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Hello, this is the PrivateInvestigator Experience podcast,
and I'm your host, Phil Little.
Thank you for joining me today.
On this channel, we talk aboutthe cases in the life of a
private investigator, as well aslook at issues that are
Domestic, international, andthings that would affect us here
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at home.
And also, I get requests to lookinto certain issues, do a deep
dive investigation.
And if you have something likethat you would like to have an
investigation done on, let meknow.
And this is one of those thingstoday that I'm just alerting
everyone on that you might havemissed this because I know I did
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when it first came out a fewweeks ago.
With what's going on inWashington and all that's being
revealed in this wholegovernment area of corruption.
I am astounded.
I am not too.
Surprised at anything in lifewith the business I'm in and
what I've done, but still, thisis mind blowing with the size of
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it, the depth of it, and acrossall government agencies.
No wonder the press wassupporting the left so much
because they were getting thesetens of millions of dollars from
the U.
S.
aid organization.
And that was also going tosupport democratic senators or
congressmen running for office.
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Come on, guys, what in the worldis going on?
This is another one of thosecases where a government, a
state government actuallythere's 17 of them that are
supporting a foreign poweragainst we Americans by an
assault on the American gunindustry.
And it also can affect our.
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Constitutional rights with our2nd amendment, And what this is
about, what we need to be awareof, and there's a Supreme Court
hearing coming up on this.
I think it's March the 4th.
I'll check that at the end.
On January 17th, the CaliforniaAttorney General Robert Rob
Bonita proclaimed his supportfor Mexico's position in the
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ongoing case of Smith andWeston, and that's a gun brand
we all know, against a case inMexico.
The case, now at the SupremeCourt, is an attempt by the
Mexican government, working withU.
S.
based gun control advocates.
To undo the protection of alawful Commerce in Arms Act and
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what they're trying to do is tomake a scapegoat out of the U.
S.
firearms industry for a Mexicanlawlessness and imposed billions
of dollars in liability onAmerican gun manufacturers for
violence perpetrated by violentcriminals south of the border.
You might say, what?
There's no way they would dothat.
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Oh, we don't know some of thesestates.
The PLCAA was enacted in 2005.
It had broad bipartisan supportback then.
And when it was set up, it wasto protect the firearms industry
from frivolous and politicallymotivated, we know about that,
don't we?
Lawsuits.
In the mid 1990s, Gun controladvocates, big city politicians,
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and trial attorneys teamed up touse the courts to bilt the gun
industry for millions and forcethem, now listen to this, to
agree to gun control measuresthat gun control supporters were
unable to get enacted in lawthrough Congress.
So they were trying a backdoorapproach here.
These suits sought to holdmembers of the industry liable
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for criminal behavior of thosewho misuse their products.
These suits, though withoutlegal merit, pose a grave threat
to the industry, and in turn,American gun owners and our
abilities to exercise our SecondAmendment rights are being
affected.
In 1998, the Executive Directorof the Anti Gun U.
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S.
Conference of Mayors was quotedby the New York Times as
stating, The lawyers are seeinggreen on this issue.
Yeah, like hundred dollar billgreens.
Just a lot of them.
They think they can bring thegun industry to its knees.
One of those attorneys, seeinggreen, John Cole, was quoted in
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a 2000 Washington Post articleremarking, the legal fees alone
are enough to bankrupt theindustry.
We know what the purpose is ofthis, don't we?
Take away our guns, take awayour freedom.
The PLCAA.
This law is, is a limited it, itjust protects lawsuits against
the gun industry for thecriminal misuse of their
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products by a third party, whichthey have no control over.
Now suits against the industryfor other things like normal
product liability, unlawfulsales and negligent entrustment.
Those were still, uh, uh, legaland they could file those
lawsuits.
So they've used that to try toshut down the gun.
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Uh, industry by this, uh, throwin so many lawsuits at them that
it would cost them a fortune.
In legal fees, and that was whatsubstated if they couldn't is a
limited it just protectslawsuits against the gun
industry for the criminal misuseof their products by a third
party, which they have nocontrol over.
Now suits against the industryfor other things like normal
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product liability, unlawfulsales and negligent entrustment.
Those were still legal and theycould file those lawsuits.
So they've used that to try toshut down the gun.
Industry by this throw in somany lawsuits at them that it
would cost them a fortune.
In legal fees, and that was whatsubstated if they couldn't get
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them one way, they would getthem in enough legal fees to
hamstring their businesses.
The PLCAA was enacted to codifya longstanding principle in tort
law.
That gun control advocates areseen to trying to erode.
U.
S.
tort law has long held that aperson or entity cannot be
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responsible for third party'scriminal acts.
Simply put, people areresponsible for their own
behavior, not the behavior ofothers.
Therefore, if a violent criminalacquires and misuses a firearm
to commit a crime, it is hisproblem.
He's liable for the conduct, notthe company that produces the
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firearm.
That would be just like holdinga car manufacturer responsible
for the actions of a drunkdriver.
That, that's how you come up.
That's not even a thought.
Because they know that'sridiculous, but these gun
control activists will tryanything they can to disrupt the
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second amendment rights of we,the citizens during this what
they're doing is a cleer intentof to get around Congress and
try to stop the gun efforts byAmerican despite the clear
intent of Congress, gun controladvocates set to work trying to
invent a way around the statute.
The most recent effort involvesthe U.
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S.
gun control advocatescollaborating with Mexico
council for Mexico.
Includes longtime Brady, or it'sa formerly handgun control
incorporated organization.
That's an attorney, JonathanLowe.
Now, he's connected with aglobal action on gun violence
and in October of 2022, Politicoreported that global action on
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gun violence quietly filedpaperwork.
