIM depart for the striker safety lever. That was actually incorrect. And I want to reiterate that here. It for that particular part, it does look like based on the manufacturing dates from all of the searches, research, the particular part was moved from being memed to stamped, not the other way around.

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But I don’t think that entirely invalidates the concern that there may be tolerance stacking issues with these particular guns. As a note in the video, it ends today, as well as the extended interview that they did with Focus Trip. It’s about a two hours long. You shouldn’t go and take a look at that particular interview, because they go into even more depth in detail than they do in their already 25 minute video.

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But they explain that of all of the four guns, they had changes to parts. Now, while some of these were simply minor changes to aid in manufacturing and things like that, the 20 has undergone a number of revisions and changes to a gun that is really supposed to be a completely modular and completely configurable platform. And when you add all of those different changes and start essentially mixing and matching and changing things around might end up in a situation where you can, you know, potentially inadvertently install a 1040 for IV safety lever into a nine millimeter, 4357 SIG FCU and cause this particular issue.

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But on top of that, there are also rumors still swirling around that SIG has potentially released pistols with that particular configuration from the factory. So that doesn’t necessarily really absolve them of any issues either. But you but to go back to some of my previous reporting, when a lot of these things were first starting, I think SIG should have and probably did know about this particular issue at the time.

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I mean, how could they not have known about this being a potential problem? They not do enough testing. I mean, seriously, they never went through and did weird parts configurations to try and see if they could break anything before really releasing this gun to the public. Like, seriously, that that never happened at SIG. I have a very hard time believing that.

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But if they had gone ahead of this issue and instead of releasing their it ends. Today’s statement said, hey, there’s a specific parts combination that you guys need to be aware of that can be dangerous. They could have shifted the whole narrative on this particular issue, and really avoided a lot of the firestorm that they are currently dealing with.

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They might have been able to potentially even just sweep this whole thing under the rug completely. But no, they had to say that it ends today. Start attacking the Second Amendment community and the people who are legitimately concerned that unsafe firearms are out there in the wild. But I just have to reiterate that I don’t want to see sig crash burn and fail completely as a company, but this particular version of SIC, the one that is being run by Cohen, right, that needs to die.

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It needs to go. The upper leadership at SIG only be very publicly kicked out and replaced with new people. They need to say no culpa in a very public fashion. And with videos coming out like this from research and even being confirmed from ray guns, who is actually able to reproduce this particular issue on their own and posted to Instagram confirming this sig, I really don’t think has much of a choice but to fire a whole bunch of executives, own up to the issues and a number of lawsuits.

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Otherwise, I think they’re just going to continue to sell the drain, continue to have all of these trust problems. And I really am scared for SIG that they might not be able to survive this. Seriously, because in a day and age when the federal government is looking for things to cut down on needless, wasteful spending, is it really so far outside of the realm of possibility that those fancy new guns that I know the Army really, really, really wants but are they really, really necessary?

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And couldn’t somebody convince the powers that be, especially in the executive branch? And it might not be a good idea to spend a whole bunch of money on a firearm to firearms, really, as well as an ammunition contract that has all kinds of supply chain disruptions to attach to it, as well as other issues in terms of safety and reliability concerns.

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That’s worth millions, if not billions of dollars in terms of future spending that could be allocated elsewhere. Are we sure are. SIG? Are you 100% sure that you are not jeopardizing that military contract with your actions? I don’t know, I’m fairly certain that sig stressed quite a few palms. You lubricate the process. You will, but who knows? I mean, this is ultimately speculation.

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I’m can’t say for certain that that’s what have happened, but with the drop safe issue, the continuing stance that there’s nothing wrong and their continued efforts to sidestep this issue, I really don’t see SIG backing down from this anytime soon, and I think it’s going to end up making them crash and burn hard. But who knows. I really would like to know your particular thoughts on leaders and their particular findings.

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You guys own a sig? P3 20. Have you had any issues yourselves? Sound off in the comments below and let me know what your thoughts are on sig and they redeem themselves in your eyes. Please let me know. But of course SIG Sauer doesn’t want to face the music and they don’t want to be held responsible for their actions or lack of action.

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So they have turned around and convinced New Hampshire lawmakers to grant them immunity in the face of lawsuits over the P3 20. In a move that I find completely baffling, SIG has actually managed to convince lawmakers to sign a bill into law to give them protection. Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the bill one day after it appeared its final vote, despite objections from some Democrats as well as lawyers and the injured plaintiffs, who say the company should be forced to defend the claims in court.

