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November 21, 2024 16 mins

Nephew Tommy recently spoke with Byrna Technologies Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer Luan Pham about Byrna's mission to save lives by providing civilians, law enforcement officers and security professionals with a safe, reliable and effective non-lethal alternative to traditional firearms that will allow Byrna’s customers to protect and defend themselves, their families and their community without the need to resort to deadly force.

Learn more about Byrna at  www.byrna.com/  and check out Nephew Tommy's picks for keeping yourself and your family safe.  www.byrna.com/pages/nephew-tommy-landing

 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is your boy, Thomas Miles nephew Timy from
the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Now, I'm here to tell
you about something that can probably help save lives and
also protect you and your family.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
So listen up.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
As you probably know, crime tends Despike during this time
of the year, making it even more crucial to protect
what matters most our selves and what else our families.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Now, let's be real. Even if you.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Are a gun on like I am, you really I
mean you really really don't want to pull the trigger
and have to deal with the repercussions of that fatal decision.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
But there's another option.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a powerful but non lethal alternative through traditional firearms.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's called Burner byr.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
NA for those you all that's trying to google it
right now, it's by r NA. Here to tell me
more about this revolutionary product is Luwon Fham Luon Fami,
the chief revenue and marketing officer for Burner. Welcome, mister
fam break it down for what's man for everybody that's listening.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Can you break down the Burner for men? Just break
it down?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey, Tommy, good to good to be here and to
Burna is a company that was developed by a group
of common sense gun owners who realize that having just
lethal firearms are their only source of self defense is
like having just the nuclear option, because we all know

(01:20):
that when anyone that discharges a firearm, there's a host
of complexities that come with it, and god forbid, it's
an overuse of force where you're shooting someone that's unarmed
even though they're in your home. You know, you could
be in a world of legal trouble and where your

(01:42):
can be taken away from you, your assets and civil court.
And so we felt like there was a need to
have something that was that delivered formidable stopping power without
having all of the all the nastiness that comes with,
you know, taking the life. And it's a it's a
scary thing for Americans today to be concerned about the

(02:05):
rising crime rates and not knowing what their options are
and thinking that they only have one option, which is
the firearm, which you know definitely isn't the case anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Right right now, Listen, you and I had had the
opportunity of getting together and actually you you actually you know,
gave me a tutorial of the burner and I just
totally enjoyed it. Man, I had a great time and
I learned a whole lot. Can you explain to our
audience what you know how safe it is to have
a burner?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah? Absolutely. First of all, there's no background checks required,
no permits required to own one a burner. So for
those that don't know what a burner is, it's essentially
it looks like a pistol, shaped like a pistol, but
it uses less lethal ammunition in forms of kinetic rounds,
which is rock hard rubber rounds that can break side

(02:59):
autoglass from sixty to thirty feet away. The Verna launcher
has an effective range of sixty feet and with the
kinetic round, once it hits it feels like you're being shot.
Delivers massive pain deterrent without having to take a life.
The bullet doesn't impel into the body. It hits it
like a ton of bricks at two hundred miles an

(03:20):
hour two hundred and eighty five feet per second to
be technical, and it feels like you're being shot, so
pain deterrent. We do have chemical rounds that on the
ex Yeah, you have the tear gas and pepper powder
that attacks the aggressor's central nervous system. So regardless that
they're on drugs or not. Their lungs will feel like

(03:41):
they're collapsing. It's very difficult to breeze. All areas of
exposed skin feels like I just poured a can of
gasoline and lit the match on the aggressor. Eyes will
involuntarily close because of the same pain, nose or run
heavy mucus for thirty to forty minutes. All these things
are happening at once to the aggressor, so we inflict
make it hard for them to breathe, to see, and

(04:05):
they feel burning sensation, intense burning sensations. They're no longer
worried about you, and they're trying to, you know, get
to safety themselves because they're not expecting that you're prepared
to defend. And you know, the the the one of
the biggest advantages that the burn a pistol delivers is
that you're not afraid to pull the trigger.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
There's no trigger, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like just in case if let's just say you actually
shoot a family member on accident. I have a sixteen
year old daughter that's sneaking in from the house late
at night, and I'm freaked out, and if I pull
the wrong weapon, it's going to be devastating at text.
So those are the things that make this product very unique.
We do have a patented technology that is called pool

(04:52):
piers where once you insert the Co two into the pistol,
it's Co two powered air powered, UH, you load the ammunition.
You can sort that weapon indefinitely. The only time when
the Seal two canisters puncture is when you pull the trigger.
It punctures the CO two and sends that first round

(05:13):
at the same time. Each Seal two can shoot up
to eighteen rounds enough. Each each launcher kit comes with
two five round magazines, so you have plenty of firepower.
If you will less lethal and if you have to escalate,
then you have to do what you have to do.
But if you go through what the law, what law

(05:36):
enforcement considers as a continuum the force. Right someone's in
your house, you tell them to verbally leave, get out
of my house, and then you deploy less lethal and
it becomes a lethal shoot to This is what your
lawyer's gonna say to on your behalf in a court
of law, Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. My client
had intruders in his home. He verbally commanded them to leave.