With the DOJ under the ForeignAgents Registration Act with
Jonathan Lowe and ElizabethBurke, who was also an attorney
at the Brady registering asagents of Mexico.
Now they're coming out of theshadows in their attempts to
undo the PLCAA, Mexico and thesegun control advocates have
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advanced the bizarre theory.
Now listen to this.
And this is an NRA's amicusbrief summary that what they're
saying is that members of the U.
S.
gun industry, the firearmcompanies they're saying that
their advertisement is an intentto appeal to Mexican cartels by
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depicting their firearms inpatriotic advertisements
featuring American military, lawenforcement, and American flags.
So just advertising, they'resaying, is attracting cartel
business that wants their guns.
Huh?
They're advertising to Americanconsumers to buy their weapons
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and they need to advertise so weknow what they have so we can
decide what we need.
Aside from being attacked on theAmericans ability to access
firearms, to exercise theirSecond Amendment rights the
argument imperils, though, theFirst Amendment right of
companies to communicate withtheir legitimate customers.
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Mexico also contends that thegun industry members are liable,
now listen to this, for cartelviolence because they may be
aware that unknown bad actorscould use the lawful stream of
commerce to criminally diverttheir firearms.
Wow, that's a pretty bigstretch.
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I think the Supreme Court'sgoing to see through this to
Mexico and their collaborators.
It doesn't matter that thecompanies haven't been shown to
have violated the mountain offederal regulations concerning
firearm distributions.
I don't know about you, but Iwas.
Had a firearms license foryears, and this was back
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starting in the 80s and 90s andearly 2000s.
And the regulation was badenough then, and in California
it got real bad.
So if you're selling weapons,there's lots of controls.
To follow their support for theforeign government, California
joined 15 other states in filingan amicus brief at the Supreme
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Court advocating to undoP-L-C-A-A.
That's that law that justprotects, it's a basic
protection that companies can'tbe sued for someone using their
product illegally.
And this press release byCalifornia Attorney General, but
had a the press release saysthat this was explicit, that
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joining the document was aboutbacking Mexico against a US
industry.
And he went on this.
State today, California and oneof 17 states attorney generals
in filing an ambiguous brief inthe U.
S.
Supreme Court supporting theMexican government's lawsuit
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against gun manufacturers tohold them accountable for their
contribution to gun violence inMexico.
This is just unbelievable.
While California's assistance toMexico may surprise some.
An attempt to undermineAmerica's Second Amendment
rights shouldn't be a surprise.
In 2021, California joinedAmicus briefs supporting New
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York's position in the New YorkState Rifle and Pistol
Association, in which theSupreme Court made clear that
the Second Amendment protectsthe rights to carry a firearm
outside the home for selfdefense.
One of Bonita's predecessors,the California Attorney General
a woman, what was her name?
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Oh, Kamala Harris.
She has denied that the SecondAmendment protects an
individual's right to carry armsoutside their home.
Those seeking a robust defenseof the PLCAA in America's Second
Amendment traditions, and arepudiation of Mexico and its
collaborators arguments, they'reencouraged to read the NRA's
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brief.
And oral arguments before thecourt have been set for March
the 4th.
Now, what's the purpose of thesegun control advocates wanting to
take away guns?
It's not to stop crime.
It's not to reduce criminalsbeing able to get weapons
because they're only going toget them.
Whether it's a law or not, butit's to take away the rights of
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citizens to be able to protectthemselves, not only in defense
of an intruder or somebodycausing them harm, but against
an overreaching government.
That's what's in ourConstitution.
The basis of our SecondAmendment rights was to make
sure an overreaching governmentwouldn't be able to take over
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America and become adictatorship.
Now, when you look at history,you go all the way back, you go
back a long way.
And find that when a dictatorwanted to take over a country,
the first thing they would dowas take away the weapons from
the citizens.
That happened in Germany.
That's what Hitler set out to doand what he accomplished.
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And if we allow that in America,we will then put ourselves in a
position to become slaves tosome master that can overthrow
our constitution and our way oflife.
I'd like to hear your comments.
Let me know what you think.
If there's something you'd liketo have an investigation done
on, let me know and remember getinvolved, find out what's going
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on in your community.
What's going on at your citycouncil with local laws and what
they're doing in the police.
Thank God.
We have the.
DEI and gender stuff now beingoutlawed, CRT and those things,
but they're still pockets.
They're going to be trying tokeep this leftist agenda, woke
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agenda up.
We won a battle, folks.
We didn't win the war.
We still have a big way to go tomake sure we support this
government and what they'redoing and making sure that we
keep on Congress to enact theseinto law.
So they can't be reversed easilyby some of the president down
the road.
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And if we don't accomplish this,we will be susceptible in 26 to
losing the House or the Senateif we don't follow through on
supporting of the Trumpadministration and these
qualified people that he's putin place to take the corruption
out of government and close ourborders and keep them closed
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like we're doing.
But if we don't get thisfinished to where that is in the
law, and that the tax cutscontinue on after 2025, if these
things aren't done.
We will expose ourselves andshame on us.
It'll be our fault.
Keep your senators andcongressmen's feet to the fire
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Let me know what it is.
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And remember, let your voice beheard, get involved, come out in
the shadows.
And now we're free to talk.
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You're not going to be canceled.
When you come out and let yourvoice of reason be heard.
I'm hearing that from Democratsin California that are now
speaking out.
They said we couldn't speak outbefore because we would be
canceled.
We would be ostracized and maybelose our livelihood.
Now we can speak out and theyare letting their voices be
heard.
So let's stand up.
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Okay.
God bless you.
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Let us know what you think.
And God bless you.
May God bless your family andmay God bless America.
Be safe.
See you next time.