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But the speed with which the bill moved through the state House underscores both SIG Sauer desire to cut off future costly lawsuits and the company’s sway in a legislature run by gun friendly Republican Party. Now, obvious political bias aside, I think that we really can agree that it’s probably not a good thing for any company, even a company.

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We might necessarily like to have undue influence within a state’s legislature that gives them immunity from suit in that state. SIG this is just going to make your PR nightmare that much worse. Everybody who is outside of New Hampshire is going to want to see you that much more. And I really can’t blame them. So this one point, big, I don’t know what to do with him.

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I really don’t. But let me know what you think about six particular backroom dealings here, because that’s obviously what happened. Anybody with two eyes can see that a spec did this thing through the New Hampshire legislature to try and protect themselves in this state. And, well, I disagree with the characterization that this is just because of gun friendly Republicans.

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I think this is because of backroom dealings, lobbying efforts, and a firearms manufacturer playing dirty tricks with the federal government, or, excuse me, with state government. But of course, SIG Sauer is not the only ones who have been accused recently of playing dirty tricks with politics. So recently, Silencer Central got themselves in a little bit of hot water over a lobbying disclosure that was released, I believe, first by the Gun Collective.

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Here we see a report back from 2024, in the amount of $50,000 for the specific lobbying issue of develop and support suppressor tax, stamp conservation legislation. Now, of course, this caused a massive firestorm in terms of people blowing back against Silencer Central and accusing them of trying to gut the hearing protection. Now, on the one hand, I can believe that there are people within the silencer manufacturing industry that don’t want to see their business model change.

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Right now, silencers are a real high volume or, excuse me, a low volume, high margin product. If they were to be removed from the NFA and deregulated, treated simply as firearms like the Hearing Protection Act in its pure form, proposes to do, then that that whole business model would be upended. You would go to a high volume, low margin business model.

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And I could imagine that a company would not want to have to deal with all of that. And probably one of the biggest ones, Silencer central would be an obvious choice for it. However, that going back to the lobbying and disclosure, it’s from the year 2024. I believe this is before the Hearing Protection Act was actually tabled. Now, the statement from Silencer Central was that the lobbying efforts were to remove the money from that $200 tax stamp going to the ATF, and instead push that towards wildlife conservation efforts.

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And reading this particular text, the Open Support Suppressor Act, stamp conservation legislation, I could almost believe that because, remember, these are the kinds of documents that bean counters and people who are not in public relations, media or PR are writing. These are things that are not necessarily supposed to be seen by the public. And I’m sure whoever wrote this assumed that nobody was ever going to actually read what was filled out in box number 16.

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There. I think that’s true as to what happened. And I can accept Silencer Central’s explanation. However, I do think that they could have worded what they came out with just a little bit better, just a little bit. You quote Brandon Mattox, silencer central is closely monitoring the ongoing professional hearings surrounding the Hearing Protection Act. We have always been vocal supporters of the HPA, as well as the current proposed provision of a $0 tax stamp.

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Our priority has always been and will continue to be advocating for deregulation and Second Amendment rights, while supporting any win we can get for our customers regarding their firearm and accessory ownership rights along the way. Regardless of the ever changing regulatory landscape, we remain focused on delivering exceptional service and standing by the community we are proud to be a part of blah blah, blah.

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Okay, cool. But I would have advised that we say either nothing or that the proposed provision of a $0 tax stamp is something that they do not like, but if it’s the only thing that they can get through, then okay, we’ll take that win. I mean, you do have to understand there is a certain level of realpolitik to go on, especially with these kinds.

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Sometimes you do need to take baby steps, but right now we are in a position where we could drive through a big step forward with the hearing protection Act and the Short Act. However, for the moment it looks like the short act has been heated. We’ll see if it can get back into the big beautiful bill. But the Hearing Protection Act, at least last year, Act was still fully intact and back inside of the big beautiful bill, making it a little bit bigger and a little bit more beautiful.

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But when it comes to things that were going on, remember in 20 or when Biden was still in the white House, it wouldn’t surprise me if Silencer Central was supporting a effort that would take money away from the ATF and give it to wildlife conservation, but I really do think they needed to be coming out and saying, hey, this is what we were doing back then and this is what we want to see right now, which is the Hearing Protection Act going through unchanged.