(05:57):
They did not comply, He went and you know, deployed
less lethal. It was never his intention to take a life,
you know, he bought a burn up launcher for that
very purpose. Unfortunately, these attackers kept on coming and he
had no choice in fear of his life to elevate
the lethal force. If you go through that process and
it just literally seconds to do that, then you protect

(06:20):
yourself a much a lot longer better in court than
you would. Hey, this guy just started shooting live rounds,
you know.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right, let them know the difference, man, if you if
you use your burner in comparison to live rounds on
a on a regular gun, the difference of what you're
going to go through when you're dealing with the legal system.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah. Sure. So, Like when you pull a weapon in
public or anywhere, it is highly recommended that you call
the police because you have to report it, whether it's
lethal or less lethal. The difference here is if you
pull out a lethal firearm and you call it in,
that officer is going to ask you aias of questions,

(07:00):
and what he's trying to you know understand, is was
there imminent threat for Luan to pull his nine millimeter
at you? Know this person, and if you cannot prove that,
or if I cannot prove that my life was going
to be taken away from me because the guy had
a gun or a nine or what have you, he's
gonna polite me, politely, invite me into the station, and

(07:22):
when I get there, he's gonna remove me and my weapon,
take away my CCW card, find me, and most likely
give me a court date because I irresponsibly pulled out
a lethal firearm. Because the police do not want you
just to pull out your gun for any instance, right,
the goal is to get away if you're if you
were taught correctly, and then but the difference with the

(07:44):
Berna is you could pull out your burno launcher at
an aggressor that is unarmed, because what you're doing is
you're responding to to a less lethal threat with less
with a less lethal response. So even though it's like
you know you have a lot of pistol, you don't,
and that that that's that's the difference, less lethal less lethal.

(08:08):
So it's forced on force, right if it's overused to force,
if that guy doesn't have a weapon and you're using
a gun, even if you were being attacked you're in
the wrong. So that's why, you know, for for us,
our our mission is to reduce deaths by firearms. And
if we can get one hundred million gun owners to

(08:29):
reach her up, burn up. First, we say one bullet
can you know ruin many lives and not only the
person getting shot, But what if that that that that
aggressor he has he she has family. That's the response
before what about the shooter. I know that I'm a
single income family and if I was in a an

(08:49):
overuse of force shoot and I end up in jail,
Who's going to take care of my my two kids
and my wife? And you know, that's devastating on them.
And if I'm sitting in jail for ten to twenty
years like that's that's essentially a life sentence. And so
what we offer is the ability to de escalate before

(09:10):
things get out of hand. And if things get out
of hand and you have to resort to lethal force,
then do what you got to do. And for folks
that are adverse to firearms, this is the closest thing
to a gun you're going to get. That's allows it's
easy to shoot, there's no recoil, there's no insdruction needed
and then a lot of senior citizens use our product

(09:31):
and you get to you know, you can make a
mistake and it's not going to be fatal. And that's
that's what we bring to the to the table. And
you know, people from all walks of life have found
us and said, hey, why why haven't heard you guys before?
Because unfortunately we're considered a weapons company leg and they

(09:52):
categorize us with firearms. But our mission is to reduce
death by firearm and we can't think Tommy, you for
understanding that and understanding that. You know, these guys are
an incredible mission. They want to keep people safe. They
want to let people enjoy the many great freedoms that
we have here in America. By no, no country is perfect,

(10:16):
but this is as good as it gets. And you know,
everybody has the right to live their life and feel
free and safe when they're out and about.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
So so, mister, let me ask you this.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Let me ask you this. Do I need do anybody
that wants to operate a burner? Do we need training
or anything?

