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ATF's Arkansas Disaster and "There's No 2nd Amendment In This Courtoom" · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Let's do this second hour of the morning show with Preston Scott Show fifty one
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  forty six. He's Grant Allen. I'm Preston, Friday, April twenty sixth.
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  Great to be with you, friends, ruminators, wherever however you listen
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  to us. Thank you so much for sharing time. We do our very
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  best to not let you down and deliver things to you that you need to
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  know, and we bring guests that we think are worthy of your time.
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  And so we segue to a visit that we do monthly. He's kind enough
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  to carve out time for us. He is the gun Writer. If you
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  go to the website Thegunwriter dot substack dot com, you will find the work
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  of Lee Williams. Lee, good morning, Welcome, good morning, how
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  are you doing. Thanks for the invite. As always, Man, I
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  appreciate so much the work you're doing to stay vigilant and keep us vigilant as
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  it relates to our Second Amendment rights. And Lee, I got to tell
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  you what I thought was, I don't know, how do you find something
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  encouraging in a case where someone lost their life but all of a sudden,
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  things in Arkansas have taken a weird almost dark Turn tell us the latest.
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  Yeah, we reported. I think we wrote five stories in total this month
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  on the March nineteen killing of Brian Melanowski. He was the airport executive director
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  there in Little Rock, and the first thing to come out was a statement
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  from his family which said what everybody already knew. He was defending himself.
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  He didn't know he was shooting at federal agents. And his attorney said something
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  in that statement too that a lot of people have missed. I don't like
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  talking about what Brian was accused of doing by the ATF because he's not here
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  to defend himself. But let's say for a minute that he was guilty of
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  everything ATF said. Of selling firearms without a federal firearms license, he would
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  have gotten probation or probably some type of diversion program pre trial diversion. He
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  never would have seen the inside of a prison, brother, and that to
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  me is damning for that serious and finger quotes of a crime. He was
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  shot and killed right after that. April seventeenth, the Attorney General of Arkansas,
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  Tim Griffin, demanded to see bodycam footage from ATF. But then a
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  week later, the Senators Cotton and Boozman, a couple of Republicans from Arkansas,
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  but out of statement, they'd talked to ATF and this is going to
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  be difficult for your listeners to believe. ATF agents when they hit the ome,
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  none of them were wearing body camps. There is no body cam footage.
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  Policy says they're supposed to have them. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
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  And that type of encounter is exactly what bodycams were invented for. You're going
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  to go into a man's home and judge has given you a warrant to violate
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  his Fourth Amendment rights. There's a possibility they were going to use for us,
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  and none of them wore a bodycam. The only video footage was from
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  that raid was from Brian's ring camera, which is about two seconds long,
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  right before an AHTF agent's covers that camera with a piece of tape. It's
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  shocking, it's stunning. They went in there knowing full well that they didn't
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  have that serious of a charge. If they hit him with ten car loads
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  of agents and shot him in the head. He died two days later.
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  Then, once he has spoken out, now the Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin
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  again his mum. He's suddenly Mum. I sent him fifteen questions man that
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  I wanted answers for his handler wouldn't allow him to be interviewed. He said
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  he wasn't available for an interview or a video conference interview or an interview over
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  the phone, which is odd because I never told his handler when I wanted
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  to interview. I guess he's just not available for me. The most important
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  question I sent him was whether or not the Attorney General there had been in
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  contact with the US Attorney to maybe try and work out some type of moratorium
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  on these deadly ATF raids until the questions could be answered on the March nineteenth
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  killing. But no, he didn't respond to that. The Morning Show with
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  Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven w FLA, We're trying to
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  make sense of it all. Website Thegunwriter dot substack dot com. The emails
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  are brilliant. You'll get them as articles come out, which is usually once
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  or twice a week. And Lee Williams, the writer is with us.
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  Lee the next steps from your perspective as a reporter, what are they?
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  I've got a story coming out probably Monday on these ATF Special Response teams as
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  they call them, and we are comparing them not to other federal law enforcement
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  agencies that have special response units and some military special response units. And let
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  me just say this. You know, if you want to be a member
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  of the Secret Service Counter Assault Team, that's a ten week course. Their
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  sniper courses even longer. Bore Tax, the border patrols tactically inn of Bore
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  Tax, you know, the one that took out that shooter down at Uvaldi
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  and the one that caught that fleet, that guy who escaped from prison.
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  Theirs is a massively long training course. And of course you've got Delta which
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  is six months long, Debrew which is six months long, Marsk Marine Raiders
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  nine month program. How long do you think atf Special Response Team training is.
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  Let me ask you a question. I would say, I mean,
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  you've set me up here, and the way this is going tells me it's
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  less than a month. Two weeks, bro, That's what I was going
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  to guess. Yep. Yeah. And they still call themselves operators when they're
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  done. They call themselves operators in their literature that describes these unit. Let
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  me tell you they're not operators. Operators use worse with surgical precision. These
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  guys bootdoors and shoot homeowners in the head. So we're taking a hard look
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  at this unit. It's leadership, it's selection, it's training, it's weapons
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  to get the get it out there. This unit scares me. Preston the
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  fact that they're out there and you know they target. God forbid, a
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  law biding gun owner sells a firearm easy to get on their radar, is
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  what I'm saying. And just just to put some context to this story,
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  the guy who's running this airport, he's a he's he's just a he sells
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  guns how often? I mean, what do we know about his gun selling.
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  He's fifty three years old, he makes two hundred and fifty thousand.