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We will take any when we when we can get, but we would like the Hearing Protection Act to go through one unchanged. I think that’s more or less what they needed to have said from the jump. And this extra wordy talking about the $0 tax stamp idea, yada yada yada just muddies the water and makes the message. Even using giving the rumors more breathing room attention.

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But I would like to hear your particular thoughts on Silencer Central. You guys believe them? I’m 5050. I don’t see a smoking gun that they were the rumored, lobbying party that was trying to hold up or change the Hearing Protection Act to have that $0 tax stamp provision. I don’t see the proof of that yet. So I’m completely up in the air and am more than willing to be convinced by evidence one way or the other, but let me know your particular thoughts on that in the comment section below.

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And finally, we have a little bit of a humorous, And finally, we have a little bit of a humorous, article here. Walmart got fined for shipping realistic toy guns to New York. Oh good lord, what’s next? They’re going to find people, arrest them for finger guns. I mean, come on, New York. Quoting from the article, New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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Hi. Letitia said the retail giant’s online store shipped at least nine such toys to the state. Oh, no! Nine realistic toy guns entered your state. The horror. Or think of the crimes that people will commit with these realistic toy guns that oh, have an orange tip on them. And, Yeah, don’t exactly look like, real gun. Yeah.

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Why? I mean, honestly, New York is one of those states, much like California, that I will probably never be able to step foot in because they are so are backwards when it comes to these particular laws. I mean, New York has tried and convicted someone, sent them to prison for multiple years, and he is still in jail right now for exercising his Second Amendment rights and manufacturing gun at home.

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Was he violent? Was he a felon? Was he somebody who tried to rob someone or sell all these guns illegally that he manufactured himself? No, he followed the letter of the law at the federal level and at the state level. But they decided that, no, there is no such thing as Second Amendment rights within New York. This is ridiculous.

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And as humorous as I find this particular article as just one more demonstration of New York’s cavernous inability to respect the Second Amendment, especially when it comes to the right of self-defense and the ability to you take care of yourself and your loved ones.

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I, I cannot help but remind people that these are petty tyrants who will take away your freedom, who will find you and imprison you for something as simple as a slightly realistic toy gun. These are people who don’t seem to get it through their heads that I can’t carry around officer Bob in my pocket. And when somebody is trying to mug, assault or otherwise kill me or my loved ones, I can’t carry around officer Bob and have him just magically pop out of my pocket.

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But I know the police are going to be minutes away, not right around the corner, and even if they are right around the corner, the time that it takes them to round that corner could very well be enough to either end or irrevocably change my life, or the lives of the people that I care about, and any any infringement upon the ability to make sure that something like that does not happen is unacceptable.

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Truly, I think that people need to understand that these states are taking away fundamental rights and fundamental right to your self-preservation and the preservation of those that you care about. That’s not it’s a fundamental right. It’s something that we put into the Constitution in the Second Amendment for a reason. And simply because these petty tyrants don’t like it doesn’t mean that they get to step in and stop you from exercising.

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That the federal government needs to go back in, and they need to put the boot down on these states. They need to make it clear to states like New York, California, Hawaii, and apparently even Colorado that these kinds of things really are not acceptable under the Second Amendment. And quite frankly, one of the things that I would love to see from the Department of Justice and the Trump admin in general, if they are really, really serious about actually upholding the Second Amendment, is going into these states and really starting to go after them for their ridiculously Second Amendment anti Second Amendment laws.

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I want to see the federal government start going after these states on civil rights violations. That is something that they could do and it is something that they could to do. So I would encourage people to go out, get into a with your represent and it is and your particular Congress critters. Let them know that you want to see the federal government take action on these kinds of things.

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There needs to be a groundswell of support for not just the Hearing Protection Act I was talking about earlier, but the Short act and any other pro two a bills in any other pro to a initiatives at the federal level that will make it clear to all 50 states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

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But hey, that’s just one dude ranting and rambling into the void. But that does wrap up everything for today is topics. Let me know your thoughts on any of the things that we went over today from the course reset triggers and the Rare Breed to the ATF’s actions to the Hearing Protection Act and Silencer Central. Let me know your thoughts and be sure to like, share, comment and subscribe if you would be so kind.

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