Speaker 3 (10:38):
But really, we have a lot of videos online and
the beautiful thing about that is about our burnout product
is you can train in the comfort of your backyard.
It's totally illegal, and so you know you can pull
out like I always I think we talked about it
is like the burno of pistol is like a two
for one incredible self defense tool, but man for backyard barbecues,

(11:01):
cornhole is so yesterday. You put up some targets and
everybody's having a good time, shares their targets in their training,
and you know that's the beauty of it. And and
then like we get a lot of like folks that ask,
like what we call the trolls, right, and some guy
pulls on a real gun your debt and our response
is yes, technically technically true, but categorically false. And what

(11:21):
I mean by that is if a guy bad guy
has a gun, he's not going to threaten you with
his mouth. He's gonna start you with that gun. And
so you never pull your burner first. You're going to
react to what that person is doing. Your law a
bodying peace, love and minding your own business. But if
if a bad guy wants to take his bad day
to you, you're only going to reacting for what you have.

(11:43):
And as I as I mentioned to you, I would
have to make a quick decision and like, if this
guy just wants my wallet, then he can have it.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Okay, here's here's something else everybody needs to know when traveling.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Can I travel with my burner?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Absolutely? Uh. You know, we have a lot of r veers,
commercial truckers that use our products that drive across country
and regardless of whatever you know, can seal carry permit
you have? There is no such thing as a fifty
state can steal carry permit. So make it virtually impossible
for you to have a firearm, and those that do
that risk major issues. So with the burner, you can

(12:22):
carry it across all fifty stage with no issue. And
if you're flying, you have to check you can travel
with the burner when check luggage. So as long as
you put in your check luggage, have it empty. We
get in every kit that we have, we provide a
card that says this is a LES Lethal Weapons t
TSA approved and all of that. And the beautiful thing

(12:44):
is you don't have to declare a firearm because it's
not a firearm. You know, there's no powder, there's nothing.
And that's what we affectionately called our burner launcher. The
UN gun because it's not a gun. It just looks
like one, act like one, and doesn't have the devastating
as a lethal firearms.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Tell everybody how they can actually obtain a burner.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
All you have to do is visit burnout dot com,
b y r NA dot com, slash Tommy. Just because
of our special relationship, we have a range for a
ten percent discount for all of your listeners and fans
having the pleasure of meeting you Tommy in person. You know.

(13:28):
So we're just huge fans and it's it's an honor
to be able to talk to you and to your audience.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hey man, I'm appreciative. I want to say this. I
like it.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know, I got I have firearms, but once I
got introduced to this, this is now something that I
want my wife to have, you know, especially when I'm
going I'm on the road a lot, you know, and nobody, Man,
nobody wants to.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Actually I don't. I don't want to. I don't.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I honestly, to be honest with you, means a fam
I don't even want to point a gun at anybody,
and I don't want to take anybody's life. But if
I'm in a situation I'd rather have the burner than
an actual nine milimeters three fifty seven or a shotgun.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'd rather go with the burner to know. Okay, let
me do this first.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Let me do this first, to make sure I'm not,
you know, creating a problem that's gonna really really down
the line, I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah. Yeah. The FBIS is an incredible stat Ninety nine
percent of all altercations do not require lethal force. And
if you introduce lethal force, well, ninety nine percent of
the law is going to be against you, right, And
if you can de escalate with less lethal then that's
your best option. And if you don't like guns, that's

(14:40):
okay too. Have something, and with something, we mean with
the burner, because you can defend yourself from sixty feet away.
We don't recommend that from sixty feet you run away,
but within fifteen to twenty feet, when you know it's
going down, you're not going to be scared to pull
out the weapon and defend yourself because you know that

(15:01):
it's not going to create a lethal a lethal outcome.
And when it comes to lethal any state in the country,
it's going to be bad news for you, you have
to hire a lawyer, you're going to go to court,
You're going to do all that, and you know when
you can walk away.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
So let's break this down so everybody knows.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
This is legal in all fifty states, no permits or
background checks needed. Is designed for easy use by anyone
the ages of eighteen up. One shot can incapacitate attackers
for up to what forty minutes.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Trusted and used by over five hundred government agencies, police departments,
and private security firms. So far, we're looking at over
five hundred thousand units sold, so that's pretty big.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, with you know, fifteen thousand plus four point five
star reviews. We can ship directly to your door. And
you know, if you can go on burna dot com
slash Tommy order what you're within, you know, five to
seven days you will have that package waiting for you.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
There we go, all right, man, I just wanted to
make sure everybody knows get and get the word out.
Visit Burner dot com burnerp b y r n a
dot com slash Tommy for ten percent off your purchase
b y r na dot com slash Tommy and learn
more about Burner.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Mister fam. I want to say thank.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
You man, thank you Tommy. Everybody be safe out there.

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