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  He made two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year at the airport. He
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  would go to gun shows and rent tables and sell guns and coins. He's
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  a massive coin collector too. I one of his customers called me and told
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  me that he had really helped him out getting him some coins. So you
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  see tables like this at every gun show you go to. DW have a
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  couple of guns, doesn't have an FFL, will sell them. But you
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  know the way atf made him sound in their search for APPI David Is,
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  he's supplying guns to Isis and el Cata. Not really the case here,
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  bro, and Arkansas law gives a tremendous amount of freedom to people selling guns.
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  If I'm not mistaken. No, you're correct, one hundred percent.
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  You can. It's a private sale. You can sell a gun. But
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  ATF, of course, wants to change the definition of gun dealers right now.
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  They've got more rules out there that just were published on this confusing crap
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  whether or not you need an FFL. It sounds like from some people who
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  have read it that if you sell a gun for profit, you may you
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  may need to get an FFL. Of course, the Second Amendment Foundation for
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  which I work and all other program groups are going to sue the hell out
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  of ATF and will win. It's just Biden and the people that handle him
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  flexing on gun owners again. Tell me this, Do you suspect that or
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  think that there's going to be a freedom of information request on your part to
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  try to get whether there was any correspondence between the United States Department of Justice
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  in any form and the Attorney General for Arkansas. I never talk about what
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  I'm gonna foya usually. But yes, the problem with when you for a
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  ATF. I just got a response the other day from Damn near three years
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  ago. So they take their time. It's it's unfortunate they're not They're the
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  most opaque, they are non transparent at all, the most opaque federal law
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  enforcement agency. And I'm getting sick of even calling them a law enforcement agency
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  because federal law enforcement acis don't behave like this at any At some point,
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  you got to think that some of these ATF agents have got to say,
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  guys, what we're doing is wrong. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I
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  mean, if you're an ATF agent right now and you're taking down doors and
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  going in with fully automatic M fours made by Heckler and Cock and shooting homeowners
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  in the head who have not committed any crimes, no criminal record, you
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  know, you better take a look in the mirror to decide whether or not
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  you're on the right team here. Yeah. I mean, we're talking about
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  a guy that had a professional job that they could go see anytime Monday through
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  Friday, right right What I would have done, and you know, to
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  so many people, a lot of technical guys, you know, ring the
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  doorbell wait till he comes down and answers it. He sees everybody there in
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  uniform or do a call out, call him on a cell phone, come
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  out with your hands up. Well, turn all the emergency lights on him.
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  They had ten vehicles there. This entire neighborhood would have been bathed in
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  red light. He would have known it was the police. Instead they boot
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  the door, go in and shoot him. Railovation one final segment with Lee
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  Williams, the gun Writer and again the website The gun Writer dot substack dot
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  com. Lee, I wanted to get your thoughts. We've talked about this
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  story. It's the story of a software engineer that ended up in a New
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  York courtroom, and his crime was legally obtaining parts to guns and making his
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  own guns. He wasn't, I mean, he's never been convicted of any
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  crime. He's a software engineer or something. And now he's sitting Dexter Taylor's
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  sitting at Riker's waiting a sentence. Yeah, Dexter Taylor is a martyr in
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  my humble opinion. He discovered the world of gunsmithing years ago and he enjoyed
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  doing it, and he was purchasing parts and components legally from various online companies.
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  I know a polymer eighty and eighty percent arms have sent me kits to
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  put together. Brother, it's a great time. I enjoyed. I put
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  together two block clones, had the time of my life. It took me
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  a lot longer than it should have, but it's fun. So, however,
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  a joint ATF NYPD task force discovered that he was buying these parts illegally,
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  may hit his home. He's charged with pretty much everything. Criminal possession
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  of a loaded weapon, four counts of third degree criminal possession of a weapon,
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  five counts of criminal possession of a firearm, second degree, blah blah
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  blah. So he gets convicted of all this. Of course, he's sitting
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  in rikers. He'll be sentenced next month. He's looking at ten to eighteen
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  years because his Second Amendment rights were violated. Like, you can't believe the
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  judge in this case actually said judge abin a darkness said in an open courtroom,
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  do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn't exist here,
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  so you can't argue Second Amendment. This is New York Appeal much.
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  I mean, she's insane, she's clearly insane. The Second Amendment. Shouldn't
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  your Second Amendment rights shouldn't be dependent upon your zip code. Illegal for him
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  there, not illegal for us here in the Free State of Florida. What's
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  so striking to me is not just the conduct of the judge and how she
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  handled every part of the defense from the opening statements to the concluding statements,
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  interruptions, rulings that were just just ridiculous. But the Supreme Court, Lee
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  correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't the Supreme Court just slap New York in
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  the face? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely. The Second Amendment Foundation is going
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  to the Supreme Court. We have been granted associary over Biden's and ATF Frame
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  and Receiver rule, which basically is their goat what Joe Biden likes to call
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  ghost guns, and he wants to make them all illegal. Americans have been
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  making firearms in their home legally since before there was the United States of America.
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  And we're going to pound the hell out of ATF and the Biden Harris
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  administration because of this, because of this nonsense. But what's insulting to me,
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  Lee is New York Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin. They prevailed the
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  United States Supreme Court. Want, I mean, they won. How is
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  this even happening. We're seeing in all these Blue states what I call post
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  Brewin tantrum laws, where they're making decisions and passing legislation knowing full well it's
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  unconstitutional and flies in the face of the Supreme Court's Bruin decision, but they
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  do it anyway because they know we're going to have to sue and we're going
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  to have to spend our members' money. Thank god, we have such good
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  members and Gun Owners of America and NRA and National Associating National Association Gun Rights
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  are going to spend all of their money. It's law there, man.
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  They're trying to break us financially, but we're going to keep doing it.
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  Good for you, Lee, thank you as always for the time. I
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  appreciate it very much, and we'll visit again next month. Sounds great.
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  Thanks for the invite, brother, take care, Thank you, sir,
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